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You'Re
goiNg to
lovE it here!
RNE: the place to
be—see why
Recipient of a South Carolina Department of Education ACT/SAT Performance Improvement Award (ASPI). RNE won the Summa Cum Laude Award for Excellent Improvement for an
increase in composite score that exceeds the state average over three years.
Five consecutive times on Newsweek's list of Best High Schools in
America — the only Midlands school to make all the lists!
News
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Take a look at the Media Center's February activities (download).
The Miss RNE Pageant will take place on February 13 at 7 p.m. in
the District Auditorium.
The South Carolina Association of Student Councils named RNE Principal Ralph Schmidt
its Administrator of
the Year!
- Join us on March 27 for Dinner and a Show!
The RNE
Education Foundation will host a buffet dinner at 6 p.m. in the Cafeteria,
followed by a performance of PCA Theatre's "Cats" in the District
Auditorium. Tickets: $30 per person in the Main Office. Or order by mail
with a check payable to the Richland Northeast Education Foundation, 7500
Brookfield Road, Columbia, SC 29223 and your tickets will be held for you at
the door on the 27th. Please include your address and phone number on the
check so that we can confirm your order with you.
- Parents of Seniors: Herff Jones will be in the Science Atrium one last time on February 10 during lunch to take orders for
cap/gown/hood/diploma cover at a package cost of $60.
Prices go up after that.
- The video of poet-in-residence Matthew Dickman is airing
on
www.richland2.org – click on
R2TV on Demand,
then click on New in Two and scroll way down to "RNE Welcomes Poet."
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Click, shop—and support your school:
When you use this Amazon link to buy books and other stuff, every cent that comes back to
RNE helps fund extra programs, new equipment, student resources, and more.
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Fort Jackson families:
find
out about making the transition to RNE
See where our Class of 2009 went
Alums
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Christian Moore, Rebeka Lovit, Kyra Brianne Murphy, and
Kelly Wily
get in the Coming Home Week spirit and dress like their favorite superheroes.
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It's all
good . . .
- Three RNE students have been chose for All-State Band, eleven for
Region Band. In All-State are David Currey (trumpet), Rob Borucki (tuba), and
Max Witherell (bassoon). In Region Band are Connor Burney
(trombone), Bizzy Bostic (clarinet), Freda Yin (clarinet),
Anthony Amaker (clarinet), Bradley Lara (clarinet), Joe Palekas
(trumpet), Alexus Pearson (French horn), Arvaughnna Postema
(trombone), Ashley Swift (euphonium), Reggie Hunter
(tuba), and Seth Lyons (tuba).
- PB&J will perform selections from their Disney World Show,
including songs from "Hairspray," "Cats," and "42nd Street," at the Richland Two Retiree Luncheon
on February 5 at the Columbia Country Club.
- Nathan Rubinger, a Senior in Horizon, PCA Creative Writing, and
Convergence Media, was selected as state representative second
alternate in the U.S. Senate Youth Program funded by the William
Randolph Hearst Foundation.
- Daniel Strickland, social studies teacher and Boys' Tennis
coach, was elected vice president of the South Carolina United States Tennis Association Board of Directors.
He's already served two years on the board as a special appointee representing South Carolina high school tennis.
- iLink's Perry McLeod won a Department of Education grant
to produce public service announcements on youth leadership and
character development for the TeenLEAD program.
- RNE will host the 2010 Interact State Convention, February 5 – 7.
About 230 students from throughout South Carolina are expected.
- Senior Kenosha Parker will represent RNE at the Midlands
Regional Poetry Out Loud competition on January 15 in Sumter. Rachel Epperly was first runner-up and
Naomi Brown was second runner-up in RNE’s school-level contest.
- Junior Andy Beattie is R2TV's M&M Student of the Month.
Watch R2TV (TWC Channel 12) for a feature that highlights Andy's success in organizing lacrosse teams for RNE. M&M students are
nominated for Maintaining the Momentum of excellence in Richland Two.
- Karli Wells' poem "A Terrible Thing To Waste" is a Topical
Winner in the Live Poets Society of New Jersey's 12th Annual National
High School Poetry Contest. Her poem will be published in the anthology
Of Love and Dedication.
- Deondra Gidron won both Miss Talent and Miss Personality in
the most recent Hal Jackson's Talented Teens competition.
- The Richland Northeast Bands performed at the Statehouse on December 13 for
the annual lighting of the Hanukah menorah.
- Our new National Board Certified Teachers are Pam Bell, Emily Langdon, and
Mary Catherine Newman. In addition, Ginger Belka, Bill McCormick,
Linda Mobley, and Sharon Owens – the four RNE teachers who went through the renewal
process this year – retained their NBCT status.
- Mary Catherine Newman won the 2009 South Carolina State Fair Student Art Education Teacher Award in the High School
Division for having the most student winners. It is the third year that she has received the award.
See who won what.
- The RNE Chorale sang in the Candlelight Performance at
Epcot on December 1; PB&J performed at Disney World on
December 4 and will again for the Northeast Chamber of Commerce at the Village of Sandhill on December 11.
- Latin students Kyle Harper, Ashley Garren, and April King
participated in this year's Clemson University Declamation Contest. Kyle recited the beginning of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from Ovid's
Metamorphoses and Casandra's lament as retold by Seneca in The Agamemnon. April and Ashley delivered an epigram by Ennius as well as Psalms 15 and 78 from the
Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum.
- More
Questions?
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