Riverside High School
Parent Newsletter- November 1st, 2020
Report Cards (1st Quarter)
Here you can check your student’s grades in real time, attendance, and receive text/email notifications sent by the School. After completing the steps to create the account, you will receive a confirmation email telling you to visit the school to verify your identity.
Creating a Backpack Account for Parents
Please take the time to create a backpack account for parents. A backpack for parents account provides parents, guardians, or contacts with a central place to sign in to do the following:
- View their student's information including demographics, attendance, classes, grades, lunch balances, and test scores
- Apply or register their student to Special Focus schools and programs (Fine Arts Center, Career Centers, etc.)
- Receive alerts and notifications regarding their students
- View their student's school and contact information
- Manage parent and contact information for their students
To create your parent backpack account follow the attached directions. Please note that parents only need to create a backpack account once. This is not an annual process.
10 Academic Tips for eLearning ... from current RHS Students
Tips for eLearning:
- The most helpful advice I can give is to actually watch lecture videos for each unit in your classes and attend office hours when you're not understanding the material. Don't be scared to ask questions because more often than not, someone else has the same questions and you're only gonna be struggling if you don't ask anything.
- Plan your week out and organize your schedule to attend your teacher's office hours! Very helpful to me.
- Try and take care of yourself. You come first 100% of the time.
- To-Do on Classroom is a lifesaver that I found out this year.
- Don’t procrastinate
- Write down assignments.
- Do your work in the morning, because if you wait until night you will have even less motivation to eLearn.
- Try to be as organized as you can, and go on as many Google meets as you can and think of questions you have beforehand
- On eLearning days, try to get in a rhythm. Ex. don't wake up at 11 am on eLearning days and on school days wake u[ at 7:30 am
- Don't stress and communicate
10 Academic Tips for our Virtual Students from our current RHS students
- Don’t procrastinate
- Don't miss class unless necessary and go to the teacher's live sessions.
- Take care of your self.
- After finishing a few classes take a short break then go back to doing your work so you don't get stressed.
- Go to the live sessions so you can meet with your teacher. They really do care and want to see you.
- Make an agenda. when you stop juggling things to do in your head, you are less stressed and can focus more on your work.
- When you go to google classroom always head to classwork because it is very helpful.
- I would recommend making a weekly schedule so you know what is due and when the due date is. I also recommend having binders and other notebooks at home to use for schoolwork, like I do, even though we are not in school.
- Go to class, and pay attention.
- Make sure you manage your time well-It is imperative in order to do well.
After School Tutoring!
Warriors: We want to see you at our After School Tutoring Sessions! Please see our Tutoring Website for more information.
eLearning and Virtual School Reminders
Information From the Counseling Department
- PSAT: The October 29th PSAT was canceled. The new test date is Tuesday, January 26th. Students who did not originally sign up for an October PSAT test date will now be able to sign up.
- School Counseling Website: All grades – Please see the new School Counseling website for information for all students at every grade level: https://sites.google.com/greenvilleschools.us/rhsschoolcounseling/home. Please contact your school counselor any time you have questions or concerns.
- Virtual Senior Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) meetings:
Student Announcements:
Since the Tues/Thurs group did not get a second dress-up day, students will be able to dress up as either rappers or rockers on Thursday. Also, Little Pigs BBQ will also hold their profit share Thursday night!
2.) ACT/SAT - Announcement for all 3rd Year Students - The message below went out to all 3rd-year students through backpack and school messenger on 10/30/20.
You are receiving this voicemail because your child is in their 3rd year of high school. As per state law, all students must choose one of three options in regards to the ACT and SAT college entrance exams:
- They would like to take the ACT
- They would like to take the SAT
- They do not wish to take either the ACT or the SAT
All third-year students, and one of their guardians, were sent an e-mail with a link to a survey that will explain the tests and options in more detail. If you are not sure which option to take, please see your counselor, but again, every student must choose one of the three options.
The student will have to log in to take the survey, only one survey per student can be completed.
3.) Riverside FCA is hosting a Toy Drive for the Syl Syl Foundation the week of Nov. 2nd-5th. If you would like to donate a toy, please give to your Social Studies teacher.
5.) Airforce Junior ROTC Meeting Virtual Meeting: November 2nd 3pm-4pm
Open to all current 9th-12th graders
Go into Backpack, into Education Apps to Schoolinks, then sign up under College Visits. You will see the Zoom link on this page.
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is celebrating College Application Week in South Carolina! During the week of October 26-30, students can apply for free using the code scbucs21. Students can simply put this code into the application and the $25 application fee is waived! Get started here: www.etsu.edu/apply.Students should submit the application this week by Friday, October 30 at 5:00p.m. Eastern Time. ETSU tuition for South Carolina students is $10,500 per year! That's more affordable than some of the universities in South Carolina! Check out www.etsu.edu/affordable to learn more.
PTA Reflections:
The PTA is currently looking for someone to head up Reflections this year. We are proud of our past years of participation in this program and want to see it continue this year. If you are interested please contact Stephanie Wright at ptsawarriors@gmail.com.
Athletic Announcements
Boys Basketball Try-outs will be November 2nd - November 4th.
Monday 11/2 & Wednesday 11/4: 11 & 12 Grades 6:15am - 8:00am; 9 & 10 Grades 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Tuesday 11/3: 11 & 12 Grades 10:00am - Noon; 9 & 10 Grades 1:00pm - 3:00pm
All PlanetHS forms must be submitted & approved before you are allowed to try-out. Please see Coach Arnold in A113 or email rarnold@greenville.k12.sc.us if you have any questions.
Golden Apple Awards
COVID-19 Information
Destination Return to School - Parent Resource Guide - Back to School Information 2020-2021
Please see the links attached below to all information regarding returning to school this fall (Virtual and Traditional). Please see the attached flyer that gives a two-page overview of the return to school plan. The ebook provides additional details that we believe will be important to many parents. It is a long document, but has been bulleted and categorized for easy access and reading.
Parent Return to School Resource Page
Parent Support Documents
Join the RHS PTSA by clicking on the link below
Go Warriors!
Riverside High School
To Instruct, To Inspire, To Prepare
Website: https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/riverside/
Location: 794 Hammett Bridge Rd, Greer, S.C. 29650, USA
Phone: 864-355-7800
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Twitter: @RHSTribeChat