Thanksgiving Feast brought lots of smilies to RPS today!
Lauderdale County Schools' Strong Start Summer Bridge Program for 9th graders was recently featured by Education Strategy Group. Check out the article for more on this innovative program!
https://edstrategy.org/momentum-metrics-innovation-spotlight-starting-9th-grade-on-track/
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Phone service has been restored to all school and district offices. In the event that you need to contact an entity, please use the traditional phone number. Thanks and have a great day!
Good morning!
Our statewide phone provider, ENA, is currently experiencing an outage. In the event that you need to reach RPS, please call 731-413-1970. We will notify everyone when our traditional numbers are back in service.
Thanks and have a great day!
RPS wishes you a safe and happy Halloween!
Exciting news! We've partnered with @Ready4K to offer an evidence-based #parenting curriculum to #families at no cost to them. They'll receive text messages with fun facts and easy tips to help their #children learn and grow. Check out the attached flyers for more details!
Homestyle Christmas 2022 is BACK! Be sure to save the date for this year's event! Ice skating, Santa, train rides, cookie decorating and so much more!
Ripley Primary School celebrates Drug Free Week. Tuesday was Celebrate like a Rock Star and Sheriff Brian Kelley and Chief Deputy Garrison Taylor stopped by classes and posed with our Rock Stars.
Second graders in Miss April York's, Miss Shelly Ogden's and Miss Trina Smith's classes learned about how they could send their parents to the Ripley Fire Department and get two fire detectors for their houses if they did not already have some.
RPS PARENTS:
Cherrydale Fundraiser Items will be here tomorrow, Oct. 13th!! If your child sold items, and you did not have the items sent to your home, please come by the school tomorrow from 12:00pm until 5:30pm, to pick up your items.
LCS Central Office staff would like to thank Rotarian Juanita Halfacre and the Ripley Rotary Club for our "purple pinkie" donuts in observance of World Polio Day on October 24th. To learn more about Rotary International's awareness and fundraising efforts, visit www.rotary.org.
REMINDER:
Ripley Primary School PARENTS:
Cherrydale Fundraiser Items will be here tomorrow, Oct. 13th!! If your child sold items, and you did not have the items sent to your home, please come by the school tomorrow from 12:00pm until 5:30pm, to pick up your items.
Lauderdale County's annual Veterans Day parade is just around the corner!
Melinda Hutcherson, Director of Special Education, attended the 2 day Arivett Law Education Legal Conference in East Tennessee. Presenters Deanna Arivett, Angel McCloud and Macey Woldt covered multiple education topics. Hutcherson is pictured with Arivett and McCloud.
This young man is a future writer, illustrator or anything he wants to be.
Congratulations to Superintendent Shawn Kimble on being recognized as the 2023 Southwest Regional Superintendent of the Year! Thank you for your continued leadership on behalf of the students and staff of Lauderdale County.
Ms. Trina Smith’s Class entered the Fine Art Painting category at the Lauderdale County Fair 2022 and received First Place Ribbons for their paintings of The Colors of Autumn.
Their paintings were inspired by Wit & Wisdom Module 1 A Season of Change.
The Wells' Writing Initiative is a new writing challenge that Mr. Wells (our assistant principal) has started with our second graders. Our first winner was Ava who wrote a poem about school and Tina is our second winner who wrote about God.
Parents & Students: This is a friendly reminder that schools will dismiss at 11:00am on September 30. Have a great weekend!
We have local law enforcement in our building everyday keeping us safe.
