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Archive for August, 2009

China meets Boise

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Riverstone welcomed one of its new international students last in Friday. Bingje will be in Grade 9 this year and arrived with our Chinese agent Wanyu (Violet) Sun.

Violet will be sending the weekend visiting Boise and the Riverstone.

Bingje with her new host family

Andrew Derry

Tags: Boise, IB, international, school, Students
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The fall sports season is underway already at Riverstone this week. On Monday, volleyball was the sport of the day and during the rest of the week, the soccer teams will be in action. Welcome back everyone!

The girls

Andrew Derry

Tags: Athletics, Boise, IB, school
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Riverstone sets the academic standard!

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Riverstone received its ACT summary results earlier this week.

We are delighted to announce that yet again, the results demonstrate Riverstone’s commitment to academic excellence.

Percentage of students ready for College-Level work:

English Comprehension

State: 72% National: 67% Riverstone: 100%

Math

State: 45% National: 42% Riverstone: 100%

Social Science

State: 60% National: 53% Riverstone: 100%

Biology

State: 30% National: 28% Riverstone: 100%

Student meeting all benchmarks

State: 24% National: 23% Riverstone: 100%

These results come in addition to the world class IB results and our 25th place national ranking based on college level courses.

Andrew Derry

Tags: Boise, IB, school
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Riverstone team in training

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

A few members of the Riverstone cycling team for the Sawtooth Challnge were out training on Tuesday. Back to back ascents of Bogus Basin at 6am. Going up was warm enough, but coming down was very chilly!

If you fancy joining us for the event in October: a 150 mile ride that ends in Sun Valley, just let us know. The more the merrier (and it all goes to a good cause)

Alex and Jim on the 1st ascent

Tags: Boise, Cycling, IB, school
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New Teachers arrive!

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Two of Riverstone’s new international teachers arrived in Boise this week.

Lauren Bastion, new grade 1 teacher arrived from Brisbane, Australia. Anke Voigt, PE and Health teacher arrived from Hanoi, Vietnam.

Both Lauren and Anke have found apartments close to the greenbelt and school and are in the process of getting settled in.

We wish both of them every happiness and success at Riverstone.

Andrew Derry

Tags: Boise, IB, school, teachers
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Stains….decisions, decisions…..

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Testing the new stains for the concrete on the new building. Fingers crossed!

Testing the new staining process

Andrew Derry

Tags: Boise, Building, Elementary, IB, new, school
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Dance Success for Juliana

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Last weekend, the International Grand Ballroom (IGB) dance competition took place in San Francisco with competitors flying in from all across the USA, Canada and Europe.

Riverstone graduate, Juliana Myhre representing Dance Necessities, Boise, danced away with a host of honors.

Juliana Myhre, dancing with Jessie Villalobos:

3rd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Smooth Multidance Championship.

2nd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Rhythm Multidance Championship.

5th place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Latin Multidance Championship.

Semi-finalists in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Standard Scholarship.

2nd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Smooth Scholarship.

1 of the Top 20 World Pro/Am DanceSport Series overall students at the competition all weekend.

Congratulations to Juliana and Jessie!