Thank you to all parents who completed the form that provided us with feedback about the new elementary school day. The District was thrilled to have received over 900 responses. On September 23, parents and staff members who make up the Think Tank met to review research and have a discussion about innovative learning and what it looks like in District 303. In addition, they analyzed the feedback form responses. A summary of the first meeting is available on the District 303 website here. We encourage you to take a moment to read over the summary. We will provide you with additional summaries after subsequent meetings.

Hope to see you all there next Tuesday, Oct 8th; 33% of proceeds come back to our schools!

Did you know PTO pays for all Field trips through fundraising? Our goal is to raise $12,500 this year to cover all Field Trips K-5th Grade.

Help get all of our Tigers on the bus by ordering from the fall catalogue to be turned in by the 15th.

• Rather order directly online? Go to www.shopfund.com - All you need to do is create an account on their website and choose School group: “Davis Richmond PTO” and then share the link with your friends, family and neighbors! Cherrydale gives PTOs 50% of every order placed!
• Don’t want to order?! No worries - you can simply click here to donate directly. https://davisrichmondpto.membershiptoolkit.com/form/m/77428

Event is for all Davis Richmond Families and staff. Parents are encouraged to dress up for our 5th Annual Parent Costume Contest that will be judged by student council. Please see the Davis Richmond PTO website main page for more info and event details.

Monster Mash Volunteers are needed to make this a successful event. Please sign up at: https://davisrichmondpto.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/52933 for Event Night

or

https://davisrichmondpto.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/54846 to donate Bake Sale items.

Student Council, Jr. has identified our Fall Leadership Team which will serve us through January to help with the Veterans Day Ceremony, Morning Hallway Help, and Winter Gifts for the Elderly.

The Fall Team Members are Stella Babouga, Josie Boyle, Jacob Buch-Miller, Lidia Carmona, Jackson Castellini, Mike Chiappetta, Lorenzo Demik, Ashley Diaz, Nolan Flanagan, Christopher Hernandez, Hagen Holm, Ian Kaliski, Emma Lotesto, Edgar Marcelino, Benji Meinig, Liam Oshlo, Michael Lopez Padilla, Nathalie Quintero, Claudia Rago, Noah Rice, Lainey Sawka, Evi Sayasane, and Selma Wendel.

We are excited about this opportunity to build leadership in our young students. We will assemble a Spring Leadership Team in February to give others this opportunity.

Davis will be observing Veterans Day on Monday, November 11th at 2:00 pm with an all-school assembly. We would like to invite our Davis Family Veterans to this ceremony to be honored. If you have a family member that could attend, please call the office at 331-228-2200. Have their name, address, and branch of the service in which they served available so we can send them an invitation.

Richmond will be observing Veterans Day on Monday, November 11 at 9:00 am with an all-school assembly. We will have a reception in the LRC starting at 8:15 a.m. for our Veterans followed by a whole school assembly from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. We would like to invite our Richmond Family Veterans to this ceremony to be honored. If you have a family member that could attend, please rsvp here. Please fill out one form for each veteran attending.

Please e-mail a picture or two to amy.dixon@d303.org (even if they cannot attend our celebration) by Friday, November 1st. Please include their name, military branch and years of service in the e-mail.

Richmond is adding a Lego wall to our LRC. We are in need of legos, legos and more legos. We are looking for all shapes, sizes and colors. Please consider donating some legos to our school. If every student brought in just 10 legos we would have almost 4,000 legos!

Due to a high level of student interest, 100 Mile Club will be offering open registration now through Oct 8th. Any student interested in 100 Mile Club may pick up a registration form in the gymnasium or see Ms. Semenek. Richmonds 100 Mile Club is a wonderful opportunity for students to set and achieve personal goals while being active. Students may earn miles during Precision Fitness, at lunch recess and by participating in community running events.

Our CARE (Creating a Respectful Environment) focus for October is COMMUNICATION. Miriam-Webster defines communication as “the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else”. Communication is a vital skill to develop in children to help them build relationships with others and express themselves. Strong communication with a variety of audiences are part of Career and College Readiness Standards. Employers are looking for candidates with 21st first century skills, one of those being communication. Our focus the month of October during CARE meetings is to help develop communication skills and strengthen our classroom communities.

Friday, October 11

- Teacher Institute Half Day - Students released at 11:40am

Monday, October 14

- Columbus Day (No School)

Friday, October 25

- Monster Mash from 6:00 - 7:30pm at Richmond

Thursday, October 31

- Fall Parties

Wednesday, November 6

- PTO Meeting at 7:00pm in Richmond Intermediate LRC

Monday, November 11

- Richmond Intermediate Veterans Day Ceremony at 9:00am

- Davis Primary Veterans Day Ceremony at 2:00pm

Monday & Tuesday, November 25 & 26

- Parent Teacher Conferences (No Student Attendance Days)

Wednesday, November 27 - Sunday, December 1

- Fall Break - No School