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Republic School District Families,
As a reminder, these Tiger Talk e-newsletters will be distributed on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the school year and as needed in the summer. Have a great rest of your week!
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Positions Needed: PLEASE SHARE!
To assist the district in being able to stay in phase 1 of the RepMO Return to Learn plan, we are in need of substitute teachers and bus drivers. Please share the below information with anyone you feel would be a good fit! Please share!
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SI Day October 2
There will be no school for students on October 2 for a scheduled School Improvement Day, which will allow for teacher training and collaboration. Families needing childcare can sign up by Friday, September 25 at 4:30 p.m. for Cub Care by clicking HERE. Cub Care is available for kindergarten-8th grade students and also preschool PALS students.
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 RepMO Return to Learn
The Republic School District has created a three phase RepMO Return to Learn Plan for the 2020-21 school year in response to COVID19. The plan is outlined in the RepMO Return to Learn Phases Handbook. Our goal is to remain in phase 1 as much as possible throughout the school year. However, it is possible that we will need to move to phase 2 or 3 depending on community spread, district absences and guidance from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. There are various scenarios in which we could see phase movement. For example, it is possible that phases could vary among partial classrooms, full classrooms, single buildings or the entire district.
We will do our best to inform families as far in advance as possible of an upcoming phase change. However, we high recommend families come up with a back up childcare plan that can be quickly implemented.
Although the handbook mentioned above is all inclusive, THIS FAQ DOCUMENT pulls out some of the most frequent questions we receive. In addition, patrons can visit republicschools.org/healthupdates for the district's response to COVID19 and a case tracker that's updated weekly.
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Daily Wellness Check
Each day we are asking families to do a wellness check of all students before they
come to school. Employees will be doing this as well. Following these guidelines will
help everyone stay healthy!
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 FREE Breakfast & Lunch for ALL Students
EXCITING NEWS! The Republic School District has received a USDA waiver allowing us to provide ALL STUDENTS FREE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH starting Wednesday, September 9!!! This program is expected to continue through December or until funds run out. We are grateful to be able to offer this to our families! #repmoproud
Take note: A la carte items at RMS & RHS are not included in this promotion, so those items will still be charged to student accounts.
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 Apply for Free/Reduced Meals
Although ALL STUDENT MEALS ARE FREE now through December or until funds run out, we encourage families to complete an application for free and reduced meals. A new application must be completed each year. Click HERE for the form.
Since we are unsure of when exactly the free meal program will expire, by completing the free and reduced meal application you can ensure that your students meal benefits don't expire, if your family is eligible.
The current pandemic has impacted many Republic families in ways that may have changed their eligibility. Even if your family has not qualified for free or reduced price meals in the past, the only way to confirm your eligibility is to complete the application.
Please call 735-3753 with any questions.
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 Check Your Contact Information In the Parent Portal
We use the information our families provide in the SISK12 Parent Portal to contact you for various reasons. Specifically, we are needing our bus rider families to double-check their contact information at this time. Should a bus be delayed, it's important that we have the appropriate contact information to get in touch with our families!
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Social Media Highlights #repmoproud
As a reminder, you can find Republic School District on Facebook and Twitter! In addition, all buildings and the STRIPES 360 program have a Facebook pages. RMS and RHS also have Twitter accounts, and RHS is on Instagram. Check them out! Here are a few highlights:
SEPTEMBER 21:
 It's Homecoming time! RHS will celebrate throughout the week with a spirit week, and the queen will be crowned prior to the varsity football game this Friday, September 25 at approximately 6:25 p.m. Congratulations to those students selected for the court! #repmoproud
Queen Candidates:
Elisabeth Creech escorted by Luke McDonnell
Avery DeWitt escorted by Travis Franco
Parker Rogers escorted by Garrett Silvey
Attendants:
11th: Caydie Imbeau escorted by Avery Moody
10th: Isabelle Wells escorted by Noah Reese
9th: Brynnah Shelton escorted by Manning Wilkins
SEPTEMBER 21:
How sweet is this?! Mrs. Pennewell's kindergarten class at Sweeny learned how to be bucket fillers! They made their own buckets and took turns writing kind words about one another. What a great way to invest in the hearts of others! #repmoproud
SEPTEMBER 19:
RHS students in Infant Education demonstrated what they've learned about infant care skills with the RealCare computerized babies. Students got to experience feeding, rocking, burping and changing the babies. They were able to get a small glimpse into how much work parenting can be!
SEPTEMBER 19:
These Schofield leaders look great in their ORANGE & BLACK! #repmoproud #happyfriday
SEPTEMBER 15:
SHOUT OUT! Today is national IT Professionals Day so we wanted to take the opportunity to thank our awesome IT Department for going above and beyond to meet student and employee needs for seated and online learning! You are APPRECIATED!!! #repmoproud
SEPTEMBER 11:
RepMO Friday Night Lights! ��
This evening we have a special guest with us, Officer Mark Priebe! In June of this year Officer Priebe was injured in the line of duty and has spent the last several months at a rehab facility in Colorado. Yesterday he returned home and we couldn't be more excited to have him at Republic Tiger Stadium this evening! Officer Priebe, from your Republic Community, we salute you and are incredibly thankful for your service. We're #repmoproud to call you our very own "Hometown Hero!" #priebestrong
SEPTEMBER 11
Congratulations to RHS seniors Jacob Haralson and Wrigley Cook who are National Merit Semifinalists and will continue on with the process in the hopes that they will become National Merit Finalists! #repmoproud
SEPTEMBER 11
This flag was given to New York City firefighter, David Koyles, after the cleanup at Ground Zero. He was one of the few from his unit who survived that day and is brother to one of our ROTC commanders, Chief Koyles.
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BOE Recap
 At the September 17 Board of Education meeting the adoption of the agenda and approval of consent items (found on BoardDocs) took place after the Pledge of Allegiance. In addition, President, Todd Wojciechowski, provided a Board Update.
Mr. Overstreet and Mrs. Coursey presented a CSIP update. Superintendent, Dr. Pearce presented a back to school update which included a recap of the district's response to COVID-19. All administrative reports can be found on BoardDocs.
This month's building spotlight was from RHS. New principal, Mr. John Thompson presented beginning of the school year successes at RHS.
There were no discussion items and only one action item: the approval of the Greene County Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazard Mitigation Plan. ( details on BoardDocs):
The next meeting is scheduled for October 15 with the regular session beginning at 7:00 p.m.
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Masks & Face Coverings
We're so #repmoproud of the way our students and employees have been masking up to help slow the spread of COVID19! Below are some reminders on masking best practices.
Our district policy requires anyone in 4th grade or older to wear a mask when social distancing is not possible.This includes during the school day, for extra-curricular and athletic events and for essential visitors. Although not required, we HIGHLY ENCOURAGE students younger than 4th grade to wear masks as well.
Also, ALL students must wear a mask when riding a school bus.
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District and Community Announcements
Below are the signs you will see on the entrances of our facilities. Keep in mind, only essential visitors will be allowed and must follow these protocols.
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Upcoming Dates
September 23: End of Progress 1 for Elementary
September 25: Football Homecoming (6:25 p.m. crowning, 7:00 p.m. game time)
October 2: RMS & RHS End of progress 2
October 2: SI Day, No school for students
October 2: Elementary progress 1 reports distributed
October 9: RMS & RHS progress 2 reports distributed
October 12 & 13: RMS parent teacher conferences
October 13: RHS parent teacher conferences
October 15: Board of Education meeting, 7:00 p.m. at Central Office
October 23: RHS, RMS & Elementary End of Term 1
Week of October 26: Virtual elementary parent teacher conferences (grade cards distributed before Parent Teacher Conferences)
October 29: RHS & RMS grade cards distributed
October 30: District Closed, Fall Break
*Reminder that every Friday during the school year full day preschool-12th grade students are released one hour early for teacher collaboration time.
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For questions or comments please contact Republic School District by calling 417-732-3605.
Sincerely,
Josey McPhail
Director of Communications
Republic School District
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