RMS Monday Message

RMS Students have been hard at work this quarter! With the end of Quarter 1 two weeks away (11/10), we encourage our students to use the link below to view the Faculty and Staff Extra Help Times to connect with teachers to find time for extra-help. Use this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1JDFhHeTQaLHq4b9mIuFmmKuX-CYSPQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106398107817364067865&rtpof=true&sd=true

Report Card Conferences will be held Monday 11/20 and Tuesday 11/21. These are also Half-Days for students. We will send out information regarding scheduling these conferences soon and how to sign-up for a meeting time.

Our RMS Drama Club is hard at work with preparing for their production on 12/8 and 12/9: Should be a good one!

Students may wear costumes to school tomorrow for Halloween! Costumes should be school-appropriate and should not have the following: masks, have the student's entire face painted, or have weapon-like props, etc.

Have a great Monday and a fun Spirit Week ahead!

10/30 - 11/3 - RMS Spirit Week (see below)

11/3 - Gertrude Hawk Order Forms Due

11/3 - RMS Fall Ball Dance @ RMS Gymnasium, 6-8:30pm

11/7 - Professional Community Learning Day - No School for Students

11/8 - PTO Meeting 7pm @ RMS Library

11/9 - RMS Flag Football "Turkey Bowl" (see below)

11/10 - Veterans Day Observed - District Closed

11/20 & 11/21 - Conference Days - Half Days for Students

11/22-11/24 - Thanksgiving Recess - No School for Students

11/27 - 12/4 - RMS Scholastic Book Fair

12/8 & 12/9 - RMS Drama Club Production 7pm @ RMS Gymnasium

12/25-1/2 - Winter Recess - No School for Students

This Friday, 11/3, our Student Council is hosting our Fall Ball Dance for all students in grades 6, 7, and 8! The Dance will be from 6 until 8:30pm at the RMS Gymnasium. This is a casual attire event. Tickets for the dance will be on sale each day this week during lunch periods for $5. At the dance, the RMS PTO will also have, as always, a fantastic concession stand for students to purchase drinks and snacks! Please note that this event is for RMS Students only.

RMS plans to begin a new initiative to honor Veterans each year on Veterans Day! See the info below on how, as a community, we can come together and honor our veterans while also raising money for a local veteran organization. This is open and available to anyone. Please submit entries by Friday, 11/3. Thank you for your support!

Dear Families,

Please send in all "Ice Cream in a Bag" supplies by today as we will all be completing the activity tomorrow, 10/31!

From,

7th Grade Science Teachers

Mrs. Laderach’s social studies classes participated in a Stone Age Gallery Walk. Our kiosk area was turned into a museum gallery with many pictures related to the Stone Age. Students analyzed, made observations and applied new vocabulary to the art work. See pictures below!

Below are the modified sports home contests for the next two weeks. Game schedules are always subject to change due to various reasons. Download the rSchool App to view the most up to date schedules for Beacon Athletics! Come out and support your Bulldogs!

11/1 - Modified Football vs. Monroe-Woodbury 4:15pm @ BHS Turf

11/2 - Boys Modified Soccer vs. Goshen 5:30pm @ BHS Turf

As our Fall Season comes to a close, we look forward to Winter Season. Be sure to sign your athlete up on FamilyID before the Winter Season tryouts begin. FamilyID can be found on the District Website under "Athletics."

On Thursday, November 9th, our RMS PE teachers are hosting their 2nd Annual Flag Football Tournament at the BHS Turf. All students in grades 6, 7, and 8 can sign up to participate. Permission slips have a requested return date of November 3rd. Once all slips are in, our PE teachers will be setting up teams. The event will begin at 3:30. RMS PTO will also be running a concession stand for food to be purchased! Please see the permission slip below for more details and/or ask your PE teacher any questions you may have.

Please join all six of our schools as our student councils collaborate to collect coats for Dutchess Outreach’s annual coat drive. Coats should be clean and gently used. We are also collecting sneakers to be recycled or repurposed by gotsneakers.com. There will be drop boxes in all six buildings. At RMS, the Drop boxes will be located in the Main Office.

1. GSA/Kaleidoscope Club meetings for November will be 11/8 and 11/29

2. The next Chess Club is Monday October 30th. The Chess Club Class Code is: vacqp42. Anyone can join Chess Club. If you don't know how to play you can come out to one meeting to learn how. There is no commitment to attend other meetings.

3. See the RMS Clubs, their advisors, and meeting dates below. Get involved!

4. See the graphic below for our NJHS Food Drive!

5. Click this link to be brought to the eSports Website which has all up to date info and standings: https://sites.google.com/dcboces.org/dutchessbocesesports/standings?authuser=0

Congratulations to our very own 6th grade Science Teacher, Ms. Benson who was a recipient of the Foundation for Beacon Schools "Innovation in Teaching Award" at the FBS Masquerade Gala this past Thursday evening. Awesome!

It's the season for our lost and found to begin to really pile up! We encourage students to look at the lost and found in the Cafeteria to see if any of their missing items might have been found and turned in. Thank you to Ms. Cotto's class for their organization of all of the items! See picture below!

It's that time of year for Fall Cleaning. If you find yourself wanting to donate clothes, shoes and other items, please consider using our USAgain donation bins. The RMS bins are located in the bus loop parking lot. The positives to using these bins are two-fold: for every bin that is full, USAgain plants 1 tree and two, some money gets raised for our RMS Environmental Club! See the picture below from the USAgain website for some ideas that you may consider donating!

The Gertrude Hawk Chocolate fundraiser order forms should be returned by 11/3. You can also place orders online using the following link. Begin by adding a seller and use the organization code 718629. All students can participate in the fundraiser. Those students going on the DC or Boston trip can have the profit earned applied to their trip cost. The profit earned from 6th graders and those students not going on the DC or Boston will be donated to the district to be applied to the end of year trips for each grade.

There is still time to make a donation to the PTO to be entered into a raffle for a gift basket. The raffle basket drawing will be held at our meeting on 11/7/23. Make your donation online here or by venmo @DotDiNobile and add PTO donation in the memo.

Our Ride to School with the Bravest Raffle has begun which will benefit our DC and Boston Scholarship Fund. Raffle tickets are on sale for elementary school students to win a ride to school on a fire truck. Tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10 and can be downloaded from Romboutpto.org. Please help us spread the word. There will be one winner from each elementary school.

We are looking for food donations and volunteers for the concession stand at the Fall Ball on 11/3 and the Turkey Bowl football tournament on November 9th. If you are interested in donating or volunteering for the Fall Ball sign up here. If you are interested in donating to or volunteering for the Turkey Bowl sign up here.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 11/8 at 7pm in the RMS Library. We will be attempting to do a hybrid meeting by zoom. Be on the lookout for the link in the near future. We would love to see you there! We are still looking for board members for this year and next year. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us at romboutpto@gmail.com.

Questions or Concerns? Contact the Main Office at 845-838-6900 ext. 4131.

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School Address: 84 Mattaewan Rd, Beacon, NY 12508

Principal: Mr. Brian Soltish - soltish.b@beaconk12.org - ext. 4131

Assistant Principal (Last Names A-L): Mr. Michael Carofano - carofano.m@beaconk12.org - ext. 4105

Assistant Principal (Last Names M-Z): Ms. Amanda Pucino - pucino.a@beaconk12.org - ext. 4144