Rib Lake approves trip for senior class

Seven senior class members of the Rib Lake High School (RLHS) Choir, asked the board if they could attend the show Frozen in Appleton as a senior class trip on May 19-20. Students earned the funds for their tickets by doing a lot of fundraising. A school van will be used to transport the students and teacher Connie Leonard over to Appleton. Community Organization for Music promotion in Schools (COMPS) will be paying for 4 hotel rooms for the attendees. All safety precautions will be used.

Choir member Hannah Schuh said “The reason we want to take this trip is because we have had trips planned for several years now and every time we have planned something it has gotten cancelled. We would love to take a trip with Mrs. Leonard. We want to go on this trip because we won’t be able to take the Nashville trip that they are planning for next year.”

The board approved for the students to go on this trip.

Summer school is in motion for this year. Rick Cardey, District Administrator, has been working with Michelle Rhodes to get the fundamentals established. Teachers had a meeting on March 14 to get them thinking about how summer school would happen. Cardey hopes to get staff proposals out by April 1, scheduling completed by April 6, and brochures to the public by April 19. Cardey said “Summer school days will be Monday- Thursday because it’s easier for families to schedule things for the weekend.”

In other business: The district has used their two cancellation free days, if there is another cancellation due to weather, the staff would have to make up that time, not the students.

Cardey said “I’m all for staff extending their normal work day to get those hours made up.”

Grants that the district has applied for include: A $25,000 school food authority equipment grant for

• Two new convection ovens for the high school kitchen.

Two breakfast grants for both the middle and high school.

• Fruit and vegetable prep equipment

• Serving table for hot items because the current one is starting to fail.

A $15,500 kids first mental health grant for

• Mental health

• First aid training for the staff

• Support for kids A $13,600 for food supply shortage funding

• Fresh fruits and vegetables

• More made from scratch items Ann-Marie Grant was given for the amount of $1,776 to pre-school literacy. With these funds, they were also able to purchase microscopes for the middle school.

High school will be going back to the 8 hour class period day, with 7 class periods and a study hall for students starting the 2022 and 2023 school year and the years to come.

March 7-11 was National School Breakfast Week and the districts’ school nutrition team got a Breakfast Hero Award.

Elementary school celebrated Read Across America Week.

John Dallmann stated,“It was great to see the community members back in our school.”

Also in that same week, the students went to Camp Forest Springs and the kids could go inner tubing and other fun winter sports.

Elementary staff meeting was held that was geared toward English Language Arts (ELA) including curriculum tools and letters training.

In the high school, there are 5 students that are headed to state Forensics this year, there are another 5 students that are heading to the district level on the 19th.

Girls and boys basketball seasons are now completed. Michael Borchardt has been named March’s student of the month.

A weekend heating issue showed a couple of future needs for isolating the water system between the 2 schools. Cardey reported that he would get bids to install isolation valves in both schools and to get pricing to install pipe liner between the two schools for a possible summer install.

Cardey said “If you see Todd, tell him thank you he was really good, because he came in twice that week. He did a fabulous job.”

In order to get more people interested in driving bus, Cardey suggested talking to Krugs and seeing what they can do to simplify the certification process to get more people willing to get a bus license.

There are 13 high school juniors and senior students who are interested in Start College Now courses through Northcentral Technical College. The board approved the courses of Accounting, English Composition, Calculus, Medical Terminology, Developmental Psychology, General Physics, Business Academy, and Welding Academy. The Welding Academy is 6 courses, which would equal out to eighteen credits per student.

Hires that were approved are Michelle Rhodes, Summer School Coordinator and Tara Hubbard as a Special Education Aide.