Spring Sports Updates. Please note the change in vol­ley­ball try­outs (6^th Graders will now try out Tues­day, March 17^th). Share out where appro­pri­ate. Thanks!

Spring Sports Update: Girls Vol­ley­ball, Boys Soc­cer & Co-Ed Track Start­ing in March!

Inter­scholas­tic Spring Sports kick off the third week of March! This sea­son, we’ll have Var­si­ty, Junior Var­si­ty, and JVC teams, and an in-house Club league for both Vol­ley­ball and Soc­cer. Track is a no-cut sport. Games and meets will start a cou­ple weeks into the spring sea­sons and run through ear­ly-June.

We encour­age all inter­est­ed stu­dents to try out—regardless of expe­ri­ence or skill lev­el. Stu­dents who iden­ti­fy as non-bina­ry are also wel­come to par­tic­i­pate in gen­dered sports. For sup­port in choos­ing a team, please con­nect with ath­let­ic coor­di­na­tors Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.

Impor­tant Require­ments

Before par­tic­i­pat­ing in school ath­let­ics:

• Final­Forms: Par­ents and stu­dents must com­plete and elec­tron­i­cal­ly sign all forms the online Final­Forms por­tal.
• Phys­i­cal Exam: Stu­dents must sub­mit a cur­rent pre-par­tic­i­pa­tion phys­i­cal (valid for two years).
  Phys­i­cals can be sched­uled before, dur­ing, or after school at the Neigh­bor­care Health Clin­ic at Eagle Staff.
• Health insur­ance: Stu­dent-ath­letes must have health insur­ance to play a sport. If not cov­ered by a parent/guardian’s insur­ance plan, insur­ance can be pur­chased through SPS — SPS Stu­dent Insur­ance Enroll­ment

Girls Vol­ley­ball

• • Try­outs:
    • 6^th Grade Stu­dents, Tues, Mar 17 – 4–6 PM, Some 6^th grade stu­dents may be called back for an addi­tion­al day
    • 7^th & 8^th Grade Stu­dents, Thurs, Mar 19 – 4–6 PM
    • 7^th & 8^th Grade Stu­dents, Fri, Mar 20 – 4–6 PM

• Prac­tice Sched­ule:
• Var­si­ty & JV: Mon, Thurs
• JVC: Tues, Fri
• JVC Club: Fri

• Games:
• Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Sat­ur­days start­ing in April
• In-House JVC Club: Fri­days start­ing in April

Boys Soc­cer

• Try­outs:
  • Thurs, Mar 19 – 4–6 PM
  • Fri, Mar 20 – 4–6 PM
• Prac­tice Sched­ule:
  • Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Tue, Fri
  • JVC Club: Mon
• Games:
  • Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Sat­ur­days start­ing in April
  • In-House JVC Club: Mon­days start­ing in April

Co-Ed Track

• Prac­tice Sched­ule:
  • Mon, Thurs start­ing March 23^rd
• Meets:
  • Sat­ur­days start­ing in May

Call­ing All Coach­es

We’re seek­ing:

• Vol­un­teer coach­es to sup­port all sports

If you’re pas­sion­ate about teach­ing fun­da­men­tals, moti­vat­ing stu­dent-ath­letes, and cre­at­ing a pos­i­tive, fun envi­ron­ment, please reach out to Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.

:

Var­si­ty Girls vs Eck­stein @ Lin­coln (2) 10:00AM

Var­si­ty Boys vs McClure @ Lin­coln (1) 8:30am

JV Girls vs Broad­view @Garfield (2) 1:00am

JV Boys vs Den­ny @ Garfield (1) 1:00pm

JVC Girls vs Hamil­ton @ Madi­son 1:00pm

JVC Boys TBD (Salmon Bay has sched­ul­ing con­flicts)

Spring Sports Update: Girls Vol­ley­ball, Boys Soc­cer & Co-Ed Track Start­ing in March!

Inter­scholas­tic Spring Sports kick off the third week of March! This sea­son, we’ll have Var­si­ty, Junior Var­si­ty, and JVC teams, and an in-house Club league for both Vol­ley­ball and Soc­cer. Track is a no-cut sport. Games and meets will start a cou­ple weeks into the spring sea­sons and run through ear­ly-June.

We encour­age all inter­est­ed stu­dents to try out—regardless of expe­ri­ence or skill lev­el. Stu­dents who iden­ti­fy as non-bina­ry are also wel­come to par­tic­i­pate in gen­dered sports. For sup­port in choos­ing a team, please con­nect with ath­let­ic coor­di­na­tors Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.

Spring Ulti­mate is a spring sport that start­ed in late Feb­ru­ary. If you have any ques­tions about spring ulti­mate please reach out to the coach­es at eaglestaffultimate@gmail.com.

Impor­tant Require­ments

Before par­tic­i­pat­ing in school ath­let­ics:

• Final­Forms: Par­ents and stu­dents must com­plete and elec­tron­i­cal­ly sign all forms the online Final­Forms por­tal.
• Phys­i­cal Exam: Stu­dents must sub­mit a cur­rent pre-par­tic­i­pa­tion phys­i­cal (valid for two years).
  Phys­i­cals can be sched­uled before, dur­ing, or after school at the Neigh­bor­care Health Clin­ic at Eagle Staff.
• Health insur­ance: Stu­dent-ath­letes must have health insur­ance to play a sport. If not cov­ered by a parent/guardian’s insur­ance plan, insur­ance can be pur­chased through SPS — SPS Stu­dent Insur­ance Enroll­ment

Girls Vol­ley­ball

• Try­outs:
  • Thurs, Mar 19 – 4–6 PM
  • Fri, Mar 20 – 4–6 PM
• Prac­tice Sched­ule:
  • Var­si­ty & JV: Mon, Thurs
  • JVC: Tues, Fri
  • JVC Club: Fri
• Games:
  • Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Sat­ur­days start­ing in April
  • In-House JVC Club: Fri­days start­ing in April

Boys Soc­cer

• Try­outs:
  • Thurs, Mar 19 – 4–6 PM
  • Fri, Mar 20 – 4–6 PM
• Prac­tice Sched­ule:
  • Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Tue, Fri
  • JVC Club: Mon
• Games:
  • Var­si­ty, JV & JVC Trav­el: Sat­ur­days start­ing in April
  • In-House JVC Club: Mon­days start­ing in April

Call­ing All Coach­es

We’re seek­ing:

• Stipend coach for Girls JVC Vol­ley­ball
• Vol­un­teer coach­es to sup­port all sports

If you’re pas­sion­ate about teach­ing fun­da­men­tals, moti­vat­ing stu­dent-ath­letes, and cre­at­ing a pos­i­tive, fun envi­ron­ment, please reach out to Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.

Announce­ment from Prin­ci­pal Stow­ell:

“Good after­noon, RESMS Fam­i­lies,

RESMS has been very for­tu­nate to receive fund­ing from the vot­er-approved City of Seat­tle Levy for the past six years. The 2025–26 school year will be the final year of this levy. While vot­ers have approved a new levy, the City of Seat­tle is cur­rent­ly in the eval­u­a­tion and plan­ning phase for the next roll­out. We expect to have a clear­er pic­ture of how these funds can be accessed by the end of June, with imple­men­ta­tion begin­ning in the 2026–27 school year.

At this time, RESMS has received our bud­get allo­ca­tion for next year, and it does not include levy fund­ing. As a result, we are plan­ning for the 2026–27 school year with an esti­mat­ed $615,000 fund­ing gap. Cur­rent­ly, levy funds sup­port cer­tifi­cat­ed teach­ers, coun­selors, men­tal health ther­a­pists, stu­dent and fam­i­ly advo­cate, a social work­er, tutors, sum­mer school, and addi­tion­al staff time for col­lab­o­ra­tion and pro­fes­sion­al learn­ing.

Com­pound­ing this chal­lenge, Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools is fac­ing an $80–100 mil­lion dis­trictwide deficit, and our build­ing allo­ca­tion has also been reduced.

As always, we will nav­i­gate these chal­lenges thought­ful­ly and respon­si­bly. That said, there will be some dif­fi­cult deci­sions ahead. Our high­est pri­or­i­ty is to make sound, data-dri­ven choic­es that min­i­mize the impact to the stu­dent Raven Expe­ri­ence. I ask for your trust as we take what we are hand­ed and move for­ward col­lec­tive­ly with inten­tion­al­i­ty, joy, and a con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to our upward momen­tum as a com­mu­ni­ty.

You may be won­der­ing, “How can I advo­cate? Who should I con­tact?” For now, I ask that you con­tin­ue sup­port­ing our school as you have been. If and when there are oppor­tu­ni­ties to ele­vate your voic­es with deci­sion-mak­ers, I will be sure to reach out.

Thank you, as always, for your con­tin­ued sup­port.

GO RAVENS!

Zac Stow­ell, Prin­ci­pal”

Louis Eaglestaff is host­ing a RESMS Super Bowl par­ty. He has super­vi­sion, but could always use a lit­tle more. This is to cre­ate a once in a life­time expe­ri­ence with friends. I got mine 10 years ago, so I want­ed to do this for my daugh­ter and all our stu­dents. We would like every­one to sign up so we have an idea on num­bers and how much piz­za to  get.

Dear RESMS Par­ents and Guardians,

I am a con­cerned com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber and par­ent of a stu­dent at RESMS. ICE has stepped up oper­a­tions in Seat­tle with North and South King Coun­ty being impact­ed the most by them. Abduc­tions have occurred along Auro­ra and just a few blocks from the school. A few of us par­ents have decid­ed to estab­lish an ICE Watch school patrol. This is a parent/community orga­nized and dri­ven vol­un­teer ini­tia­tive! It is not a Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools ini­tia­tive.

Par­ent and school com­mu­ni­ties have recent­ly estab­lished ICE Watch school patrols at oth­er schools with­in the dis­trict and there is a need for one at Eagle Staff.

The pur­pose of these ICE Watch school patrols is to imme­di­ate­ly doc­u­ment and report any sight­ings of ICE that are in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the school. If you have Rapid Response train­ing or are will­ing to attend a Rapid Response train­ing, please con­sid­er vol­un­teer­ing a cou­ple hours of time in the week to pro­vide eyes on the ground and alert sup­port for our RESMS stu­dents, staff, fam­i­lies, and com­mu­ni­ty. We are empha­siz­ing that this is the pri­ma­ry pur­pose of the ICE Watch school patrol and thus min­i­mal inter­ac­tions with stu­dents com­ing to and from RESMS is expect­ed to best ensure child safe­ty pro­to­cols are fol­lowed and to main­tain the focus on the pur­pose of the patrol. The aim is ensure our pres­ence is sup­port­ive, rather than dis­tract­ing.

To share your inter­est and avail­abil­i­ty for join­ing the RESMS vol­un­teer school patrol kind­ly com­plete the fol­low­ing sign up form: https://bit.ly/RESMSpatrol

Please send your ques­tions to resmsschoolpatrol@gmail.com.