The Maroon Award

On January 26, six students received the

Maroon Award at a breakfast ceremony. The

Maroon Award was created to recognize

students who do the little things right when no

one is looking and help make Ridgewood High

School a better place.

The six award recipients for 2016 are Jack

Simpson, Maggie Rapaport, Kathryn Kearney,

Olivia Sullivan, Thomas Carmona, and Aiden

Gibney.

Students are nominated for this award by

teachers who know them best and observe the

little things that they do everyday to help out

the school community or their fellow students.

FAST FACTS...

In 5 years, there will be 220 more students attend-

ing Ridgewood High School compared to the num-

ber attending in 2012.

Upcoming

February 6:

ACTS @ RHS

February 8 to 10:

RHS Bands Clinic Tour;

8:00 am

February 9 to 26:

Students Request

Classes on Skyward

February 9:

HSA Meeting; 7:30 pm;

Library

February 10:

Teacher Enrichment

STUDENT SLEEP-IN

February 11:

11th Grade Parent

Meeting; 7:30 pm;

Campus Center

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800

2/05/2016 A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

Cambodia Club Needs Donations

The Ridgewood Cambodia Club is preparing for

their annual trip and are collecting items:

Toothpaste and toothbrushes; mosquito repel-

lent; hand sanitizer products; soccer gear

(cleats, jerseys, adult-size goalie gloves, shin

guards, soccer balls, and volleyballs); and topi-

cal analgesic balms.

Please dropping off any of the above needed

items at: Orchard, GWMS, BFMS or RHS before

February 8.

RIDGEWOOD A CAPELLA

The Maroon Men and the

AcaBellas recently compet-

ed in the International

Competition of High

School A Cappella.

In the Mid-Atlantic Quar-

terfinals, the groups won

the following titles:

1st Place-

The RHS Maroon Men

3rd Place -

The RHS AcaBellas

Outstanding Percussion -

Aaqib Hassan

Maroon Men

Congratulations to Mr.

Bourque and all his talent-

ed students.

Maroon Award winners pose with the staff that

nominated them. Jack Simpson with Karen Aroman-

do, Maggie Rapaport with John Luckenbill, Kathryn

Kearney with Liz O’Brien, Olivia Sullivan with Laura

Moore, and Thomas Carmona with Nancy Reilly).

(Not pictured is Aiden Gibney.)

The Ridgewood Cambodia Club supports the Ridge-

wood Village School in Cambodia. On their next visit,

they will also be visiting A New Day Cambodia school.

This past week students showed off their skills in the

AHLISA Talent Show, including singing and playing

instruments.

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800

COURSES AT RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Music Rewind: SEMESTER 9-12; This class is a retrospective course

covering a broad range of musical history and musical terminology.

Students will work backwards through time searching for connec-

tions and themes within music and understanding how these

artists were influenced by each other.

3D Design: SEMESTER 9-12; A semester course where a variety of

materials are manipulated and explored for their expressive quali-

ties. Both independent and collaborative projects are developed

and include relief, in-the-round, and installation sculptures.

Dance I: SEMESTER 9-12; This is a

performance based class for stu-

dents with a variety of skill levels.

Students are expected to partici-

pate in daily warm-up exercises,

show attitude and energy appro-

priate for artful dance.

Support RHS DECA by purchasing some Omaha Steak be-

tween Jan 22nd to March 26th. See more at:

http://www.steaksforgood.com/ridgewood.

If you attend the local store, mention Ridgewood DECA!

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Website: http://rhs.school.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/

A Window Into Ridgewood High School Global Learning Needs Host Families for Students

Ridgewood High School will be hosting nearly 100 international

visitors in June and we are looking for families interested in

hosting students and staff from Australia, the Czech Republic,

Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and Sweden.

This year, Ridgewood High School is serving as the host country

for the annual Global Learning Conference, held from June 9

through June 19, 2016, and this is where we will need your

help. A host family will be assigned visitors based on gender and

age.

If you are interested, please contact Mr. McDonald at gmcdon-

ald@ridgewood.k12.nj.us or at 201-670-2800 ext. 20506 or Mr.

Adam Brunner at abrunner@ridgewood.k12.nj.us or at 201-670-

2800 ext. 20583.

QUOTE TO REMEMBER...

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simple.”

-Albert Einstein

Students show off their violin skills in the Little The-

ater for the AHLISA Talent Show.

A student in Anjali Shah’s physics and art class

shows off his Rube Goldberg machine, an elaborate

contraption created to perform a simple task.

Students work on their Chromebooks in one of the

conference rooms in the Ridgewood High School

Learning Commons.

The staff at Ridgewood High School honored long time RPS secretary,

Patricia Ferreri on the occasion of her retirement from Ridgewood

High School. She worked at RHS for the last several years as the secre-

tary to Dr. Thomas Gorman, and retired at the end of January. Cookies

and cake were served for all to say goodbye.