Year: 2017

Dear Rainier Families, With two weeks left before our well deserved winter vacation, we thought it would be a good time to review our expectations for students work outside of school.  A few helpful guidelines to discuss at home: – There is always work that students can do.  There is no such thing as having…

Dear Rainier Families, On Friday, we had a special visitor who spoke with our students.  Jose Antonio Vargas grew up in the bay area as an undocumented teen, went to SF State, and is now a Pullitzer Prize winning journalist.  We feel very fortunate that Mr. Vargas took the time to speak with our students…

Dear Rainier Families, As we return from our Thanksgiving break, we wanted to offer our gratitude to three important groups. We’d like to offer thanks to our students for being at school every day and bringing their values, goals, and motivations with them.  We lead this school for you and your positive energy and desire…

  Dear Rainier Families, We are excited to invite our Expeditions program onto campus again this week. Each Expeditions cycle we are grateful for the support we get from our Expeditions team in teaching our students about such a variety of topics from Drama and Art to Computer Science and Sociology. This also gives our…

Dear Rainier Families, This week we had our second monthly All School Meeting run by our Student Council!  The theme of this month’s meeting was our Core Characteristic, Compassion.  As in our previous meetings, we gave out awards to students for showing compassion to their peers on a daily basis.  As always, teachers had a…

Dear Rainier Families, We had a busy week at Rainier! From a fun and terrifying Halloween Spirit Week to the Junior class working their hardest on the first part of the English portion of the practice state standardized test, our community was representative of a college campus! Our students came together to show pride and…

Dear Rainier Families, Our Multicultural Club is planning our 3rd Annual Dia de los muertos celebration and are asking for parent help with food donations. The celebration will be held on our campus on Friday, November 3, 2017 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm. If you are able to make a food donation, please follow this link and let…

Dear Rainier Families, On Friday night we had our second annual Bingo Night fundraiser.  Like last year, the event was a huge success with many of our students, teachers and families attending.  We love this event because it brings together our community for a night of fun, we get the support of local businesses, and…

Dear Rainier Families, We are so proud of our student council for running our first all-school assembly of the year.  When they were elected three short weeks ago, we told them that their first job was to plan this assembly.  In the short time they had, they put together a program that included skits and…

Dear Rainier Families, A high school is a complicated system with a schedule and expectations that help classes run smoothly and makes sure that students spend as much of their time learning as possible.  When students are on time to class and ready to learn, teachers can focus their energy on supporting the learning of…