Sign up for the October 14 conference design for parents and families:
Parenting STUDENT SUCCESS Today
Meet parenting and education experts. Gain insights and skills to give your child an educational edge.
When: Sat., Oct. 14, 2017 • 8:30a-12p
Where: Monroe Middle School, 1055 S. Monroe St., San Jose
MORE INFORMATION: online www.campbellusd.org/parent-u and at your child’s school.
A Message from the Superintendent
With news about changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we want to remind our families that Campbell Union School District is committed to welcoming and supporting all students and their families, regardless of their immigration status.
Last spring, our Governing Board adopted a Resolution Reaffirming Support of Immigrant Students and Families, which reaffirms that support and provides guidance about how to provide it within legal parameters. The full text of the resolution is available online at campbellusd.org/policy, or in print from the District Administration, 408-341-7254 or ask_us [at] campbellusd.org.
Mark your calendar for Back-To-School Night on Tuesday, September 12.
Our adult-only evening will begin with a brief welcome from our Administrative Team at 6:15pm in the RHMS Quad, then classrooms open at 6:30 and you'll follow your student's class schedule. Students will bring home schedules on Monday. Be sure to ask for it before coming to school - the campus map will be on the back of your schedule.
6th grade families - Please come to the RHMS cafeteria at 6:00pm for a meeting about Science Camp.
Parking is limited so please walk, carpool with neighbors, or go to our overflow parking area on the black top - drive past the gym and make a left.
Please leave all children at home.
We look forward to seeing you!!
Project Cornerstone Booth at BTSN!
Help your student and others feel great about themselves, learn life skills and keep making healthy choices at school and home. Project Cornerstone (www.projectcornerstone.org) is in its 2nd year at RHMS and we are looking for parents and caring community members to spend a few hours a month with students in 5th through 8th grade. Many flexible opportunities are available in the classroom and out. For more information, contact Gini Bellawala at 408.394.5280, text any time. Or contact any of our other core team leaders if you know them: Nedda Ashjaee, Kim Nevitt, Anna Maria White, Maribel Reyes or Amy Dalziel. Please contact us by September 15. WARNING: Side effects of this program are that you will have fun and feel great about yourself too J
Dear RHMS Families,
In your green envelope you received a flyer for the new PTA Announcement and Community Groups. For reasons Google For Business Support has not been able to resolve, many people are not finding the groups when they search for them. Please follow the links below and click
“Subscribe to this group” then enter your email and click on the “I am not a robot” spam security box. Your email will be sent to the list moderators (RHMS PTA Exec Board Members) for approval. You will be added within a few days.
We apologize for the inconvenience getting this new communication method started. The RHMS PTA sincerely hopes these email groups will help keep parents and students aware of PTA sponsored events for both families and students. Please also visit the PTA website regularly:
Click here to subscribe to RHMS PTA Announcement Group.
https://groups.google.com/a/ptarhms.org/forum/#!forum/rhms-pta-announce
Click here to subscribe to RHMS PTA Community Group
https://groups.google.com/a/ptarhms.org/forum/#!forum/rhms-pta-community
If the links are not live, please copy and paste into a new browser page.
Thank you for your participation,
RHMS PTA Executive Board 2017-18 Volunteers.
Special Back to School Yearbook Offer: Get up to four FREE cover icons of your choice when you order a Rolling Hills yearbook AND personalize the cover with your child’s name. See the ATTACHED FLIER for more information and order your child’s yearbook TODAY at jostensyearbooks.com
This special Back to School Offer ends this Friday, September 8, 2017. If you have any questions, please contact the Yearbook Advisor, Lori Bertolucci, at lbertolucci [at] campbellusd.org (lbertolucci [at] campbellusd.org).
Welcome back! It was wonderful to see the kids after the long summer break. It’s always fun to see how our students grow and change over the summer. A new school year can be a challenging time for young adults. Parents frequently feel their child pull away at the beginning of the year, especially when they want to spend more time with their friends. Keeping your rules consistent at home helps create an atmosphere that supports your child throughout the school year. Changes in routines are best after parent/child discussions, with agreements by all parties involved.
While the first few weeks of school are always an adjustment for everyone: waking up early, packing a lunch, turning in papers, and finding classrooms, just to name a few things. Here in the office, it also means balancing classes and changing schedules. Thank you for all your patience as we filter through the first few weeks of school making adjustments to everything.
Here are a few reminders:
The community is invited to help choose a final name for a new school being created for students in Transitional Kindergarten (TK) through Eighth Grade.
With the Governing Board’s approval of the TK-8 implementation plan this summer, staff is continuing the work of creating a new educational option for Campbell Union School District families. Among those tasks: what to name it.
The District is asking employees, parents, and other members of the community to take a 3-question survey to help choose the name of the school, which will open next August (2018) to grades TK-4th and will add upper grades in subsequent years. CUSD Students in grades 3-7 will also have the chance to participate at school through an internal, secure version of the survey.
A Message from Superintendent Shelly Viramontez
The recent events in Charlottesville and other divisive and hate-filled exchanges remind us of the importance of creating an inclusive and caring environment for our students, families and the surrounding community.
Building positive relationships is a key value for us in Campbell Union School District. In fact, preparing our students for successful futures requires that we teach them to be inclusive and to create positive relationships despite perceived differences.
We demonstrate that value through our commitment to inclusion, our intolerance of harassment and bullying of any kind, and our efforts to maintain positive learning environments for everyone in our schools.
In this way, we create:
Celebrating and respecting our diversity is essential to our charge of developing in our young students the empathy, compassion and other skills and knowledge they will need to meet the demands of their future – to ensure they are prepared for the challenges of college and career. It is an awesome responsibility that we take very seriously.
“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”
(Author Jacqueline Woodson)
Welcome to Campbell Union School District! Parents new to the district need to enroll their children during open enrollment, from January 19 – February 10.
Additionally, for parents and community members, Campbell USD Extensions offers preschool, after school, and summer programs. Register today!
