What a day at RIA!!!

We had a busy day yesterday as we came together and cleaned up our school grounds.  We cleared away the playground and gave it a much needed sprucing up!  We cleaned up the basketball court, beach volleyball court, soccer field, front & back of the school, and we have begun the process of building our outdoor classroom!!!  We are so proud of our students, parents, staff, and community volunteers for coming together and showing their Crusader (and Eagle) Pride!!!

It was especially nice to see the Allan Duffett Memorial Playground get some much needed cleaning and painting on the anniversary of Hurricane Igor.  We hope to make this clean up an annual event as it is a great way to meet the staff and work together to improve our school!

Our clean up started with our students in the afternoon and continued on with students, parents, teachers, and community members long into the evening.  A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rogers, and Mr. Blackmore for your efforts in organizing and planning this event!  We have a lot of pictures because…well…we had a lot of help!

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We built Snowmen…

We had some great races and contests…

And we had a nice boil up…

We would like to thank everyone in our school community who came out for our annual tree lighting last night.  It was another great event overseen by Ms. Smith and her Student Council!  We can’t say enough good things about our student volunteers at RIA…they are second to none!!!

We would also like to thank everyone who made donations to the wish tree or supported us at the annual Christmas movie night.  We were able to raise $209 which will definitely help those in need this Christmas!  We really appreciate all the support we get from our school community and we hope last nights event gets the Christmas season started right for everyone and that it brought some well deserved Christmas cheer!!!

Thank you to all of our School community who were at our Remembrance Day Assembly Today.  It was a great event and really showed how RIA remembers all of those who served.  thank you to representatives of  Random Air Cadet Squadron and the Rangers, as well as Rev. Hann for delivering the opening and closing prayers.  A big thank you goes to Ms. smith and her student Council for a fantastic assembly; great work everyone!!!

Special thanks to the Random Lions for judging and presenting the annual Peace Poster Prizes.  Congratulations to Laci Fitzpatrick for winning 1st place.  Second Place went to Hillary Ivany and 3rd place went to Faith Butt; great work everyone!

We would also like to thank Mr. Cook’s NL Studies class for their presentation on the ‘Forget-Me-Not’!   Special mention goes to Sawyer Collins, Abby Blundell and Kayla Watton for speaking and thanks to all for your hard work making flowers!

Another big thank you goes out to Ms. Matthews and her very talented Glee group, John Martin, Raine Rogers, Brianna Green, The Kindergartens (Jeremiah, Cierra, Morgan, and Autumn), Gregory Hoskins,  Mr. Blackmore, and of course, our Master of Ceremonies, Jenifer Hart!  You are awesome RIA!!!

The Canadian Red Cross was at RIA today to present a certificate of appreciation to our school for its efforts in fundraising for their organization. Much of that thanks goes to our fantastic Student Council and all of their hard work and efforts in all that they undertake!  Great work Crusaders!!!

Random Island Academy had a great visit from artist Cindy Bowring yesterday.  Our Primary students learned a great deal from her and we thank her very much for bringing her talents to our students.