Round Valley School District

Flood Prevention Update for Round Valley Schools

We want to inform our community that proactive flood prevention measures have been taken at both the Round Valley Dome and Round Valley Primary School. While engineers will be developing long-term solutions, that process will take some time. In the meantime, we’ve placed sandbags around entryways, installed a cement barrier around the Primary School, and added a culvert and additional barriers at the Dome to help prevent the kind of flooding we experienced last year. Thank you for your continued support as we work to protect our schools.

On this Patriot Day, RVPS sends a heartfelt thank you to our Round Valley First Responders. We are grateful for your dedication and bravery in helping to protect and serve our community. ❤️🤍💙

Today, RVMS honored the lives lost on September 11, 2001, with a moving flag ceremony. 🇺🇸 Our Honor Choir led us in the National Anthem, followed by a moment of silence accompanied by the solemn sound of “Taps” performed by members of our Honor Band. In addition, Social Studies teacher, Ryan Lloyd, shared some of the statistics and heroic efforts of first responders on that fateful day. It was a powerful reminder of the importance of unity, remembrance, and honoring the sacrifices made on that day. Our school is honored to have 3 teachers who are retired military: Ryan Lloyd, Air Force; Jenniffer Leonhart, Navy; Ryan Bottachiari, Marines. We were also joined by recent graduate from RVHS and special guest, Vinny Bottachiari, who just completed boot camp for the Marines and is headed to Camp Pendleton. Our veteran teachers will be the Grand Marshals in the Homecoming parade tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.

RVMS would like to congratulate our August / September Students and Staff of the Month: 6th grade- Noah Puzas, 7th grade- MacKenzie Wareing, 8th grade- Atlas Fuentes. Staff of the Month- Michelle Thompson, 6th grade Math teacher; Julie Brady, Title Reading Aide. Congratulations!

Kynzley Anderson was the RVMS Best Dressed winner yesterday for Homecoming dress up day, Y2K! She wore her mother's 8th grade graduation shirt from Y2K to school, very clever idea! Thank you for your school spirit Kynzley! Go Elks! ❤️

RVMS 6th graders stole the show today for our Homecoming dress up day! The assignment was to dress like your younger self and these kids all scored 100%!

RVMS is selling these super cute shirts to help pay for positive student rewards. Please use the link below or scan the QR code to place your order. You can also call our office at 333-6700 or email Lmuth@elks.net to put your order in. Deadline for ordering is October 1st and shirts will be delivered by October 15th. Payment in cash or check only and can be made when the shirts are delivered. Thank you for supporting our awesome students! Use this link to order: https://forms.gle/ageYpFmYbnDPx5RKA Go Elks! ❤️

RVMS would like to congratulate our groundskeeper, Nathan Pulsipher, for being awarded our BEST STAFF EVER award this week. Nathan has done an amazing job getting our campus ready to start the year and continues to go above and beyond in his job daily. Thank you, Nathan, for all that you do everyday for our campus and for our staff and students! You are an awesome addition to our team and we appreciate you! He will nominate and pass on the award to a fellow support staff member in the next few weeks. Go Elks! ❤️

RVMS Youth Council and the 3rd period Enrichment class presented persuasive Shark Tank projects last week. Topics ranged from changing dress code to installing new fiber optic Internet lines. Great job to our students for their hard work and thank you to Amber Baca, Danielle Whitaker, Jessica Hamblin, and Shannon Latham for working with our students!

RVMS August/September Newsletter, GO ELKS! ❤️

RVMS would like to give a HUGE shout out to our cheer squad! We love the participation and hard work of these young ladies and the spirit they bring to the game! Thank you also to their coach and teacher, Tawna Brown. We've got spirit yes we do, we've got spirit, how 'bout you! GO ELKS!

We were asked to share this from Marcelle Donaldson, an amazing remembrance walk in our community:

RVPS Elks Super Star Award! Carlie Baca is a dedicated employee at Round Valley Primary School. She may have been hired as an instructional kindergarten aide but she has personally extended her duties far above and beyond. She took on the role as our transportation coordinator, spending countless hours organizing aides and teachers and helping to keep our carpool running efficiently and safely for our students. Carlie maintains a cheerful attitude amidst chaos and is a go-to-employee when there are issues to be solved. Carlie has also stepped in as occasion needs to help teach classes, getting her substitute certificate in order to help out. Carlie has desires to be a teacher and while embracing her employment wholeheartedly, she also attends classes to get her teaching degree. Carlie is a valued friend and employee with a great sense of humor and we are lucky to have her at our school! Carlie was nominated by Kristen Gillespie, last year's Instructor of the year for RVPS.

9/11 Walk of Remembrance

RVES ELK PRIDE WEEK
We’re kicking off a week dedicated to celebrating what it means to be an RV Elk—showing our pride and spirit in black and gold! Gearing up for HOCO week!
No school Monday, September 1st
Tuesday: Students wear black; Teachers and Staff wear gold
Wednesday: Dress your best! Picture Day!
Thursday: Wear Black and Gold Elks apparel

RVMS has teachers recognizing teachers every couple weeks for the Best Teacher Ever award. Jane Finch was our recipient last time and has nominated and awarded Rebecca Kipf, 8th grade Science teacher, as this week's honoree. Jane says, "The Teacher I chose to give the "Best Teacher Ever" Award to, is: Ms. Rebecca Kipf!!!!   You are a very dedicated teacher.  You genuinely care for your students, and you encourage them to be the best they can be.  You are a mentor to many teachers and colleagues.  Every morning,  you are the first teacher to arrive, and you're always here on weekends preparing for your classes for the upcoming week.  You are kind and caring,  We love your quick wit!  You have brought smiles and happiness to all of us!    You took a leap moving here from Colorado, but Oh!  How thankful we are that you did, and that you have chosen to stay!  We love you, and appreciate you!" Congratulations Ms. Kipf, we appreciate you! ❤️

RVMS received a donation of ride wristbands and punch card passes. Teachers nominated students who have shown excellence in citizenship, kindness, and inclusiveness within our first few weeks of schooland 4 names were drawn from those nominations. Congratulations to Olivia Bell, Linzi Whitaker, Adyson Brown, and Julio Escarcerga! Thank you to Jennifer Frieden with the Apache County Fair for making this possible for our students!

Big shoutout to Pima Federal Credit Union for collecting and donating school supplies to our schools. RVES is super grateful to everyone for supporting this and our schools.

RVMS would like to give a HUGE thank you to Pima Federal Credit Union and the Forest Service office for their school supply donations to our students! Thank you for your support! ❤️