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The Ridgefield community passed its first successful school bond to add new facilities in 21 years and the largest in its history on Valentine’s Day.
With community support from Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) and other community members, teachers and staff at both South Ridge and Union Ridge Elementary Schools renovated rooms once used for storage to be used as permanent computer labs for students.
Almost every weekend throughout the school year, a team of 25 students from Ridgefield High School travels throughout Washington and Oregon to compete in events focusing entirely on public speaking, an activity that, according to polls performed by the Gallup News Organization, many Americans consider one of their biggest fears.
Students at View Ridge Middle School learn how scientific discoveries develop from scientists cooperating and collaborating rather than working in isolation. 7th graders study fossils in groups, a collegiate-level science activity designed to demonstrate the power of learning what’s happened before, and working together to figure out what comes next.
Students from Union Ridge and South Ridge Elementary Schools recently participated in the Science Olympiad, a competitive event which pits teams of elementary students against one another in a series of tests using knowledge of different types of science and engineering.
Ridgefield School District will mail a Bond Facts postcard to every household in the district in the coming week, so we wanted to give you an early preview on this week’s Did You Know.
The results from the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) for the junior class and several sophomore students from Ridgefield High School who took the test last October showed 14 juniors scored in the top 80th and 90th percentiles and three sophomores scored in the 80th percentile when compared to all of the juniors who took the test nationwide.
Beginning this school year, teachers can elect to have a class session recorded on video to gain insight into how to enhance their teaching styles for classroom observations instead of having the principal sit in and take notes.
Students in Sharon Floyd's third grade class at Union Ridge Elementary learn science and math while growing holiday gifts for their families. Each student received a bulb of paperwhite, a perennial plant that blossoms into strongly fragrant bunches of white flowers typically around the winter holiday.
Planning to increase student learning and improve school performance takes the hard work and continued effort of every staff member in the Ridgefield School District. In order to accomplish this task, the teachers and administrators at each school develop School Improvement Plans (SIPs) with research and goals to help guide the decisions they make in their daily lessons.
The Ridgefield School District Board of Directors voted to approve a bond resolution to pay for new classrooms and traffic flow improvements at all four of the district’s schools in a regular board meeting on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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Starting with this school year, a newly-designed course named Applied Technology introduces students at View Ridge Middle School to advanced technology including computer-aided drafting and robotics programming.
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On the 2011 MSP/HSPE tests administered to students in grades 3-8 and 10th, Ridgefield students outperformed the statewide scores in 17 of 20 testing categories. Check out these other highlights!
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Ridgefield High School's drama class performed Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Winningstad Theater in Portland, Ore. as part of the Portland Playhouse's Fall Festival of Shakespeare. In addition, Ridgefield's students were chosen for the cover of The Columbian's Weekender newspaper magazine.
