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 Greetings
Dear RAUC families,
Please click the image for a video message with highlights from this week’s news:
As always, if you have any questions or comments about the news or anything else, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me by email at [email protected] or phone at 857.244.0730.
Best,
Julia Ho, RAUC Family Liaison
Next Community Mtng: Literacy Night
- Just a reminder that we will not be meeting in March so we can focus our efforts on the transition with expanded in-person learning.
- Our next community meeting on Wednesday, April 8th will be our RAUC Literacy Night. Please look out for more details in upcoming newsletters!
Next Learning Previews - March 16th
Teachers are working hard to support a smooth transition this week and next. They look forward to sharing learning previews in our March 16th newsletter. These will cover learning plans up to April break. Thank you for your understanding.
Updated Schedules on Learning at Home website
 We have updated our Learning at Home website with the new schedules & remote learning overviews. Click here for the website.
Attendance
- At our last community meeting, several families expressed concerns about changing advisory to the afternoon. While we’re unable to switch this time, in light of your concerns, we will be taking attendance (in addition to class attendance) during the first 1st period class in the morning and during advisory.
- NOTE: If you know your student will have to be absent for a period of time or for the whole day, please follow the same protocol for reporting absences as before: please call the school (617.349.4060) and give the date(s), and anticipated length of absence.
Changes to PE and Health classes
- In case you missed this in the email on Friday: Please be advised that due to recent staffing changes, we are making an adjustment to our PE and Health classes.
- The PE teacher will teach only in-person classes and the Health teacher will teach only remote classes. That means that in-person students will receive two 5 week cycles of PE, while remote students will receive two 5 week cycles of Health.
- This will allow our in-person students to be taught by in-person staff instead of having to sit and face a computer while the teacher “beams in” instruction. Mr Moore and Mr McNulty will be still be teaching PE and Health.
- Thank you for your understanding as we adjust to new information in ways that we believe best serve students and staff.
- All students will continue to have Art for one five week cycle.
In-person families COVID-19 Testing forms
If you would like your student to participate in weekly COVID-19 testing, please complete the COVID-19 testing form. Although this weekly testing is not required, we highly encourage students to participate because it can help keep our whole community safe. You can fill the form in two different ways:
- Online at this https://secure1.cpsd.us/form_consent/.
- Paper
- Have your student pick up a paper copy at school (ask their teacher or go to the the front office), bring it home, sign and bring back
- Print a PDF of consent form yourself and drop it off at the school or have your student give it to their teacher
Questions? Please check out this district FAQ page or email Family Liaison Julia Ho.
6th Grade Fully-Remote Families:
Pick up The Giver
All 6th grade students will be reading The Giver for their English Language Arts class. If you do not have a copy of The Giver, you can pick up a school copy on the following dates/times at front entrance of the school:
- Friday, March 5th, 10AM-12PM
- Monday, March 8th, 3-5PM
RAUC Staff Feel the Love -
Thank you FRAUC!
Several weeks ago, Families of RAUC (FRAUC) delivered cards, appreciation signs, and goodies for our RAUC staff as they came back to the school to prepare for more students coming back in-person. Many of our staff felt the care and love. A special thank you to the many students and families who helped create beautiful cards and signs and FRAUC for sponsoring and coordinating this thoughtful event!
RAUC TV Season 2 Episode 3
Episode 3 of RAUC TV is an entirely sixth grade affair this time, but now kids have expanded their creativity to include original music as well as videos. Once again, all clips are under 3 minutes long, and students are hard at work on episode 4 to wrap up season 2 (aka, the second round of clubs). If your student is interested in making movies for season 3, we'll continue to meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 on the magical zoom box.
Watch Episode 3 here >>
RAUC Participates in Debate Tournament
 This past Saturday, Rauc participated in it's 3rd virtual Debate Tournament with the Cambridge Debate League (CDL). 8th grader Maddy Nohrnberg came in 5th in the Speaker Awards and 4th with her partner, Muna Shirferaw (also 8th grade), in the Team Awards. 6th graders, Oyane Ondias-Souna and Frida Greene' 's team took 5th place Team Award. Congratulations to all our debaters who participated! Shout out as always to Ms. Marilyn, who is our faculty advisor for the Debate Team.
Tech Corner
Problems with the school laptop? You can bring it to the Mobile Help Desk, now open Mon.-Fri., from 12 to 4PM and located at CRLS (on the Felton St. side). Come to the service windows beside the garage door, on Felton St. closest to Broadway. Look for the fluorescent pink signs hanging in the window.
In-person students: please remember to bring your charged SCHOOL Chromebook to school in the laptop case we're giving out this week.
Social/Emotional Well-being--Tip of the Week
“Every child has his or her own unique talents and abilities. Whether in academics, athletics, or interpersonal relationships, resist the urge to compare your child to friends or siblings. Try focusing on what makes them unique and compliment them on those traits!”
National Nutrition Month:
Lower Cost Healthy Eating!
Did
you know that canned fruits, vegetables, and beans are just as healthy
as fresh ones? Did you know that frozen fruits and vegetables are good
for you, too? Canned and frozen foods are just as good for our bodies,
taste great and last longer so you don’t have to worry about them going
bad and wasting money! Buy canned vegetables that are low-sodium or have
no added salt and canned fruits in light syrup or water for the
healthiest options. Buy frozen fruits with no added sugars. Buy frozen
vegetables that aren’t in sauces, which are likely to be high in salt
and saturated fats. From your friends at Cambridge in Motion, a
program of the Cambridge Public Health Department, in collaboration with
CPS Food & Nutrition Services.
– Visit Central Square’s NEW low cost, non-profit grocery store The Daily Table where customers save an average of 30% on groceries. Everything
in the store is SNAP eligible. Customers paying with SNAP get an
additional 50% off fresh produce through the Double Up Food Bucks
Program, up to $10/day.
– Food Resources for Cambridge Residents (pantries, community meals, food box delivery options, school meals, meals on wheels, etc.) in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Amharic, and Mandarin.
Healthy Snack of the Week
Here's Cambridge in Motion's Healthy Snack of the Week:
Sliced hard boiled egg on Whole Grain Toast. Try spicing this up with a sprinkle of paprika, dill or basil!
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