News From the Principal
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
We had an exciting October at Randall Middle School. As you know, it’s our mission to ensure high levels of learning for all students and adults. Our students are engaged in deep learning in many formats throughout each day. It’s amazing to see the amount of growth our students are making. Our Student-Led Conferences are a great opportunity for your student to share their progress and the goals they’ve set for themselves. Hopefully your student was able to show you their Evidence of Learning Portfolios and explain the evidence that they’ve selected to show their learning. As we look to November, many of our ELA and Math classes will be starting new units, and students will be continuing with high levels of learning with different learning targets. As classes move on to new units, we don’t forget about the previous units. Your students’ teachers and support staff continue to work with learning goals from those units to ensure additional time and support is spent reaching proficiency. If your student is already proficient in the learning goals from those units, our teachers and support staff are providing opportunities for extension with that learning.
Has your student mentioned SEL? SEL, standing for Social Emotional Learning, is an academic area that we continue to refine to ensure we have direct, explicit instruction for all students. This year, we are using a new curriculum resource to support SEL. Similar to academics, we have staff supporting students who need more time and support to master our SEL standards.
Have you heard about our gaga pit? We’ve been having difficulty with students coming to school too early and staying after school to play in our gaga pit. Unfortunately, we just don’t have the luxury of staffing our gaga pit before and/or after school for students to play. Due to the amount of incidents involving students coming to school too early or staying late, our gaga pit is locked up except during recess during the school day. Please ensure your student does not come to school early. Students should be arriving no earlier than 8:10 am. Please ensure your student does not stay after school to “hang out” with friends. If they wish to do this, please ensure your student does this at your home or another location other than Randall’s blacktop. Students who are classified as walkers should be leaving the campus at dismissal at 3:15.
Thank you for supporting the safety of our school community by honoring these times.
We wish you a fantastic November!
With Purple Tiger Pride,
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News From the Nurse
The chill is in the air! As the winter air sets in this means it is time to layer up! Staying warm and dry will help to fight illness, and allow everyone to enjoy all that this time of year has to offer!
Business wise:
1. Vision screening will be done by the Lions Club November 2nd! “Thank you” to the volunteers who make this a reality!
2. Karen Tabel, NP (with Guthrie Medical Center) is at Randall every Thursday morning performing mandated student physicals. She is also available should students need to be seen for acute or chronic illness. Please reach out to the health office @ 758-4174 should you wish for your child to take advantage of this service!
As always take care and stay well!
Nurse Neuman
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P2 For Families
It has been a busy month for P2! We have addressed the following traits: open-mindedness, integrity and creativity.
Did you know that lots of wonderful P2 family resources can be accessed from your own home? Each character strength follows a 1-1-3 model: 1 quote, 1 video, and 3 questions to drive conversations around character with Please check out
https://posproject.org/p2-for-families/6-8/ The password is P2. 
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| Picture of Garden on 10/6/22 after basic weeding had begun: | Picture of Garden on 10/27/22 after October Garden Club work: |
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