The Red Mill Reader

Welcome to April!

This & That at Red Mill

What a month... We held our Pancake Breakfast, our Family Literacy Night, our PTO Egg Hunt and our Mini-Mini THON, and we celebrated Percy's big birthday AND Read Across America Week! March certainly provided much excitement and many thrills for our school community. As we "march" on to April, please take a moment to review everything that we have in store for the upcoming month!

Congratulations, David!

A shout-out to Red Mill third grade student, David Pae, who was recently recognized as our Red Mill award winner for Youth Art Month! As a result of this impressive achievement, he had his work proudly displayed on a local billboard. Well done, David!

📆 Our Schedule This Month

4/2 – Return from Spring Break

4/3 – Spring Pictures (this is optional for families)

4/8 – PTO Meeting at 6:30pm in the Red Mill library

4/9 – PTO STEAM Night 6-8pm in the Red Mill cafeteria & gym

4/17 – Blue Sky Community Night 4-8pm

4/19 – NO SCHOOL

4/23 – PSSA testing begins for grades 3-5 (additional information highlighted below)

PSSA Update

Beginning on April 23, students in grades 3-5 will be taking the PSSA. Testing dates and session information can be found below. Please note: testing will begin promptly at the start of each school day. We ask that families try to avoid morning appointments and we also ask that all students who are testing arrive on time. We are not able to grant access into the testing session for students once the session has started. Thank you for your help and cooperation with this.

4/23 - 4/25: English Language Arts-- for students in grades 3-5

4/30 & 5/1: Math-- for students in grades 3-5

5/2 & 5/3: Science-- for students in grade 4 only

For more information on how we performed last school year, you can access both our building level score and our PSSA data via the links below. This also provides viewers with information on how we performed in comparison to other neighboring schools and the state as a whole.

Building Level Score: https://www.education.pa.gov/Teachers%20-%20Administrators/Educator%20Effectiveness/Pages/Act13BuildingLevelScore.aspx

Future Ready PA Index (which contains information specific to PSSA achievement and growth): https://futurereadypa.org/PerformanceDetail/090119120129043152138049246121177150215088184123/137108098120038027247140115076183046223013021215/056150031149148237195159159129066157167004000026

Interested in helping support our Red Mill students for their PSSAs? Please consider donating snacks! We ask that all snacks are turned in to the main office no later than April 12. A link to sign up can be found below-- thank you for your support!

Time to Sign Up: https://ttsu.me/dtrdgb

Character Strong

April's Character Trait: Courage

We are excited to focus on Courage this month! Courage is choosing what is helpful, right, and kind - even when it’s hard or scary. Many of us have seen people practice Courage in ways that have inspired us. This month students will discuss how Courage can help them reach their goals. For additional information regarding CharacterStrong, including our middle school monthly traits, please visit our CharacterStrong & Social Emotional Learning website

PTO Update

Our PTO thanks everyone for their engagement and participation throughout March. This coming month, we have additional opportunities as well. Our PTO hopes to see everyone in attendance at our upcoming PTO meeting and/or our STEAM Night!

Morning Drop-off & Afternoon Parent Pick-Up

Drop-Off: In order to keep the flow of traffic moving along each morning, we ask that all individuals dropping off follow the lead of our curbside staff when it's time for students to exit the vehicle. Your help and understanding of this is greatly appreciated.

Pick-Up: We continue to recognize that this school year has presented a fair amount of challenges as it relates to parking availability in our parking lot. While parking spots are limited, we ask that individuals picking up utilize all marked parking spots prior to parking in unmarked parking locations. Additionally, we ask that everyone takes their time when exiting the property. Your attention and understanding of this matter to ensure everyone's safety is greatly appreciated.

Kindergarten Registration is NOW OPEN!

Kindergarten registration has begun for the 2024-2025 school year. If you have a child who will be joining us in August 2024 for kindergarten, please visit the District’s registration page for directions on how to complete the enrollment process. By enrolling early, parents help us with staffing and class sizes to ensure a smooth start to the school year.