Congratulations to SRHS juniors Aubrey Werner, Dominic Wiley, Avery Andrews, and Jocelyn Meador for being named "Rising Stars" for their academic achievements by the Indiana Association of School Principals! Way to go, Raiders!
SR is beyond proud of Mrs. Katie Lanter for being named a National Milken Educator Award winner! Mrs. Lanter will be traveling to Los Angeles to speak about her educational journey and spread her knowledge to educators across the U.S.! She was also awarded a $25,000 prize!
When you need dollies to get your Penny War change to the bank 👏🏻 (thanks Rick and Brian)!
Bring the rest of your change (and cash) tomorrow to take out the war leaders!
Please support Avery Andrews and the SRHS Student Council! Project Linus is an initiative to provide local children with warm blankets during the holidays.
Thank you to Avery and our student council for stepping up for our community!
Congrats to our DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Essay winners from Mrs. Roepke's social studies classes.
6th Grade
1st place Allie Swinney
2nd Kamryn Seabolt
3rd Khloe Miller
5th grade
1st place Noah Thieman
2nd place Olivia Miller
3rd place Ellie Miller
It's PENNY WAR time! Send your SRES students to school with change and cash on Wednesday and Thursday for a school-wide competition! All proceeds will benefit SR students in need at Christmas time. Thank you in advance! Let the wars begin!
SR worked together with Ripley County Court Services to provide our students an inspiring message of hope, determination, and perseverance today with a presentation by Tony Hoffman, professional BMX racer and Olympian!
7th and 8th grade students were able to hear from Brooke Williams with Lowe’s Distribution Center (North Vernon) today. Brooke is an HR Advisor, and she talked with the students about the various careers within Lowe’s and the benefits that go with those careers. Students also learned about the free educational opportunities that are also available to Lowe’s employees. Thank you, Brooke and Lowe’s!
We are incredibly grateful to United Way of Franklin and Ripley Counties Indiana for their generous donation of coats for our students at South Ripley! We appreciate all the hard work they do to support and strengthen our community!
Tomorrow is group/team/organization picture day for the yearbook at SRES. Please have your student bring the shirt/jersey of any organization they participate in!
South Ripley Junior High students in Mrs. Lanter’s Creative Writing class have all been selected for publishing! Recently, these students wrote thrilling mini-sagas for a writing contest titled “Fright Club” through the “Young Writers” program. Their works were chosen for publication based on their exemplary work. We, at SR, are very proud of these students and the imagination they all possess. Keep writing!
Please see the pic for an update to the athletic schedule. Go Raiders!
It's snowing so the season is upon us! Here are this year's dress up days so you can prepare in advance. These are corporation-wide dress up days, so be ready to get festive!
It's Thanksgiving lunch tomorrow at SRES! Please note that alternates are not available for this special lunch.
Mrs. Roepke’s 5th graders learned about the water cycle with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management yesterday.
At last night's school board meeting, the board recognized golfer Lilly Jones for winning the ORVC Mental Attitude Award. The board also recognized SRO Eddie Rodriguez for his life saving Heimlich Maneuver efforts and Derik Hutton for being named a PLTW Administrator of the Year!
Please see the pic for a change in the athletic schedule. Go Raiders!
The Lady Raiders won their home opener against Waldron, 63-37. Great job!!
Raider fans: Please see the attached pic for info on live-streaming basketball games this winter. Go Raiders!
