Lions roar for 'Feed My Starving Children'

New Richmond Lions football coach Josh Stratton, five assistants, a parent volunteer and 25 players joined volunteerers at Miami Valley Christian Academy April 25 to help pack 25,568 means for the "Feed My Starving Children" program. The meals will feed 73 children, three times a day for an entire year.




"It was a great experience for our young men," said Stratton. "One player told me that it really made him feel good about himself to help others.  We feed 73 children for an entire year!   Not only that but it was a great bounding experience for our players and coaches.   Coach (Josh) Wade actually smiled.  Plus Malik Davis looks awesome in a hairnet.  I think he may wear one to prom."

Monroe named School of Promise

New Richmond's Monroe Elementary has been honored as a School of Promise by the Ohio Department of Education for the 2011-12 school year.

To be named a School of Promise, 75 percent or more of students must score proficient or better on statewide achievement tests in reading and mathematics. The selected schools also are addressing achievement gaps, because the 75 percent proficiency measure applies to students in subgroups of 10 or more defined by race and economic disadvantage. Schools of Promise have 40 percent or more of their students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.

Monroe Elementary principal Joe Road with Monroe's School of Promise banner.

“For years our Schools of Promise program has identified schools with great results despite facing challenging circumstances,” said Dr. Richard A. Ross, Ohio's superintendent of public instruction. “Our Schools of Promise do not let circumstance determine outcomes and do not let obstacles keep them from providing a quality education. Our Schools of Promise prove that there’s no reason why Ohio cannot be a national leader in providing a high-quality education in every district for every child.”

"This award is a tribute to the great amount of time our staff spends in analyzing student data and then allowing that data to inform our instructional decisions for each individual student," said Monroe principal Joe Roach, who acknowledged the leadership of former principal Mark Bailey who was principal during the 2011-12 school year.

"It is a total team effort at Monroe," added Roach. "Our special area teachers and our counselor put in hours during the week to provide reading intervention to our students when they are not doing their usual duties."

 "It was very gratifying for me as the former principal to work with the fine staff and parents to help each child to reach their full potential," said Bailey, now the principal at New Richmond High School. "Everyone involved should take great pride in the fact that at Monroe the students always come first.  Great students, parents, teachers, and support staff working together can make a difference, and I feel very fortunate to have played a very small role in the academic growth of Monroe Elementary School."

Monroe Elementary was one of six Clermont County schools to be named School of Promise award winners by the state. Also honored were Bethel, Clermont Northeatern and Goshen middle schools, Goshen's Spaulding Elementary and Milford's Charles L. Seipelt Elementary.

NREVSD prepares for the Common Core

The New Richmond Board of Education has been presented with a K-12 English Language Arts course of study for the 2013-14 school year that completes a two-year project by the district to meet the new Common Core State Standards in math, reading and writing recently adopted by the State of Ohio. 

The school board is expected to vote on the adoption of the K-12 English Language Arts initiative at its May 20 meeting. Board members received a detailed presentation of the project from Supt. Adam Bird during their April 15 meeting.

New Richmond superintendent Adam Bird briefs school board members (from left) Kim Hayden, Fred Heflin, Ben Bird, Kevin Walriven and David Hawkins on the district’s a K-12 English Language Arts course of study designed to meet the Common Core Standards for reading.

“This language arts initiative is the result of more than a year of planning with a steering committee and grade level teams evaluating our current practices and the proposed Common Core State Standards,” explained John Frye, director of Staff and Pupil Services for the New Richmond Exempted Village School District.

Examples of the project are on display in the New Richmond Board of Education Office on the third floor of the Market Street building in New Richmond. (212 Market Street, NRO 45157).  Residents are welcome to browse the presentation which includes all reading materials for grades K-12, including 180 read aloud books for the district’s Kindergarten classes. 

John Frye explains the NREVSD Language Arts Course of Study in detail in this YouTube video:

Frye noted that the Common Core goals are internationally bench marked and emulate expectations found in high performing systems abroad, but  do not call for a specific curriculum or reading list.

“Rather, they lay out an ambitious set of goals for the math, reading and writing skills that children should acquire as they move through school,” Frye said.

 By fifth grade, for example, students will be required to produce essays in which they introduce, support and defend arguments, using specific facts and details. By 12th grade, they will be asked to solve problems and answer questions by conducting focused research projects — using skills that are generally associated today with the first year of college.

The standards are flexible so that states and localities can implement them in varying ways and New Richmond’s implementation is designed to zero in on a rich, reading experience for New Richmond students as well as preparing the district to meet Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee.

“It’s important that we have alignment at the elementary level and agreement on common reading materials so students coming into middle school from our three elementary schools all have the same background, all have the same experiences having read the same books,” said Frye.

The language arts initiative follows new math programs adopted by the district to align the district’s three elementary schools with the Common Core math standards.

“Envisions Math was introduced in grades  K-6 two years ago, and this year, Math Innovations was introduced to students in grades 6-8 that more closely align to new the standards,” said Frye. “Integrated Math 9-10-11 is midway in the implementation schedule as the high school moves to an integrated approach to teaching the traditional subjects of Algebra I & II and Geometry.”

District art show is Friday and Saturday

New Richmond’s District Wide Art Show

Featuring unique K-12 student art from:

New Richmond Elementary

Monroe Elementary

Locust Corner Elementary

New Richmond Middle School

New Richmond High School

Includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, prints,

weavings, ceramics and more!

Friday, April 19^th 

 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  

Saturday, April 20^th
10:00 to 2:00 p.m.

in the New Richmond High School Gym

Thank you for supporting the arts in our district! 

Art education equips students to form mental images, which can be used to solve problems—an ability that chemists, engineers, and architects use to create models and that inventors use to think up new ideas.

Art education requires students to use their eyes and hands to give form to ideas generated in the brain—a discipline that Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel proved boosts brain power.

Research also indicates that high school art programs engage students and keep in school those at-risk of dropping out.

From the National Art Education Association

Monroe Elementary 's Art Spirit Week

No school celebrates Youth Art Month quite like New Richmond's Monroe Elementary.

The school becomes the most colorful in Ohio when staff and students dress in daily themes to celebrate the arts under the guidance of visual arts teacher Adrian Vance Hawk. Daily themes included Crazy Color Combos Day, Patterns Day, Favorite Color Day, Color/Texture/Sculpture Explosion Day,  and FAVORITE Artist & Art Media Day.

NREVSD Superintendent Adam Bird donned a Vincent Van Gogh mask to celebrate Favorite Artist Day with Adrian Hawk who is wearing a mask of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and a "dress" that had a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican artist of the 20th Century, along with a graduation hat made with paint brushes and color pencils she wore for her Masters degree program graduation.

 (Pictures for the slideshow video below provided by Adrian Hawk.)

Kindergarten registration begins April 25

2013 NEW RICHMOND
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

Where: NREVSD Central Office
212 Market Street, 3rd Floor
New Richmond, Ohio 45157

When: April 25th 3 – 7 PM
   May 3th 10 AM – 3 PM
   May 10th 10 AM – 3 PM
   May 17th 10 AM -  3 PM
   May  24th 10 AM -  3 PM
   May 31st 10 AM – 3 PM

PLEASE BRING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION  FOR YOUR CHILD’S REGISTRATION WITH YOU:

• Original Birth Certificate
• Social Security Card
• Immunization Records
• Picture I.D. of Custodial Parent or
Legal Guardian
• Proof of Residency (cable bill,
water bill, gas/electric bill)


YOUR CHILD MUST BE 5 YEARS OLD ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 1, 2013 TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR KINDERGARTEN FOR THE 2013/2014 SCHOOL YEAR

Who's On First in New Richmond

New Richmond High School principal Mark Bailey and his assistant Phil Heflin give the classic Abbott and Costello Who's On First baseball routine a New Richmond flavor in this recording for the leadin to 2013 New Richmond baseball broadcasts on www.newrichmond.localsportsradio.com.

Listen to Who's On First in New Richmond at the link below.

Who's On First in New Richmond

District receives Auditor of State Award

Ohio Auditor David Yost has awarded the New Richmond Exempted Village School District the Auditor of State Award for its clean audit for the district's fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. The Auditor of State Award is presented to local governments and school districts upon the completion of a financial audit.

Supt. Adam Bird (left), NREVSD treasurer Teresa Napier and Board of Education president Kevin Walriven hold the letter from the Ohio Senate honoring the district for Exemplary Attainment is receiving the Auditor of State Award.

To earn the state auditor's award, NREVSD chief financial officer Teresa Napier and her office had to meet the following criteria of a “clean” audit report:

NREVSD filed timely financial reports with the Auditor of State’s office in accordance with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles);

NREVSD's audit report did not contain any findings for recovery, material citations, material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, Single Audit findings or questioned costs;

NREVSD’s management letter from the state audit contained NO comments related to:

* Ethics referrals.

* Questioned costs less than $10,000.

* Lack of timely report submission.

* Reconciliation.

* Failure to obtain a timely Single Audit.

* Findings for recovery less than $100.

* Public meetings or public records.

The Auditor of State award resulted in the Ohio Senate honoring New Richmond for "Exemplary Attainment."

"It is not surprising that the New Richmond Exempted Village School District has been presented with this prestigious honor in recognition of its timely, accurate, and comprehensive financial statements," Ohio Senate president Keith Faber and State Senator Jor Uecker said in a letter to the district. "This accomplishment is a justifiable source of pride and an outstanding reflection not only on the institution itself but also on its treasurer and on the entire community."

NREVSD’s fiscal year 2012 audit report is available at http://www.ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/Reports/2013/New_Richmond_EVSD_12-Clermont1.pdf

NRE PTO Spring Shopping Fling!

New Richmond Elementary School Gym
1141 Bethel New Richmond Rd
New Richmond, Ohio 45157

1 DAY ONLY!!!
Saturday, April 20, 2013
10:00 am - 3:00pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Free Admission
Some Cash & Carry

Featuring local vendors from:  Wildtree, Silpada, 31, Avon, Scentsy, Pampered Chef, Longaberger Baskets, US Borne Books, Beads by Barb, Dawn Soap Spa, Tupperware, Perfectly Posh, Oragami Owl, Arbonne, Tastefully Simple, Mary Kay, Miche, Sweetly Wild Bakes, Park Lane Jewelry, ENJO, Premiere Jewelry and craft vendors! 

For more information, please contact Susie Saunders at 513-876-0886 or susand.saunders@gmail.com.

All proceeds benefit the NRE PTO.

NRHS Talent Show is Friday

The annual New Richmond High School Talent Show public performance will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5 at the high school theatre. Admission is $5 with proceeds benefitting the After Prom program.

“There are 17 acts, featuring elementary, middle and high school students, as well as a couple of alumni and adults,” announced Talent Show coordinator Susan Griffin. 

“Tickets are available now at the high school and will also be sold at the door.”

The high school PTO will be selling NRHS spiritwear and craft items, as well as water and baked goodies before and after the show and at intermission. 

“The PTO is looking for donations of baked goodies and bottled water,” said Griffin. “Those items can be dropped off at the high school any time this week.”