June 2, 2023

Upcoming Important Dates

6th grade St. Mary's Trip: 6/5/23

EOY Drum Circle/Closing Circle 6th grade, Picnic Depart 6/7/23

Grade K-5 last day, early release 6/8/23

NEW! A Note from our Health Room:

Hello parents and guardians,

We are winding down the school year and cleaning out the health room, which includes returning all student medications. If your child has medications in the health room, please put these dates and times in your calendar!

6th Grade: Wednesday, June 7th. Please plan to pick up your child’s medication from the front office before the 6th grade drum circle and celebration. You can also come by after the celebration, but keep in mind that if medications are not picked up by 12:00 pm on June 9th they will be discarded.

K-5th Grade: Thursday June 8th, your child’s medication will be ready for pick up at the end of the school day in the office. If your student will be leaving early for the summer, please plan on picking up medications when you sign out your child.

Please be aware that if medications are not picked up by 12:00 pm on Friday June 9th they will be discarded per DCSD policy. If for any reason you are unable to pick up the medication at this time, please call the office, or email myself or Denise to make other arrangements.

Thank you and have a fantastic summer!

Melissa D Toborg RN, BSN

School Nurse Consultant

Renaissance Expeditionary Magnet Schools

mtoborg1@dcsdk12.org

720-610-8453

Denise Diederichs

Health Assistant

Renaissance Expeditionary Magnet School

9:00 am 3:30 pm

303-915-0268

ydiederichs@dcsdk12.org

News From Our Crews:

We had two BEATS this week. Ms. Tori and Ms. Abbie's crew did a great job!

Notes from Ms. Trena

Class Lists for 2023-24

At REMS, we refrain from parent requests for specific teachers so that we can ensure a fair and equitable process for all students. Teachers, Specialists and Administration will be creating class lists for the upcoming 2023-24 school year. We make many considerations such as academics, social/emotional needs, leadership, behavior, and personality of students and teachers to ensure proper placement. It is also a challenge to mix the students up from year to year as we only have two classes of each grade level.

If you have programming needs (IEP, 504, GT, etc...) that you wish to bring to our attention, we ask that you email those to their teacher and Administration. Please refrain from requesting a particular teacher or pairing students based on friendships for class placements.

Healthy Options

We ask that you refrain from sending students to school in morning with sodas, energy drinks, Starbucks etc... This is impactful to students' learning and does not promote healthy choices and stewardship in our classrooms. We prefer sending them with a water bottle and healthy snacks as options for students throughout the day. Please have students finish these drinks before coming entering school.

NEW! Note from Ms. Zina:

The remainder of the school year will be "Manager's Choice" in the cafe.

A Note from Camelot (BASE):

Renaissance Before & After School Program

Our Camelot BASE program is accepting new students. Enrollment is Free this year, and there are openings in all time slots - before & after school, Wed half days and full days during breaks. Visit the Camelot BASE website for info about our program and to access the enrollment link. You can also contact our BASE manager, Heidi Jergenson @ 303-489-4898, hkjergenson@dcsdk12.org.

NEW! News from our Parent Crew

Upcoming Spirit Nights
School's Out Spirit Night at Code Ninjas, Saturday, June 24th! Drop your kids off for a super fun night of STEM fun, pizza, and friends! Ages incoming-2nd grader and up!
Sign up today to RSVP.

All-Parent Crew Camp
SAVE THE DATE for Friday, July 28th from 8:30-12:30! This event is for ALL Renaissance parents to help build our CREW! There will be drumming, volunteer training, adventure education info, and even RAFFLES for the August Volunteer of the Month parking spot and Student Fees! You won't want to miss this exciting community event! Child care will also be available, so sign up early.

The Parent Crew Board will also be rolling out our 2023/24 Volunteer Agreement, which includes the new streamlined volunteer hours requirement (just 40 hours for all families!), and the guidelines and expectations for our Parent Crew families.

Parent Crew Mentors

The Parent Crew Board is looking for several experienced REMS families who would be able to help our incoming Crew members and show them the ropes... everything from explaining the lingo and what to expect for upcoming voyages! We appreciate your support! Sign up here.

School's Out Spirit Night at Code Ninjas, Saturday, June 24th! Drop your kids off for a super fun night of STEM fun, pizza, and friends! Ages incoming-2nd grader and up! Sign up today to RSVP!

Crew Wear & REMS Gear:

Have you ordered your crew year yet? We have some great items available, and we will be adding more to the store before the end of this school year. Please check out the Crew Wear Store here.

And swing by the front office to pick up one of our official REMS duffle bags, bento boxes, water bottles, and more!

THANK YOU
As we Close out the 2022/2023 school year, PCF wanted to take a few moments to update you on all the good that was accomplished this year, thanks to all of you! First off, thank you so much for all the volunteer work! Currently, you as parent crew have logged an impressive 7714 hours!!!! We could not have had such a great year without all of your support. Every corner of our school and every piece of our students' learning is supported by YOU, our Parent Crew volunteers! Whether you were in the classroom, an active crew parent, a happy to help anywhere volunteer, a voyage chaperone, a belayer, part of the OLE clean ups, helped with RAD or the Auction or any other spot where help was needed this year, we could not have done it without you!

Special Thanks to the following:

Kendra Arkfeld for being the PCF Volunteer Coordinator

Astrid Kohnke for leading Spirit Nights

Lindsey Smithson for leading all the wonderful staff appreciation events

Brianna Ranger and Ashley Cammack for being the cruise team

Bri Mowen for setting up and managing the crew wear

Lauren Picune and her team, for planning and leading the back-to-school carnival!

OLE Clean up - Nick and Leslie Bauer & Mr. Bob for leading the fall and spring events for us!

Rachael Kelley and Allie Waltee for leading and planning RAD.

Lindsey Smithson and Sarah Freeman for leading the Book Fair.

Deck the Halls - So many people came together and helped decorate the whole school for the holidays! THANK YOU!

Sarah Freeman and Ms. Allison - leading Holiday Adoptions. Thank you, Ms. Allison for providing this opportunity to REMS each year!!!!

Special Shout Out to Ms. Staci for putting together the crew art for the auction this year!

Bri Mowen and Allie Waltee for leading the auction.

Special thanks to Dean Reiber for being our lovable auctioneer!!

Sarah Freeman for leading yearbook

Ashley Cammack and Brooke Didomenico for leading the showcases with Ms. Allison and Ms. Amanda

Ms. Cari for being the PCF Staff Liaison this year!

Lindsey Smithson for all her work on the grant program

ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL CREW PARENTS!

The Arkfeld Family for all the special projects this year!!!

The PCF BOARD

The SAC BOARD

The Mental Health team for Hosting Parent Universities

Also, take a look at how your generosity this year helped us put Crew in action, supporting students, staff and the community! It was a BIG year. Lots of projects were completed and we are just getting warmed up and prepping for another great year...... don't worry though, we want you to enjoy the summer