 | | |  | RSS Students Shine in National French Contest
5/14/2010
We are proud to announce that six Rodeph Sholom School students are National French Contest winners this year. After preparing in class, students took an hour long exam which involved both a listening and written section and tested their knowledge of French grammar and culture. RSS seventh and eighth grade students placed seventh, fifth, third, second, and a remarkable first in the contest. The students will be invited to attend a prize ceremony in June at Le Lycée Français.
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 | RSS Fourth Graders Give an Outstanding Performance in Midrash Hour X:"Sholom"
4/30/2010
Congratulation to our fourth graders on their outstanding performance in Midrash Hour X: "Shalom" on Wednesday, April 28th. Midrash Hour X: Sholom was a wonderful combination of music, acting, singing, and dancing as the students told a series of stories based on the history of "Jewish Conflicts." A group of unruly Rodeph Sholom students arrived at school to find a mysterious and magical new teacher who made extra pages full of new Jewish stories appear at the end of their Jewish Studies books. Noting their disbelief, she assigned the students the enormous task of discovering the key to peace, and their adventure began.
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 | Mensches in the Making
3/25/2010
After school on a normal day, we might find Zachary Mankowitz taking a break by building Legos or playing electronic games. Like many 6th graders, he likes math, science and Jewish Studies, but isn’t terribly crazy about homework.
But unlike most 6th graders, Zachary has a passion for raising money for the Arthritis Foundation. This will be Zachary’s third year leading a team in the Arthritis Walk. After receiving an award in 2008 for being the “Top Youth Walker”, he was named the 2010 “Community Hero” for the New York Chapter. He was a speaker at a recent event meeting where he spoke in front of 75 adults and appears in a public service announcement airing on WABC-TV. He has his own webpage to promote his team’s efforts – The “Walking Heroes”-- and accept donations for the Spring Arthritis Walk to be held on Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Click on the Read More link below to read more about Zachary's wonderful work for the Arthritis Foundation and watch a video of his Arthritis Walk Public Service Announcement!
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 | RSS 8th Graders Enjoy Success in the High School Placement Process
3/3/2010
One of the benefits of an N-8 education is that the 8th Grade students have a unique opportunity to be directly involved in the high school placement process. This process allows students to research and select the high schools that best fit their needs at the precise point in their lives when they will be attending the schools, rather than trying to identify an appropriate high school while in nursery or elementary school. At RSS we define success in the placement process from the perspective of the individual student: is he or she accepted into a range of high schools that best suits his or her abilities? Did he or she find a school where passions, strengths, and skills will be appreciated and given the opportunity to flourish?
Over the past several years many of the schools chosen by RSS graduates have been considered among the most selective independent and public high schools in NYC. And, by all measures, through this year’s placement process the members of the Class of 2010 have proudly extended the reputation of RSS as a premier, academic N-8 school, whose students are well prepared for high school. Now that these placement results are in, the attention is appropriately focused on each student choosing which high school he or she will attend.
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