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We strongly believe that school can be a safe and nurturing environment for all.  One of our goals is to continue to create a caring community at our school where everyone feels safe and has a sense of belonging.  To facilitate this effort we are continuing our implementation of a state endorsed school wide safety program called Bully Proofing Your School.

This program will be most effective when the parental community, the administration, the staff, and the students all have a shared belief that kindness and a respect for each other is of great value in our school and contributes to a positive environment for better academic performance.  With the Bully Proofing Program bullying and aggressive behaviors do not have a place at our school and will not be tolerated.

The Bully Proofing Program consists of six lessons that will be taught during September for Grades 1-8 and September and October for Kindergarten. There will also be follow-up lessons on the early dismissal days.

Parent Information & Lessons:

Introduction Letter to our Bully Proofing Program (PDF)
Lesson One: Recognizing Bullying and Normal Conflict (PDF)
Lesson Two: Recognizing Aggressive, Passive, & Assertive Behavior (PDF)
Lesson Three: Using “I” Messages (PDF)
Lesson Four: Telling or Tattling (PDF)
Lesson Five: Bystander Strategies (PDF)
Lesson Six: Conflict Resolution Steps: The Win-Win Guidelines (PDF)

These topics will be reinforced and addressed throughout the school year.  Letters posted on our district web site to further explain the topics taught and discussed at the school.  Each school will present information regarding the program and law at their scheduled Back to School Night.  Further information is located on the District’s website.

Thank you for your support with this endeavor.  Your commitment to this program is important in promoting a safe and positive academic environment.

Roland Rogers’ School Level Anti-Bullying Specialist:
Ms. Butterhof: 748-1250, x. 2029
ButterhofC @ gtps.k12.nj.us

CLICK HERE for More Information
and for the Six Step HIB Lesson Plans

Roland Rogers’ Wall Combats Bullying
In the beginning of the year, every student signs a pledge to be bully free. That pledge is posted on the wall for the duration of the school year.

Read the Article from the Galloway Patch.

 Traffic in and around school zones can create significant hazards for children and teens, as well as crossing guards, school officials, and volunteers. Parents often unknowingly create traffic hazards as they drop off or pick up their children from school. 

To ensure everyone’s safety, be sure to do the following: 

• Please review and always follow your school’s student drop off plan.
•  Drop your child off on the school side of the street, next to the curb. 
• Follow instructions provided by school crossing guards.
•  Slow down and comply with the posted speed limit not only in school zones, but where children are walking or biking along the road.
•  Resist the urge to “drop off and dash.” Pull out slowly and look not only ahead, but alongside and behind your vehicle for pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, and buses. 
• Eliminate all distractions‐‐particularly cell phones and other electronic devices that reduce your ability to react quickly in driving situations involving young children and their spontaneous actions. 
• Teach your child to look all ways before crossing and to cross only in crosswalks or at corners.  
• Make sure that everyone in your vehicle is properly restrained in the appropriate child safety seat or booster seat or seat belt. New Jersey law requires all children under 8 years of age or who weigh less than 80 pounds to ride in a properly installed car or booster seat. All children between 8 and 18 years of age and all adults must wear a seat belt.

Visit Galloway Township Public Schools District Page about“Safe Routes to Our School”  http://www.gtps.k12.nj.us/SRTS/SRTS.htm

April is the Month of the Military Child so each year Ms. Dougherty has a luncheon for them in thrid grade.   She hopes to expand for all children next year.

Month of the Military Child gives the nation the opportunity to recognize the character, strength and sacrifices of America’s military children as well as the role they play in the armed forces community. Today, there are 1.7 million American children and youth under 18-years-old with a parent serving in the military and approximately 900,000 children and youth with one or both parents deployed multiple times

Extra, Extra, Read all about it!

Room C is in business. We are selling Philadelphia Soft Pretzels to grades 4, 5, and 6. The price is $1.  You will have to pre-order on the day of sale and we will deliver the hot and tasty pretzel to you at your homeroom’s designated time.

Our next sale will be Friday, April 15th.

Any questions please feel free to stop by and ask.

Well I would like to say Thank you for the wonderful response we had for our first sale of pretzels.  Our students were floating on cloud 9 afterwards. 

Mrs. Jourdan and
Mr. Martin

***All monies raised will be donated to the American Cancer Society. 

The mark, American Cancer Society is a registered trademark of the American Cancer Society, Inc.

It was a great day of culture, fun, food, fashion, music and art at Roland Rogers’ Multicultural Day on Friday, March 11th.

 

 

What a great day it was! 
Diversity – Cultures – Ethnicity were
celebrated and appreciated through the day in various educationalways! We had 212 visitors! 

Multi-Cultural Day 2nd Grade

Multi-Cultural Day 4th Grade

Photos by Ms. Olson

Mr. Conte, Mr. Dunn, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Martin and Mr. Palumbo going BALD to help raise funds for Childhood Cancer Research. (Click on the small X when Ads pop up to close them)

 This years participants are Mr. Brain Dunn, Mr. Sean McCarthy, Mr. Joe Conte, Mr. Joe Palumbo and Mr. Dave Martin. 

Come Celebrate the Love of Reading with Your Children

Read Across America

Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program created by NEA, National Education Association, that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss.

The Purpose of Read Across America

Motivating children to read is an important factor in student achievement and creating lifelong successful readers. Research has shown that children who are motivated and spend more time reading do better in school.

Parents are invited into the school to read to their child’s class.  They can contact their child’s teacher.

Read Across America Photos  1st & 6th Grade Students  (Set 1 of 2) 

Read Across America Photos  1st & 6th Grade Students  (Set 2 of 2) 

2011 Roland Rogers Spelling Bee

Who: 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Students
When:  Friday, February 25th at 9:30 am

 Homeroom spelling bees will be held during the week of February 7th.  The top three students from each homeroom will compete in the school-wide spelling bee on February 25th.

 The winner of the school-wide spelling bee will represent Roland Rogers at the regional bee on March 12, 2011 at Stockton College.

2010 Roland Rogers Spelling Bee

Ebose Eigbe, fourth grade, represented Roland Rogers at the Tri-County Spelling Bee.  Fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classrooms held bees to determine their three top spellers.  They then advanced to the school bee in which the thirty-nine best spellers competed.  Ebose won the school bee spelling the word “photosynthesis”.

Ebose advanced all the way to the seventh round of the Tri-County Spelling Bee, easily spelling words like “latitudinarian” and “gazpacho”.  We would like to congratulate Ebose on his accomplishments!  Ebose faced forty-five other spelling champions from schools in Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties which competed in the Tri-County Spelling Bee at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Galloway Township.   

The annual event is open to students through grade eight in all schools and homeschooled students in the three counties. Schools host their own local bees to choose a winner to participate in the larger bee. The winner of the bee, which is sponsored by The Press of Atlantic City, will go on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 31 through June 5 in Washington D.C. This year, ABC will televise the finals of the competition June 4.

Click on the Photos below from  The Press of Atlantic City

Ebose at the Spelling Bee        Roland Rogers Cheering Section