Friday, November 1st- NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN K-8
Teacher Professional Development Day
Tuesday, November 5th- Little Creek Picture Day
More information below!
Wednesday, November 6th- K-8 Parent Teacher Conferences
Please fill out the form below to reserve time for K-8 conferences if you haven't yet!
Thursday, November 7th- RCS K-8 Picture Day
More information below!
Monday, November 11th- Veterans Day: NO SCHOOL for K-8 for Parent-Teacher Conferences
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
Radcliffe students' work will be highlighted in the following events in the community:
November 1st (5:00-6:30)- African American Revolutionary War Art Exhibit
Radcliffe Creek Students will have work on display at the Chestertown Marina during Sultana's Downrigging on November 1-3. Last year's 7th-grade class created work showing how African American sailors lived and worked during the American Revolutionary War. They worked with several artists to help bring their ideas to fruition. This exhibit has been made possible by the Kent County Arts Council and Arts in Motion. Please come and see the amazing work these students produced for this exhibit.
November 1st (5:00-8:00)- Chester River Arts Student Exhibit
See below for more information!
November 2nd-Chestertown Halloween Parade
Students have been busy working on the
Halloween
Float with Mr. Reynolds and Mrs. Herron. Our theme this year is the Legends of the Chesapeake. Students have been building a boat with Mr. Reynolds that will be the centerpiece for the float this year. The float will focus on the cultural and environmental icons of life on the Chesapeake. On Saturday, November 2 at 10:00 am the Chestertown Lions Club will sponsor the annual Chestertown
Halloween
Parade
. Families that are interested in riding or walking along with the RCS
Halloween
Parade
Float need to meet at Dixon Valve parking lot at 9:00 SHARP! All children MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT at ALL times in order to participate in riding on the float! Children may wear their
Halloween
costumes. Little Creek families are welcome to join us. If you are interested in attending, please click on this
link
to sign up. Thank you for your support.
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RIVERARTS GALLERY DISPLAY
Radcliffe Creek students will have work on display at the Chestertown RiverArts Gallery from Tuesday, October 29, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019. The opening reception will be on Friday, November 1, 2019 from 5pm-8pm and is open to the public. This exhibit features works by students from all public and private schools in Kent County which Mrs. Herron has had the honor of curating for RiverArts. Radcliffe Creek School students that will have work on display are Mariner Schut, Luke Blackiston, Collins Rhoe, Ben Lutz, Ben Gilbert, Gabriel Evans, Olivia Murray, Bella Orellana, Elias Kehm, Sawyer Sheubrooks, Ollie Babylon, Brady Gillece, Mia Wilkins, Annabell Bonk, Mattox Rostien, Finn Thompson, Gardner Blyman, and William Moorman. The RiverArts Gallery is located at 315 High Street, Chestertown, MD next to the Dunkin Donuts in the breezeway. Please join us in celebrating our student's creativity!
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Mrs. Herron's video for the Kent County Student Art Exhibition
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RCS student work displayed at the RiverArts Gallery
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - LITTLE CREEK PRE-K
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for the Radcliffe community to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
We often get asked why one would choose Pre-Kindergarten at Little Creek when the local counties offer free Pre-K. Little Creek is able to offer a variety of options that meet today's families' needs. We offer everything from part-time options to full-time options to include summer, holiday, before and aftercare. Our schedule is flexible and we are open from 7:15 am to 5:15 pm. We offer our students a small student-teacher ratio, individualized goals, and objectives and our students attend music, art, gym, library and Discovery in our K-8 program.
The parents receive reports and interims three times a year and are offered parent-teacher conferences twice a year where they are able to give input to their child's learning objectives. Our families receive a daily report through Kid's Report reflecting their child's day to include pictures, and it allows extra parent-teacher communication. The Pre-K teachers send out a monthly academic calendar, a monthly newsletter, and a weekly blurb so the parents are well informed on the happenings both in school, the classroom and the community at large.
We also offer speech therapy and work closely with the county therapists to make sure our students receive any necessary therapies for our diverse learning population. Our program offers a multi-sensory approach which is play-based and language enriched to include phonological and phonemic awareness, literacy, math, social studies, and science enriched activities as well as hands-on experiential experiments. The Investigator's Club curriculum is approved by the State of Maryland meeting all Pre-K standards. We are a level four in Maryland Excels and have received higher level of Accreditation. We use Handwriting Without Tears to introduce letter structure. The teachers and staff are educated, experienced and SEFEL trained. The children have large amounts of daily center time and minimal seated desk time. Our students also have large amounts of outside playtime throughout the day with varied play spaces available for gross motor development. The Pre-Kindergarteners take multiple field trips and have many special events and visitors throughout the year. Our program also offers Tiny Tigers, Dance, and Mindfulness Yoga during the school day. Our classrooms are spacious, secure with cameras to ensure the safety of every student in today's world. Our learning environment offers a sense of community and is family friendly with many opportunities for our families to be an active part of their child's education. Lastly, our students in Kent County test above average with their Kindergarten readiness scores. Pre-Kindergarten at Little Creek has learning opportunities unlike any other Pre-K on the Eastern Shore.
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CONFERENCES FOR K-8 PROGRAM
It's almost conference time for RCS! Conferences this year will be scheduled on the afternoons of Wednesday, November 6th and Monday, November 11th.
Please submit this form as soon as possible. Once your conference has been scheduled, Debbie Cohee-Wright or Kim Nistler will email you to confirm your time. We will make every effort to accommodate your choice. Since Conferences are 30 minutes in length, your promptness is appreciated.
Childcare will be available on the afternoons of these conference days. Please notify
Kim if you are in need of childcare.
If you have questions about conferences, please contact Debbie Cohee-Wright or call 410-778-8150.
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BOX TOP$
THE NEXT GENERATION OF BOX TOPS IS HERE!
Box Tops is changing to fit today's families. The new and improved Box Tops mobile app uses state-of-the-art technology to scan your store receipt, find participating products and instantly add Box Tops to your school's earnings online.
Traditional Box Tops clips are being phased out of production, but may continue to be found on many products throughout the store. You can still clip and send them to school.
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8TH GRADE TRANSITION
8th Grade Parents!
Transition to High School can be very overwhelming, but please know that we are here to help make this a smooth process.
Please refer to the list below as a guide:
- Attend Open Houses
- Arrange a time to talk to Admission staff or guidance counselors about specific questions:
- What admission tests are required?
- What paperwork is required and when is everything due?
- What academic supports are provided?
- Arrange a shadow day for your child to spend a day at the school
- Complete Applications:
- Teacher Recommendations are to be sent directly to Kim Nistler
- Complete the Transcript release form
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POCOMOKE FUNDRAISER FOR HAPPY CRATES
Dear Radcliffe Friends and Families,
The Pocomoke Homeroom is holding a fundraiser for Happy Crates. Happy Crates is a company that sends care packages full of toys and positive messages to children with cancer. Pocomoke has chosen Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children to receive the crates that we are able to purchase. The Happy Crates cost $24.99 each.
We will be hosting a competition between homerooms. The homeroom that raises the most money will receive a Yellow Dress Down Day (date to be determined by the homeroom teachers). Yellow is the color for childhood cancers. Sassafras Homeroom is currently in the lead for this competition with $19.55!
Here is the link to our fundraising site if you would like to donate a whole crate. Please feel free to share the link with your family and friends!
Following the fundraiser, Pocomoke will be handwriting the notes to be included in the packages. A bake sale will also be benefitting our Happy Crates fundraiser in the next few weeks.
Thank you,
Pocomoke Homeroom
(Alida, Bella, Cannon, Lorenzo, Mary Jane, Olivia, Owen)
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ACME GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS PROGRAM
We are so excited to announce that Radcliffe has been selected by ACME as the benefiting non-profit in the Acme Give Back Where It Counts Reusable Bag Program for the month of
November.
Radcliffe will receive a $1 donation for every bag purchased at the Acme store located at 711 Washington Avenue, Chestertown MD for the month of November. The bags are sold right at the front of the store!
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AROUND THE CREEK
Closed and Silent E syllable matching in Mrs. Bushby's Literature class.
Oliver works in OT on a variety of gross motor tasks down the hallway, then plays a visual and fine motor "witches brew" game at the end of each round.
 Students work on syllabication rules activity in Literature.
Little Creek students enjoyed their trip to the pumpkin patch on Friday
!
The Two's class is enjoying Music with Mrs. Babylon.
Mrs. Herron and Jack Beasley went to WKHS to speak about the artwork students worked on for the African American Art Show. The work is on display at the Chestertown Marina beginning on November 1st. Johnson, WKHS student radio announcer, and Jack Beasley are pictured above while on the air.
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