Rushville Consolidated High School

We are hiring! Come join our team. We are looking for a High School Math teacher!

Please see the following for some important dates and information for RCHS students! During freshman orientation, as long as you have completed the online registration, your student will be able to pick up their chromebook- then for other grades, we have some pass out dates that you are able to attend. We hope everyone is having a great summer! We just wanted to make sure you had these dates on your calendar!

UPDATE! This is an update on some revisions that the State Board of Education has proposed for the new Indiana High School diplomas for the graduating class of 2029. In the comments is a link to the feedback form as well as the full presentation. Thank you for taking time to view this important information! https://youtu.be/Webzm4w-pCk

Just a reminder of some great Sports Camps that are happening this summer! See the webpage with the link below. https://www.rushville.k12.in.us/o/rchs/page/youth-sports-camps

Hello! RCHS would love your feedback on our graduation ceremony this past weekend. Please take a few moments to fill out our survey. Any positive remarks or thoughtful suggestions for next year are welcomed! Thank you! https://bit.ly/2024graduationfeedback

We had a great graduation ceremony last night. Thank you to all who were able to come and celebrate the class of 2024!

We celebrated our retirees and our staff members that have met some incredible milestones at RCHS. Congratulations to all! Take a look at the slides that Amy Fox put together. Thank you!

Special Shout out to Heidi Cox one of retirees this year from RCHS! Please see the following message from Melissa Winkler. Heidi White started at BRMS in 1994 to sub in for the health teacher, Mrs. Peters, who had passed away unexpectedly. She finished the year as a sub there and was hired the following year. She taught at BRMS for 24 years. She was very involved in after school activities, lip syncing contests, and school trips along with coaching the BRMS Lady Cubs for 5 years. She was also famously known for climbing up on the secretary’s desk at the end of each school year to lead the BRMS Faculty in an end of the year chant. She started the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club over at the middle school when Curt Naylor was in junior high around 1996. She sponsored FCA for the middle school for many, many years until the Flex Period was ended when they were able to have club meetings. While still teaching at BRMS, she joined her partner in crime, Melissa Winkler, and began coaching at the high school. She was instrumental in building the Lady Lion Basketball Program back to respect. She spent many hours in that hot Memorial Gym working to build a feeder program and run camps. She was involved in many tournament games won including a trip to the State Finals in 2010. She has built many special relationships with many of her former players for those 10 years and continues to keep those bonds strong. She taught health and PE at BRMS until 2018 when she came over to the high school to teach PE and be the assistant athletic director. She has continued to be an excellent teacher of physical education and will still give you a side eye for calling it “gym” and maybe even a lecture. She has been involved in Young Life for many years but started Young Life here at RCHS in 2018. She again works tirelessly to make sure our young people know Jesus. This is her calling for now and she has decided to teach full time and commit to Young Life full time.

Special Shout out to Mr. Blair Orme, one of retirees this year from RCHS! Please see the following message from Holly Wagner. Mr. Orme has impacted thousands of students and adults in the Rushville community. He always puts students first and truly cares that every single student finds success in FFA, school and life.

Special Shout out to Mr. Perin, one of retirees this year from RCHS! Please see the following message from Bryan Hummel. Keith Perin is an enigma. He is incredibly logical, joyously intellectual, and uproariously funny. He is also the most caring, loyal, giving, patient, kind, stable, and humble man I know. He also has a childlike enthusiasm for his work ( I’ll never forget the look on his face when he met Tim O’Brien). Those traits just don’t exist together in one person too often. I’m only 6 years his junior, but I feel I have grown up under his tutelage. He has made me a better teacher through modeling and quietly advising. I think he’s had that influence on everyone. He is the type of teacher that creates other teachers. A teacher can receive no greater compliment than “I became a teacher because of you.” If I weren’t a teacher, I’d want to be one because of him. Thankfully, despite being our etymological king, Keith doesn’t understand the meaning of retirement. So, he’s coming back like a 6th year senior- unshaven, part time, and on his own terms. One day he will just quit coming back, and it will be one of the saddest days in my professional life. Until then, I am grateful for the time we’ve worked together and the years (hopefully) we have left.

WCC AWARDS Whitewater Career Center held their awards ceremony for both the AM and the PM sessions. It was great to see RCHS students winning so many awards. Here is a list of our winners. AM SESSION AWARD WINNERS 1. Jacob Williams - Most Improved Student for Auto Collision Technology 2. Karson Gipson - Most Improved Student for Automotive Technology 3. Elliott Chambers - Most Improved Student for Culinary Arts 4. Dustin King - Most Improved Student for Graphic Design 5. Lanea Adams - Most Outstanding Student for Criminal Justice 6. Carter Hamilton - Most Outstanding Student for Culinary Arts 7. Bryton Grizzell - Most Outstanding Student for Electricity 8. Rhianna Hedrick - Most Outstanding Student for Health Science I PM SESSION AWARD WINNERS 1. Hali Keller - Most Improved Student for Cosmetology 2. Chelsie Patterson - Most Improved Student for Criminal Justice 3. Madison Meek - Most Outstanding Student for Education Careers 4. Emi Flannery - Most Outstanding Student for Health Science I 5. Bell Westphal - Most Outstanding Student for Health Science II MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT FROM RCHS MADISON MEEK!!!!

Here is the link to the final Lion Review of the 2024/2025 School Year!!! Enjoy the summer and only 81 days until the first MONDAY of the 2024/2025 School Year!!!!! https://secure.smore.com/n/2r4qy

You are invited to celebrate the 2024 RCHS Graduates! RCHS Graduation Ceremony is at 8pm on June 2, 2024.

The Boys and Girls Track and Field teams competed at the Connersville Sectional last Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The Lions tied for 4th and the Richmond Red Devils dominated the meet for their 1st Sectional Title in over 10 years. Leading the night for the Lions was Jacob Schwendeman 2nd in the 110H, Chase Woolf 3rd in the 100 and 200 dashes, Logan Jacobs 3rd in PV. These boys will represent RCHS at the Greenfield Regional on Thursday. The Lady Lions placed 2nd to Connersville with a great team effort. Many sacrificed their individual goals to make a run for the team title. We fell short but not from lack of effort or determination. Individual Sectional Titles went to Jenna Lawler in the shot and the discus, Tricia Morgan in the 300 hurdles, and Gabby Pavey in the PoleVault. Other regional qualifiers were Katie Ripberger in the 100m hurdles, Bell Westphal in the PoleVault, and the 4x100 m relay team of Bell Westphal, Alyana Miller, Leonie Boyer, and Railyn Combs. These girls will represent RCHS at the Regional meet next Tuesday at Shelbyville.

Last night we celebrated 6 students in a White Coat Ceremony ! These students have completed three courses in the PLTW Biomedical Science path. Thank you to Mrs. Edwards, our PLTW Teacher, Jeff Hartz for donating the coats, and @PurdueINMac for providing funds for our program!

What an incredible night! We celebrated 6 students completing the three course pathway of Project Lead the Way in the first ever White Coat Ceremony. The students completed research projects and held a gallery walk to parents and community members. Big shout out to Brooke Edwards, our PLTW teacher, for leading these students through these classes and providing an experience that these kids will take anywhere they decide to go after high school! Thank you to Jeff Hartz the Executive Director of East Indiana Area Health Education Center for providing the white coats, Jan Thoman for her expertise in attaching the logo and the Purdue IN Mac Grant for providing funds for supplies. Thank you also to Debbie Meek, Abigail Waits and Michelle Herbert for providing your expertise to assist students.

This week's alumni spotlight is Robert Wilkinson. He is a 2002 RCHS graduate and is a Line Pilot/Company Line Check Airman. If you are willing to share your journey, please fill out the google form pinned to the RCHS Facebook page or visit our website!

SUN Programs help kids and teens thrive in the summertime and beyond, giving families convenient new ways to get nutritious food for their kids when school's out! Free Summer Meals will be available from May 29th - July 26th. Meals will be served Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Please enter through Door 25 at Rushville Consolidated High School. We hope to see you there! **Meals will not be available on the 4th of July** For more information please visit: https://www.rushville.k12.in.us/page/food-services This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Here is the link to this week's Lion Review. Such a busy week but wow what a great one!! It's Almost MONDAY!!! https://secure.smore.com/n/5az36h

Please see the latest Camp! Middle School and Youth League Football Camp July 9-11. For a list of all camps and links to flyers, please see the "Youth Sports Camp" Page under Sports on our RCHS website. It is vitally important to develop the proper fundamentals early in an athlete's career. The teaching of these important skills is what will be emphasized at the RUSHVILLE FOOTBALL YOUTH LEAGUE CAMP 2024. We want to get off to a great start fundamentally for the 2024 season. We provide indoor and/or outdoor instruction specific to each position on the football field supervised by the Rushville High School Coaching Staff. We will teach the fundamentals of blocking and tackling using shields and bags. All students entering grades K-8th are welcome. Athletes will learn the position fundamentals and skills of the Lion Offensive & Defensive Systems that he will perform this upcoming season. Your child and their classmates are a special group with the ability to achieve great things on the football field. The RUSHVILLE FOOTBALL YOUTH LEAGUE CAMP will give him a chance to get a feel for what being a member of the RUSHVILLE FOOTBALL FAMILY is all about so he can excel this coming season.