Another veteran law enforcement officer has been hired as the new school resource officer at Belmont Elementary.
Roanoke Rapids Graded School District trustees this evening took action on two items related to school safety.
Two elementary schools in Halifax County received school supplies today and two more will get items soon following a donation drive by the sheriff’s office.
Angel’s Closet is already slated to help 800 children this Christmas and a donation of 400 stuffed animals from Belmont Elementary School will aid in the effort.
An anonymous donation of more than $2,000 will wipe clean the slates of students at Manning and Belmont schools who have outstanding lunch balances due.
Some took to it quickly. Others had to be coaxed and one still has to be convinced there is nothing to fear.
Parents who have children in the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District will have access to their child’s attendance, grades, progress reports, and school announcements through the district’s new PowerSchool Parent Portal starting next week.
Members of the 2016 graduating class of Roanoke Rapids High School got an early practice run on their commencement march Wednesday.
Gabrielle Aquino, a 10-year-old fifth-grade student at Belmont Elementary School won the state poster contest expressing her views of What’s Super About Public Schools.