RBS Principal’s
Notes
January 4, 2019
Welcome back, and
Happy 2019! I hope everyone had a great
break, and was able to spend some much-deserved downtime with family and
friends! It always seems to me that the
school year flies by after the New Year.
Hopefully, we’ll keep our roll going with 0 snow days!
IN THE NEWS:
New Year’s
Reading Challenge
There are some great suggestions on THIS
Reading Challenge calendar from Scholastic.
If you and your child are interested, hang it up in your home and enjoy
some of these fun activities together!
Bakers
(or Buyers) Needed for our Lady’s Choice Dance
Our annual Lady’s
Choice Dance (formerly, Father/Daughter
Dance) is scheduled for Friday, February 1st, and we’re looking
for parents who are willing to donate baked goods for the event. Students were sent home with THIS
INFORMATION this week, but I wanted to include it here as well. Ticket information will be going home on Friday,
January 18th.
Snow Day
Lunch Info./Announcements
Just in case we
have a snow day this winter, I wanted to let parents know how the district
deals with hot lunches the following day. There is no rule of thumb when
determining the lunch menu on the day following a snow day as the menu for that
day is dependent upon what was on the menu the day of the snow day, what prep
the kitchen had to do, and what fresh produce the kitchen had ordered.
Therefore, our district’s Food Service Director (Emily Murphy) provides an
announcement on the SAU’s website (www.sau25.net) in the District News box,
which will detail, by school, what the hot lunch offering will be the day
following the snow day. This information will be available the day of the
snow day.
Dr. Dawn
Huebner Presentation on Anxiety in Children
Save the
Date: Join us on Wednesday, March 13th
at 6:30pm at McKelvie Intermediate School for a 90-minute Q&A with Dr. Dawn
Huebner, nationally recognized Psychologist, Parent Coach and author of
award-winning mental health books for kids. Dr. Huebner is best known for her
What to Do Guides - including What to Do When You Worry Too Much and Outsmarting
Worry - which have sold over 1 million copies. Rather than giving a
one-size-fits-all talk, Dr. Huebner will be answering audience questions about
how to recognize anxiety in kids, how to respond to it, and how to build skills
to better manage it. Questions can be submitted in advance, written on a note
card that evening (to maintain anonymity) or asked live. This is not a group
therapy session but instead an informative Q&A that will leave you with a
clearer understanding of anxiety, what parents do that inadvertently feeds it,
and how to help your child get on the path to defeating it.
Check out Dr.
Huebner in advance at her TEDx Talk on "Rethinking Anxiety: Learning to
face fear" HERE.
REMINDERS:
Food Pantry
RBS is working
with the Bedford Food Pantry to help
collect food items that are most needed by families. Every
other month we will be collecting 1 food item. For the month of January, that item is SINGLE
SERVE JUICE. If you are able, please bring in single serve juice
until Friday, January 25th. We will have a box for donations
in the office hallway outside of the library. Thank you so much for
supporting this very worthy cause, which supports Bedford families.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
January 18 – End of Quarter 2
January 21 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – NO SCHOOL
January 29 – 4th Grade Spelling Bee
(Library 2:45 PM) *Snow date – January 30
January 24 – PTG Principals’ Winter Read (More
information to come) *Snow date – January 31
January 25 – Report Cards Released (on-line)
February 1 – RBS Lady’s Choice Dance *Snow date –
February 8
February 6 – RBS Cabaret – 6:30 PM RBS Gymnasium
*Snow date – February 7
February 11 – RBS Invention Convention (More
information to come) *Snow date – February 18
February
25-March 1 – Winter
Vacation
