Big News from the Archie Tournament! Not only did we bring home team trophies, we had a few individual achievements as well! Juniors, Maysi Miller & Dillon Coonce were named part of the Archie All-Tournament Teams.
Junior, Lanie Phelps entered into the MSHSAA record books for her 3-point performance against Archie on Jan. 24th. Lanie made four 3's in the first quarter which ties her for 24th in the books. For the evening, she put up a total of eight 3's, which ties her at 38th in the record books.
January 29th @ 5:00pm
Half JV Girls--Full JV Boys--Varsity Girls--Little Cheer PERFORMANCE--Varsity Boys
--Sophomore Class Soup & Chili Supper Fundraiser
Come support all your Tigers both big and small!!
Congratulations Tigers on your 3rd place finish in the Archie tournament!
Congratulations!! Lady Tigers defeat the Midway Vikings for Consolation at the Archie Tournament!
Academic All-State is a high honor for all athletes! Here are the recipients for 2023 Softball, 2023 Volleyball, and 2023 Cross Country. Congratulations to these ladies!
Updates for next week's basketball schedules.
1/29/2024: RH V Jasper @ Home--5:00 pm--Half JV Girls --Full JV Boys--Varsity Girls--Varsity Boys--Little Cheer Halftime of Varsity Girls
2/1/2024: RH @ Osceola--5:30 pm--Full JV Boys--Varsity Girls--Varsity Boys
2/2/2024: RH @ Midway--4:30 pm--Half JV Girls--Full JV Boys--Varsity Girls--Varsity Boys (Midway's Courtwarming)
6th graders were able to do an in class lab over plate tectonics. They got to have goodies to showcase their knowledge :-)
Rich Hill Senior Class of 2024. Daylan Black!
Seniors in Engineering Design and Development are working with VEX IQ robots today. The goal: Create a robot that can be maneuvered manually.
Updated schedule for the first round games at the Archie tournament are as follows:
GIRLS
Lone Jack vs. Archie JV-gym/7:00
HARRISONVILLE vs. RICH HILL-GYM/4:00
Hume vs. Midway-Dome/8:30
Archie vs. Drexel-Dome/4:00
BOYS
Adrian vs. Midway-gym/5:30
Lone Jack vs. Archie-gym/8:30
RICH HILL vs. DREXEL-DOME/5:30
Harrisonvilleville vs. Hume-Dome/7:00
The bus for the teams will leave at 2:45.
Tonight's (1/22/24) varsity girls contest versus Harrisonville at the Archie Tournament has been postponed until a later date. Details will be shared once plans have been made.
Little cheer practice for today (1.22.2024) has been canceled.
The basketball game at Osceola has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 1st. The games will start at 5:30 with the following schedule. 2 quarters of JV Girls, Full JV Boys, Varsity Girls, and Varsity Boys.
Dear Parents,
DESE has released our Annual Performance Report (APR). We received this report in December from last April's MAP results and have 3 months to show improvement before our students are assessed again. Overall, after the rules for calculating points were changed, schools in the state declined an average of 5%. We declined 11%. While our students show acceptable performance and we received most of those points, the state measures each individual student's growth from their last assessment and gives points based on what the state considers adequate growth for every student. We did not receive many of those points.
This week, we began a "soft" implementation of a growth assessment called NWEA. Each student will take a Growth benchmark quiz 3 times a year so we can track their individual progress over their academic career. This will allow teachers to modify instruction, address skill deficits, and provide advanced work to students who are above grade level. In a separate "News" story, I will post my thoughts on the way school's are "held accountable" by legislators and the true purpose of that design.
These short assessments are about 43 questions each in reading, language usage, math, and science. The students begin at the last level they assessed at and get questions that are "too hard" and questions that are "too easy" until, by the end of the test, we know exactly what that "sweet spot" for instruction is. On top of this tool, the elementary teachers have been working all year on a reading system called LETRS that has significantly changed the way they are teaching reading and they are excited about the results they are getting from students.
While we may not have much time for improvement this year, we hope that the few months we've been given will be enough to boost our growth so that we can have the entire year next year to get each student on track to grow from where they are. I am attaching two links for you: 1. Annual Performance Report (select Rich Hill in the drop down menu); 2. NWEA Family Toolkit. I hope these two resources help you understand our improvement efforts to represent Rich Hill and your children well.
1. https://apps.dese.mo.gov/MCDS/Visualizations.aspx?id=36
2. https://www.nwea.org/family-toolkit/
Thank you and look for my News story to post soon,
Dr. Goddard
The Rich Hill Tigers play the Adrian Blackhawks tonight, Friday 1/19/2024. Tip-off is at 5:30 pm with the following play schedule: Full JV Boys, Varsity Girls, and Varsity Boys. Come fill the stands!!!
Rich Hill Junior High Scholar Bowl had its first meet of the season last night! The team finished 2nd overall with 1 - 1! Caleb Fischer, seventh grade, finished 1st place for overall questions answered between all teams competing with 110 pts!
Rich Hill Senior Class of 2024. Aden Gwinn!
The Rich Hill District has completed the drinking water sampling required by Missouri's "Get the Lead Out" legislation.
Out of 119 sources, only the 8 high school science lab table faucets were above 5 parts per billion in lead.
According to the EPA: "Lead is known to cause a range of health effects, from behavioral problems and learning disabilities, to seizures and death. Children six years old and under are most at risk from exposure lead-based paint because they crawl on the floor and they put their hands and other items which can have lead-based paint dust on them into their mouths. Because their bodies are still growing, children tend to absorb more lead than adults."
The sampling plan, final report, educational information, and remediation plan are at the bottom of the district page: https://www.richhill.k12.mo.us/page/district
94th Annual Archie Basketball Tournament Brackets. January 22 - 27, 2024
Please follow the link to see the brackets.
https://www.richhill.k12.mo.us/o/jhhs/live-feed
The Junior High Scholar Bowl Meet for today at Midway has been postponed. (1.17.2024) We will let you know if they can set a new date.