Riley Avenue Elementary School

Riverhead Central School District welcomed new and returning students back to school Wednesday. 

There's a makerspace in each of Riverhead's seven school buildings now — workshop-like environments where students tinker, create, invent and build things, developing skills in STEM fields.

Riley Avenue students held the school's first-ever Thanksgiving Parade Nov. 25, marching through the halls with colorful balloons modeled after the giant balloons in the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving Day.

Photos: Riley Avenue Elementary School celebrated autumn with a fun family festival last Friday afternoon.

Some Riley Avenue School students participated in 'Leadership Day' activities demonstrating skills they had acquired through the pilot program initiative, such as public speaking, eye contact and data tracking.

Students at Riley Avenue, Roanake and Phillips Avenue Schools took part in the Great Kindness Challange, a weeklong event geared toward teaching them how to show kindness to friends, family and others.

Riley Avenue library/media specialist Amelia Estevez-Creedon was awarded a $500 grant. The money will go towards supporting the school library's social studies initiatives.

Riley Avenue Elementary School hosted a two-week Parents as Reading Partners program March 7-18. Activities during the program included a night of robotics, a...

Students poured apple juice from silver teapots and practiced basic rules of etiquette with one anther: not chewing with their mouths open, taking just a few items on their plates at a time and waiting for everyone else to get their food before beginning to eat.

Buddy Benches are meant to provide a safe space for students who are feeling lonely or bullied, and they are being installed in schools across the North Fork.