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Rio School District Community Newsletter September 1, 2024

Posted Date: 8/30/24 (12:00 PM)
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Rio School District Community Newsletter
September 1, 2024
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Greetings Rio School District Community,

Welcome back from your summer break. We hope your first few days back were great. We are excited to start the new school year and continue to provide an excellent education to all our students. We would like to provide you an update of things happening around the District.

In this newsletter you will find updates on:

  • Start of the 2024-2025 School Year
  • Rio Pumpkin Patch
  • Kindness is Free
  • Community Clean Up

  • School Bond Funded District Facility Projects

  • Upcoming Events
  • Enrollment
District News
Start of the 2024-2025 School Year
The start of the new school year is always a magical time as classrooms and schoolyards come roaring back to life after summer break. Rio School district welcomed back its 5000+ students on August 21st. We’re now in our third year of rolling out transitional kindergarten (TK), a new grade level for four-year-olds that serves as a bridge between preschool and traditional kindergarten. This year, TK is available to all children who will have their fifth birthday between September 2, 2024, and June 2, 2025. By next year it will be open to all four-year-old students. The Rio School District is truly engaged in great things. Students, educators and families are taking on the challenge of becoming a 21st Century Learning Organization and this makes it an exciting place to learn and work.


Rancho Rio - Pumpkin Patch

The Rio School District Regenerative Organic Farm is growing and expanding daily. Students have participated in learning activities on the farm. Students have planted crops, learned about soil and water, and they have also been able to feed some of Rio's Farm animals which include 40+ chickens, 10 ducks and two goats. 

Every Fall Rio School District takes Tk-1st Grade students to a pumpkin patch. This year Rio School District will host these same students at the farm as they are growing the Districts 1st pumpkin patch. Students will have been apart of all phases of the the pumpkin patch from planting to harvesting. These students will be able to take home a pumpkin. We are very excited to see the pumpkin patch take shape over the next few months. 

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Kindness is Free
Rio Del Norte and Rio Lindo Elementary School welcomed the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme on campus. Together as part of the Kindness is free initiative students took the kindness pledge, received a backpack with school supplies and a refillable water bottle. Thank you to these two wonderful organizations for supporting our Rio students. 
Rio Plaza Community Clean Up
Rio Plaza School hosted a Clean Drive and Car Show on August 26th along with the partnership of teh Malditors Car Club. The community worked together and pick up over 1000 pounds of trash around the school and along Simon Way. Thank you for all the wonderful volunteers and school board members that supported this event and helped keep our school and community clean.

Construction Updates Around The District

Rio Del Valle Middle School

Rio Del Valle Middle School has the most construction projects. Classrooms and the School Gyms received Air Conditioning units and were ready day 1 of school. Phase 2 of the RDV Athletics Fields is under construction and you can see the baseball fields are starting go up. The old kitchen has been demolished to make room for a renovated kitchen and multipurpose room to be completed in April 2025. Lastly a temporary kitchen and eating facility has been constructed for the new school year.

Rio Plaza Elementary School

Rio Plaza Elementary School Security Fencing is almost completed and the Kindergarten Learning / Play Yard was completed and a grand opening was done over the break. Take a look at the beautiful landscaping going into the Kindergarten area.

Rio Lindo, Rio Del Norte, Rio Real

All three school sites are receiving security fencing and is almost completed adding final gates.

Upcoming Events
8.29 Rio Del Valle Back to School Night
9.2 LABOR DAY - NO SCHOOL
9.3 Food Share Food Giveaway - Rio Office of Student and Family Services - 3300 Cortez Street
9.3 Congresswoman Julia Brownley to Visit Rio School District Farm
9.5 Rio Del Sol Back to School Night
9.5 Rio Plaza Back to School Night
9.10 Food Share Food Giveaway - Rio Real School - 1140 Kenney Street
9.12 Rio Lindo Back to School Night
9.17 Food Share Food Giveaway - Rio Office of Student and Family Services - 3300 Cortez Street
9.19 Rio Rosales Back to School Night
9.19 Rio Del Mar Back to School Night
9.24 Food Share Food Giveaway - Rio Real School - 1140 Kenney Street
9.25 Rio Vista Back to School Night
9.26 Rio Real Elementary Back to School Night
Ongoing Enrollment for the 2024-2025 School Year