Rolesville High School Weekly Updates   |   November 9, 2017

Veterans Day Holiday:  November 10th

Congratulations, Youth Leadership Rolesville participants!   Youth Leadership Rolesville is a leadership development program for students who live in Rolesville. This training program is for high school students who have demonstrated leadership abilities and who wish to learn more about the community and  how to make a positive community impact.  The following students will represent RHS in Youth Leadership Rolesville this year:  Sara Avery, Zavier Avery, Jayden Boylorn, Jordan Bufford, Justina Hanna, Imani Jones, James McDuffie, Zuhal Muti, Luis Oliveira, Preston Propst and Ayanna Sweat.  We are excited to hear about their adventures. We are also very proud to have this opportunity in collaboration with the Chamber to Commerce and look forward to this collaboration for years to come!

College Application Week is November 13th - 17th. During this week, seniors are able to apply to nearly 30 colleges for free through CFNC.  You can find a list of the schools participating on the CFNC website at cfnc.org.  Student services will hold sessions to help seniors with completing their applications on Thursday, November 16th and Friday, November 17th. Students may sign up through a link sent out through the class of 2018 remind, or by stopping in student services.

Rolesville Athletic Club Boston Butt Fundraiser:   The order deadline has been extended to Nov. 16th. All orders must be prepaid.  The cost is $35 for a 8-10 pound pork butt.  Pick-up is Tuesday, November 21st from 1-5 PM.  

Junior Parent Night:  November 20th at 6 pm.  Please join us for information to support your Ram during the junior year and into senior year.

What Every Tech Healthy Family Needs to Know:  In partnership with the Wake PTA Council, Instructional Technology and Library Media Services is sponsoring a parent event entitled "What Every Tech Healthy Family Needs to Know." As a part of our fall Convergence, our opening keynote speaker, Janell Burley Hofmann (author of iRules: What Every Tech Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing Up) will speak to parents on November 27th from 6:30-7:30 pm at the McKimmon Center at NCSU. Attached you will find the invitation to parents. Please feel free to share this with your parents and teachers. There is limited space and registration is required (http://bit.ly/wcpsstech).

Senior Yearbook Ad Information:   It has been posted to our RHS homepage.

NHS tutoring at lunch time started on November 5 during A and B lunch three times per week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  Teachers register students to get help.

NCSU Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences:  Open houses will be held on Nov. 9th and 30th from 5-7 PM for students who are interested in earthquakes, planetary exploration, digital landscapes, oceanic features and atmosphere studies.  Look up the department website for more information.  It sounds pretty cool!

Interested in becoming a teacher?   Attend ECU’s College of Education Teach Day on Saturday, December 2, 2017.  This event will be held on the campus of East Carolina University.  You must register.  Stop by Student Services to pick up registration information.

Note in the Pocket: Hello, parents. Starting now there will be a new student run operation at RHS. It is called Note in the Pocket and is a organization that donates used clothes and school supplies to children in need throughout Wake County. Parents, when your children begin to outgrow their clothes, collect them in a bag, bring or send them to Rolesville and place them in a collection box when we open the window for collections. There will be further updates as to when the boxes are out ready for donations.  For further information, see www.noteinthepocket.org.

Food from off-campus lunch:  As you all know, students have been told that they are not to bring food back into the building.  I have shared with students during announcements and want you all to know that food must be consumed before it comes into the building.  We have trash cans in the parking lots for trash and leftovers.  I have no desire to take the food nor does any staff member.  Please help the students understand that the food is subject to confiscation if it comes inside the building.

Grades and off-campus lunch:  In the lunch pass agreement, students sign that they must keep grades up.  They cannot have any Fs.  Students who have lunch passes and earn Fs will have their lunch passes revoked for a minimum of two weeks.  Students will be required to demonstrate at least a C in the classes that they failed before they allowed to utilize their passes again.  Grades matter and students need to have a substantial enough start for the second nine weeks to move them toward a likelihood of successful completion.