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 Greetings
Dear RAUC families,
This has been a challenging school year but together, we have made it nearly through to the end. Thank you so much for your partnership and kind encouragement throughout! We sincerely appreciate you and hope that this summer, you and your families can be refreshed and re-energized. To watch or listen to the final newsletter of this school year, please click the image.
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 617.352.5781.
We look forward to seeing you in the fall!
Best,
Julia Ho, RAUC Family Liaison
Schedule Next Year
 This past year, while the pandemic brought many challenges, it also provided an opportunity to innovate and try new things with our schedule, including adding more opportunities for student choice through our literacy and STEM blocks. Next year, we hope to continue building off of some of the insights we gained this past year. We will be sharing more details about the schedule in the fall once it is finalized, but here are some general things you can expect:
- Each grade level will run a slightly different version of the schedule
- There will be at least one extended block for each core academic class
- Lunch/recess will be longer than before the pandemic (prior to the pandemic, we had a 30-minute lunch block)
- We will continue to have Advisory (a block focused on social-emotional learning) every morning.
- The length of the advisory class will differ depending on the day of the week.
- We will continue to offer Literacy and STEM block classes.
- Students will continue to have choice for many specialist classes (foreign language, music, Art/Theater Arts in Gr. 8)
Given the unique circumstances of this past year, we did not have the capacity to engage in the same process of gathering feedback systematically from families and students as we would in a normal year. Decisions regarding the schedule were still informed as much as possible by what we had heard from students and families throughout this past year. And this is Phase 1, we will gather feedback from families and students next year as we continue to create a schedule that best aligns with our vision.
For the district ‘21-22 school year calendar, please click here >>
Fun at Field Day
Yesterday morning at our field day, it was lovely to see so much of our whole community, including both our remote and in-person students, come together! A huge shout-out to Ms. Marilyn, Mr. Moore, our current student government and the grade 8 students for planning and leading many fun activities like tug-of-war, capture the flag, water balloon toss, and more!
8th Grade Graduation Page is Live!
In case you missed it, you can now view our 8th grade graduation ceremony (including speeches) and 8th grade graduate profiles created by our graduates on our website. View more >>
Time to return library books!
 Before you leave for the summer, please don’t forget to return any RAUC books! Books can be returned in the green Library Return bin by the front door, or to any teacher. Your child can check what they have out by logging into the library catalog with their Aspen account, or by asking Ms. Musher. If you have questions, you can also ask Sam Musher. Thank you so much for your help!
Tech Corner
 If your student does not need their school chromebook for the summer, please make sure to return it along with the charger to our school by the last day of school (June 23rd). The CPS helpdesk at CRLS will also be open for students and families to return chromebooks, hotspots and chargers from 8AM-4PM on June 24, 25, 28, 29, 30 and July 1, 2.
Any questions? Please email Sam Musher, Library & Tech Teacher.
We're hungry for feedback!
Food & Nutrition Services Survey
If you could be the head chef of your school kitchen what changes would you make? Now is your chance to let us know how we can improve our service. Please take a few moments to complete this survey so we can hear from you!
Amharic Survey >>
Bengali Survey >>
Haitian Creole Survey >>
Spanish Survey >>
English Survey >>
 Healthy Snack of the Week
Apple Cookies! One apple (sliced into rounds), topped with nut butter and raisins. Tip: Try other dried fruits on top, like mango, kiwi, apricot, prunes, etc!
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