RES Weekly Memo

Calendar

December:

15 - Staff Holiday Breakfast - 8 AM - staff children invited

- Q2 Interims Distributed

- Additional IEP Meeting Day

17 - Smencil Cart Sales

- Hospitality Pot Lunch

- Gr 4 Field Trip - Dover Skating Rink - 9:20 - 2:00 PM

- Kindergrten Class Plays in Cafeteria - PM

18 - Buddy Day - Holiday Activity

- 2 in school concerts (9:30/PK3, 1, 3, 4 - & 1:50/PK, K (Specialists will come to the concert during specials time), 2, 5)

- Winter Concert - 6:30 PM

19 - Sing-a-Long in the gym - 9:30 AM

- 1 PM Dismissal Day for Students

- PM School-based PD

12/20 - 1/4 - WINTER BREAK

January:

6 - BOE Meeting - 6 PM

- Dr. Downes AM School VIsit

8 - Safety & Behavior SIT Meeting - 8 AM in Art Room

9 - Faculty Meeting - 8 AM

13 - A&S - Lee out

15 - Chronic Attendance Meeting - 10 AM

16 - ITSS SIT Team Meeting - 8 AM

- Well Being & Belonging SIT Team Meeting - 8 AM in Media

19 - MLK Jr Day - No School

20 - PTO Meeting - 6 PM

21 - Smencil Cart Day

23 - Faculty Meeting - 8 AM Dr. Simmons Budget

- MD Science Center Assembly - 11:00 & 1:10

26 - SIT Stakeholder Meeting - 10:15 - 11:15

29 - TAC Meeting - 8 AM

- Q 2 Ends/PM Grades Day

- 1 PM Dismissal fo students

30 - No School - Transition Day - No Touch Day

- Q2 Grades LOCKED @ 4 PM

BIRTHDAYS

December

3 - Holly Ruskhauff

11 - Morgan Hayslup

19 - JJ Hester

- Christina Black

20 - Tracy Ward

22 - Alec Roosa

26 - Mary Pauley

SPIRIT WEEK

Spirit Week - December 15 - 19

Monday: Warm and Cozy - Wear a Festive Sweater

Tuesday: We Have Character! - Wear something to represent your favorite holiday character

Wednesday: Knock Your Socks Off - Wear festive socks

Thursday: Colors of Christmas - Wear Red or Green

Friday: Tip Top Shape: Wear a festive hairstyle or headband.

ROOMS INFORMATION

Welcome back! We’re so glad to have your children with us for the 2025–2026 school year!

To keep you informed and involved, we’re continuing to use Rooms, our two-way communication tool that helps you stay connected with your child’s teachers and school staff.

And this year, Rooms has improved some of their features:

SMS Text Notifications
You’ll now receive text message notifications whenever a new message or announcement is sent in Rooms. Each text includes a direct link to view the content in your mobile browser or in the app.

→ Click here to learn how to set your notification preferences.

One Messaging Inbox
Our school app has been updated to give you one, single place to see all of your messages across all children. From this inbox, you can read, reply, or start new messages. This feature is available through the CCPS App, available in the App Store and Google Play.
Upgraded Messaging Features
Our messaging experience now lets you react to messages with emojis, respond in threads, send photos and videos, mute group messages, and more!

Check out this overview of the new experience, or watch this short video (video in Spanish or click on Haitian Creole) to learn more about what’s new for this year.

We’re here to help make communication simpler, more consistent, and easier to manage this year! Please let us know if you have any questions.

Reminder: School Delays and Closings

Please remember, for all notifications, parent/guardian numbers and emails are taken directly from information provided by the family in PowerSchool. Staff contact information is taken directly from the Employee Access Center.

School delays and closings are shared via:

a phone call, text, and email through our notification system
a message on the CCPS Mobile App the district website (carolineschools.org)
social media: Facebook (Caroline County Public Schools and all school pages), and Instagram (carolineschoolsmd)
some local news and radio stations

The process for making weather-related decisions is outlined on carolineschools.org.

Choptank Community Health

Choptank Community Health: School Based Health Care

Ridgely Elementary School: Tues/Thurs 8-4

Employee Hub on the CCPS Website

Check out the new Employee Hub page on the website! If you are always hunting for details and logins in your bookmarks, the Employee Hub was created to be your single source for information. Right now, it's a work in progress, so please email communication@ccpsstaff.org with any suggestions or questions.