📣We’ve got some super fun events coming up at RLE to kick off the school year! 📣 Join us for another Popsicles on the Playground, a Kickball Game, our Backpack Bash & School Supplies Drive, and of course, Meet the Teacher Night! 📚🎒⚽️🍧 Check out the flyer for all the details—we can’t wait to see you there! 🩵🚀💛 @billgattus@RichardsonISD
Thank you SO much to the Richardson Rotary Club for honoring Diana Larsen and I today as district teachers of the year and for the generous check! Such an honor! 😊 @AVIDwithLarsen@Rotary@rotary5810
Field Day 2025 at Richland Elementary was a sun-soaked, slime-filled, scooter-scooting SUCCESS! ☀️🍧🏃♂️🎈 From popsicles on the playground to parachutes, pinball, buddy stations, ocean tag, 800m races, bubbles galore, and sensory slime time — we did it ALL! We wrapped it up with our epic 2nd annual 6th Grade vs. Staff outdoor basketball game! 🏀
Huge shoutout to Coach Adkins and Coach Hopson for planning an unforgettable day of smiles, teamwork, and memories. Y’all crushed it! 🙌👏 Huge thank you to all of the amazing parent volunteers as well!! 🚀 @billgattus@RichardsonISD
Third grade crushed the Give-A-Thon and earned the ultimate reward: pieing Mr. Gattus in the face! After the whipped cream flew, they celebrated with a popsicle party! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed—your support made this sweet (and slightly messy) victory possible! 🥧 @billgattus
Tonight, our very own RLE music teacher, Dylan Kirk, was named the 2024-2025 RISD Elementary Teacher of the Year and will represent RISD in the State Teacher of the Year competition!
From teaching music and producing Broadway-esque musicals, to coaching our Rockettes dance and cheer team, serving on the PTA board, and representing as a RLE Insider, Mr. Kirk does it all, and he does it with excellence!
Congratulations, Dylan! You’re officially part of RISD history, and we couldn’t be prouder of you!⭐️👑🚀
– Mr. Gattus @billgattus@RichardsonISD@IamBranum@RISD_Foundation@dylanlkirk
Still in complete shock and SO incredibly honored to be named RISD’s 2025 Elementary Teacher of the Year alongside the RISD Secondary TOY @AVIDwithLarsen !!!! So so happy, greatful, and blessed to be in @RichardsonISD! Thank you @RISD_Foundation for an amazing night! @billgattus
Our 24-25 Rockettes cheer team is absolutely killing it this year! 2 practices down and we have learned stomp chants, cheers, and the beginning of our dance! Uniforms are on the way and we are so excited to perform for everyone in December!! Go Rockets!! 💛🚀📣🩵 @RLErockets1
📣Attention!!📣 If you are an RLE 4-6th grader and you are interested in cheering on the Richland Rockets this school year, this will be the last week to turn in your parent permission slip to join the cheer squad! Please see Mr. Kirk if you need an extra permission slip!🚀📣
Our 23-24 RLE Rockettes team of 28 performance last night for our school-wide polar express event!! They look so good and they definitely put on a show!! 🤩❄️📣🩵🚀💛 @RLErockets1
✨Huge shoutout to @NBCDFW for featuring our latest book fair at @RLERockettes on the #SomethingGood segment!✨
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Our shirts are in and we LOVEEEE them SO much!!!! So excited to wear them at our next game!! 🤩📣🚀 Thank you so much to @IamBranum for donating the shirts to us! We love you BIG!! 💙💛💙💛
ROCKETS! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT TO DO…YOU’VE GOT TO ROCK WITH THE GOLD AND ROLLLL WITH THE BLUE!!!! 🤩💛🚀📣💙
Our squad is so ready to cheer on our RLE Basketball team on Friday for their first home game!!! GO ROCKETS!! 🏀