Middle School Student Life

Middle School is an exciting time in everyone's life, especially for girls. Social circles are changing, while academic interests are solidifying into true passions with specific directions. We encourage our girls to find their voices and speak up to impact their communities and lead for the greater good. We also offer a variety of organizations and activities to promote community involvement, global citizenship, and a sense of belonging.

All About Middle School Student Life

Advisories

The purpose of the advisory program in the RPCS Middle School is to provide a supportive environment in which our students grow in self-acceptance and compassion while gaining a sense of being known and valued both in and outside of the classroom. We view honesty, responsibility, compassion, and concern for others as the building blocks of emotional intelligence and therefore strive to foster each of these characteristics in our students. While we seek to honor and develop each student’s emerging independence, we recognize the need for each student to learn where to find help and how to ask for it. Our advisory program provides students a space in which to do this, and our advisors seek to listen, observe and help students develop problem solving skills. Through our advisory program we endeavor to help students develop our core values:

Build each other up
Lead for the greater good
Seek and embrace diversity
Live healthy and be well
Take their seat at the table

To view the current Middle School team leads and advisors, click here.

Affinity Groups

Clubs & Organizations

Our Middle School provides over 15 clubs and organizations for our girls to find their home with like-minded individuals as they pursue their passions in a fun and safe environment with opportunities for leadership.

Clubs

Black Student Union (BSU) (affinity group)
Book Club
Chess Club
Crafts/Creative Writing Club
Dance Company
Eye to Eye Club
Fantasy Football Club
FOCUS
Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) (affinity group)
Jewish Heritage Club (affinity group)
Maker Club
Model UN
Needleworks Club
Puzzles/Board Games Club
Studio Art Club
Walking Club

Organizations

Officers and representatives of all organizations must uphold community expectations, build up peers, strive to keep an open mind, work collaboratively with peers, and lead for the greater good of the RPCS and or surrounding community.

Student Government Association
The Student Government Association (SGA) exists to encourage participation in the governance of the Middle School. Its purpose is to support school spirit, build connections among students, and organize service projects and special events.

Student Diversity Association
The Student Diversity Association (SDA) exists to encourage an open, respectful and accepting community for all students. Its purpose is to provide diversity awareness opportunities and to uphold understanding, respect, and acceptance of our unique differences while creating a nonjudgmental atmosphere that embraces and celebrates the dimensions of diversity within each individual RPCS student and to plan activities that celebrate and uplift diversity.

Athletic Association
The Athletic Association (AA) exists to promote school spirit through athletic endeavors. Its purpose is to encourage participation in athletics, good sportsmanship, attendance at athletic events, and to organize spirit days and plan special events like Red and White, Field Day and the Dodgeball Tournament.

The Visual and Performing Arts Association
The Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) organization exists to promote the arts for the Middle School. Its purpose is to encourage and support participation/attendance in the Middle School musical and other formal arts events like concerts, etc., provide an informal space for students to share talents in the arts, and organize arts activities for the annual school sleepover.

Sports

Organized sports are introduced in Middle School, which helps create a lifelong love of sports, health and wellness. We offer 14 sports teams in Middle School in 10 sports.

Cross Country
Field Hockey
Soccer
Volleyball
Basketball
Lacrosse
Squash
Softball
Track & Field
Tennis

To learn more about our athletics program, or to see this year's schedule and roster, visit our Athletics page.

Free Reading

The Free Read program is part of our Reading Revolution. Every day, the girls participate in independent reading. This means, they choose their own book and everyone sits down for 15 minutes and reads silently. The purpose of free reading is to encourage lifelong readers. Studies have shown that individuals who read for pleasure have higher test scores, including the SATs, boast a more robust vocabulary, show more empathy, and live longer, among other benefits.

Community Service/Service Learning

Our Middle School students are passionate about their community, both in our local neighborhoods and throughout the world. Middle School students participate in school-wide service learning initiatives such as the Think Pink All School Walk, which raises money for cancer research, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. There are also Middle School-specific fundraising initiatives led by the students themselves.

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