This Week at Royal

Happy Sunday, Falcons!

The next week includes appreciation days for school nurses, who work diligently to make sure our Falcons are healthy!

Nurse Appreciation Week National School Nurse Day is May 12. School nurses play an integral role by bridging health and education to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social and emotion development, regardless of whether they are physically present in school or not. • School nurses champion the whole student every day of the year. Has a Royal ISD made a difference in your life? Share your story! Submissions may be sent to falconstrong@royal-isd.net, and will be shared on the district website and social media. Click here to view campus celebrations.

Mother's Day is Today! MOM! MOM! MOMMY! MAMA! This Mother's Day, make sure your mom knows just how much you love and appreciate her for being the glue that holds it all together. "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one can take." --Cardinal Mermillod

Don't forget to take a moment to say thank you to the moms and nurses in your life!

Have a great week!

Royal ISD

Please watch the 2021 Teacher Appreciation Week video compilation! Thank you to all of our RISD teachers for their commitment and caring for each and every Falcon student!

Have a great weekend!

(Credit to Katy Times for cover photo.)

Thank you to The Katy Times for their continued support of Royal ISD and its students. The paper covered the most recent Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting and reported on the needs at the half-century-old Royal Junior High campus. CLICK HERE to read the rest of the story.

If you live within Royal ISD and would like to attend future CAC meetings, please send an email to Christi Ginn at cginn@royal-isd.net. Please include your name and phone number with your request. (A request is required due to COVID restrictions and to ensure that all committee members receive communications regarding the meetings. All attendees should wear masks at each meeting.)

• Title I Parent Engagement Survey 2020-2021 (English)
  
• Title I Parent Engagement Survey 2020-2021 (Spanish)
  

*Please answer each question. Please only complete the survey one time even if you have multiple children attending Royal ISD.

Please join the City of Pattison and Waller County on May 22, 2021 for the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day. Please review the event flyer for important event guidelines (click here for Spanish).

• When: Saturday, May 22, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM (or until maximum capacity is reached)
• Where: Pattison Area Volunteer Fire Department, 2950 FM 359, Pattison, Texas 77423
• Who: Sponsored by Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC) and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

Important Details and Guidelines:

• English
• Spanish

Questions? Email Joe Garcia at joe.garcia@pattison.texas.gov

People who need aid covering the financial costs of funerals for loved ones who died of COVID-19 may be eligible for up to $9,000 in assistance from the federal relief legislation enacted in March. Under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, FEMA is providing financial assistance for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred after January 20, 2020. Please CLICK HERE to learn more and to apply. Visit Funeral Assistance FAQ for more information.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense grief for so many people,” Acting FEMA Administrator Bob Fenton said in a statement. “Although we cannot change what has happened, we affirm our commitment to help with funeral and burial expenses that many families did not anticipate.”

Be advised, FEMA already has received reports of scammers reaching out to individuals claiming to offer help to apply for this funeral assistance. If anyone contacts you about this program before you have personally registered for aid, it is a scam. FEMA will not contact people prior to registration.

• The Bookworm Bus
• The Hangar Unity Center

Smishing (text message phishing) continues to grow in popularity. Smishing attacks can be difficult to catch, especially because both legitimate and phishy text messages tend to use shortened URLs. A URL is the web address of a page. Typically, the URL shows you where a link will take you. For example, a URL like https://blog[dot]knowbe4[dot]com/why-should-we-care-about-personal-smishing-attacks will take you to a KnowBe4 blog post about personal smishing attacks.

Because text messages have character limits, including a full URL is not practical. Instead, URL shortening programs are used to create a redirect link. For example, this shortened URL https://bit[dot]ly/3gUpTk1 will redirect you to the blog post mentioned above—or will it? There is no way for you to know where that shortened URL will send you. Cybercriminals often use this technique to redirect you to a malicious website or to a download page for malware. Don’t be fooled!

Follow these tips to spot a potential Smishing attack:

• Think before you click. Were you expecting this message? When did you give this company your phone number? Did you sign up for text notifications?
• Be cautious of a sense of urgency. The bad guys often use words like “urgent” or “ATTENTION” to try and trick you into impulsively clicking a malicious link.
• If you think the text message could be legitimate, try typing the shortened URL into a URL expander tool, such as GetLinkInfo or ExpandURL. These tools will reveal where the shortened URL will direct you, without taking you to the redirected site.

• May 6 - 12: Nurse Appreciation Week
• JROTC Awards Ceremony, 9:30 AM, RHS Cafeteria
  
• Houston Food Bank at Royal High School PAC Entrance, 4-6 PM
  
• Regular School Board Meeting, 6:30 - 9:30 PM, Zoom Link. Agenda.

• STAAR 3rd - 5th Grade Math Online Administration – All Day
• Community Advisory Committee Meeting, STEM Academy. Send an email to cginn@royal-isd.net to join the committee.

• National School Nurse Day
  
• STAAR 5th Grade Science Online Administration

• STAAR:MATH Grades 3-7/SOCIAL STUDIES Grade 8

• STAAR: SCIENCE Grades 5th & 8th
• ECHS-LSC Virtual Commencement Ceremony, 6-7PM

• No scheduled events

• 2020-2021 Band Day and Award Ceremony, 12-3 PM at Falcon Stadium, 34499 Royal Road, Brookshire TX 77423

• No scheduled events

• May 18: STAAR 3rd - 5th Grade Reading Online Administration – All Day
  
• May 18: Royal High School Awards Night. If you are receiving one or more awards, you will get an invitation to attend the 2021 Awards Night. Invitations will be sent out during the week of May 3rd.
• May 19: STAAR- READING Grades 3-8
• May 19, 1PM: Falcon Parent Session. Title I District Event Flyer - English / Title I District Event Flyer - Spanish
• May 20: PK-5 Field Day
• May 20: Drive-Up STEM Night, 6-7 PM
• May 20, 6-7 PM: Senior Scholarship Night
• May 21, 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM: Food Truck Day/Swag Celebration
• May 21, 7-8:30 PM: End of Year Theatre Show; "The Hope and Heartache Diner" presented by Ms. Beall's theatre students.
• May 22: SkillsUSA Show, 10AM, John England CTE Building Exposition Center; click here for event flyer

• May 24: STEM Elementary Field Day
• May 24: Houston Food Bank at Royal High School PAC entrance, 4-6pm
• May 25: STEM Junior High Field Day
• May 25, 6-7 PM: RJH Awards Celebration
  
• May 26, 3:30-4:30 PM: STEM 5th Grade End-of Year-Tailgate and Ceremony
  
• May 26: STEM 2nd-7th Grade Awards Ceremonies, details TBD
• May 27: Last day of school!
• May 27, 9-10 AM: STEM 8th Grade Ceremony
• May 29, 12:00 PM: Prairie View A&M University, William J. Nicks Building (The Baby Dome), 100 University Drive, Prairie View, Texas 77446

Email: contactus@royal-isd.net
Website: http://www.royal-isd.net
Location: 3714 Farm to Market 359, Pattison, TX, USA
Phone: 281-934-2248
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Twitter: @royalisd

The Royal Independent School District (District) is an equal opportunity educational provider and employer does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or disability in educational programs or activities that it operates or in employment matters. The District is required by Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as Board policy not to discriminate in such a manner.