Ridgeview Jr./Sr. High School

Ridgeview Spring Sports are starting!
Order your Ridgeview Baseball Apparel by March 6th - https://www.doubledownindustries.com/rhsbaseball

Order Ridgeview-Lexington HS Track apparel by March 13th - https://www.doubledownindustries.com/rltrack

Happy National FFA Week! Throughout the week (Monday - Friday) we will be hosting a “Deere” hunt throughout Colfax. Each day a hint will be posted on the FFA Facebook and Instagram pages for people to go to a local business and get their picture taken with the John Deere Tractor toy. The picture should then be sent to the Instagram or Facebook page or emailed to czimmerman@ridgeview19.org for a chance to win $30 in gift cards to local businesses. Tomorrow also, begins our annual Kiss A Pig contest! 🐷Collection jars will be out to bring in your change to add to the teacher of your choice. The teacher with the most money will have to kiss the pig! All money raised will be donated to the Midwest Food Bank.💰 Here are this years nominees: High School 🐽 Mr. Kennedy 🐽 Mrs. Meints 🐽 Mrs. Becker 🐽 Mr. Scholp 🐽 Mr. Malinowski Elementary 🐽 Mr. Mitchell 🐽 Mrs. Johnson 🐽 Mx. Perfect 🐽 Officer Thorndyke 🐽 Mrs. McCarty Who will Kiss the Pig?🐷🐽

Yesterday HS students and staff participated in the Delay of Game Fundraiser for the HS student council. Students brought in loose change to their 4th hour teacher to "delay the game" aka stall class time from starting. The teacher counts all the change and when they are done, class can resume. If the teacher doesn't finish counting all the change during 4th hour, they had to wear a silly hat the rest of the school day!!! Students raised 217 dollars today!! Great job!!

Congratulations to our HOIC Art Winners and participants! We have 10 students attending the HOIC conference on Feb. 27th and you can see 5 of the students pieces at the Student Galleries at ISU. If you would like to look at the online gallery you can follow this link https://2026heartofillinoisartexhibition.artcall.org/ to the website to see all of the pieces submitted.
Congrats to Alex Kennedy for getting Best in Sculpture! Carly Chase, Nova Connell, Josephine Deuel, and Caitlan Ritter won Honorable mentions for their pieces! (HOIC awards only award a best in category and then the HM's are given to students who would have won 2-4th).

Withe 6 minutes left, the Mustangs lead Lexington 34-28.

Tonight's "Stampede" Student of the Night and winner of $75 is Carter Ludwig.

Congratulations to these 4 FFA Members who attended the Section 9 Proficiency Interviews last night. Not only did they do an in person interview with a panel of judges last night, they have spent the last year updating and tracking records on their SAE projects. We are proud of their hard work and dedication in their projects. Congratulations to Rylee Kukuck who won her area and will advance to districts in a few weeks!

Support the Ridgeview Landscape Design Class! We are making and selling candy arrangements for Valentine’s Day! They are $10 each and will be ready to pick up Wednesday, February 11th. Email czimmerman@ridgeview19.org to order before we are out! 🩷❤️🩷❤️

Students who need YQCA for showing livestock this summer!

The Ridgeview FFA is hosting a YQCA training on Wednesday, April 29th at 6:30 PM in the Ag Room!

Follow the link to sign up!

https://yqcaprogram.org/

Best of luck to the Lexington-Ridgeview Comp Cheer team today as they compete in the IHSA State Finals! They will perform at 9:40 am. The finals can be viewed on the NFHS Website, search IHSA, or can be seen in person at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

Those were the quickest 2 hours of our lives! They all made amazing work in that time. Our prompt was to create a trophy for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. It also had to be 3ft tall and could not include color. It had to be the color of cardboard.

The voting for the art throw down will be out somewhat soon. They said it could be an hour or it could be up tomorrow. I suggest if you go to vote to use a laptop to view the pieces it is much better quality, but you still can see on your phones and vote there as well. You can also see all of the cardboard sculptures from all the schools that participated.

https://forms.gle/mabpFy5LxhBNvSZ38

Our teams both did very well and we had fun! Can't wait for next year's rounds of Art Throwdowns! #artthrowdown2026 #artconnected

The link for the Throwdown is here. Sorry They had to change the URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_C1xzRHTY

Congratulations to these 3 FFA Members who were recommended to receive their State FFA Degrees! Here are the names of the qualifying students and what their SAEs are on. ⭐️ Chay Fisher- Peppered Pig 🐷 🐽 ⭐️ Rylee Kukuck- Lifeguarding 🛟🌊 ⭐️ Courtney Wesson- Central Illinois Candle Company 🕯️ Each of these students met various requirements including having an ag related SAE project, participating in FFA events, leadership roles, 25 hours of community service, completing an interview and various other requirements! We are so proud of all of their hard work to reach this achievement!

The Ridgeview junior high and high school winter guard teams competed for the first time ever this weekend! The junior high team walked away with first in their division and the high school team placed second in theirs. We also had 2 seniors performing solos, Arlo Wallis and Nova Connell! We are so proud to have such hard working kids in this program!

Congrats to the Lexington-Ridgeview Comp Cheer team on winning the Sectional today. They will compete next weekend at State! More details will be shared during the week! Great job athletes and coaches!

Don't forget tomorrow night is the FFA Pork Chop Drive Thru Meal! Dinner will be served from 4:30 to 6 pm or while supplies last! We will be serving inside the Ag Shop but, if you dont want to come in, drive thru the bus lane and we will bring it right to your car! Also, Ag Madness Raffle Tickets will be available. Have the chance to win up to $1,000. Tickets are $20 each.

The last two days these 10 Greenhand FFA members attended the FFA Ground Zero Conference in Springfield. Students took a personal growth journey by exploring outer space! We had a full day of sessions yesterday, had dinner at Texas Roadhouse, explored at Scheels, and ended the night with other FFA members. They are in their final session preparing to put to work the things they have learned to start up their FFA Careers!

This week our FFA chapter hosted the Section 9 Public Speaking contest. We had 4 students compete in this contest as well! Max Mason & Chay Fisher competed in Varsity Extemporaneous where they drew a topic out of a bag and then had 30 minutes to prepare a speech to present to a panel of judges. Ethan Neuhaus & Eli Burmaster competed in Creed Speaking where they recited the 5 paragraph FFA Creed and then answered questions. Also, Thank you to all of our chapter members and alumni members who attended to help run the contest!

Dear Families,
As we look ahead to the end of the week, I want to inform you we are closely monitoring the extreme cold temperatures forecasted for this Friday.

The safety of our students and staff is always our primary concern. At this time, no decision has been made regarding a change to our school schedule.

We plan to communicate a final decision as early as possible to give you adequate time to prepare. In the event that we are unable to hold in-person classes on Friday, it is highly likely that we will transition to an e-learning day.

Any updates or changes will be shared through our standard communication channels, including our automated calling system, text alerts, email, and the district website.

Thank you for your continued support of Ridgeview Schools!

Mr. Young

For those wanting to view The Midday Madness games tomorrow they can be streamed on the NFHS Network or on Rt. 24 Radio with play by play. Girls start at 10:45 am followed by the Boys. If you do attend the games please know that the lower levels will be reserved for the student sections. Please enter the building using the hs main entry or the glass hallway doors. Please do not try to enter using the elementary school doors. Ben Tracy will open the day at 9:15 am speaking to both students and staffs!