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 Belinda Johnson's third grade class had a tea party Tuesday afternoon to celebrate St. George's Day (patron saint of England) and Shakespeare's birthday. Cucumber sandwiches, jam tarts, cheese scones and different types of tea were on the menu.
A jolly good time!
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41°39'N/71°25'W BlogThe head of school writes about the role of standards in education. Community Planting DayFriday, May 4 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM | Garden Classroom All are invited to join Lower School students in getting their hands dirty planting and weeding in the new Garden Classroom. Grades 5 - 8 Parent Coffee
Tuesday, May 8 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | MS Commons
Parents are invited to meet with Richard Ryan who will be on campus working with Middle School students in conjunction with the Health and Wellness curriculum. A dynamic and engaging speaker and educator, Richard Ryan, through his organization Creative Drug Education, focuses on providing alcohol (and other drug) use and abuse awareness and prevention programs to schools. *Please note the Grades 5 & 6 Parent Coffee previously scheduled for Friday, May 4 is now being rolled into this event.
Nature Tales
Thursday, May 10 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Preschool Building
Join us for the last installment of Rocky Hill's nature-inspired monthly storytime for 2 to 5 year olds and their grown-ups. This event is open to the public, so please share the details with anyone you know who might be interested!
Bussing for 2012-13Students from Coventry, West Warwick, Foster/Glocester and Scituate who would like to use the statewide transportation system next year must request transportation through the statewide website. If you experience problems with the website, please call the statewide office directly at 401-222-5024. The deadline for transportation requests is July 31, 2012. Request forms submitted on or after August 1, 2012, will receive the closest point of pick up or a depot stop location for a temporary bus stop. For students who receive a temporary stop assignment, a permanent bus stop will be issued after September 17, 2012. Bussing for students who reside in East Greenwich and Warwick will be provided by those towns and registration will take place in the summer. Please email Maria Emmons or call 884-9070 ext. 136 with questions.
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 Fifteen students from Pam Matson's human physiology class spent an hour and a half at Brown University Medical School's anatomy lab seeing the actual anatomy they have been learning about. Students answered questions posed by the lab professor and viewed physical manifestations of various conditions. The students were quite impressive on the visit and represented Rocky Hill School well.
Freshmen T.J. Carley, Shane Woolley and Capri Catanzaro; sophomores Shupeng Song and Wenbo Sun; juniors Leila Jiang, Dawn Li and Bingyu Ren; and seniors Tingying Su, Katherine Roberts and Petra Ross volunteered at the recent Scott Carlson Memorial Road Race 5K and were praised by race director Dr. Judith Pratt. Read more here.
Congratulations to the Class of 2012 Alumni Class Officers
Lauren Gertz - President
Nick Parker - Vice President
Michael Caramadre - Treasurer
Shannon O'Rourke - Secretary / Class Scribe
Class of 2012 Senior Walkway Bricks
The deadline to order bricks to be installed by Commencement is Monday. Order online here. Sophomore Class Community Service Program
Thursday, May 10 & Friday, May 11 | 8:30 AM - 2:15 PM | Multiple Locations
Students will volunteer at Habitat for Humanity (Providence), RI Food Bank (Providence), Ronald McDonald House (Providence) or West Bay Bike Path (Warwick).
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 Harborhill Art DisplayGrade 8 students will have their work in the gallery at the Atria Harborhill Assisted Living Community at 159 Division Street in East Greenwich. Every student will have something in the show, including selected pieces from the course of this year, and some of the pencil portraits they are working on right now. Some eighth-graders will be attending the opening reception at 1:45 on Thursday, May 10, and their work will be displayed through May 31. Grade 8 Spring Sports PreviewMonday, April 30 | 3:45 - 5:15 PM | Tennis, Sailing & Golf Please return the permission form by Friday, April 20. Middle School Dance
Friday, May 11 | 7:00 - 9:30 PM | Campbell Center
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 Playing With Fire
During Green Arts Week, Mimi Huszer-Fagnet and Lower School art teacher Trixie Dumas '81 helped fourth-graders do lamp working. More photos here.
El Oso Quien Queria Jugar
Nancy Maguire-Rambo's first grade Spanish class created a "Total Physical Response Story." Students were given a few sentence structures and worked with zoo vocabulary they had previously learned to create a great story about a bear and a parrot. They drew pictures of each section and then recorded a sentence in Spanish to go with them. The video is on the Lower School iPads for all students to see. You can watch it here.
Fourth Grade Parent Coffee
Tuesday, May 1 | 8:15 - 9:00 AM | Campbell Conference Room
Parents are invited to learn more about life in the fifth grade. Teachers will be on hand to share aspects of their programs and answer questions.
Kindergarten Parent Coffee
Tuesday, May 8 | 8:15 - 9:00 AM | Campbell Conference Room
Parents are invited to learn more about life in the first grade. Teachers will be on hand to share aspects of their programs and answer questions.
P & K Play
Tuesday, May 8 | 9:15 - 10:15 AM | Waterfront Classroom
Preschool and kindergarten students will perform. *Please note the change in date and time.
Fifth Grade Spring Sports Preview
Tuesday, May 8 | 2:30 - 3:30 pm | Boys' & Girls' Lacrosse | Coed Tennis
Please return the permission form by Friday, May 4. Grades 3 & 4 PlayFriday, May 11 | 8:30 - 10:15 AM | Outside Perkins Students will present The Princess and the Pea either outside of Perkins or in Campbell Center in the event of inclement weather. The play will be performed twice with a 15-minute intermission, with students swapping parts in between.
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Parent Meeting
Wednesday, May 2 | 2:30 - 3:30 PM | Campbell Conference Room
ACE representatives will present information from recent professional development conferences on Learning and the Brain to ACE parents in all three divisions. They will also establish divisional parent support teams. The initial discussion for parents will revolve around what has worked best for them when working on homework with their own children.
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PTL By-lawsPlease review the recently updated PTL By-laws located here. There will be a vote to pass them at the next PTL meeting. Middle School PTL Meeting
Thursday, May 3 | 8:30 - 9:30 | MS Commons
Final All-School PTL MeetingWednesday, May 9 | 8:15 AM | Campbell Conference Room This is an important meeting to vote on by-laws, elect new class reps and board members, review the budget and sign up for fall committees. All parents are invited to attend.
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| |  Upper School English teacher Nick Barker welcomed a baby girl, Elizabeth, into the world last week. Congratulations to Nick and his wife.
Upper School math teacher Terry Coes will be giving a talk entitled "Now that Calculators Can Do Algebra, What's Left to Learn in Algebra Class?" at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Philadelphia tomorrow.
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Counselor-in-Training Program Open to students entering grades 6-8, Rocky Hill's Summer Enrichment Academy CIT program is an excellent opportunity for motivated young adults to gain experience in the education field. Click here to learn more. Application deadline is May 1.
Contact Mike Lawson with questions about camp. Contact Meg Myette with questions about the CIT or counselor programs.
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Sarah Pontarelli '07