The Weekly Update #4

Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week!! There are many things planned to show how much our students and Administration appreciate the job done by these amazing people every day!! We are running out of weeks in the 2024/2025 school year. I can't believe we are already upon Senior week!! I admit that even though this is a time of celebration it is also somewhat of a difficult time for me. As you get to know students throughout their years in High School it becomes difficult to see them go. I am glad I have a few more days to spend with them!! Everybody enjoy your weekend and not to worry It's Almost MONDAY!!

Students from the Holcad and Lion's Live crews attending the annual media and communication conference known as JDay (Journalism Day) at Ball State University on Friday, April 25th. Students attended a wide range of workshops throughout the day led by professionals in the industry. Topics included Live TV Reporting & Anchoring, Doing Great Sports Play-by-Play, How Women are Shaping the Future of Motorsports Journalism, Social Media and the News, What's in a Brand and Traveling the World and Telling Great Stories, just to name a few. The Keynote Speaker was Jennifer Prandato, Art Director of NBC Today Digital who had a great presentation on transferring from print to digital media, as well as what it's like to feel Imposter Syndrome in a constantly evolving field. Students all agreed that the workshops were very interesting and are excited to go back next year. They had their photo taken with Charlie Cardinal...Chirp Chirp!

Congratulations to Caitlyn Lower and Kaleb Petitt for finishing up their High School credits at Opportunity School and are now graduated from RCHS!!

Congratulations to our Lions Share winners this week Ali Flannery, Claire Angle, Honor Laquderdale, Owen Reyes, Kaitiann Simmermon, Jeremiah Russell, and Haley Garcia.

Rachel Monk - Shout out to Brett Smith and his students for creating new signs in the Learning Commons. We couldn't have done it without you!

Rachel Monk - Shout out to Bud and Kevin for hanging the new signs in the Learning Commons! You came out immediately and also helped us with an on-the-spot request. We really appreciate your good work!

Rachel Monk - Shout out to Riley Hoeing, Toni Schultz, and their senior art students! They are helping the RES library on a really cool project so we can spruce up the new library space next year. Thanks for transforming the students' work into beautiful pieces for the school to enjoy for years to come!

Lindsay Tillison - Shout out an A heartfelt thank you to James Allen, Dana Durbin, Cassia Sherwood, Krystal Parmerlee, Bob Bridges, Christin Nicholls, and Amy Fox for taking time out of your day to answer my sophomores' question: "What makes a great resume?"

I know I caught you off guard with the spur-of-the-moment ask, but your honest, real-world insights made a big impact. Your answers not only clarified expectations, but they also helped jumpstart our previous lacking class discussion.

Keith Perin - Shout out to Natalie Cooper for her "So it goes" tattoo homage to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.

Richard Tracy - Shout out to the Fire and Rescue class. They all passed their Firefighter I and Firefighter II state exams from Indiana Department of Homeland Security. Congrats gentlemen!

Hannah Lemmons - Shout out to TR Campbell for all the time, knowledge, skills, and humor he's put into Footloose this week! He has patiently taught our student volunteers how to work the sound and light boards, helped with sound effect issues, gotten a monitor on stage to help the student actors hear the piano, similarly piped their vocals into the orchestra pit, and much more! I appreciate his expertise so much!

Brittney Corum - Shout out to Ms. Monk for a wonderful book fair experience!!!! You are doing a great job!!!!

Brittney Corum - Shout out to all the Theatre Kids and those that support them: Good luck this weekend you all are going to do great.....also make sure you turn it loose!!!!

Brittney Corum - Shout out to Ms. Adams for helping coach this Academic team season, can't see what happens next year.

Brittney Corum - to the Unified Track team as they have their first meet at Blackford High School at 5:30 pm Wednesday you all are going to do great.

Jill Carmony - Shout out to Nan Scanlan for providing such a generous food pantry for our Rush County School families!

Jennifer Teague - Shout out to Rachel Monk and Jessica Keith for bringing joy to our students with this week's Scholastic Book Fair! It has been great to see the excitement on students' faces!

Shout out to my English 11 students in Blocks 1 and 7! They have spent the past 7 weeks researching, writing, and creating complex, multi-genre projects. I am so proud of their hard work and dedication to see this project through to the end. They've done a great job!

Mark Mitchell is a 1981 graduate of RCHS. He is currently an Executive Advisor and has previously been employed at American Airlines as well as being an author! He encourages students to shadow as many professionals as possible to see what the job entails. Thank you for sharing your journey!

MONDAY 5/5 - We will be on a BLACK day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*CLUBS*

SRT B - GSA

*SPORTS*

Golf VS. Knightstown 4:30 PM

JV Baseball vs. Connersville 5:30 PM

Softball @ Hauser 5:30 PM

Baseball @ Connersville 6:00 PM

TUESDAY 5/6 - We will be on a RED day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

Golf @ East Central 5:30 PM

JV Baseball @ Shenandoah 5:30 PM

Track @ Franklin County 5:30 PM

Softball @ East Central 5:30 PM

WEDNESDAY 5/7 - We will be on a BLACK day Schedule and here are the events planned.

SRT A - Newly Elected Senior Officers

*SPORTS*

Tennis @ Greenfield Central 5:30 PM

Unified Track @ Blackford 5:30 PM

Baseball vs. Lincoln 5:30 PM

Softball vs. Hagerstown 5:30 PM

Band Concert - 7:30 PM

THURSDAY 5/8 - We will be on a RED day Schedule and here are the events planned.

Food Pantry - 4:00 PM

*SPORTS*

Tennis @ Greensburg 5:00 PM

JV Baseball @ Connersville 5:30 PM

Softball @ Triton Central 5:30 PM

Baseball vs. Connersville 5:30 PM

FRIDAY 5/9 - We will be on a BLACK day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*CLUBS*

SRT B - Key Club

FFA Banquet Set Up - 4:00 PM

*SPORTS*

Track @ Greenfield Central 5:30 PM

SATURDAY 5/10 - here are the events planned.

FFA Banquet - 6:00 PM

*SPORTS*

JV Softball vs. South Ripley 12:00 PM

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