Roanoke Avenue Elementary School

Students, teachers, staff and parents got together for the second annual Roanoke Rockin' Run this morning.

Students in the Riverhead Central School District Peacemakers Club received a “United for Kindness” award from PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center May 22.

Second-grade students at Roanoke Avenue Elementary School put on a poetry jam for family and friends May 17.

Roanoke Avenue Elementary students designed more than 500 Valentine's Day cards for veterans of the 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton Beach.

It's not always easy to get elementary students to do writing assignments but when you wrap them up in fun, you can add in lifelong lessons on kindness, acceptance and compassion, too. That's what happened Thursday morning in Roanoke Avenue school's cafeteria.

Local veterans visited third-grade students at Roanoke Avenue School to give them some firsthand lessons about being in the military.

With music, laughter and a burst of multi-color madness at the end, Roanoke Avenue Elementary School held its first Roanoke Rockin’ Run last Saturday at the downtown elementary school.

As the auditorium filled with jubilant chants of “Pie! Pie! Pie!” Roanoke Avenue Elementary School principal Thomas Payton took his seat center stage to take his lumps for "losing" his annual Reading Week challenge.

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.

Second-graders in Roanoke Avenue school shared some holiday cheer with children at Stony Brook Children's Hospital by collecting gifts and donating them to the young patients.