Riverhead Middle School
600 Harrison Avenue
Riverhead, NY 11901
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Andrea Pekar, Principal
Ph. 631.369.6759
andrea.pekar@riverhead.net

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RMS News
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RMS Students of the Month Program
A monthly student recognition program for academic excellence, citizenship and improvement.


2010-11 School Year
Highlights of the news at RMS as it happens TODAY'S NEWS
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RMS 2010-11 Awards at Graduation
Awards: Scholarship Winners / President's Volunteer Service Awards / CAP Awards

Honor Roll
1st Quarter - High Honor Roll/ Honor Roll
2nd Quarter - High Honor Roll/ Honor Roll
3rd Quarter - High Honor Roll/ Honor Roll

RMS '10-'11 Students of the Month
RMS Students of the Month Program

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RMS Counselor Judy Arnone Recognized by Board of Ed. During Guidance Counselor Week

RCSD Musicians to Attend All-County SCMEA Music Festival

RMS Middle Masques' "Alice in Wonderland" is a Big Hit!

Long Island String Festival and NY Honors Band Honorees

Riverhead Middle School Anti-Bullying Workshops and Video

RMS College Awareness Week - College Knowledge

RSCD Students Chosen to Participate in HMEA Festival

RMS Cheerleaders Win 1st PLACE at Competition

RMS Latinists Win at Latin Declamatio Competition

RMS Environmental Club is Dedicated to Environmen

2009-10 School Year


Archive for 2009-10

2008-09 School Year

Eighth Grade Vision Boards

Another end-of-the year program that dominates the main bulletin board in June is entitled "8th Grade Vision Boards," and was initiated by RMS guidance counselor Judy Arnone. Each of the 8th graders made their own "vision board" as a way of guiding and shaping their future choices. It's very visual and has a lasting and important impact on these young middle school students, who will be faced with many difficult choices as they head into high school. A text entitled The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life by Joyce Schwarz (Author) guides this creative effort. >See Slideshow

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Comes to the Middle School

CharlieBucket(April 3, 2009 - Riverhead, NY) The Riverhead Middle School proudly presented its very first spring musical production, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” The event featured unique special effects, a beautiful and talented Willy Wonka, and an endearing and very talented Charlie Bucket. Each of the show's "golden ticket winners" (and their families) gave enthusiastic and convincing performances in their chuckle producing performances. "More, More, More", sang out Steven Keller as Augustus Gloop in the show, and I think the audience overwhelmingly agreed, "We'd like to see more shows like this one at the Middle School." >More / Slideshow

Suffolk County Latin Certamen
RMSlatin(March 31, 2009) The annual Suffolk County Latin Certamen was held on Monday, March 30, at SUNY-Stony Brook. Fifteen schools (e.g., Commack, Garden City, Huntington, Jericho, Kings Park, McGann/Mercy, Port Jefferson, Port Washington, Stony Brook School, Syosset, Ward Melville, Westhampton Beach, etc.) from Suffolk and Nassau County districts participated in the day’s academic competition.

At the Middle School level, Riverhead teams took both second and third place. At the High School level, Riverhead Level 3 teams took first and third place, and the RHS advanced students took third place. Of the total twelve awards given at all levels, Riverhead students took five, more than any other participating school. >More

RMS Roman Banquet

Roman BanquetThe Riverhead Middle School Cafetorium annually goes through a metamorphosis into a spectacle of Roman splendor Achillesas the seventh and eighth grade Latinists host the annual Roman Banquet. The Riverhead Latin program continues to enjoy an era of popularity and high enrollments, the annual Roman Banquet, which is always a highlight of the year, was bigger and better than ever. >More / Slideshow

RMS LATINISTS

Declamatiosm(November 2008) Riverhead Latinists traveled to Stony Brook University for the Suffolk County Classics Society’s 6th Annual Declamatio, an academic contest for which students memorize and then dramatically recite (or “declaim,” hence the Latin word “Declamatio”) a passage from Latin literature (ancient or modern) to a panel of judges. The Riverhead Latinists maintained their winning record by taking 10 out of a possible 13 places while competing against nine other schools from Long Island (which included Half Hollow Hills, Commack, Mercy High School, Three Village, Port Jefferson, Westhampton Beach, etc.). In the first five years of the Declamatio, Riverhead has established itself as the Latin program to beat. >MORE

Middle School Journalism Link
Check out the stories on the Middle School's online journalism link. >More

“Youth Contest for World AIDS Day”
Ms. Lindenbaum’s Health class at the Middle School participated in this year’s “Youth Contest for World AIDS Day” sponsored by the United Way. Jennifer Culp from the HIV Health Services Planning Council wrote, “We were so impressed with all of the submissions!  Your class had two winners: Danielle Harsch and Lendiz Alvarado.  Both will be receiving $25 gift cards to Target or Walmart.”

Holiday Mail for Heroes
Holiday Mail for Heroes was a partnership between the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes to deliver one million holiday cards to American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world. >More

Chris Malanga's Technology Class Featured on Business Week's Websiteeggcar
The Middle School was part of a consortium of ten LI schools which received an $11.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant, referred to as MSTP (Math, Science and Technology Program) was designed to assist math teachers in the consortium by arming them with the most current and effective teaching methods and materials available in an effort to make math and its relationship to science and technology more meaningful and exciting to middle level students.

This was a five-year grant, which just ran out, that was designed to spill over into science and technology. The idea was to engage in projects that called for merging curriculum areas and that resulted in a final physical product (like the egg crash cars) utilizing the technology, science and math curriculum the students had been studying in their classes.

Someone in the consortium group had a contact at BusinessWeek and shared what Mr. Malanga was doing in Riverhead. BusinessWeek then sent out a representative to cover the story. (Someone from BusinessWeek may also be returning to do a video of Mr. Malanga's "room decorating" project later this year.) The article that ran on the BusinessWeek website is copied and linked. >More

DiRMSvotestrict's Schools Participate in the Democratic Process
RMS Social Studies teacher Richard Hewkin conducted a Mock Vote at RMS during their lunch hour. With patriotic tunes playing, students lined up to sign in at desks according to the first initial of their last names and then stepped behind the voting booths to fill out their ballots. The National Results were: Obama 318 / McCain 143 / Other 31. >More

Increasing English Skills One Scene at a Time
videocameraStudents (in Marisa Medina's ESL classes at the Pulaski Street School and in Monique Sturm's English as a Second Language classes at the Riverhead Middle School) are improving their English speaking skills one scene at a time through a special grant-supported movie-making program that employs the title “Finding their voice through multimedia learning.” >More


2007-08 School Year

Annual Roman Baquet Offers Food and Fun

(March 2008) The Riverhead Middle School Cafetorium annually goes through a metamorphosis into a spectacle of Roman splendor as the seventh and eighth grade Latinists host the annual Roman Banquet. With the Riverhead Latin program currently enjoying an era of unprecedented popularity and high enrollments, the annual Roman Banquet, which is always a highlight of the year, was bigger and better than ever.
>More



RMS Poets and Their Poetry
(March 2008) RMS poets who had their poetry chosen for publication in the 2007 Creative Communications Poetry Journal are featured with their poetry in this special link. They are all 7th graders in Mrs. Benze's English class.
Go to the link (below) and click on the poet's face to read their poem.

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RMS Takes ALL Three Places in Declamatio
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(November 2007) At the FIFTH ANNUAL SUFFOLK COUNTY LATIN DECLAMATIO, a competition in which students dramatically present from memory passages of Latin literature, the Riverhead Latin Program again won the greatest share of victory. Twelve schools from Suffolk and Nassau County participated; three awards were presented in each of three divisions: Middle School, High School Pre-Regents, High School Advanced. Of the nine total awards, Riverhead Latinists captured six!
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Scenes on the Peconic
(October 2007) Riverhead High School's band debuted Carl Strommen's original composition "Scenes from the Peconic" last spring, and this fall Riverhead Middle School’s Science/Environmental Club took advantage of the beautiful fall weather to take an educational canoe trip down the Peconic to see "Scenes on the Peconic" for themselves.
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RMS Journalism Link
Articles produced by middle school students in Journalism Club.

RMS News Archive
Highlights of the news at RMS:
2004-06 and 2006-07.


All of the News in the District
A chronological overview of the news in the District as it happens.

District News Archive
A chronological overview of the news from 2002-2006.

RMS News Archive
Highlights of the news at RMS:
2004-06 / 2006-07 and 2007-08.


All of the News in the District
A chronological overview of the news in the District as it happens.

District News Archive
A chronological overview of the news from 2002-2008.