This practice helps students to further develop insight into their emotions. In-the-moment teaching and problem solving also sets the School apart. This has been an exceptionally challenging week for our communities, our country, and for the world as we confront the reality of systemic racism that has been underscored by the killings of black Americans such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others.
We are humbled by the events of the past week, and by our shared understanding of the enormous problems that have persisted unaddressed for far too long.
Racism has no place in our society or in our world. We at Riverview pledge ourselves anew as allies in the fight against the senseless discrimination that pervades our society. We dedicate ourselves to working proactively against racism, and to helping foster the change that is needed to protect and cherish black lives. Diversity, equity and inclusion have always been central to the mission of Riverview School.
Our values are clear: To honor and respect all people and all differences. We have been actively working, alongside Riverview employees, to build a school-wide effort to ensure that we are consistently reviewing and improving our culture and community for everyone.
Our written commitment to diversity underlies everything we do. It reads: Riverview School is a community that values and celebrates diversity as essential to the experience of our students, staff and community.
We embrace and respect differences, including but not limited to: race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, cultural heritage, educational background, and of course learning styles.
As a community that reflects and prepares our students for the increasingly diverse world, Riverview supports and nurtures the whole child and their full identity. We know these are extraordinarily difficult times for our students and families, as the images of police brutality, protest and violence flood our television screens and social media feeds. It can seem overwhelming, especially because these events are occurring at a time when the coronavirus is preventing us from coming together as a community.
Please know that we are here for you. Riverview Advisors are available to support students and process the complex emotions they may be experiencing. Working together, we can emerge from these times a more unified and just society. With deep appreciation for our school community, for our values, and with the hope and desire for a better future, we ask that you please stand with us in calling for justice, peace and a brighter tomorrow.
We see, hear, smell, taste, and touch…then use the information our brains gather through our senses to live our lives and interpret feelings. Most of us have grown accustomed to this phenomenon without thinking much about how our senses inform our choices or how they help us to regulate our bodies and emotions.
For the many Riverview students who struggle with sensory processing disorder, it is not that simple. Students with sensory processing disorder have trouble receiving and responding to stimuli that comes through their senses. As a result, these students can be over responsive or under responsive to things in their environments. Certain sounds, textures, smells, and tastes make it difficult for some students to participate in seemingly routine activities and tasks of daily living.
While most of us take sensory integration for granted, Riverview Advisor T. Cedeno does not. He continually studies the latest developments in sensory processing and is skilled in helping our students to better understand their emotions.
When T. Wanting to make a difference, T. He presented extensive research on how he felt the cart could be utilized, as well as a plan for moving forward, and his initiative was approved. The sensory cart that T. Materials include tools that help students to regulate balance and space such as rockers and tension-release bands. Large liquid and sand timers visually engage students, pulling attention from distracting concerns.
Beanbags, which T. There are tools that interest, and in turn help, students with a wide variety of sensory needs as well as students seeking regulating strategies that are transferable to a life after Riverview. That was not the case. Students and staff eager to use the cart need only ask T. Teachers have requested access to the sensory cart for entire classes of students.
Advisors utilize the cart most often during individual meetings with their students. One middle school student has found the cart so helpful that they use it every day at around p.
This student particularly enjoys the vibrating tube which provides a soothing grounding sensation. He says that he feels supported by the Riverview community. So what does T. My ultimate goal is to create a large space dedicated to sensory training and mindfulness so that we can share and educate students on the benefits of being self-aware and purposeful in their thinking.
A larger space would mean bigger, better programming and material such as sensory-conscious seating, swings, and meditation groups that more students and staff could be involved in. Thank you for bringing your passion to our team and students. We are grateful for your expertise, and look forward to seeing what else you dream up. Executive Functioning Skills are directly taught and reinforced across academic, residential and community settings at Riverview School. This year, one of the focuses of the Language and Social Development Department was to better support our students in strengthening the underlying executive functioning needs that are critical for everyday activities.
In order to do this effectively, academic and residential staff participated in trainings to ensure that we are intentional with our approaches and consistent with our language. In a short amount of time, we have been able to accomplish so many exciting things! At Riverview, we strive to empower our students with the skills they will need to be more independent in the world.
This important work will bring them one step closer to achieving this independence. Riverview School's Academic Department is excited to announce the launch of integrated social emotional learning and wellness programming:. Research shows that getting heart rates up in the morning is beneficial for learning and we are collecting data on this pilot program to qualify the benefits. Lessons provide relevant knowledge about eating healthy and the importance of physical activity.
Building upon established curriculum, and developed by our Wellness Coordinator, the aim of these courses is to ensure students incorporate wellness into their everyday lives.
Students learn how to integrate fitness, mindfulness, and nutrition into their daily routines. At Riverview, we continually strive to incorporate the latest research to empower our students with skills to be more independent in the world. Two Sandwich based organizations are working together to provide opportunities for Cape residents at the beginning and toward the end of their lives. Read full story HERE. This is an exciting and dynamic time at Riverview as we begin to embark on our strategic planning process.
This talk certainly resonates with our focus on Wellness. Grogan, the Students Having Opportunities for Recreation and Employment SHORE teacher, said that plans were in the works last year to form a team, but couldn't be completed in time for the spring season. This year, after extensive meetings with Special Olympics of Massachusetts, Monomoy administrators and athletic director Karen Guillemette, everything was ready to go. But first it was time to train.
Project Adventure was founded in by educators who wanted to bring the tenets of Outward Bound into an educational setting. The teachers began inventing cooperative games and developing team-building initiatives to motivate their community of learners to achieve both academic and social growth through challenging adventure activities and focused reflection. Riverview School is proud to announce that it has recently invested in the program!
That is an important life skill. Project Adventure supports the social and emotional learning practices that John describes. By creating safe and engaging adventure learning environments, students learn about goal setting, decision making, managing emotions, and engaging in social relationships. If a student is not ready to try that, a special insert is added; modifying the challenge to allow participants to walk on the 3 inch wide flat edge of the tubing instead.
Students hold a hand line, which is attached to the gym wall to circumnavigate the triangle while being spotted by other group members. Student, Reid K. It was hard for me to listen to them his teammates before because I knew how I wanted to do it.
But after listening I realized that they had some good ideas too. So every day for two weeks, she was a spotter. Then, after seeing how everyone else was approaching the activity and learning from their mistakes and successes, she decided that she wanted to give it a try, and she did great!
So well in fact, that they just launched 5-week spring program for high school students. He said that a lot of trust building is taking place, and that teamwork and cooperation skills have taken off. Way to go John! We look forward to many adventures with you over the next several years. Congratulations Team!! Therefore all teaching at Riverview is presented via a thematic, integrated curriculum.
Literature, writing, history, the arts, and field trips are all connected to a central theme. For example, a picture of a bird was a clue for students that a bird call would signal it was time to escape.
Riverview teacher Kirsten Miller says that she loves teaching Hands-on History. She even involved her history-buff father in one of the lessons. During the Holocaust, when students escaped from Nazi Germany, her father played a lederhosen-clad immigration agent in Switzerland, welcoming students and stamping their passports.
The only way to make it real is to live it. Hands-on history puts kids into the historical event. Mary Beth agrees. Some students love to take on the bigger roles, but everyone participates to the best of their ability and to their leaning level. Many students remember Hands-on History fondly after graduation. Right up there with events like prom, graduation and all the fun of dorm life and activities, alumni often bring up Hands-on History as one of the things they loved most about their days at Riverview.
The mission of the Barbarians Youth Rugby club is fairly simple: We aim to introduce the great sport of rugby to as many kids as possible. Rugby is a culture as much as it is a sport - an inclusive culture where players of all shapes, backgrounds, races, sexes and abilities can not only play the sport, but excel at it. We are proud to have brought that culture to our club and we work hard to ensure that all of our teammates participate and have fun.
Which is why, when one of our coaches suggested we hold a clinic at Riverview School in Sandwich, MA, our coaches and players all jumped at the chance. Riverview is a private school for students, aged , with complex language, learning and cognitive challenges. It is a very special place that gives students an environment and the support to learn both academics and life skills, gain independence, express themselves and participate in our society as active citizens.
These are kids that may not be given the same opportunities as typical kids their age because people underestimate their abilities. We ran a number of fun drills to give the students, most of which have never seen a rugby ball, a feel for our sport. They quickly mastered the basic concepts: passing the ball, passing the ball while running, running into space and avoiding opposing players. We even had them run relay races while performing complex ball handling how many of you can run while threading a rugby ball though your legs?
They handled everything we threw at them with big smiles and I think we spotted a few budding rugby stars. It was truly remarkable to see kids, many who are naturally shy, coming out to play with a bunch of strangers who refer to themselves as Barbarians! We are very proud of our club. All of you named at the bottom of this post have given the Riverview students an experience they will never forget and we truly believe that you have helped give those kids a little more confidence to try new things.
Everyone had a ton of fun and we have already been asked to find a time to come back. At the end of every practice session we always ask our young Barbarians to tell us what they liked about practice. We asked the same question at Riverview. If you don't see your class's yearbook here, scroll down and check out your individual class year. The names listed below are alumni who have been searched for on this site from Riverview High Schoolin Sarasota, Florida.
If you see your name among the Riverview High School graduates, someone is looking for you! Register to let other graduates of Riverview High School find and contact you. We realize that a Riverview High School year book may be hard to find so registering to complete your school's Virtual Yearbook may be the next best thing to finding Riverview High School yearbooks.
The list of names is also useful for getting together a Riverview High School reunion if you don't have a complete list of the students from your graduating class of Riverview High School. Riverview High School Alumni. Powered by. Search for Your High School. Home Find Alumni. Police say they were investigating the death as a probable suicide. Shake off your afternoon slump with the oft-shared and offbeat news of the day, hand-brewed by our online news editors.
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