Roosevelt School concluded its annual Holiday Drive last week and it was a tremendous success! Special thanks to all of our Roosevelt students, parents, and guardians for helping us all to realize that the true meaning of the Holidays is to “GIVE”, and GIVE you all did. Because of you, there will be people out there whose Holidays just turned around in a big way. Special thanks to the Shirley Thompson Christmas crew for, as always, helping us to make it all happen. Have a terrific Holiday Season everyone!!
The South Plainfield School District is offering FREE breakfast to our students! Please click "view image" for more details.
Roosevelt's Teddy Bear Day on Monday, October 28th.
Red Ribbon Week - Next Week!
The expected closure for road work at the Traditions Complex has been cancelled. Regular bus pick-up and drop-off will proceed as usual at the New Durham Road entrance until October 10th. Thank you for your understanding.
Please be advised, the Traditions Complex will be performing road work within the complex Monday, October 7th, Tuesday, October 8th, and Wednesday, October 9th. All transportation students will be picked up and dropped off at the entrance of the complex on New Durham Road. Please arrive to the bus stop at your regularly scheduled bus pickup time. All students will be dropped off in the afternoon at the same bus stop, the entrance of the complex on New Durham Road. The South Plainfield School busses will not be allowed to drive into the complex until Thursday, October 10th. Thank you for your understanding.
Please be advised, the Traditions Complex will be performing road work within the complex Monday, October 7th, Tuesday, October 8th, and Wednesday, October 9th. All transportation students will be picked up and dropped off at the entrance of the complex on New Durham Road. Please arrive to the bus stop at your regularly scheduled bus pickup time. All students will be dropped off in the afternoon at the same bus stop, the entrance of the complex on New Durham Road. The South Plainfield School busses will not be allowed to drive into the complex until Thursday, October 10th. Thank you for your understanding.
The Roosevelt kindergarten kick-off orientation will take place on Tuesday, August 27, at 6pm! See you then!
Get a head start on the summer and check out the summer reading program at the South Plainfield Public Library!
https://www.spboe.org/o/sphs/page/summer-reading
"Roosevelt School’s Day of Service was in full effect this year as our students were busy, busy, busy! The Day of Service for our students consisted of cleaning up our parks (Pony Tail and Memorial Park), Rock Painting as part of the front of school beautification project, delivering lunches to the nurses at St. Peter’s Children’s Hospital, decorating and delivering freshly potted flowers to our Roosevelt School community neighbors, and beautifying our school grounds by pulling weeds, planting flowers and decorated rocks and laying fresh mulch to make it pop! As if this weren’t enough, our biggest event took place in the afternoon: The Color Run! This FUN fundraiser raised over $3200 dollars! This along with our earlier fundraisers, brings our grand total of fundraising for the Day of Service to be $5,863 dollars! This will be split in half ($2931.50 each) to our two fundraiser recipients: The Ronald McDonald House and South Plainfield Social Services! Our students definitely learned that Doing Good really does make you FEEL GREAT!!!" - Mr. Fierra
On May 11th, 2024 students from Franklin, Roosevelt, Grant, and South Plainfield Middle School participated in the CJMEA Honors Chorus Festival. The choral students of our district shined and had a wonderful experience rehearsing and performing under two very esteemed conductors. It was a day full of growth for all involved and we are excited to have them bring back their knowledge to our choral ensembles in the district. Thank you to Ms. Vex, Ms. Blair, Ms. Maddolin, and Mrs. Haughwout for your time with the students involved in this program.
Congratulations to the following students:
Franklin School -
Gianna Kerr,
Avalyn Perez,
Sophia Morales,
Elizabeth Veliz.
Roosevelt School-
Abigail Madsen,
Aaliya Talwadker,
Sreeja Banerjee,
Mia Grazia,
Navyasree Nallamada,
Jeel Patel,
Dhanvi Shah.
Grant School-
Jake Butrico,
Mikayla Scala,
Sofia Vega,
Faith Kurilew,
Gabrielle Dickerson,
Faith Gati,
Faith Pereira,
Joshua Osuebi,
Eliana Van Winkle,
Kayleann Ruiz,
David Lapinksi,
Jayden Brown,
Shaan Ganapathy,
Madelyn Loomis.
South Plainfield Middle School-
Angelina Ronzo (not in attendance),
Addison Kurzawa,
Juliana Rusoniello,
Elaina Competello,
Santiago Matias,
Nathanial Busch (not in attendance),
Carter Paterson,
Annie Flannery,
Jayla May,
Sophia Gray,
Molly Van Wyk,
Abigayle Weber (not in attendance).
The Day of Service is this Friday! Check out this commercial Roosevelt School put together highlighting all the amazing things we are doing for the event!
https://youtu.be/_vOebHZU4Tk?si=feDHlpeH64swxSNC
Congratulations to Mrs. Haughwout and Roosevelt school students Navyasree Nadamalla, Aaliyah Talwadker, Anaya Singh, and Sreeja Banerjee on their fantastic CJMEA Elementary Honors Orchestra performance. The concert was amazing! Great Job!
"Friday, May 3rd, marked an important date at Roosevelt School: Lunch Lady Appreciation Day! Roosevelt students sang songs, recited poetry, wrote letters, made cards, drew pictures, and finally presented our two amazing lunch ladies with Lunch Lady aprons signed by all of our students. Ms. Antoinetta and Ms. Dana play a very important role in our school and in the lives of our students. We couldn’t go a day without them!" - Mr. Fierra
Roosevelt students were front and center increasing our cultural awareness during our much-hyped Diversity Day. They certainly lived up to the hype and did not disappoint as you will see by watching the video.
https://youtu.be/w_6TI_ISOYQ?si=zGj875_11yjJuTLH
March is a busy month here at Roosevelt School! We opened the month with the Harlem Wizards, and the following Monday (March 4th) we hosted one of our most special events of the year: Roosevelt’s Read Across America Day! It was awesome! Rather than you read about it here, why not just see for yourself! - Mr. Fierra
https://youtu.be/AIkl4CFTRjY?si=AeDOGS24cWoYXGG-
On February 29, 2024, the Roosevelt Elementary School Student Council hosted a living wax museum in honor of Black History Month. The council members, led by advisors Ms. Hyun and Ms. Gwiazda, researched important figures in African American history and retold their stories to their classmates throughout the day. You can watch a video recap of the event here:
https://youtu.be/Znk7ao_cULk
Congratulations to today's Tiger Bucks winners at Roosevelt School! Great job everyone!
The “Play was the Thing” at Roosevelt School during our 3rd Annual Theater Week celebration. Over 150 students participated in this year’s show, which was a huge hit for student audiences (the show ran as an assembly during the day), as well as for parents and families (the show ran in the evening to a capacity crowd)! Talent!
Love was in the air on February 14th at Roosevelt School! Our Roosevelt students celebrated Valentine’s Day with delicious ice cream sundaes and plenty of fun games courtesy of our Roosevelt PTO and fantastic class moms!