Wonderful Christmas Program tonight at Riverside High School!
Mrs. Cassity’s class had a visit with Finley today!
Due to sickness and lack of numbers, we will NOT have enough for a C Team Boys game tonight. We were also already not having a C Team girls game.
Schedule:
4:30 JV Boys in Small Gym
4:30 JV Girls in Main Gym
6:00 Varsity Girls in Main Gym
ASAP Varsity Boys in Main Gym"
Riverside Wrestlers are off to a great start with Kaeden Juhl, Beau Horn, Luke Horn, and Conner Hayes all winning the Sabetha Tournament, and Luke was the MVP of the Tournament. Congratulations!
The Community Christmas Program scheduled for tonight at Riverside High School has been postponed until this Thursday night at 7:00 pm.
USD_114: This is Bob Blair, Riverside Superintendent of Schools. Due to inclement weather and poor road conditions, there will be no school tomorrow for all Riverside USD 114 schools. Thanks.
The Jr. High Cheerleaders for boys basketball will have their first practice on Wednesday December 18th at 6:00 a.m. in the East Campus new gym.
For updates from our superintendent Robert Blair, check out the new district twitter account RobertBlair114@supt
This is reminder to parents of students in grades 1-5. The annual skating party at B & J Skate Center is tomorrow, Thursday, December 12th. Grades 1 and 2 will skate in the morning. Grades 3-5 will skate in the afternoon. Please make sure your child has heavy socks on.
Riverside Middle School boys' basketball practice will start tomorrow after school from 3:30pm-5:30pm in the small gym in Elwood. Basketball attire and tennis shoes are required.
The Riverside Booster Club will be hosting a Chili and Soup Supper tomorrow night, Tuesday, Dec 10th, at the East campus during the Riverside vs Doniphan West High School Basketball games. Serving will start at 5:00pm. Come enjoy some good food and cheer on your Cyclone Basketball teams!
Riverside boys win 54-35 over Troy while the girls lost to Troy 48-40. Congratulations boys!
Riverside Senior Kaitlyn Geeting was awarded the SAFE student of the month award for the month of November. SAFE is a program that focuses on seatbelt safety, preventing driver impairment and developing leadership in high school and middle school students. The program is sponsored by the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office. Not only has Kaitlyn played a key part in the leadership of this program but she also has helped lead our RESIST efforts to promote tobacco and vape free healthier lifestyles, assisted with presentations in the elementary school Booster Rooster program, past DARE programs and other SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) activities. She has shown herself to be a strong, outspoken leader who even during our visit to the state capitol last year as part of the annual "Kick Butts Day" event stood up and spoke before lawmakers advocating lawmakers make changes to further assist in the fight against the tobacco and vape industry. As a sponsor it is great to have her leadership and the efforts she puts forth, as well as our other leaders, and I look forward to the rest of this year and the many other events we have planned.
Check out the Superintendent's newsletter update at https://www.smore.com/0y862-superintendent-s-community-update
Riverside Primary students raised a record $400 in change during our Pennies for Pajamas service project! We were able to purchase more than 70 pairs of pajamas which will be gifted to Kaden’s Kloset and used to address the needs of children in Doniphan County. THANK YOU to our families, friends, and staff who encourage our students to give to others and be contributing members of our Elwood and Wathena communities.
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The purpose of this message is to provide an update regarding last week's issue with potential bed bugs. After our school district hired a licensed pest management company last week to treat three locations for potential bed bugs, no further evidence of bed bugs has been discovered. The only confirmed bed bugs were discovered at the Alternative School building in Elwood last Wednesday, and the location was treated that day. Please see the attached email document or Facebook for more information.
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Riverside HS SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) members met with the Wathena City Council during their last open meeting on Monday November 18 to discuss the creation of a Tobacco and Nicotine Free Parks policy for the City. Jennifer Haynes, NEKES CDRR program coordinator, was present to help discuss the policy and its implementation. Riverside SADD consists of a group of 16 Riverside students who work with Kansas RESIST and Tobacco Free Kansas to help promote healthy lifestyle choices, cleaner air and environment for the schools and community by advocating against tobacco usage in any form, including vape, e-cigs, smokeless and smoking forms. We were excited to see where the city council vote positively for the creation of a policy against the use of tobacco around the city park and limiting its use to the parking lot areas. We believe this will provide a big step toward a much healthier and safer atmosphere for young and old to enjoy the city park.
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SADD Members - Back Row: Ceynaan Byrd, Kaitlyn Geeting, Jim Cera, Jaycee Lundy, Jennifer Haynes, Grace Feuerbacher
Front Row: Jaismon Murphy, Delanie Hundley, Danielle MacKnight
Image 2: Delanie Hundley speaks to the City Council
Last Thursday the Riverside High School health science students had the chance to travel down to Kansas City and tour the Cerner World Headquarters and participate in activities that provided education on living healthy and making good choices in life. This was the culmination of a project our students participated in called Health-e Foundations. In this program students worked in groups with a fictional patient - analyzed their inpatient and outpatient treatment plans, assessed their lifestyle choices and managed their pharmaceutical and billing issues.
Image 1: Riverside health science students listen to a presentation by Cerner Employees.
Image 2: Students break into smaller groups to participate in healthy living sessions.
