Ray-Pec Softball is back! 🥎
Tonight your Panthers play host to Pleasant Hill and Truman High School to kick off the 2024 season with their annual jamboree! Come out and get a glimpse of what this year's squad will look like! 👀
The Ray-Pec High School Boys' Soccer Team invites you to eat at Culver’s in Raymore from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight, Aug. 26. Ten percent of sales, plus tips, will be donated to the team. Team members will deliver food to patrons eating inside.
We are excited to share that we have scheduled our 10th Grade Preview Day at Ray-Pec High School.
Save the Date!
Date: August 16, 2024
Time: 7:25-10:00 AM
This event will provide a wonderful opportunity for students to explore their upcoming year's schedule and get to know our school better. We look forward to seeing you there!
See You Soon!!
The annual sales tax holiday begins tomorrow! Certain back-to-school purchases such as clothing, school supplies, computers, and other items are exempt from state sales tax and local tax. The perfect time to load up on school supplies!
raypec.org/page/back-to-school-overview
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
To assure that your student is assigned to a bus route for the first day of school, please complete registration by Aug. 2. Students who are registered after Aug. 2 can still receive bus transportation, but it might not be routed for the first day of school.
Begin the registration process using the new Focus student information system: https://www.raypec.org/page/focus-for-parents
The grades of students involved in a sport or activity continue to be higher than the grades of students who do not participate in an activity. In her annual program update, Activities & Athletic Director Dr. Kristina Martin shared yearly GPA averages for the 2023-24 school year:
Athletics: 3.42
Band/Choir/Orchestra: 3.5
Drama: 3.695
Scholar Bowl: 4.31
No Sport or Activity: 2.86
1,051 students at Ray-Pec High School were involved in one or more sports or activities last year, including the newly added esports program and Girls Flag Football who was one of 32 teams to compete for a national championship, representing the Kansas City Chiefs. An additional, 1,416 students participated in an activity at the middle school level.
See the entire presentation here: raypec.org/page/2024-2025-board-meetings
The Peculiar Chamber of Commerce held their monthly coffee event at the new PAC this morning! Local business leaders and community members got a sneak peek of the PAC and were treated to a short performance by our middle school orchestra! ☕🎻
Pool play for the Girls' Flag Football Championships starts tomorrow! 🏈
Games will be broadcast live across ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks. Let's go ladies! 👏
Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open!! 📢
As we prepare for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year, we are implementing a new student information system called FOCUS SIS. This change is necessary because Tyler SIS, our previous system, has been discontinued.
To ensure a seamless registration process, you will need to create an account in FOCUS SIS and link your child(ren) to your account. Once completed, you'll be able to register your child(ren) for the 2024-2025 school year.
To complete this process, you will need your student’s ID number and PIN, which were sent out this morning. A video link explaining this process has been shared as well. More information can be found on the district website at www.raypec.org/page/focus-for-parents
Additionally, school fees are not yet posted in the parent portal. Parents/guardians will be able to pay any necessary fees in early August.
We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we transition to this new system. For any questions or assistance during the enrollment process, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team by emailing registration@raypec.org.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Raymore-Peculiar School District.
Our very own Ruth Johnson's term as Missouri School Boards' Association President has come to a close. As always, Ruth made the Ray-Pec School District proud with her strong leadership and commitment to serving others. 🖤💛
Happy 4th of July from the Ray-Pec School District! 🇺🇸
All district offices will be closed in celebration. Be safe and have fun! 🎉
Congratulations to the Ray-Pec High School students who attended the American Legion Missouri Boys State and the American Legion Auxiliary Missouri Girls State at Lindenwood University! The program is designed to educate and train Missouri's young leaders in functional citizenship, leadership, and government. Nearly 1,000 student leaders build an entire state government in a single week.
Pictured left to right: Kendyll Gethers, Makayla Coleman, Sophie Dick, Carter Younger, Elijah Cook, Eyan Karr and Mason Rew.
Last week, summer school students participated in the presentation of their project showcase! Students worked the past 4 weeks on a collaborative project using the design thinking process to explore an essential question related to the content area they enrolled in. Students created trifold presentations to showcase their learning and shared their ideas with the community and some of our middle school students. Finally, our students presented individually to community evaluators to share how the project work they completed helped them to develop 6 traits that all Raymore-Peculiar High School students should master before graduation.
Once a Panther, Always a Panther!
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Raymore-Peculiar High School is delighted to announce thier Summer School Student Showcase on June 27th, 2024. From 10 AM to 12 PM, student groups will present a showcase of their findings regarding an essential question they focused on throughout their time in summer school.
We would like to cordially invite you to evaluate at our summer school showcase.
This event is a wonderful time for teachers, community members, and local employers to see our students’ hard work over our June summer session and allow students to network with businesses in their community.
Evaluators' Schedule:
9:20-9:35: Check In at Raymore Peculiar South Middle School
9:40: Brief Evaluator meeting in RPSMS Cafeteria
10:00-12:00: Evaluate individual presentations (break at 10:40, resume presentation evaluation at 11:00)
After evaluating, please join us for lunch from El Dorado!
If you are interested in being an evaluator, please fill out the Community Evaluator Form (https://forms.gle/4ARmWBcCfqqrtKVv8). You will receive an email from Haleigh Thompson confirming your attendance this week.
An evaluating rubric and additional information will be supplied during the evaluator meeting prior to the start of presentations.
Email Haleigh Thompson, project coordinator, with any questions at haleigh.thompson@raypec.org
Ray-Pec finished the National Speech and Debate tournament as a Top-20 school in speech IN THE COUNTRY! 🎉
Audrey Shepard - 5th Place, Storytelling
Tre Hill & Noah Tuttle - 10th Place, Duo Interpretation
Devin Fisher & Sav Jordan - 14th Place, Duo Interpretation
Amari Russell - 30th Place, Program Oral Interpretation
Ellie McRill & Jaxon Fines - Top 60, Due Interpretation
Natalie Kies, Top 60, Original Oratory
Ian Haneberg, Top 60, Humorous Interpretation
Wyatt Rust - Top 120, Storytelling
Catie Howlett’s High School Functional Skills class has been learning about volcanoes and how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii. This week they made their own volcanoes out of clay and got to the watch them erupt!
A group of 12 Ray-Pec students, two teachers, and one parent recently returned from a 15-day trip to Europe. They visited many locations, including London, Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, San Sebastian, Pamplona, Barcelona, and Madrid.
Students participating included: Alex Gawron, Audrey Gibson, Isaac Kruse, Elly Dillon, Addison Showalter, Logan Balentine, Amanda Balentine, Kyle Newcomer, Maryn Clausing, Lily Winchel, Taryn Bower, Eliana Ramos, and Miles Lee. Two high school foreign language teachers were on the tour: Coralie Price and Heidi Lanksbury. Pilar Arizaga was the tour guide.
Teacher Coralie Price said, “We visited museums, recreated paintings and sculptures, ate amazing food, strolled reverently through churches, saw the countryside and city life, toured palaces, swam in the Atlantic Ocean, got our feet wet in the Mediterranean Sea, successfully navigated the subway, explored gardens, climbed dunes and hills, rode bikes and carts, enjoyed a flamenco show, saw so many iconic places and things, shopped til we dropped, got ALL our steps in, saw dogs and cats and birds and sheep and horses, witnessed protests and parades, celebrated a birthday, travelled in busses and trains and planes, and had the best time!”
They are already planning a trip for 2025. If you have a student who is interested or know someone who might be share this with them: https://www.eftours.com/2691035US
Congratulations to Sam Larkins on being a 1st team All-District selection and Grace Vest for being named first team All-District, first team All-Region, and first team All-State! ⚽️
Nearly 60 Mini Panthers participated in the Ray-Pec Summer Wrestling Camp on June 7-8! This past Friday and Saturday, elementary-age students from all over the district spent nearly 8 hours getting a hands-on introduction to the sport with fun drills, movements, games, and live wrestling! 15 wrestlers and coaches from East Middle School, the Ninth Grade Center, and the High School volunteered to work with the Mini Panthers, ages 5-10, and helped make this camp a huge success. All camp participants received a t-shirt, prizes, and snacks from camp sponsors: Defense Soap, Smile Doctors, and Ray-Pec East Middle School Wrestling.
