Another great turnout for our annual Student Council and LEAD sponsored charity volleyball game! This might be our best food collection for St. Andrew’s Food Bank, very proud of our students!!
Students and Staff share what they’re thankful for!
Building bridges (7th grade) and cars (6th grade) in WRMS Engineering
WRMS students with their Pen Pal letters from students in France!
7th grade singers performed their concert with the Bergen County Chorus at Bergenfield High School on Sunday
Check out WRMS Weekly Update! https://www.smore.com/e4akj-wrms-weekly-update
Please join us for a parent program, Coping with the United States of Anxiety on 12/11 at 7PM at Brookside. Dr. Sileo, a psychologist and the Founder of The Center for Psychological Enhancement in Ridgewood, NJ will speak about the mental health wellness of our students.
Do you know the dangers of vaping? Our 6th grade health students are learning about how similar the risks are to those of a typical cigarette and how to cut through the false advertising.
The Helping Hands Club’s candy drive collected 112.2 pounds of Halloween candy to be donated to Tomorrow’s Children’s Fund at Hackensack Hospital. Amazing job from both the club and all of our students and staff who donated!
Grade 6 Coding students are learning to build mazes as they create their video game project with Ms. Chernati. Hopefully we don’t reach the “Game Over” screen too quickly!
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7th grade students with Mrs. Schama, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs Donellen’s classes had the opportunity to take samples of their own cheek cells and view them under the microscope. Next they compared their cheek cells (animal cells) to Elodea (plant cells).
More great costumes, this time group fun!
Lots of fun and creative costumes today for Halloween and Spirit week!
Mrs. McGovern’s 6th grade math students are celebrating Halloween creating artistic dodecahedrons and tessellations.
Congrats to Washington, George and the Middle School for their Safe Routes to Schools Gold Level recognitions and Dr. Gonzalez for his Champion of Change award.
Our students never cease to amaze! Inspired by Mr. Halligan, Vanessa connected the Day of the Dead with last week’s Ryan’s Story presentation, creating this display in honor of bullying victims. So proud of her and impressed by the depths of her empathy!
Mr. Castellini and Mrs. Zalarick’s 6th grade Science students are beginning their unit on space with a rocketry and thrust lab. What variables will impact how far their balloon rockets can go??
Thank you to Mrs. Dominiczak and our Geography & Environmental Club students for their efforts in earning a BCUA Environmental Awareness Grant to improve our recycling efforts!
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Another great Fall Festival on a beautiful afternoon! Thank you so much to the PSO and parent volunteers who worked so hard to pull it off at an alternative location this year. The kids had a fantastic time!
Welcome back Mrs. Carroll! We’re happy to have our former math teacher and supervisor step out of retirement to fill in for Mr. Ziegler!
Powerful presentation from Mr. Halligan today. His message of forgiveness, asking for help, being an upstander, and apologizing resonated! Always remember, “You are loved beyond belief.” We hope to see many parents at tonight’s program at WRHS. #ryansstory
Congratulations to Adriana, Edward and Andre on being selected for Bergen County Choir!
Thank you to Mrs. Penn for training and to so many of our teachers for volunteering to be Epi Pen and Glucagon Delegates for our students!
Our budding 7th grade artists draw inspiration from a prior artist study for their own mini-canvases. Beautiful, detailed work!
Ms. Chernati and her Robotics 7 class in action! They are working collaboratively to code their robots using EV3 bricks.
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Mrs. Cardenas’ 6th Grade Spanish students collaborate in different teams to review numbers via Quizlet. Love the mixture of fun and learning!
Today we began our Digital Citizenship lessons. Team 6B students reflected on balancing their digital lives, including conversations about screen time and citizenship.
Congratulations to Veda and Dylan, our September Students of the Month!
Guidance Counselors are delivering lessons to all students today and tomorrow on empathy and anti-bullying for the Week of Respect. Remember, acting with empathy can start a chain reaction of kindness!!
We hope you are enjoying our new app! For those of you with an iPhone, the iOS 13 update is now available. Visit the App Store to download it today https://apple.co/2Ix8ZVO
Congratulations to our 19-20 Student Council Officers! Great effort by all with creative and persuasive speeches!!
Continued progress on the Middle School Expansion. Steel is up. Roof is up. Walls are going up. Check out the video for an insider's view.
https://youtu.be/4Yooh4OVXE0
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Don't forget to join us this evening for our Helping Parents be Successful Partners Program at 7:00 PM!
Students in Mr. Hackbarth and Mr. Penn’s class are mastering an understanding of the traits and progression of early humans through the creation of Hominin trading cards!
Lots of action with the MS expansion today!!
Great turnout for the club and activity fair today. Love seeing so many students interested in getting involved!!
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Can you crack the code? Students in Coding start the day with a challenge!
The signed steel beam is in its final resting place in the new gymnasium of the Middle School expansion.
Picture day tomorrow! Don't forget to purchase your package online or to send your student in with their form. See our weekly update for more information.
Class Meetings yesterday and today. We covered a lot of important topics, including general procedures, school safety, and bullying. Looking forward to a great year!
Engineering students were asked to build a castle with a deck of cards. They were "frustrated" and found it difficult. Good thing they then learned about the Design Loop of research, brainstorm, and collaborate to solve a problem!
We are loving our new app! Access sports
scores, cafeteria menus, news updates, and even
emergency notifications, right from your pocket.
Download the app on Android: http://bit.ly/2IxQxfB or
iPhone: https://apple.co/2Ix8ZVO.
Awesome morning of learning the expectations and positively reinforcing students with high fives, capped off with our first weekly drawing of the year! More to come this afternoon!
First day of school and already our students are collaborating and thinking critically and creatively!
6th grade is off to a great start with our in-school orientation! They’re learning schedules, get lockers and planners organized, learning about daily procedures, and more!
In time for the start of the school year, we’re thrilled to announce Westwood Regional School District‘s new app! It’s Everything Westwood Regional, in your pocket. Download the app on Android:
http://bit.ly/2IxQxfB or iPhone: https://apple.co/2Ix8ZVO.
Follow the link for our first newsletter of the year. Looking forward to Thursday with our students! https://www.smore.com/wmx29
Please review the notifications from PSE&G regarding roadwork that may impact drop-off and pick-up. Westwood: https://tinyurl.com/y5wpgy6g Washington: https://tinyurl.com/y3flobbg
Please click on the link to view the notification from WWPD regarding drop-off and pick-up at WRMS: https://tinyurl.com/y4uhm3xp
Great to have students back in the building today! Locker setup is always fun, but the beam signing was a great way to memorialize our fingerprint on the new school!
The steel is on site and being erected at the Middle School. You can really see it starting to take form now!
The Middle School building will be closed for construction until Monday, August 26th. Please reach out via email if you need anything. Our locker setup for the 27th is on as scheduled!
Progress on the Middle School expansion continues. Demolition, concrete, steel, and excavation is on-going. Check out the progress in our online album.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kg7HHT4SiA3gtvKo6
The End-of-Year edition of the Cardinal Connection is now available. Check it out at https://sites.google.com/wwrsd.org/cardinal-connections/cardinal-connection/summer-2019
COMING SOON! As part of our on-going efforts to keep you connected, Westwood Regional School District will be releasing its own app available on Android and iOS devices in the coming months. More details to come.
Registration is still open for our Summer Enrichment Program - LEAD with STEAM! Check out the online information portal at
https://sites.google.com/wwrsd.org/leadwithsteam2019/home
More scenes from the 2019 WRSD Wellness Event. See you next year!
Great WRSD Wellness event! Thanks to all who came out to unplug, unwind, and spend quality time having fun with family and friends.
The 1st Annual WRSD Wellness Fair is off and running. Come out to the Jr/Sr High School and enjoy a beautiful evening out with the family!
The May edition of the Cardinal Connection is now available. Check it out at https://sites.google.com/wwrsd.org/cardinal-connections/cardinal-connection/may-2019
Our WRSD Wellness Fair is ready to go - Fri., June 1 @ 6 PM @ the Sports complex located @ the Jr/Sr High School. Visit our community health and wellness resources from 6 - 7 pm & then join in fun activities sponsored by our elementary, middle and high schools from 7 - 8 pm.
Art Show + Science Fair = 2019 STEAM Expo
Congratulations to our 2019 Bergen County Teacher / Education Specialist Recognition Honorees. #CardinalPride
May 29 - 30: Grade 6-12 STEAM Expo open to the entire school community. Come check out how WRSD embraces Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics!
Congratulations to Washington, Jessie F. George, and the Middle School for their 2019 Gold Level Recognition under the NJ Safe Routes to Schools Program (NJSRTS) joining Berkeley and Brookside who were Gold Level recipients in 2017.
Coming soon - SUMMER 2019: New website and App for Westwood Regional District and Schools. Stay tuned for more.
