Riverwood Elementary School

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Good evening Riverwood Families! This is your principal Mrs. White with a few updates and reminders. Monday, October 30th is a Teacher Workday. Please be reminded that we do not wear Halloween costumes to school. Please keep those costumes at home. Next Tuesday, October 31st, Backpack Buddies will be kicking off their food donation drive. We will be collecting food from Tuesday, October 31st through Thursday, November 9th. Next Friday, November 3rd is RES Spirit Day. We hope to see our students in RES spirit wear or RES green. 1st Quarter Report Cards will go home with students on Monday, November 6th. Thank you for your continued support and have a great weekend!

Celebrating Red Ribbon Week

Students are getting ready for Red Ribbon Week® 2023, Oct. 23-27! This year’s theme is "Be Kind To Your Mind. Live Drug Free." JCPS believes in a drug free future for all of it students! Here are some fun activities the celebration going all week long, as we encourage everyone to pledge to live drug free! https://bit.ly/3tKyRc8 #BeKindToYourMindLiveDrugFree #RedRibbonWeek

The Harvest Hootenanny is still on for tomorrow night, but due to unfavorable weather there will be some changes to activities. We will be moving activities inside and moving some things around. Unfortunately, the expected rain has caused us to cancel the dunk tank and some of our inflatables. We will still have a lot of fun, food and festivities so come out on Friday from 4:45 - 8. Although admission is free to enter, there will be some activities that will cost money. We are looking forward to a fun night with our RES students and families. Thank you for your continued support and have a great evening.

Good evening Riverwood Elementary Families! This is your principal Mrs. White. The RES PTA is looking forward to hosting our Harvest Hootenany this Friday evening from 4:45-8 pm. We ask that everyone enter the front of the building and make their way to the Enhancements/Cafeteria wing for the fun & festivities. There is no charge to attend the event and most activities are free of charge. We would like to suggest attendees bring a donation for our Backpack Buddies program to help support our students in need. We would like to express our utmost appreciation to our sponsors, Towne Mortgage of the Carolinas, Noah Family Dentistry, Partners TaeKwonDo, Kids First Pediatrics, Pace Family Farms, Dance Ascension and SOS Music Entertainment who have helped us provide this event at no cost to attendees. Free activities include: inflatables, weather permitting, touch a truck, bingo, a cake walk, music, dancing, craft activities, a fortune telling booth and the ever popular dunk-a-teacher. Ms. Hogg, Mrs. Hallinger, Mr. Procaccini, and Mr. Roberson have graciously volunteered to work our dunking booth so everyone should work on their aim. We will have food trucks, various vendors, water bottle stickers and ram jibbitz for sale and back by popular demand Build a Ram. These items will require payment. A portion of the proceeds will help support our PTA. For this year's Build a Ram, we have both an 8" ram for $15 and a 16" ram for $20. If you missed out last year or want to add to your Riverwood flock, you can pre-order your ram. We will also have some available at the event while supplies last. We are looking forward to seeing you on Friday for food, fun & all the festivities! Please continue to monitor our RES PTA Facebook page for any last minute changes or announcements.

Good evening Riverwood Elementary Families. This is your principal Mrs. White with a few updates. Tomorrow the green flag drops on our Mario Coin Challenge Race. Each grade will have a green pipe for their donations. We are asking students to bring in pennies and bills to add positive points to your pipes; silver coins and checks made payable to RES PTA will deduct points when placed in other grade levels pipes. Donations will be tallied each day and results will be announced each afternoon on the afternoon announcements. When the checkered flag drops on Friday, the grade with the highest number of points will be announced. The winning grade will earn a pizza party and our RES Enhancements will get to purchase items from their wish lists to enhance their programs for all of our students to enjoy. You know I'm very competitive and I love a good challenge! I can't wait to see which grade level is going to win this challenge. Thank you for your continued support and have a great evening.

Super proud of our students who were recognized for the September Character trait Respect and Mrs Laura Epting our staff winner

Check out our new amazing sign thanks to PTA and our amazing Parents and families who helped us fundraise to make it happen

Today is the first day of National School Lunch Week! This year the School Nutrition Association and JCPS are celebrating the power of school lunch! In the quest for academic success, research shows that healthy school lunches give kids the stats they need to come out on top. 🥗🍞 #NSLW23 #LevelUpWithSchoolLunch

Llamando a todos los héroes: ¡En NSLW celebramos el poder del almuerzo escolar! En la búsqueda del éxito académico, las investigaciones muestran que los almuerzos escolares saludables brindan a los niños la ayuda que necesitan para sobresalir. #NSLW23 #SubedeNivelconelAlmuerzoEscolar

Thank you Mrs. White for your leadership and grace

Let's make some noise for our teachers on #NationalTeachersDay!!! Teachers don't just teach the students of JCPS, they inspire, motivate, mentor, and coach them. Our teachers pour their hearts and souls into their students each and every day. Teaching is a calling, and we are forever grateful to those who have answered that call, and have chosen JCPS to fulfill their purpose! THANK YOU TEACHERS!!!💝👏

Principal Leigh White has been leading Riverwood Elementary to academic success for many years! She has a servant heart which is why her students and staff members are fortunate to be under her leadership! Riverwood Rams help us celebrate Ms. Leigh White, Principal of Riverwood Elementary! #NationalPrincipalsMonth

Happy Custodian Appreciation day to our amazing Custodians

Good evening Riverwood Elementary Families! This is your principal Mrs. White. We are excited for our first PTA Spirit Night of the year this Wednesday, September 27th at the Subway across from the school on Pritchard Road. Head over to the Subway on Wednesday from 4-10 pm and grab dinner for the family. A portion of the sales will go back to our PTA. 1st Quarter Progress Reports will go home for 1st-5th graders this Thursday, September 28th. Fall Pictures are scheduled for Friday, October 6th. Details will be coming home soon. Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful week!

There is no school for students on the JCPS traditional calendar on Friday, September 22, 2023. This is a teacher workday.

There is no school for students on the JCPS traditional calendar on Friday, September 22, 2023. This is a teacher workday.

📣 📣 SAVE THE DATE! Please join us at Subway for our first SPIRIT NIGHT of the school year! 🗓 September 27th from 4-10 PM! Thanks for your support!

Good evening Riverwood Elementary families. This is your principal Mrs. White with a few updates. Our Fall Book Fair is open online and students can shop in person beginning tomorrow. We are excited for our Fall Open House this Thursday, September 21st with Book Fair Family Night from 4-7 pm. Also for Fall Open House on Thursday, teachers will be hosting Open House in their classrooms from 4:30-5:30 pm. This time will be floating so I hope you and your student stop by their classroom so you can see all the great things that are going on in your child's classroom. We will also have Red Neck B'que Lab and Louie and Company Ice Cream Food Trucks on site from 4-7 pm. We look forward to an exciting evening! As a reminder, Friday, September 22nd is a Teacher Workday. Thank you for your continued support and have a great evening.