Today was the last day of RP Camp Innovation for middle school students! They got to show off their stop motion videos and BattleBot creations in a showcase event this afternoon! 🎥🤖
8 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Student driving battlebot
Student presenting their stop motion video
Student presenting their stop motion video
Student driving battlebot
Student presenting their stop motion video
Students presenting their stop motion video
Elementary level RP Camp Innovation wrapped up this morning with their showcase event! What a fun way to stay engaged over the summer! 🎉
8 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Student project
Student project
Parents participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Students participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
Student participating in the RP Camp Innovation showcase event
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. 🖤💛
8 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson and Mike Slagle
Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson and Mike Slagle hugging
Ruth Johnson and Mike Slagle
Ruth Johnson and Mike Slagle
Ruth Johnson and Mike Slagle
Happy 4th of July from the Ray-Pec School District! 🇺🇸 All district offices will be closed in celebration. Be safe and have fun! 🎉
8 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
American flag
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.
8 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
 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.
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
students presenting
student presenting
students presenting
students presenting
students presenting
Once a Panther, Always a Panther! Calling all alumni! Scan to code or click the link below to stay informed about what's going on in the district and about future alumni events! https://forms.gle/aJa3znuxHT3Q6GQM9
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Ray-Pec Alumni Flyer
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
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Showcase flyer
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
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
National Ranks 2024
School of Excellence Top 20 school in speech
Story Telling - Audrey Shepard, 5th place. Wyatt Rust, top 120
Duo Interpretation - Tre Hill & Noah Tuttle, 10th place. Devin Fisher and Sav Jordan, 14th place. Ellie McRill and Jaxson Fines, top 60
Program Oral Interpretation - Amari Russell, 30th place
Original Oratory - Natalie Kies, top 60
Humorous Interpretation - Ian Haneberg, top 60
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!
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Students preparing for volcanoes to erupt
Student adding substance to make volcano erupt
Student adding substance to make volcano erupt
Student adding substance to make volcano erupt
Catie Howlett adding substance to make volcano erupt
Student adding substance to make volcano erupt
Student adding substance to make volcano erupt
Catie Howlett high fiving a student
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
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
group in front of tower bridge
group posed in front of a fountain
group posed in front of the ocean
group posed at plaza del toros
group in front of plaza del toros
group on the beach
group in front of big ben
group on bicycles
group photo
group in front of the Eiffel tower
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! ⚽️
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Sam Larkins
Grace Vest
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.
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
mini panther camp group photo
mini panther camp students learning in small groups
mini panther camp participants watching demonstration
mini panther camp participants lined up on the wall
2 mini panther camp participants wrestling
student posed with sponsor donations
donation bag
2024 graduate Emma Lintecum is the most recent recipient of the St. John Henry Newman Scholarship! The prestigious scholarship is awarded to five incoming Newman University students and includes a full tuition package renewable for four years. Check out the full story here: https://news.newmanu.edu/emma-lintecum/
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Emma Lintecum
✂️ You may have seen the construction, but today the Peculiar Charitable Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Peculiar and the Ray-Pec School District, has opened new pickleball courts to the public! Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to turn this idea into a reality! 🎉
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Larry Dobson
Larry, Mary, and Scott Dobson with Dr. Mike Slagle
Mike Slagle
Nora Dodge Memorial bench
Paddle
Paddle
Net
Some photo updates from our middle school students in Summer School! The Blast Off into Baking class is making Cosmic Brownies, they're doing book study in ELA, studying color theory in Art Foundations, and learning about scientific notation in math!
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
student holding a poster about color theory
cosmic brownie made by middle school students
student reading a book
middle school students learning about scientific notation
Join our team! 📢 Ray-Pec is looking to fill multiple special education openings. Who do you know that would be a great fit? Follow the links below for information about the positions: Early Childhood Special Education Teacher: https://a1-3.applitrack.com/raypec/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Special+Education+Teaching Special Education Instructional Coach: https://a1-3.applitrack.com/raypec/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Special+Education
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
We're hiring! Early childhood special education teacher and special education instructional coach
Congratulations to Grant Hornbeck! Last night Grant was awarded with a $500 scholarship from the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City buy new tools for his chosen trade of being an electrician. Grant says he is enjoying working full time with Murphy Electric and looks forward to developing his skills to have his own business someday. Grant's parents want to say thank you Mr. Lewis and Mr. Ketchum at the LEAD Center for pushing their son to be his very best! 🖤🐾💛
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Grant Hornbeck
Grant Hornbeck
Our high school students involved in ELA, art, science, history, and personal finance started working with their subject matter experts this morning to solve problems/answer questions associated with their course’s content. They will work on these projects through the duration of summer school and students will have their final showcase on Thursday, June 27!
9 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
high school summer school students
high school summer school students
high school summer school students
high school summer school students
Join our team! 📢 Ray-Pec is looking to fill a high school industrial arts teacher opening. Who do you know that would be a great fit? Follow the link below for information about the positions:
10 months ago, Raymore-Peculiar School District
Hiring: Elementary Physical Education