|
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
MySchoolLights.com Partners with IES to Raise Funds &
Promote Energy Conservation
 MySchoolLights.com, established to provide environmentally
friendly fundraisers to schools and organizations, announced
recently that Ithan Elementary School’s PTO is hosting a
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) fundraiser.
Nearly 500 students in grades K-5 attend IES. If each student
at the school replaces just one lamp at home with a CFL, IES
will be collectively responsible for saving almost $2,800 in
energy costs during the first year and almost $28,000 over the
life of the lamps. The cost savings from using CFLs pay for
the lamps in the first year of use.
Click
here for more.
Sat., May 10, 10-3
Wayne Elementary School is throwing a party – its spring fair
– May 10 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This WES tradition, held rain or
shine, is a perennial favorite with students and adults alike,
and has something for everyone.
Bring your appetite and your sneakers: there will be tons of
food, fun and games, with an obstacle course, moon-bounce,
balloon dunk, face painting, button booth and craft table that
will be open all day. Click
here
for more.
Sat., May 10. 10
a.m.-2 p.m.
Spring will be in full swing
at Ithan Elementary School’s annual Spring Thing
celebration.
Fun, food and fundraising are the main themes for this event
that attracts hundreds of local families every year.
Mark your calendars for Sat.,
May 10, to be sure you don’t miss a minute of the fun to be
had at Spring Thing. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and
run through 2 p.m. – rain or shine. This event is one of the
highlights of the Ithan school year and is sponsored by the
Ithan Elementary School PTO.
Click
here for more.
Philadelphia Book Festival
Sat.
& Sun., May 17 and 18, Philadelphia
This
year's Philadelphia Book Festival, a free event, will be held
May 17 and 18 at the Parkway Central Library, 19th and Vine
streets. There will be award-winning writers and poets in a
lively atmosphere that combines stimulating book talks and
celebrity signings with an eclectic blend of live music,
children's entertainment, a new gaming gallery for all ages to
enjoy, and a street fair with more than 80 literary
exhibitors.
Click
here for more.
Come celebrate RHS educator Skip Shoemaker’s retirement
When:
Fri., May 16
6:30-10 p.m.
Where:
Great American Pub, Conshohocken
Cost:
$20 per person (includes music, light fare and fun)
Contact:
Skip Shoemaker, skip.shoemaker@rtsd.org
“You may have heard that I am planning a retirement party for
myself,” begins the invitation retiring RHS guidance counselor
Skip Shoemaker recently sent out. “I am not trying to be
egotistical – exactly the opposite. I am turning this into a
fundraiser for the Radnor High School Scholarship Fund and the
Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.”
Click
here for details.
In January 2008 the Pa. State Board of Education voted to
advance regulations that establish state graduation
requirements. The proposed requirements are a way for
Pennsylvania to set high and uniform standards to ensure all
graduating students are prepared for higher education or the
knowledge-based workforce. These proposed requirements would
apply to all schools starting with the graduating class of
2014. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in
English, math, science and social studies by the time they
graduated.
At the April 29 board meeting, district superintendent Dr.
Sandy Mangano gave an overview of the initiative. Click
here for her presentation.
This year, Radnor High School received a $373,000 Classrooms
for the Future grant from the Pa. Department of Education. The
equipment – 441 laptops, 18 mounted LCD projectors and 18
electronic whiteboards – was delivered in February. On
Thursday, April 24, Director of Instructional Technology Joan
Cusano “ flipped the switch” – introducing Classrooms for the
Future, a state-funded technology
integration initiative. Click
here
for more.
RHS student Libby Linden-Chirlian demonstrates some of the
new technology to school board member Pattie Booker.
Post Prom 2008: Chaperones
Needed
Sat., May 31-Sun., June 1, Midnight-4 a.m.
Radnor
High School, immediately following the senior prom
Attention
parents of underclassmen: Join the seniors at Radnor’s 11th
annual Drug and Alcohol Free Post Prom Party. Adult
supervision is needed for the entire evening, and the kids
prefer faculty, staff and non-senior parents (instead of their
own mothers and fathers). It is a fun night, and time passes
quickly. Come see all the exciting activities for the
students, and get ideas for your own child’s post-prom
extravaganza.
To
participate or for more information, please contact Jackie
Baver at
baverhouse@comcast.net or 610-687-4509. Please make sure
to include your name, email and phone number.
Honor Your School, Honor Yourself
The RHS academic honor code is
open for discussion and revision May 1-15. Community, student,
faculty and administration input is encouraged.
Click
here for more.
Radnor
High School parents are busy planning their seniors’ 11th annual post-prom party, held immediately
after the senior prom May 31. This year’s theme: Welcome to Las Vegas. What happens in
Radnor, stays in Radnor!
Students
will be welcomed onto the “Strip” by an archway of balloons
with the Las Vegas skyline in the background. Guests can visit
Paris, the Venetian, the Sands, Treasure Island, House of
Blues, and, of course, Elvis and the Chapel of Love. Games,
live music, a fortune teller, celebrity impersonators and an
abundance of food will be available for the more than 300
students and their guests to enjoy.
This
annual RHS event has provided students with an alternative to
individual, non-chaperoned parties for more than 10 years.
Begun in 1998, the post-prom tradition was thought up by
Radnor parents who worked to create an evening that kept
students away from long drives to the beach and mountains, and
unsupervised activities. All members of the senior class are
invited, regardless of whether or not they attend the prom.
Click
here for more.
Radnor High School treats audiences… to the latest senior
musical June 4-7
Sean Connery Hospital in Los Angles is the setting for this
year’s senior musical, Paging Doctor Love. Audience
members will be treated to an evening of music and laughter as
they view firsthand the colorful characters at this
dysfunctional hospital.
The show tells the story of the many doctors, nurses and
patients at this crazy hospital. The music includes modern
songs as Hannah Montana’s Best of Both Worlds, Gnarls
Barkley’s Crazy, Gwen Stefani’s Sweet Escape and
Ben Lee’s Catch My Disease, as well as such classic
oldies as Bad Case of Loving You, He’s So Fine,
U Can’t Touch This, and more. Click
here for
details.
Calling Radnor Township
"charming" and citing our school district as offering
"families a top-rated school system," Fortune Small Business
magazine named Radnor Township 37th in its
2008 100 Best Places to Live and Launch. Radnor is the
only Pa. town in the top 50.
Click
here for the Suburban's blurb on this.
Click
here for Suburban story.
Enroll
Your Preschooler at RHS
Be a part of Radnor Township’s
own preschool!
Kids’ Corner preschool runs
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-11 a.m. at Radnor
High School. With a 1:1 teacher-student ratio, your child will
experience socialization and education in a warm, secure and
engaging environment.
For more information, please
call Becca DiLullo at 610-293-0855 x3137.
RTSD
is excited to announce a new partnership with the Pennsylvania
Writing and Literacy Project,
a nonprofit organization and
one of the oldest and largest sites of the National Writing
Project.
PAWLP offers camps for
students who love to write and read, teaching writing as a
process in a relaxed, camp environment. All classes are small,
averaging 13-15 students, and instructors are experienced
teachers and fellows of the National Writing Project.
“Young Readers and Writers,”
for students who have completed grades 1-5, will be offered at
Wayne Elementary School this summer. The camp will run daily 9
a.m.-noon over a two-week period, beginning July 14. For additional details about PAWLP, click
here. Click
here for the flyer.
End of School Reminder
Mark
your calendar: Thurs., June 12, will be a full day of school
and Fri., June 13, will be a half-day and the final day for
students.
RHS May Newsletter
RMS May Newsletter
RES May Literacy Newsletter
IES May Literacy Newsletter
RHS Senioritis
RHS April Literacy Newsletter
Registration for kindergarten and new students for the
2008-2009 school year at Radnor Township School District
Elementary schools will begin in March. Effective February 1,
parents are welcome to pick up a registration packet from the
schools’ main offices and make an appointment to return the
completed information to register their child(ren). For more
information, click
here.
Here is the current
information about the 2008-09 RTSD proposed preliminary
budget, which is still a work in progress.
Click
here for Dr. McAdams' informational message to the board
and community.
Click
here for a one-page budget analysis.
Click
here for the full 66-page preliminary budget.
Click
here for the 20-page PDE 2028. (PDE-2028 is
the required state budget-reporting program.)
Proposed Budget
-
Discussion
(Dr. Rich McAdams' Dec. 3 presentation)
We need all students' media clearance forms filled out to be
able to send their pictures to the media or to use them on our
Web site. If you have not submitted a media clearance form,
please check in your school directory or
click here.
Have your parent or guardian sign the form and return it to
your school
Help us promote all the great things you and RTSD do!
District Diversity
Initiative
For more information,
click here
2007-2008
RHS Program of Studies
2008-09 RHS Program of Studies
2007-08 Budget
Information
Registration
Information
On February 29, the school district
received notification from the Pennsylvania Department of
Education that all of its requests for exemptions from the
4.4% tax increase index have been granted for the 2008-09
budget year.
The areas and amounts for which
exemptions have been granted are as follows:
School Construction
(Grandfathered Debt)............ $321,361
Special Education
Expenditures.......................... $622,371
Maintenance of Local Revenue or
Average Instructional Expense per
Average Daily Membership..................................
$1,194,564
Health Care-Related
Benefits............................... $1,546
Radnor has also been granted an exception from the Court of
Common Pleas relating to a reduction in revenue due to
reassessments in the amount of $340,741.
Altogether Radnor has been granted
exceptions that would permit the school district to increase
tax revenues $2,480,583 above the 4.4% index. However, since
the approved preliminary budget will allow a tax increase of
not more than 7%, the actual dollar amount that the district
could tax beyond the 4.4% index is $2,139,842. The school
board will be working on the budget over the next few months
in an attempt to trim the projected 7% increase to a lower
percentage.
Click
here for information about the Act 1 exceptions from PDE.
|
Check back often for more information about RTSD! |
|
