This school year, a special house will be constructed on the grounds of Raymore-Peculiar High School. It will be located on the south side of the school, between the two loading docks. The Integrated Learning House will be an actual house designed for students with special needs to practice the skills needed to live on their own. Students will not live in the house, but will use the house as a classroom to learn a variety of tasks.
Here are two concept drawings of the Integrated Learning House.
Here's a link to the longer story on the website: https://www.raypec.org/article/1769083
The Girls' Golf team took home some more hardware today as they took first place at the Lee's Summit West Tournament at Fred Arbanas Golf Course. All 5 players finished in the top 10. Addie Swan was the top finisher for the tournament, shooting a 78. Also medaling was Vanessa Ocampo, Alexis Brown, McKenna Raymond and Ansley Harper.
This morning the Raymore-Peculiar Public School Foundation hosted their Prime Time Breakfast. Ray-Pec retirees and senior citizens in the community were invited to tour the Ninth Grade Center, learn more about the Foundation, and get district updates from Superintendent Dr. Mike Slagle.
Thank you to the Foundation for their wonderful work and to everyone who was able to attend! 🖤💛
Tennis news! Congratulations to Ray-Pec High School Senior Dulce Dunham for her bronze medal finish at today's Platte County invitational!
Two tournaments, two wins! Today the Ray-Pec Girls Golf Team traveled to Lakewood Oaks Country Club and took 1st place as a team at the Lady Jaguar Invitational! ⛳️
The Panthers were led by:
Addie Swan, 2nd 79
Ansley Harper, 7th 84
On Friday the Girls' Golf team hosted the Ray-Pec Scramble Tourney at Hoots Hollow and the Varsity Panthers took home first place! The 2 person scramble teams were led by:
-Addie Swan and Vanessa Ocampo who finished 2nd overall with a score of 66
-McKenna Raymond and Ansley Harper finished T3 with a 69
-Alexis Brown and Giana Hunt finished T9 with an even par 72
Did you know that Ray-Pec High School has a beekeeping club? 🐝 Known as the Ray-Pec Beekeeping Society, the club formed last year and maintains two hives. Teacher Joshua Henry is the sponsor of the club, which typically meets during Panther Time. Normally, students work with Mr. Henry to inspect the hives, but earlier this month, Teachers Kevin Crean and Kacey Huffman helped with the hive inspection. The club typically checks the hives throughout the spring, summer, and fall, and leaves them alone during the winter.
The club also has an Instagram account: @rphsbeekeepingsociety
Today, our resident LETRS experts Dr. Michelle Hofmann and Kylie Brown, alongside DESE Literacy staff shared with #MoEd24 attendees the importance of teacher knowledge and evidence-based systems to support student reading success! 📚
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 middle school Coding and 3D Printing camp wrapped up today with their showcase event! Check out some of their cool creations! 🤯
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! ☕🎻
Ray-Pec East Middle School's Choir Director, Shea Twenter, was named Missouri Choral Directors Association's Outstanding West Central Director for 2024! Congratulations! 👏👏👏
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! 🎥🤖
Elementary level RP Camp Innovation wrapped up this morning with their showcase event! What a fun way to stay engaged over the summer! 🎉
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. 🖤💛
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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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!
