What a Day at…
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.
It was a great Regional Softball qualifier for the Boys yesterday in Clarenville. The boys went 1-1 in round robin play defeating St. Marks School and losing a close game to Tricentia Academy. The crusaders earned a spot in the finals under the lights but unfortunately it was not meant to be for them as Tricentia played a great game and RIA came up short. We would like to acknowledge all of the support as It was great to see so many of our school community members there to cheer on our boys. We would like to congratulate Curtis Vardy on winning the sportsmanship medal and all the boys on your silver medals. We would especially like to thank Kristina Hansford for all your efforts with the boys as this experience would not have been possible without your dedication! Congratulations to the Timberwolves…we wish you best of luck at Provincials!
School is now well underway and we are back into the swing of things. make sure all students have returned their media consent form, their Powerschool registration forms, and their textbook agreement forms. Also, students must bring in their picture forms if they are getting them done on the 16th.
As classes/courses progress students will begin both in class and out of class work. Keep an eye on Powerschool for updates in the coming weeks and also let your teachers know if you want to follow classes on Google Classroom to see assigned work before completion. All students have free google accounts that provides an email, free storage on drive, and access to many programs such as docs and slides; teachers also use google classroom to assign work and send out notes to classes (classroom, drive, docs, slides, etc., are all connected to the students email). It is also another way to communicate with student’s parents/guardians.
This past Tuesday, students from St. Marks School came to RIA to participate in our after school program Jamboree. It was a great afternoon of activities! Thanks to Mr. Baker for organizing this program and event and to Gregory Hoskins, Brianna Green, Emily Simmons, Belle Simmons, and Hayley Macdougall for your efforts in running this program all year!
Grade 8 & 9 students had a great trip to St. Pierre in May as they immersed themselves in French culture. A big thank you to Ms. Power and Mr. Blackmore for travelling with the students!
Congratulations to all students who represented Random Island Academy at the District Heritage Fair in Trinity last Wednesday. All of our students had fantastic projects and had great presentations. Along with the judging and interviews the day included a trip to the Garland House, a visit to the Forge to see how a piece of metal gets hammered into a beautiful key chain, and a presentation about World War 1. While all of our students received medals for making it to the district competition, we did have one student who won an individual award; Faith Butt won the Heritage Canada Award of Merit. Congratulations Faith, and Congrats to all of our students! Thanks to all the parents for attending and getting the students to the fair, and thank you to Mr. Cook for travelling with the students to Trinity.
