The Bluffer

Serving Red Bluff High School since 1901 Volume CXIX Issue 2 Bluffer The September 8, 2017 Club Day, page 4 'The Birth of a Dragon' page 5 Tennis, page 6 New literacy program at RBHS Update on Measure J ASSETs, After School Safety and Enrichment for teens, is a program offered by Red Bluff High School to help expand the knowledge and educational experience for students. A S S E T s provides a number of things for s t u d e n t s , including free food you are able to pick up from the cafeteria. This program provides a variety of activities for students to participate in. ASSETs began on August 21st and continues throughout the year every day after school. You are able to join at any point of time in the year, you just need an application filled out and signed by your parents or legal guardian. ASSETs ASSETs provides fun runs from 3:30-4:30. Classes that run through this program may not be everyday after school, you will need to talk to the adult running your class about the days the class is available. If a student wants to join ASSETs but doesn't have a ride, there is transportation available. After each class, they will need to meet at the media center. The vans that will pick students up travel to Cottonwood, Gerber, Los Molinos, or here in town. The vans will leave around 5:00 p.m. Classes provided by ASSETs are the following: credit recovery, tutoring, educational support, computer lab access, sports, guitar, creative writing, robotics, DIY crafts, and smartphone photography. There will be plenty more classes available throughout the year. Students on sports teams are allowed to join this program while waiting for your own practice to begin, especially on minimum days. This program especially helps kids waiting after school. One of the sports, Girls Field Hockey, is held every Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. Be sure to talk to your advisor about the days your classes are available. The ASSETs facilitator, Jen Parsons, is in room 105 if you would like to discover more information and opportunities provided by the program. A S S E T applications are found in her room as well. If you need to turn an appl icat ion in, the front office or Ms. Parsons will suffice. Kenzie Salinas Staff Writer Sophia Cumpton Editor-in-Chief Recently, Red Bluff High School invested in a literacy program called Achieve 3000. This program will hopefully help students advance their reading levels, measured on by the Lexile score the program gives students. The goal is for every student to get to a 1300 Lexile score by graduation. While there is no definite plan yet for what teachers and administration will do with the scores, there are ideas for classes to read articles pertaining to that subject to improve the Lexile scores. The articles would be read one or two times a week, with a small quiz at the end. With these ideas applying to every student, there would then be a demand for more chrome books. Principal Michael Tambini hopes that one day there would be enough chrome books for every student at school to have one. Another plus of this program is that it would improve native Spanish speaker's English, and they can use the program at home if their parents wish to improve their English as well. While students this year have taken the Achieve 3000 test and got their scores back, the plans to improve their scores will not be implemented for two or three more years; however, this will be implemented school wide. English teacher, Markus Vossi, sees the Achieve 3000 program as, "important because it provides us with information we need in order to strategize how to improve their reading levels." The school hopes for the success of this program to benefit students. "...it provides us with information we need in order to strategize how to improve their reading levels." -Markus Vossi I n the 2016-2017 school year, RBHS was given a $26 million bond for construction and repair at the school. T he targeted areas for renovation are the science classrooms, agriculture classrooms, the cafeteria, and athlete facilities, student gathering spaces, and more. S ome goals and objectives of this plan include organizing the parking lots, organize activities and safety http://www.rbhsd.org curriculum departments and CTE classes, have a centralized student resource center, make the campus more secure with easier supervision, consolidate school character, and create an easily identifiable entrance to the campus. T he colored areas below are the new additions from the revised plans for construction. The current agriculture building will be turned into a student resources center and the special education classes. An amphitheater for student gatherings will be built in front of the library. The new science wing and cafeteria will be beside it on the right. The old cafeteria area will become the new ag classes along with their greenhouse. T he committee is also looking to improve athletic facilities as well, such as the gym and perhaps the football field. aims for students improve skills http://clipart-library.com

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