2012 Panera Top Teacher Contest. The St. Louis Bread Company is celebrating the power of amazing teachers. You can nominate your favorite Rockwood teacher by clicking here. All entries are due by April 30th. The winners will be announced during National Teacher’s Week May 7th – 11th. Let's make sure some of our fabulous Rockwood teachers are recognized in this event!
PSO Meetings. The meeting for April 11th has been canceled. The next PSO meeting will be held on Thursday, May 10th. Elections will be held then.
PSO Nominations. The nominations for PSO positions for the 2012-13 school year are as follows:
Co Presidents: Amy Greenwald and Loralee Mondl
Secretary: Nancy VanCardo
Treasurer: Shelly McGuirk
VP Fundraising: Kelly Hasenfratz
VP School Support: Angie Stimson
VP Activities: Karie Moran
VP Communications: Dawn Fansler
Caring School Community Leader/VP: Sarah Dillon
PSO Elections. The PSO meeting on Wednesday, April 11th will have PSO elections. If you are interested in applying for a position for the 2012-13 PSO Board, please contact Becky Sebelski at blsebelski@yahoo.com. To see a list of positions, please click here. We are specifically in need of a Treasurer so if you have experience in this area, please consider helping the PSO!
Game Donations. Open Gym Night was such a success that we will extend it into the 2012-13 school year. We are looking for donations of board games and a Wii system. If you have any items you'd like to donate, please send them to school marked PSO donation or contact Debbie Needy at debbieneedy@att.net.
THANK YOU for making the Barnes & Noble Book Fair a success!
Thanks a bunch to the following staff members who organized students for our Barnes and Noble book fair and helped make it a success:
Mrs. Lori Pemberton
Ms. Patricia Ross
Mr. Jeff Sass
Dr. Linda Miller
Mr. Gary Ujka
Dr. Dawn Portwood.
A special thank you to ALL the RSMS students who volunteered their time at our Barnes and Noble book fair!
Rosie Reilly
Allie Duggan
Elizabeth Kaufmann
Kevin Davis
Rachel Sneed
Nicole Howard
Brittni Burleigh
Alex Kolokithas
Varsha Kandadi
Jennifer Chern
Kelli Fink
Rachel Cooper
Anna Kinder
Elizabeth Park
Meredith Davis
Halima Huvvain
Brendan Sutherland
Allison Condra
Sarah McGinnis
Sydney Dropplemann
Haley Hrevus
Heather Lakowski
Bryce Edwards
Jessica Peterien
Gabrielle Marchetto
Abby Faust
Allie Seymour
Julia Hency
Rose Reilly
Abby Kelian
Neha Gupta
Olivia Boden
Elizabeth Daniels
Connor Fagan
Zack Milanos
Paige Ratliff
Thank you to the following parents who contributed their time to the book fair as well!
Debra Niemeyer
Angie Stimson
Shirley Henderson
Angela Ratliff
Janet Paley
Cheryl Wizby
And a huge shout out to Boy Scout Troop 708 for setting up a craft table at the book fair and staffing it with lots of wonderful scouts and leaders!
If we forgot anyone, please accept our apologies and let us know so we can mention you in our next update!
FALCON PARTNERS PROGRAM
This is RSMS's private donation program. 100% of the funds go to the PSO to help support the funding of teacher's requests, additional building technology and student programs. All donations are tax deductible.
Look at what PSO has accomplished with funds raised:
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Buy student planners each year - this year was $3700
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Prepare and serve food to the staff during conference - around $1000
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Donated $1000 to Renaissance this year
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Donated $1200 for Study Island this year
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Donated $300 for Jr. Scholastic this year
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Provided $900 to Mr. Schnider for audio/visual supplies last year.
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Started fund to purchase new theater curtains. We already have $700 in fund and plan to contribute $500 more this year
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Provided $200 to help Mrs. Severson start a healthy snack program last year
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Provided $9000 to split amongst all teams last year to use as needed
We could not do what we do without the generous support of our RSMS families! A big THANK YOU goes to the following people for their generous support:
Greg and Tracey Snyder
Kathleen Kutis
Pamela and Stephan Zemann
Todd and Angie Stimson
Laura and Dave Jones
Curt and Sue Wiseman
John and Lisa Massara
Jim and Catherine Bundschul
Anne and Kurt Hanson
Jeff and Stacey Pohl
Tim and Judie Miles
Grace Essig
Scot and Jenn Endsley
The Maginn Family
Ximun Wang
The Faust Family
The Abkemeier Family
Rick and Julie Peeples
The Mitra Family
Matt and Shannon Hoffmeister
Tina Vo
The Boden Family
Lisa DeLorenzo Hager
Dave and Sally Difani
Stephanie Teague
Mary Ann Thurby
Ron and Charlene LuErnst
Joe and Michelle Mueller
The Petrillo Family