The Board of Trustees will be hosting a social event, Stewarding Riverside Outside, in mid May, date TBA. Instead of our usual Oktoberfest friend-raiser, we hope you'll come enjoy a guided walk through some of the newly explored and used parts of the edge of our campus, with food- and drink-tasting stations along the way! We think this will be a really fun and safe way to have our adult community gather, socialize, celebrate, and support our GRO efforts together!

Instead of our usual parent-led auction, which typically raises more than $15,000 for Riverside's programs in February, parents have planned a Super Cash Raffle! Each family will get three tickets to sell, which are going home today, along with this letter to parents that explains the event in detail. Please return tickets by May 3rd, for a drawing event on May 22nd. 

After school and Extended Day Programs will run from dismissal until 4:15 (PreK) and 5:00 (K-8). Please email Sarah or Sean specifically if your child(ren) will attend, so they can plan the long afternoon accordingly.

With so much participation, we reached the highest fundraising level of earning 30% of the sales for Riverside! Thank you for helping raise more than $1400 to support us in developing active learners, patient leaders, and engaged citizens in this amazingly supportive community! Products will arrive by the end of April. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future Square 1 fundraisers, please email Nicki Reimert.

Please plan to drop off all donations before 3:00 pm on Friday, April 16. You'll note that there are some signs with yellow stars that help us pre-sort some items in advance, which saves our volunteers a lot of time. Unsorted donations can be dropped off at the front of the large tent under the 1st Grade classroom windows. Please, do not donate electronics, VHS and cassettes, particle board furniture, encyclopedias and magazines, outdated baby gear, or car seats. Items should be in usable condition. If possible, we'd ask that you save furniture donations for after we return from Spring Break, when we have more tents up and we have more space to safely store them for the sale.

Thank you to the families who came to school on Sunday to help set up our donation tents, we are really glad to have them housing everything this week! We still have shifts for setting up the event on Friday, April 30 that need to be filled. Family participation is critical for the success of this fun community-building event. Volunteers who help with presorting and set-up can take advantage of the pre-event sale, available only to volunteers. We thank you in advance for lending us a few of your hours. Sign up HERE. 

If you have ANY questions about what to donate and when to drop off, you can contact Arcelie Reyes (preschooler Cassius, 3rd grader Phoenix, 6th grader Kingston) or Fiona Shackleton (8th grader Trixie).

They are going to be installing kiosk signs for learning opportunities on our campus, as part of our GRO efforts. Please email Hanna to coordinate if you have one of these tools.

Catamount Arts has opened registration for SOCAPA’s eagerly anticipated annual film slam. SOCAPA’s Tap Into Film 72-Hour Family Film Slam, scheduled for the weekend of April 22-25, invites both novice and experienced filmmakers alike to write, shoot, and edit a short movie, from initial concept to final cut, in a single weekend. Learn more here, and register your family as a team here.