Thrive
May 4, 2020
Soaring into Next Year

Even though we are currently experiencing this separation as a community, this time will pass. When it does, we need to be prepared and so we are moving forward in planning for the future. Thank you for the time and effort you took to support your child as he/she completed the Class Placement Assignment this week.
 
Creating classrooms for the upcoming year is always a complicated and involved process that has to balance student dynamics in regards to social, emotional, and academic needs. This layered process includes the student's current teacher, our Educational Support Service Department and Administration.
 
As in previous years, we will be guaranteeing that one student from your child's Class Placement Assignment will be in your child's class next year. Other information that may have been provided in Question #2 will be weighed accordingly but may not be used to determine class placement. Our primary goal in the Class Placement Assignment was to gather your child's social preferences. I appreciate your understanding, as the process for class placement is complicated and specific teacher requests, for example, cannot be considered with the domino effect of trying to include those specific requests into the decisions for class placement.
 
In all circumstances, we have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships. Opportunities to grow, learn, develop, laugh, connect, and overcome. In our class placement process, we invite God to direct and move our hearts giving everyone wisdom, peace, and grace as we move to come back together as a community in the future.
Don't Miss Out on the Feedback Loop!

At school, teachers and students are constantly engaged in what we call the “feedback loop”. Put simply, the feedback loop works like this: students complete a task, receive feedback, and adjust accordingly. In doing so, they make changes that can have an enormous impact on learning and growth. Providing specific and timely feedback is one of the most important things a teacher can do for students!

When we are in our classrooms, we provide this feedback multiple times throughout a school day in a variety of ways. We make sure that students have received and understood it and we guide them in using this feedback to change their course of action the next time around. Like many other aspects of teaching, this is so much harder in the off-site learning environment! Can you help us?

Each week, your child’s teacher reviews his/her assignments and provides feedback related to the success criteria that they have outlined for each assignment. This feedback highlights areas of strengths as well as next steps. We want to make sure that our students are receiving this feedback and taking time to read and learn from it.

Our tech team has created the videos below to help you find the assignments that are returned to your child. Please check in with your child to make sure that they have read their feedback or, if they are in primary, please consider reading it aloud to them.

Thank you for getting in the loop!

Off-Site Learning Fact: Did you know that your child’s teacher is typically reading and reviewing about 200 assignments per week? Wow! They are loopy for learning!

Drive Thru Parade
On Friday May 1st for a brief moment in time RCS was together! Although it was COVID-19 together, as we were safely separated by 2 meters, we were still together! 

Thank you to our amazing staff that cheered, clapped, dressed up, screamed, whistled, blew bubbles, and conveyed our deep love for our families. RCS families know that you are loved and missed by our staff. 

Parents and students thank you for helping us celebrate and taking time to come together and drive thru the parade to see each other and celebrate as a community. We were moved by your support, love and messages. We have such an amazing community that supports and loves each other. Truly the people that make up our RCS community, and the love we experience as a group, is a taste of what Heaven will be like. Together leaning on God's strength we will SOAR through this strange time but remember we are always stronger together.

Enjoy the video below that gives us a hint into the great celebration that happened on Friday at the parade.