Date: Weds, Nov 10 
Time: 8 am - 2 pm 
Location: East Gym
To make an appointment contact: [email protected] or [email protected]
The Freshman Class Officer Election will be on Wednesday, September 30.
Interested freshmen can email Ms Ziola or Ms Koehler for an application.
The applications are due by Friday, September 25. Thank you!

Freshman Orientation
 
On Wednesday, August 12, the Student Association welcomed the Class of 2024 to RBHS! We had small groups rotate through 4 sessions, the main purpose was to assist the freshman class with their comfort level at RB and help them prepare for the start of the school year. The sessions included a Welcome Video & Virtual Tour of RB, followed by an actual brief tour of some key areas in the building, a presentation from the Administration and a Q & A with Student Association leaders.
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We are writing holiday cards to people currently in the military. The table will be in the student cafe Monday, Nov 12, Tuesday, Nov 13 and Weds, Nov 14. We will deliver these cards before Thanksgiving to the USO, who will disperse them in a variety of ways. And we just mailed 200 lbs of candy, toothbrushes, toothpastes, floss and chapstick to an RB Alum stationed in Afghanistan. We hope the care package will brighten the spirits of his platoon.

 

SA is collecting non-perishable food items to be placed in Baskets for Thanksgiving meals. The baskets will be delivered on Thurs, Nov 15 to CSS in Brookfield to help local families in need.

 

 

Our Weds, Nov 7 Blood Drive was successful with over 100 pints of blood collected. Each pint can help save 3 lives! Our next Blood Drive is on Wednesday, March 6.

 

Information packets are available at the SA meetings or see Ms Ziola (room 215). Packets are due Weds, Sept 5. Election will be held on Weds, September 12.

April 22 closed off our Pop Tops for Patients contest, which was one of our most successful contests yet! In total, we collected 80.1 pounds, which amounts to 101,461 pop tops! We would like to thanks everyone who contributed and congratulate out top three classes!

1st- Mrs. Zimmerman's 5th Hour

2nd- Mrs. Gordon's 5th Hour

3rd- Mrs. Hayes's 5th Hour

Following our pop top contest, we decided that we wanted to do a little more for the Ronald McDonald House at Loyola Hospital. On May 6, a big group of kids from the student association went to the Ronald McDonald House after school to make the families of the house dinner. There we made chicken enchiladas, macaroni and cheese, butter noodles, fruit skewers, chips&salsa&guacamole, a veggie platter, crescent rolls, and cookies for the people living in the house. Many of our volunteers also got a tour of the house to see what it was all about. We had a TON of fun and hope to continue this tradition in the future. Thank you to all of our volunteers for making this possible!

April 4 kicks of our annual pop tops for patients contest! This contest is between 5th hour classes to see which class can collect the most pop tops. The classes with the most pop tops (measured based on the amount of pounds turned in) will be awarded with some type of prize. Help us to try and reach our school-wide goal of 2,000,000 pop tops collected. The contest will end on April 22. All pop tops are donated to the Ronald McDonald House, which offers convenient, affordable, temporary housing for families of seriously ill or injured children. We also plan on delivering homemade blankets and items of the the Ronald McDonald wishlist to the house within the next month. 

With three weeks notice, the Student Association managed to plan a Turnabout dance! This dance took place on Saturday, March 19th from 7-10 PM. The theme was "Fun in the Sun," so the decorations consisted of green, yellow, and blue colors, flowers, and a HUGE mural depicting a beach. For having such a short amount of time to plan, the Student Association managed to pull of a successful dance, which hundreds of students attended. Thank you to anyone who helped make this dance happen. 

Our second blood drive of the year has come and gone, and what a success it was! In total, RB collected 122 pints of blood, just one pint short of our school record. That means this was our second largest collection ever! Each pint of blood saves three lives in the Chicagoland area, which is currently experiencing a blood shortage, so it was great to see the RB community give to the people around us. We would like to thank all of the student's who donated and helped to run the blood drive. We hope that next year we can top this number and create a new school record.  

The next event we are planning is our annual blood drive! This year, our spring blood drive will be taking place on Wednesday, February 24. To participate in the blood drive, you must be 16 years of age or older with parental consent (unless you are 18). We would greatly appreciate everyone's participation! S.A. always works with Lifesource, which works to donate the blood to people in the Chicagoland area. This is just one more way S.A. gives back to our community. 

 

If you wish to donate blood with Lifesource, use the code #313 to help add to RB's grand total. 

For the third year, we decided to celebrate our hard-working custodial staff with custodian appreciation day! On this day, we make sure our custodian knows how much they mean to us and how RB would not be the place it was without them by providing them a lunch or dinner, desserts, decorations, and a huge poster. We do this because we think the custodians need a day to be celebrated, because they truly are one of a kind. Thank you to anyone who helped out with this event, but most of all, THANK YOU CUSTODIANS!

With a successful blood drive behind us, we are finally read to move on to our winter projects: Thanksgiving Baskets, Santa Anonymous, and the Coat and Blanket Drive. Thanksgiving baskets works with CSS in Brookfield to help families in our community that might not be able to afford a Thanksgiving meal. Clubs, classes, and teams are all invited to collect non-perishable goods to include in the baskets (such as mashed potatoes, stuffing, cornbread, etc.) and collect monetary donations to go towards gifts cards to buy the family a turkey. All of the baskets are due on Monday, November 16th and will be delivered soon after. Santa Anonymous is also run through CSS in Brookfield. The goal of Santa Anonymous is to collect money to buy people, typically adults with intellectual disabilities, Christmas gifts in spirit of the holiday. This fundraiser is also open to all school clubs, teams, and classes, but monetary donations for this event will also be collected at the RB Basketball programs's "Turkey Tourney" the week of November 23-November 28. The final winter project we run is the Coat and Blanket Drive. Boxes are placed around the school and community to try to collect as many coats, blankets, hats, scarves, gloves, etc. to donate to the Salvation Army to give to those people who do not have the money to afford this type of winter apparel. Boxes will also be put out at the "Turkey Tourney" to collect these items so we highly encourage you to donate any extra clothes that you do not use or need! We are looking forward to having three extremely successful fundraisers!

 

Both of our winter projects ended very successfully. The Santa Anonymous project was able to buy gifts for 30+ adults and in fact, raised enough money to buy fleece to make blankets for the Ronald McDonald House. We collect over 200 articles of winter clothing (coats, blankets, hats, gloves, etc.) to donate to the Salvation Army. And for Thanksgiving baskets, we were able to put together 25 thanksgiving meals for  families in need. Thank you to anyone who participated in these events! We couldn't have done it without you.