The Board of Education meetings are now video streamed on the web at http://www.sayrevillek12.net/BoardReports.aspx.

Our student technology projects are now online!! Click on the following website to get access to their projects. Ms. De Santis' Blog. Please leave a comment for our students.

During the month of February Emma Arleth Elementary School collected $1791.19 in spare change for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society School and Youth program. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patrient services. Ms. Garnett's class, MA-2, brought in the highest amount of spare change followed by Ms. Watter's 2nd Grade class. A job well done by all!

Arleth School had some special visitors during the month of April! Mayor Kennedy O'Brein and Superintendent Dr. Frank Alfano, along with Principal Timothy Byrne stopped to visit Mr.s Comerford's 3rd Grade class. Mayor O'Brein sopke to the children about community issues and asked the children if there was anything he could do for them. The children discusses the problem of geese at their fields and playgrounds. Mayor O'Brein challenged the students to come up with some ways to prevent the geese from gathering at these sites.

Congratulations to Sayreville War memorial High School Junior Nicholas Szamretz who was accepted into the NJ Governor's School of Engineering and Technology. Nick was one of the 52 students chosen to attend out of a pool of 325 applicants. You make us all very proud, Nick!

As we wrap the year and students head towards kindergarten, we would like to take this opportunity to recognize the hard work and efforts of the Project Before staff. Expressions of gratitude have come from parents of students who are moving on to the elementary schools. The District wishes to thank them for nurturing the growth and development of language, social and readiness skills that have successfully launched students into both general education kindergarten as well as programs that will continue to meet their needs. A big thank you to Project Before staff!

The Sayreville Elementary Schools just keep giving back and we are so proud of them. The Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services (MCFOODS) has offered their thanks and congratulations to our students for their amazing contributionto their 2009 School Food Drive. This year's total of approximately 57 tons of food was collected from 164 participating schools throughout the county. Arleth Elementary, out of 164 schools placed 7th in the amount of food collected and Samsel Upper Elementary placed 9th! That is truly amazing accomplishment especially when compared to the much larger schools that participated. All of our elementary had amazing responses and can hold their head high for their contribution to feeding the hungry. The collections totals were: Arleth -2,000 lbs.; Eisenhower- 900 lbs.; Truman - 950 lbs. & $100 gift card; Wilson - 550 lbs. and Samsel Upper - 1,900 lbs. Thank you to the Sayreville students and their families!

Congratulations to Dennis Weaver , Sophomore at the Sayreville War Memorial High School for being accepted into the National Youth Leadership Forum. Dennis was nominated by one of his teachers, Peter J. Gibbs , and will be attending the National Security Division at the Forum.

We are proud to announce that both the Samsel Upper Elementary School and teh Sayreville Middle School recently received national recogntion by the Character Education Partnership (CEP) as schools selected for their unique and effective character reform effort. On May 19, 2009, Doreen Consulmagno, Chacter Education Coordinator at the middle school and Linda Smith, Character Education Coordinator at the Upper Elementary School, received notification that our schools had received the 2009 National School of Character Promising Practice Award. The Practicing Practice Award is a distinguished award that is presented to presented to schools across North America that excel at creating effective ways to help students give back to their schools and communities while reaising academic expectations and achievement, decreasing bullying, increasing tolerance and solving conflicts peacefully. In commemoration of this award, the Chacter Education Partnership will honor Samsel Upper Elementary Schools and the Sayreville Middle School at the 16th Annual National Forum on Charater Education, Citizens of Character-the-Foundation of Democracy on October 29-31, outside of Washington, DC. In addition, both schools will be also featured in CEP's Annual National Schools of Character publication and on the CEP's website.