News Corner

Hello! Welcome back to school after our week “off” from real life! Hopefully all are beginning to see restoration of power, electricity, pantries, and normalcy!

This week we will be holding classes on ALL of our campuses! The Tuesday campus did have an external pipe burst, but it should not impact our school day. If that changes, we will notify the CPW families as soon as possible! If school is canceled, you will receive a text message as well.

If you did NOT receive the emails and texts last week during all of our chaos, please let me know by emailing admin@therockenrichmentacademy.org. We want to make sure that all of our families are in the loop and don’t ever miss an important piece of communication.

Student, Teacher, and Class Portraits are being moved to the week of March 8th. We definitely didn’t anticipate that our ice storms would impact our ability to wash clothes and take showers! We want to give everyone ample time to get back into the routine of things before having to worry about looking pretty for school. This also ensures that we won’t be taking pictures next week as thunderstorms are predicted the week of March 2nd-5th.

Yearbooks are for sale and the price goes up March 1st! Get yours today while they still cost less!

Hello! Welcome to February!

A few reminders this week:

• If you’re wanting to order portraits of your student, today is the last day to do so! You may go here to view pictures and the order link is at the top of the page: https://therockenrichmentacademy.org/student-portraits/
• The pictures page IS password protected. If you did not receive an email from me with that password, please email yearbook@therockenrichmentacademy.org for access
• Yearbooks are for sale as well! You can order yearbooks by going to the Balfour website.
• If you’re wanting to purchase a “Shout Out!” for your student (a small block of space where you can boast about your child!), I’m attaching an information sheet and linking the FAQ.

Have a wonderful, safe and healthy week!

Hello! We hope you all had a good first week back after the break. I know it’s hard to get back into the swing of things.

First things first!! The yearbook staff has finally hit “Publish” on all our portraits! It’s been a lot more work than we anticipated, but we all learned a lot and students did SO much of the work. We should be proud of all their learning.

To view the portraits, follow this link!

This will take you to a linked page that includes portraits from each campus along with the order forms and information. If you see errors or have questions, feel free to email yearbook@therockenrichmentacademy.org

Every week we have kids who forget their water bottles! We DO NOT have access to drinking fountains or cups. Teachers are purchasing water bottles for students out of their own pockets. Please provide water bottles for your students.

President’s Day will be Bad Weather Make Up Day for the RR Campus!

Make sure you’re filling out a health screening each day for your students! You can fill it out online or on paper!

Hello all! Lots of things are happening in the next couple weeks as we wrap up our Fall semester. I can’t believe it is almost Christmas Break!

Tuition is due for the month of December–you can pay via PayPal or by handing a check to any of the teachers at pick up or dropoff.

Music performances will be Monday, December 14th for all Round Rock students and Tuesday Middle School students. We will be hosting a mask-required set of performances during the school day. More details will follow in a separate email.

Our Tuesday campus is so strict about parents being on campus that we are unable to host a parent-attended Christmas performance. We will be holding a holiday student-only assembly on Tuesday, December 15th during the regular class time hours.

This year we have collaborated with our art students to create and sell Holiday Cards! You can purchase your own set of 10 blank cards for $12 here or by messaging Mrs. Turner @ 512-653-2323

School Pictures are this week! We’ve already finished all portraits on the Round Rock campus and we will be continuing to take them on the other campuses. Students do not need to wear their blue shirts. Whole class photos will be in the Spring. Links to purchase portrait packages will be live soon!

Finally, yearbooks are still for sale! Our Yearbook Staff is working hard to make it the best yearbook yet! Order yours today!

Merry Christmas! This is our last week of classes before Christmas Break! Classes will resume 1/11/2021.

This week we have a LOT happening on each campus! Thankfully, it’s all fun stuff!

We will be holding Christmas celebrations in many of our classes this week. Students are welcome to bring treats for friends as long as they’re individually wrapped.

If you still haven’t ordered your YEARBOOK, now is the time! Our yearbook staff had SUCH a fun time taking pictures last week for most of our students. If you missed last week’s individual pictures, Ms. Newell and the yearbook staff will be doing redos this week and we will be available to take more after the Christmas break. Class group pictures will take place in the spring.

If you want to contribute to the yearbook with pictures you’ve taken at events, we have an information sheet about how to do that! Download the forms below!

By the end of next week, December 25th, parents should get an email in their inbox with proofs of their students. This email will also include a link to purchase pictures packages. The pictures turned out ADORABLE so we know you’re going to want a couple! The email will be coming from yearbook@therockenrichmentacademy.org, so if you don’t see anything by Friday, check your Spam and feel free to contact us to make sure you weren’t lost in the shuffle.

Stay safe and healthy over the holidays! We are so grateful that you all would trust us with your children. We know this has been a stressful time for so many of our families and we are blessed to have your children at The Rock!

May your 2021 be a year of rest and healing and beauty.

See you in the New Year!

Welcome back! We hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving.

Just a few things to note for this week:

• If you’re on the Monday, Round Rock campus be on the lookout for information regarding today’s missed classes due to the church flooding. We are rapidly working on a plan to ensure we can continue to hold classes. Please be praying for the church as they mitigate the water (literally) and all the frustrations that come with such property damage.
• Tuition is due this week! You can pay via PayPal, bank bill pay, or hand money to any teacher at drop-off or pick-up!
• CLASS PICTURES are next week on every campus. We will be selling picture packages as well, so students are not required to wear their blue TREA shirts on picture day!
• Order your yearbooks now! Prices increase as the year goes on. Be sure to include a ShoutOut to your favorite student!!

https://www.balfour.com/texas/leander/the-rock-enrichment-academy/yearbook-packages

Have a wonderful week!

Hello! I hope you all had a good weekend. We have several fun things on the horizon, so make sure to read through the end!

Next week all campuses are off for Thanksgiving Break!

• It’s not too late to get in a Book Fair order! I think last week’s link didn’t work (and I just realized it!). So sorry! Here is the correct link: https://v4826.myubam.com/
• Make sure to submit tuition if you haven’t yet. You can pay online here!

We are starting to collect donations for Blessing Bags for homeless around Austin! We will be collecting blankets, socks, shelf stable and easily openable foods (fruit cups, beef jerky, granola bars), and toiletries!

School picture days are the week of December 7th-10th on ALL campuses

Welcome to the second week of November! Just 6 weeks until Christmas! I am looking towards Advent Season beginning this year. This year, more than ever, so many of us need refreshing, renewing, we need stillness, and rest from the weariness that being human brings. I hope your children find that rest both at home and at school at The Rock!

If you haven’t paid tuition yet, you can pay via PayPal as a Friend/Family to @ATurnerTREA or hand a check to any of our teachers at drop off or pick up!

Click here to be redirected to PayPal to immediately pay your tuition!

Yearbook design in in full swing! And we need your help! If you have any pictures you’d like to submit, you can do so by going to the Balfour site! Download the Balfour Image Share App, enter your email address, name and code 129814 to share your pictures.

Click here to ORDER your own yearbook for the 2020-2021 school year! Make sure to add in a Shout Out to your favorite student!

For more information on purchasing yearbooks, shoutouts, and the Image Share app, download flyers below!

There’s still time to order from the Book Fair!

School portraits are coming up!

On December 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th yearbook staff will be on each campus taking pictures! Students can dress in whatever clothes they wish to wear–blue Rock shirts aren’t required. There will be retakes in the Spring!

Happy November! I’m kind of mentally stuck in April so I’m a bit baffled to be here. It seems like many of us are still playing mental catch-up.

We have several things to note for this week. Make sure to read to the bottom so that you don’t miss any announcements!

November’s healthy eating focus is on YELLOW foods! Yellow foods can be anything from yellow squash to bananas and mangos! Vitamin A can be found in many of these foods as well as cancer fighting antioxidants and vitamins!

This year we are doing yearbook a lot differently! In year’s past we have tried to compile it after the year is over. This year, our Middle School students on Monday’s Round Rock campus are running yearbook and we have contracted with Balfour to print and produce them for us! As such, YEARBOOKS ARE ALREADY FOR SALE.

Yearbooks will be printed and all shipped to Ms. Newell in June. We will plan a family day at the park to see our fellow Rock families and distribute yearbooks in early July.

Order your yearbooks here: https://www.balfour.com/texas/leander/the-rock-enrichment-academy/yearbook-packages

You can also add in a “Shout Out!” page for your student to show how proud you are of them! Yearbook prices are the lowest they will be all year right now! Prices go up after Christmas.

Please begin donating supplies for our annual Blessing Bags Drive! This can include socks, blankets, cans of food, packets of tuna, small water bottles, small hygiene supplies–anything we might easily assemble for an individual experiencing homelessness.

Blessing Bags will be a bit different this year! More details to come!

Tuition reminder! It IS the first week of November so tuition is due! If you need help playing catch up or you don’t remember what you owe, please contact Ms. Turner at Director@TheRockEnrichmentAcademy.org

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Fall weather has officially arrived and that means the inevitable collection of lost personal items. As we begin to have cooler days that require jackets, please make sure to be labeling your coats so that we can get them back to their owner.

As a reminder we ask that you label several things:

• Jackets
• Lunchboxes
• Water bottles
• Backpacks (a luggage tag is also ok!)
• and any little containers that might get lost in the shuffle from lunch

Please make sure to send your student with water bottles each week. On a couple of our campuses, we do not have access to our own collection of cups or extra water bottles. We don’t want your child to go thirsty or for them to feel bad about asking for a cup of water!

We will be hosting a book fair on each campus this week. We will have an outside table for parents and inside $5 and $10 tables for students. Please send your child with money in an envelope if you wish for them to participate!

Keep up the good work on eating healthy ORANGE fruits and veggies! It’s fun seeing students get excited about all the healthy foods they’re bringing each week!

We love celebrating birthdays with our students and so we wanted to clarify birthday treats policy since it’s changed a bit this year: individually wrapped treats are acceptable.

This can include:

• Individually packaged store-bought cupcakes
• Individually wrapped store-bought cookies
• Small goody bags of non-food items you packaged at home (with clean hands!)
• Please do not bring homemade items to share as we cannot distribute those to students!
• If you have any questions, you are always welcome to email any of the teachers!

Hello! We hope you all had a good three day weekend.

Reminder: We have an Usborne Book Fair coming up!

• The fair will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25th through 27th, with the option for parents to order at an outside table right after drop off. Students will be able to purchase books during their lunch hour. 
• For students, there will be a $5 and a $10 table. Please plan to bring cash sealed in an envelope if they’d like to purchase any books. There will be a great selection of books—all previewed to ensure they line up with the Christian mission of our program.

Make sure to say “Happy Birthday!” to our wonderful Monday Music Teacher, Mrs. Sargent! She is a talented asset to our teaching team! Her birthday is 10/17!