Welcome to the Rancho Las Positas Website
We trust you will find the information and links on this site useful and informative. The website is updated often. How often? Weekly if not daily the website is updated. Use this site as a major source of information for Rancho school. Scroll down and you will always find the latest Raccoon Tracks our biweekly newsletter. Thank you for visiting.
Conferences
Please make every effort to attend your child’s conference (November 9 - 20). Remember, communication between class and home ensures a quality education. Please check the calendar section for your child’s dismissal times.
H1N1
Great job parents on keeping your children home with fevers and great job students on taking care of yourself by washing your hands, getting to bed early and sneezing into your sleeve. Rancho’s staying a healthy school thanks to all your hard work.
Save this date...Thursday, November 5, 6:00 PM in the MPR
PTA is hosting a meeting with Brenda Miller, LVJUSD Superintendent, and Kate Runyon, LVJUSD School Board President, regarding the potential Junction/Portola merger.
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU
to everyone who has contributed to the Rancho Track Fund. Special thanks go to Donna Anolin for all her hard work obtaining feet charm contributions from Walker Plumbing, Ms. Ann Maier, Matt and Pam Ayers, DRJ Energy, Jonathan at Cactus Car Care and Fitness Finders. Also, THANK YOU to the Northern California National Electrical Contractors Assn. (NECA), Ms. Kate Runyon, the Dupuis family, the Kishi family, FCC Collision and Mr. Mrs. Davies.
Did everyone see ABC7 Salutes Rancho Las Positas last Friday night? How proud I was of our school! See it here! http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7080557
PTA News
Membership Update
We currently have 296 members. PTA membership cards will be sent out soon. As a member of Rancho PTA, you are automatically a member of the California and National PTAs. Thanks to every parent and teacher who has joined PTA.
Beautification Update
Special thanks to the kids and teachers at ESS for the exceptional artwork they made for the Harvest Carnival! Thanks to every class who made a scarecrow. They look awesome!
November is bulb-planting time! Join us on Saturday November 21 from 1-3 PM and get your hands dirty! Parents and kids will have fun planting daffodil bulbs on campus.
If you’d like to donate daffodil bulbs or any other bulbs, there is a box labeled DAFFODILS in the hallway near the library. Ideas and suggestions are always appreciated! Please email Tammi Schnapp @ uncrn@aol.com.
Harvest Carnival and Walk-A-Thon
We would like to express our utmost thanks to all of the Rancho parents and student volunteers that made our Harvest Carnival and Walk-a-Thon a resounding success (not to mention a whole lot of fun)!!! This event could not have happened without all of your hard work. THANK YOU! We would also like to give a special Rancho thank you to Anna Stanley, Julie Clark and Melissa Schaible for their leadership and dedication to making this the best Harvest Carnival and Walk-a-Thon possible.
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