During College Application Week, Seniors will have the opportunity to apply to colleges during Senior workshops on Wednesday, October 12th at RHS. Seniors will be able to complete college applications, learn about financial aid and scholarships, and much more with the help of counselors and college reps.
We want ALL RHS students to help us celebrate this week and support our Seniors!
• Wear a College or Military shirt and be entered into a daily raffle!
>Stop by the front office, show off your shirt, and get a ticket to enter the raffle.
• Join in on the Idaho College Logo & Mascot Scavenger Hunt!
>Pick up a form in the library and find the 21 logos and mascots hidden around RHS.
>Find as many as you can and turn the form into the library for a raffle drawing on Thursday (10/13).
• Name that College Fight Song!
>During the school day, college fight songs will be played.
>Find one of the posters with the QR code to enter your college guess. >Correct guesses will be entered into a drawing for prizes!
• Vote for your favorite decorations!
>Teachers & staff will be decorating classroom doors/offices with college or military swag.
>On Tuesday (10/11) and Wednesday (10/12), students can vote for their favorite door or area.
RHS is hosting a College Planning & Financial Aid Info Night THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 from 6:30PM-8:30 PM!
All Junior and Senior students and families are highly encouraged to attend!
Come learn about:
-Researching & selecting the right College or University
-College Application Process
-Deadlines
-RHS Resources
-Overview of the costs of college
-How to apply for college financial aid
-How financial aid formulas work
-How to maximize your eligibility for financial aid
-How to compare financial aid packages from different colleges
-How to select colleges in light of aid availability
-How to pay for college costs not covered by financial aid
-Scholarship Opportunities
-and much, much more!
Freshmen and Sophomore students and families are also invited to attend to be better prepared for the future. This event will be recorded for parents who are unable to attend.
Stop by the tables in front of the library during lunch to get more information from these colleges & universities!
Westy, Is West Ada’s school districts school nutrition mascot… he loves fruits and veggies and making sure every student eats their lunch. He was at Desert Sage this week enjoying whole grain chicken nuggets, baked french fries, fresh apples and 1%milk.
Be sure to watch for some Westy Wisdom about nutrition coming soon….
If your student is riding a bus, you can now see the W.A.T.S. routes on the West Ada website.
> www.westada.org
> Menu
> Parents & students
> Transportation
> West Ada Transit System (W.A.T.S.)
https://www.westada.org/page/transportation
Shout out to the Voyager staff & families that helped clean up the RHS campus for the Community Clean Up! Thank you so much for all your hard work. We appreciate you!!
#rhsvoyagers
Check your email for our latest newsletter. It contains details about our new bell schedule. Wednesday's will once again have a later start time due to teacher collaboration. Please note that school will be dismissed every day at 2:40.
The CTE bell schedule is for students that are taking a double-block CTE class on the Renaissance High School campus.
#rhsvoyagers
On Saturday, August 13th, the West Ada School District is having a Community Clean-up day. We'd love to see our Voyager families stop by RHS anytime between 8:00 am - noon to help clean up our campus before school starts. Come for 30 minutes or stay for the whole 4 hours. Any & all help is appreciated!
At RHS, we will specifically be doing the following:
- Trimming bushes around parking lot & in the parking lot islands
- Pulling weeds in the parking lot islands
- Pruning trees around parking lot
- Sweeping along curbs in parking lot & front of school
- Curbing painted (we will provide paint/brushes)
Bring your own equipment (gloves, rakes, brooms, leaf blowers, etc.).
#rhsvoyagers
Congratulations to Amaia Clayton from Renaissance High School for being the 2022 Interscholastic Star! We are so very proud of you!!! #wearewestada #proudtobewasd
Attention Class of 2023! Please join your class on August 23rd at 6:45 am on the field by IFAA. Bring your blankets & breakfast & celebrate the start of your Senior Year!
#rhsvoyagers #VoyagerClassof2023
For those families interested in or in need of transportation (bussing) 🚌 for the 2022-23 school year, the transportation form MUST be submitted in PowerSchool no later than Friday, August 12 to secure bussing for the first day of school.
After August 12, families will have to wait until September 12 to receive a bus route and transportation information for their child(ren).
We thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter to ensure that all bussing runs smoothly and effectively for the start of the school year.
At this time, families who have already completed the transportation form in PowerSchool are receiving route information in PowerSchool on average, in 3-5 days.
Please make every effort to take care of this in a timely manner, should it apply to you and your family.
Ahoy, Voyagers! We'd like to Welcome you Aboard! On Wednesday, August 17th, stop by RHS between 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Walk the halls, find your classrooms, and practice opening your locker! (No backpacks in class this year) School Nutrition will be available to assist you with Free & Reduced meals, and to put money on your student's account.
Please bring your school issued laptop & cord to exchange for a new device. We look forward to seeing you there!
#rhsvoyagers
Join us on August 31 from 4-7pm at the District Service Center - 1303 E Central Drive Meridian, ID 83642 - for product tasting, to meet school nutrition staff, to learn about meal patterns and meal payment information, complete free and reduced meal applications and MORE!!!! There will be prizes and giveaways!!! We can’t wait to see you there!!!!
Dylan Reynolds, Rocky Mountain High School Class of 2022 is #westadaready. Dylan will be attending the US Military Academy at West Point after graduation with aspirations of serving active duty in the ARMY and then going in to law enforcement. Dylan is #westadaready for his future!!!
The Virtual School House Music and Art Club is a full year after-school program, that met in person for the first time just recently. 🎨 Students completed a jaguar 🐆 art project, made friends and had fun!!!
Frontier Elementary second graders learned about properties of materials and matter while constructing buildings out of index cards. What an exciting way to apply classroom learning!!!
Ponderosa Elementary School recently partnered with Two Men and a Truck moving company to collect and deliver donations to the Women and Children’s Alliance. Such a great partnership giving back to the community. Way to go Eagles!!!
Ben is a student at Pepper Ridge Elementary. In 2019, when Ben was in Kindergarten, he was planning a lemonade 🍋 stand to make some money. After a visit to the Humane Society 🐾 that week, he saw that some of the cat 🐱 enclosures didn't have toys and it broke his heart. He decided he would donate whatever money he made to them instead. He raised $220 and stayed true to his word and donated every penny. Due to Covid he took a break in 2020, then resumed in 2021. That year he raised $600. This year during Spring Break, he held his third one. The Idaho Humane Society shared it on their page, then some radio stations picked it up as well. Ben had tons of visitors from all over and he raised $1800, all of which he gladly handed over again. Ben plans on having a lemonade 🍋 stand every Spring now, just in time for "kitten season" when they need supplies the most.
Congratulations to RMHS senior, Christa Rice! Christa was awarded the 2022 Elyse Maree Prow Memorial Scholarship today.
Elyse was a 2018 graduate of RMHS who lost her battle with cancer last year. Elyse’s parents created this scholarship to honor Elyse.
McMillan Elementary School 4th graders had the opportunity to visit Governor Brad Little at the Capitol today. What a great opportunity to apply learning outside of the classroom!!
