The Royal Decree
Royal High School's Weekly Bulletin: January 27-31
THIS WEEK AT THE KINGDOM:
JAN 13-31 - Dress For Less Donations (See Flyer for Info)
JAN 28 - 7 Habits For Highly Effective Teens (6:30-7:30 CSI Room) All Parents & Students Welcome!
JAN 30 - CSI Project Check In Group #1 (11:40 Library)
JAN 30 - Voter Pre-Registration (Lunch in Main Quad)
JAN 31 - CSI Project Check In Group #2 (11:40 Library)
JAN 31 - Senior Contracts Due
JAN 31 - Last Day to Purchase Senior Ads
FEB 1 - Academic Decathlon -Good Luck to Our Team!
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
Check back for updates...
FEB 4 & 6 - Paint Night & Snacks with PTSA (6:30-8:00 Room 7-16) Have a fun, therapeutic night being creative! See flyer for Registration Info
FEB 6 - Basketball and Soccer!
FEB 12 - IB Program Information Night See flyer below
FEB 13 - Leadership Students to Leadership Conference
FEB 14 - No School
FEB17 - No School
FEB 20 - Future Senior Night (Class of '21 Students & Families) See flyer below
FEB 26 - AFJROTC Unit Assessment
FEB 27 - Voter Pre-Registration Drive (During Lunch in Main Quad)
MAR 13 - No School (Staff Development)
MAR 23-27 - No School (Spring Break)
APR 3 - Mr. Highlander Pageant
APR 10 - No School
APR 13 - No School
MAY 16 - Senior Prom
MAY 25 - No School (Memorial Day)
MAY 29 - Grad Bash
JUN 4 - Graduation
JUN 5 - Last Day of School
STUDENTS OF THE MONTH - OCTOBER & NOVEMBER
Congratulations to these students who were nominated by their teachers and coaches for excellence in one of the 4 A's:
Arts: Justin Maguglin
Athletics: Angus Fitzgerald
Activities: Cristina Rivero
ACADEMICS INFORMATION
ACADEMIC SUPPORT EMAIL COMMUNICATION
In our effort to continue to partner with families in supporting the academic success of all students, Royal High School will be sending out regularly scheduled email communication in regard to your student's current grades. If you receive this email, at that point, your student currently has either a D or F grade for one or more of his or her classes. Although we are aware that families check the Aeries system regularly, this additional layer of notification is intended to offer help to your student to get back on track. Please review the email for important steps you and your student can take. We are proud to team with you in your student's academic success!
ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL CENTER FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS (CAS)
The Center for Academic Success is located in our Library. This is a academic support program that offers peer to peer tutoring from upperclassmen National Honor Society members before school, at lunch, and after school. Teachers from Math, Science, English, Social Studies, and World Languages are also scheduled after school to offer student support on specific days of the week. For questions or to help your student take part in this program, please email Mr. Dobson or Mrs. Mackey in the Library.
CLICK HERE to visit our Academics Homepage
CLICK HERE TO visit our Counseling Department Homepage
ATHLETICS INFORMATION
Follow on Twitter: @athleticsroyal
HOME GAMES THIS WEEK (Varsity Games listed last):
Jan 29 - Girls Basketball vs Moorpark (GYM) 4:00, 5:30, 6:45
Jan 29 - Girls Soccer vs Moorpark (Stadium) 3:30, 5:00. 6:45
Jan 30 - Girls Water Polo vs Newbury Park (Rancho Simi Pool) 4:14, 3:15
Jan 31 - Girls Basketball vs Oak Park (GYM) 4:00, 5:30, 6:45
Jan 31 - Girls Soccer vs Oak Park (Stadium) 3:30, 5:00, 6:45
ADULT SPORTS PASSES AVAILABLE
We are now offering Season Sport Passes that can be purchased online here for $125. These passes will cover admission to all athletic events during that particular season (approx. 20 contests)You may use multiple tickets at a time, so one pass can be used by multiple family members. For questions call the ASB Office (extension 2737).
CLICK HERE to visit our Athletics Homepage
For Athletics questions contact the following:
Debbie Broberg, Director of Student Activities & Athletics
Andy Andreolli, Athletic Director
Yvette Shuster, Athletic Secretary
ACTIVITIES INFORMATION
Follow on Instagram: @Activitiesroyal
Follow on Twitter: @Act4Royal
Yearbooks - Now $100 Available for purchase only through Jostens: https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productBrowse/1007569/Royal-High-School/2020-Yearbook/20190629043027253160/CATALOG_SHOP/
CLICK HERE to visit our Activities Homepage
For Activities questions contact the following:
Debbie Broberg, Director of Student Activities & Athletics
Ashley Rotellini, ASB Accounts Clerk
CLASS ADVISORS:
Kari Lev, Senior Class
Jessica Fancett, Junior Class
Jennifer Letus, Sophomore Class
Reid Furlong, Freshman Class
ARTS INFORMATION
CLICK HERE to visit our Arts Homepage
Mar 4 - Choir Concert (7:00 pm United Methodist Church)
Mar 11-14 Addams Family Musical Performances (7:00 pm in the MPR)
May 8 - Jazz Band Concert
May 15 - Band Concert
For questions contact the following:
Band Program - Lisa Pate, Director of Bands
Vocal Music - Bethany Uko, Director of Vocal Music
Theater Arts - Bari Carrelli, Director of Theater Arts
Visual and Performing Arts Dept. - Amy Petrocelli, Department Chairperson
SENIOR INFORMATION
Follow on Instagram: @the.royalclassof2020
JAN 31 Senior Contracts Due (distributed at meeting on Jan 17)
Cap and Gowns can be purchased directly with Josten's at www.josten's.com
COLLEGE & CAREER INFORMATION
Join the Royal CCC Google Classroom: code lulejdk
Check out College, Career, and Your Future after Royal!
WEEKLY COLLEGE VISITS IN THE ROYAL CCC
1/21 - Seton Hall University
Seniors: Financial Aid DEADLINE is March 2nd, 2020
Sign up for the FAFSA/CA dream Act Application Workshop 1/21 6-8pm in The Royal Library. Brought to you by RHS + Moorpark College
SCHOLARSHIP SEASON is here...
Check out VCCF Scholarships 1.3 million dollars awarded each year!
DEADLINE: Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Juniors: Take the SAT here at Royal on May 2! Sign-up on College Board
Nervous about taking the test? Sign-up for the Royal SAT Prep Course
Happy New Year, Mrs. Hong
WORK EXPERIENCE
Spring Semester Internships
Spring 2020 Internships are available for students interested in Veterinary Medicine, Elementary Education, Community Business, and Civic Business. All Internships are at off-campus locations and have dismissal during the school day (off-campus passes). Internships earn elective credits and reflect on transcripts. Students currently interning at local businesses may apply to see if their internships fit the criteria for class credit. All interested students are encouraged to come to the Work Experience office, room 2-11 for more information!
ROP/CEC
Royal High School students can explore Regional Occupational Program courses, which are offered each semester at the Career Education Center at the Camarillo campus, the Moorpark campus and local high schools.
CLICK HERE to visit our Work Experience and ROP Homepage
For questions contact Mrs. Longo.
PARENT & COMMUNITY INFORMATION
ROYAL PTSA INFORMATION
Our mission is to positively impact the lives of our students and families. Click Here to learn about PTSA's current meetings, programs, and events.
Follow Royal PTSA on Instagram & Twitter @royalhighptsa
FEB 4 & 6 - Paint Night with PTSA (See flyer) Come for a relaxing, therapeutic evening of painting and snacks. It's a chance to be creative without any pressure!
FOOD DELIVERIES FOR STUDENTS
Attention Parents and Students:
Please be aware that food deliveries from outside vendors such as Door Dash, Uber Eats and Grub Hub will not be allowed to deliver food to the Royal campus unless it is during our scheduled lunch time. Students may not leave class to receive food deliveries. Food may only be delivered to the front office and not delivered over the fence or through the gates. The office will not accept fountain drinks or any drink that does not have a sealed lid. The student's name must be clearly labeled on the food item. Failure to follow these guidelines will jeopardize any food delivery services at Royal High School.
ST. ROSE OF LIMA PARKING LOT
Attention Parents and Students: Please do not use the St. Rose of Lima Parking Lot to drop off and pick up your students. They have asked us to relay that their parking lot has had very heavy traffic and their parents can't get in to pick up their students from their own school. You can meet your students off of Arcane in the back of the school, on Hudspeth to the East of the school, or in either parking lot. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
FEATURED COLLEGE
This Week: St. John's College
Click here for Admissions Info
Click here for Tuition & Financial Aid Info
Enrollment: 458
Acceptance Rate: 55%
DETAILS: With no traditional professors, departments, or majors, and a combined total of fewer than 1,000 students on its two campuses, St. John’s College is about as far from the typical post-secondary experience as you can get. Or maybe it’s much closer to what college used to be—after all, the Annapolis campus traces its roots to King William’s School—the Maryland colony’s “free” school—founded in 1696. More than two centuries later, in 1964, St. John’s opened a second campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to facilitate a doubling of enrollment and offer its super-serious students a change of scenery. While the campuses may be a thousand miles apart, the Johnnies who populate them share an all-consuming quest for knowledge in the classical tradition. Their true teachers are the Great Books, about 150 of the most influential works of Western civilization. “One of the beautiful things about the St. John’s program and its focus on the unchanging questions of mankind is that it changes very little,” says a student. “I appreciate the sense that I am studying something permanent and real.”
The St. John’s curriculum, known as “the program,” has every student read the Great Books in roughly chronological order. All students major in liberal arts, discussing the books in seminars, writing papers about them, and debating the riddles of human existence they raise. Classes are led by tutors, who would be tenured professors anywhere else, but here are just the most advanced students. Each tutor is required to teach any subject within the curriculum (resisting the general trend in American academia toward more and more specialization). As a group, the tutors help students divine wisdom from each other and from great philosophers and thinkers, from Thucydides and Tolstoy to Euclid and Einstein. “Because St. John’s is not a research institution, the tutor’s only job is teaching and engaging with students,” says one junior. Both campuses follow a curriculum that would have delighted poet and educator Matthew Arnold, who argued that the goal of education is “to know the best which has been thought and said in the world.”
There are no registration or scheduling hassles at St. John’s; the daily course of study is mapped out before students set foot on campus. The curriculum includes four years of mathematics, two years of ancient Greek and French, three years of laboratory science, two years of music, and, of course, four years of Great Books seminars. Freshmen study the Greeks, sophomores advance through the Romans and the Renaissance, juniors cover the 17th and 18th centuries, and seniors do the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings are from primary sources only: math from Euclid and Ptolemy, physics from Maxwell, psychology from Freud, and so on. For about seven weeks in the junior and senior years, seminars are suspended and students study a book or topic one-on-one with a tutor. The assumption is that the Great Books can stand on their own, representing the highest achievements of human intellect.
SJC Student Perspective: “There is a real sense of community and a collaborative feel to all of the academic work we do. Our class conversations carry over into the dining hall, the quad, the common rooms, and coffee shop.”
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Email: harriet.hunsaker@simivalleyusd.org
Website: www.royalhighlanders.org
Location: 1402 Royal Avenue, Simi Valley, CA, United States
Phone: 805-306-4875