Richfield Middle School

The RMS Administration team is in the house gearing up to welcome students and families for the upcoming academic year and open house. Open house is Thursday, August 29 from 4-7PM.

Dr. Ashley Schaefer, Assistant Principal
Erica Barlow, Principal
Amy Hager, Assistant Principal

"This semester at RMS, STEAM students have been piloting Classroom VR headsets, which are kind of like Magic School Bus episodes coming to life," said STEAM teacher Megan Bluma. "They've walked on the Great Wall of China, swam with sharks, traveled to the moon and witnessed tornadoes."

Last week, Richfield Middle School students painted the new traffic garden at Donaldson Park! This hands-on engineering adventure started when 6th-grade students in Ms. Bluma’s STEAM classes learned about engineering design. In partnership with a Richfield traffic engineer and our Safe Routes to School coordinator, students designed a traffic garden within a specific set of guidelines, while learning about scale factors, digital design and paper/pencil drafting. The traffic garden allows children and other new learners to practice navigating streets and learn bike safety without motor vehicles in the area. Learn more about this project on the RMS website: https://rms.richfieldschools.org/about-our-school/news/article/~board/middle-school-news/post/rms-students-create-traffic-gardens-for-local-park

"One of my students has an uncle stationed in Turkey. Last week, we were able to livestream with him and he answered student questions, talked about Turkish life, showed us his view of Istanbul and compared Army life then and now as well as historical events he's been involved in such as Fallujah and the Middle East section of the withdrawal of Afghanistan." - RMS Social Studies Teacher Sarah Holm

If your child rides the school bus, and you previously used the Ride 360 app, we want you to know that the app is being replaced by a new, updated app called My Ride K-12. This new app will continue to provide real-time mapping for your child’s school bus location and easy access to information like their bus number, bus stop location and bus stop time. You can find more information on our website.

Updated Bus Tracking App If your child rides the school bus, and you previously used the Ride 360 app, we want you to know that the app is being replaced by a new, updated app called My Ride K-12.

RMS Staff and students hard at work building and painting the set of our spring musical, The Addams Family. Come check out the finished set and full cast. Dates Below:

Wednesday, May 1 - 7:00 PM
Thursday, May 2 - 7:00 PM
Friday, May 3 - 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 4- 2:00 PM

Learning translates to real-life success in Megan Bluma’s eighth-grade STEAM class. The class helped to prepare eighth grader Rylan to write an essay as part of an application to attend the National Flight Academy in Florida this summer. Thanks to his application and essay, Rylan earned a full scholarship to the six-day summer camp. You can read more on our website. Great job, Rylan!

RMS Student Earns Full Scholarship to National Flight Academy Summer Camp RMS student Rylan earned a full-ride scholarship to the National Flight Academy this summer!

We are incredibly proud of RMS student Kuulii, who has helped raise $35,000 for Ethiopia by speaking at events and fundraisers, working toward her goal of raising awareness of the need of medical supplies in Ethiopia. “I am passionate about this issue because it is deeply rooted in my culture and community,” explained Kuulii. You can read more on our website.

RMS Student Helps Raise $35,000 for Ethiopia A student at Richfield Middle School, Kuulii has been speaking at gatherings, fundraisers and events to raise awareness of the need for medical supplies in Ethiopia.

We have some future engineers among us! Sixth graders in Megan Bluma's STEAM classroom teamed up with Safe Routes to School Coordinator Tim Brackett to design a "traffic garden," from concept to hand-drawn blueprints. After working with a traffic engineer from the City of Richfield, their design will come to life this summer at the hockey rink at Donaldson Park. Read more on our website.

RMS Students Create Traffic Gardens for Local Park Sixth graders in Megan Bluma’s STEAM classes are practicing engineering design through a class project with a real impact.

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Celebrating PI (3/14) Day in Mr. Drummond's math class. Three students made the 50 plus club. These students were able to memorize and recite 50 or more of the numbers that make up the mathematical circumference that 3.14 represents.
Awesome job Rahsai, Teng & Sadie!

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During Family Curriculum Night, our math department had a popular activity: Guess how many cheese balls are in the container! Whoever guessed the closest would win the entire container. Congratulations to sixth grader Max in Mr. Drummond's class, who submitted the closest guess at 1,152 cheese balls!

Students in our Family & Consumer Sciences (FACS) classes have been working on some exciting projects! They designed their own unique pencil holders and emoji pillows, then cut the fabrics, laid out the design and learned to sew the whole thing together using skills that will be useful for a lifetime!

For their final summative in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math), students in grades 7 and 8 are using Rooms.XYZ to learn digital design and coding. One of our eighth graders (who goes by TheSillyGoofy on the platform) was noticed by Rooms.XYZ creators and showcased as a featured room because of the room's exceptional design. You can check out the room here: https://rooms.xyz/thesillygoofy/thebutton?utm_source=play_featured

thesillygoofy · thebutton Editable, interactive rooms

Thank you to everyone who made Winterfest a success! The students and staff had a blast. Here are a few pictures from this fun event. And yes, that is Principal Barlow breaking it down on the dance floor!

All of our RMS families are invited to join us tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23 for curriculum night. Come to RMS from 6-7:30 p.m.

What is Curriculum Night? Well, it’s a night of activities with our staff, designed for the whole family! We’ll have coffee and snacks, as well. Activities included:

- Co****le, spike ball and pickleball with our gym teachers!
- Word games with our English teachers!
- Games like “Let’s Make a Deal” and activities that include popsicle stick puzzles with our Math teachers!
- Our Spanish Language Arts teachers will be making arepas with families, also.

Come see how your students learn and be part of our Richfield Middle School community with all of these events and more! We hope to see you there.

RMS families: please plan to join us on Tuesday, Jan. 23, for our Family Curriculum Night from 6-7:30 p.m. This event will be an evening of fun for the whole family, with activities led by our teachers, including pickleball and co****le with our gym teachers, word games with our English teachers, puzzles and games with our math teachers and more!

This month in math, seventh graders have been working on scale factors in a unique project that combines art and mathematics. Each student chose a candy wrapper and learned how to use grid lines and an assigned scale factor to enlarge the candy wrapper, proportionally correct, onto a piece of grid paper. This is STEAM education in action!

8th-grade students and families: are you ready for high school? You will be after these upcoming events and activities! Check out what's coming up on our website.

8th-grade families: Getting ready for high school! Learn about all of the upcoming events for our 8th-grade students and families to help prepare them for high school.

Winterfest is coming up this Friday. Come help out and have fun while you do!! PAG is still looking for volunteers.

We need a lot more volunteers for our Winterfest party that’s happening next week Friday, January 19th. Please consider giving some of your time. Please sign up here.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C45ABAA2DA0FA7-fall5

Volunteers also get a free pizza meal before or after your shift!

Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Spirit Week is this week!! Best way to start up this frigid cold week is with a warm fuzzy robe for pajama day tomorrow!!

Mr. Paul's theater class students had fun making mushroom props for an imaginary production of Alice in Wonderland.