Congratulations to Coach Sealey Snyder, Coach Ashley Swinney and the 7th grade Lady Raiders on winning todays South Ripley Tournament to open their season! Both 7th and 8th grade teams represented SRJHS very well today! Looking forward to a great season!! 💚🤍🖤
Mrs. Roepke’s 6th Social Studies classes held Annual Renaissance Fair. We love the creativity!
A BIG thank you to Meisberger Real Estate for providing Dilly Bars to our Penny War winners! Mrs. Downey and Mrs. Brinson's classes loved the treats!
Last night we recognized the exemplary board service of longtime school board members Carol Holzer and Jeff Cornett. Each served three full terms on the board and completed their service last night. Thank you for your leadership and dedication to South Ripley Schools!
At last night's school board meeting the board recognized Milken Educator Award winner, Katie Lanter, and welcomed new JH science teacher, Preston Davis. Congrats to Katie and Preston.
Congrats to our South Ripley Junior High 8th grade DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Essay winners! Their topic this year was on the Edenton and Wilmington Tea Parties during the American Revolution. This was a cross-
curricular assignment with Mrs. Swinney's ELA and Mr. Bayne's Social Studies classes.
1st place: Matthew Wood, 2nd place: Lily Sullivan, and 3rd place: Gracie Sturgeon
Congratulations to SRHS juniors Aubrey Werner, Dominic Wiley, Avery Andrews, and Jocelyn Meador for being named "Rising Stars" for their academic achievements by the Indiana Association of School Principals! Way to go, Raiders!
SR is beyond proud of Mrs. Katie Lanter for being named a National Milken Educator Award winner! Mrs. Lanter will be traveling to Los Angeles to speak about her educational journey and spread her knowledge to educators across the U.S.! She was also awarded a $25,000 prize!
When you need dollies to get your Penny War change to the bank 👏🏻 (thanks Rick and Brian)!
Bring the rest of your change (and cash) tomorrow to take out the war leaders!
Please support Avery Andrews and the SRHS Student Council! Project Linus is an initiative to provide local children with warm blankets during the holidays.
Thank you to Avery and our student council for stepping up for our community!
Congrats to our DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Essay winners from Mrs. Roepke's social studies classes.
6th Grade
1st place Allie Swinney
2nd Kamryn Seabolt
3rd Khloe Miller
5th grade
1st place Noah Thieman
2nd place Olivia Miller
3rd place Ellie Miller
It's PENNY WAR time! Send your SRES students to school with change and cash on Wednesday and Thursday for a school-wide competition! All proceeds will benefit SR students in need at Christmas time. Thank you in advance! Let the wars begin!
SR worked together with Ripley County Court Services to provide our students an inspiring message of hope, determination, and perseverance today with a presentation by Tony Hoffman, professional BMX racer and Olympian!
7th and 8th grade students were able to hear from Brooke Williams with Lowe’s Distribution Center (North Vernon) today. Brooke is an HR Advisor, and she talked with the students about the various careers within Lowe’s and the benefits that go with those careers. Students also learned about the free educational opportunities that are also available to Lowe’s employees. Thank you, Brooke and Lowe’s!
We are incredibly grateful to United Way of Franklin and Ripley Counties Indiana for their generous donation of coats for our students at South Ripley! We appreciate all the hard work they do to support and strengthen our community!
Tomorrow is group/team/organization picture day for the yearbook at SRES. Please have your student bring the shirt/jersey of any organization they participate in!
South Ripley Junior High students in Mrs. Lanter’s Creative Writing class have all been selected for publishing! Recently, these students wrote thrilling mini-sagas for a writing contest titled “Fright Club” through the “Young Writers” program. Their works were chosen for publication based on their exemplary work. We, at SR, are very proud of these students and the imagination they all possess. Keep writing!
Please see the pic for an update to the athletic schedule. Go Raiders!
It's snowing so the season is upon us! Here are this year's dress up days so you can prepare in advance. These are corporation-wide dress up days, so be ready to get festive!
