Kennedy Elementary School

Congratulations to our Kennedy School Tiger Buck Pull winners. Keep up the great work this December!

We are excited to showcase Kennedy's November Students of the Month. These outstanding students were chosen by their teachers for exemplifying the November Character Trait, Gratitude. Join us in being grateful for these exceptional students!

We are excited to showcase Kennedy's October Students of the Month. These outstanding students were chosen by their teachers for exemplifying the October Character Trait, Respect. Join us again in congratulating these exceptionally respectful students!

Congratulations to our first Kennedy School Tiger Buck Pull winners for November. We cannot be more proud of you! Keep up the great work!

Yesterday morning, Kennedy School was honored to host our community's veterans in honor of their service and sacrifice with a Veteran's Day Assembly. Thank you to all of the veterans, their families, our district SROs and Board of Education Member, Mr. Sesselberg who were able to join us for this very special day.

We want to express our sincere gratitude again to the South Plainfield Police Resource Officers for visiting Kennedy School and sharing valuable safety information with our students. Their presentation on bike, Halloween and Internet & social media safety was informative and engaging. We appreciate their dedication to keeping our community safe. Thank you Officer Petriello, Officer Louise, and Officer Marte for your time with us yesterday!

Through magic tricks and humor, Michael Kirschner and his Abracabully Assembly, provided our Kennedy students with a valuable lesson about respect for others and kindness.

Congratulations to our October Tiger Buck winners for being kind and caring Kennedy School students. We cannot be more proud of you! Keep up the great work!

We are excited to introduce our new Safety Patrol team for the 2025-2026 Kennedy school year! These responsible and dedicated students have stepped up to serve our school community. Let’s all offer them our congratulations and support as they fulfill their very important duties.

Congratulations to our first Tiger Buck winners of the 2025-26 school year for being outstanding Kennedy School students. We cannot be more proud of you! Here's to a great October!

We are excited to showcase Kennedy's September Students of the Month. These outstanding students were chosen by their teachers for exemplifying the September Character Trait, Responsibility. Join us again in congratulating these wonderfully responsible students!

Join us for Kennedy School's Open House for all students. This includes all our new Kindergarten students on Wednesday August 27, 2025, beginning promptly at 9am and ending at 11am. Students will be able to visit their classroom and begin the sometimes-difficult transition into the school environment. Students also will be able to drop off supplies in their classrooms to lighten their backpacks on the first day.

Congratulations to our Kennedy School Noetic Math Contest participants! The Noetic Learning Math Contest is a national problem-solving competition designed to challenge and inspire young mathematicians in grades 2–8. We are incredibly proud of the 44 students from our 3rd and 4th grade classes who took on this challenge with determination and enthusiasm. Your hard work, perseverance, and love for learning are something to be celebrated. Well done, Kennedy--you make us proud!

Girl Scout Troop 65008 is building Kennedy a little library and wants us to read more over the summer! Meet up with them at the South Plainfield Public Library and sign up for the Summer Reading Program and your Kennedy child will receive a Red Robin coupon for a free kids meal! The girls will be there on: June 23rd from 11am-12pm June 25th from 3-4pm June 28th from 10-11am June 29th from 1-2pm

Congratulation to our Tiger Tails Leaders for a successful year of events and activities in partnership with the Kennedy kindergarten students. You all did a great job! Keep up the great leadership next year.

Congratulations to June's Tiger Buck winners for being outstanding Kennedy School students. We cannot be more proud of you!

We are excited to showcase Kennedy's May Students of the Month. These outstanding students were chosen by their teachers for exemplifying the May Character Trait, Perseverance. Join us again in congratulating these wonderful students!

In conjunction with Neurofibromitosis (NF1) Awareness Month, on May 21st, Kennedy School had a walk to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Kennedy chose to support this foundation in honor of one of its students, Nora Klimchak. Nora is a first grader at Kennedy School. She was diagnosed with NF1 and has a large brain tumor pushing on her hypothalamus and optic nerve causing her eyesight in her right eye to deteriorate. In an effort to keep the tumor stable and save her eye site, Nora has been receiving chemotherapy every Tuesday at CHOP. Since there is no cure for NF1 Kennedy wanted to help fund the research to one day find a cure. Thank you to Mrs. Klimchak, Mrs. Thornton, Mrs. McNamee and Mrs. Berardocco for planning such a wonderful event. We wouldn’t let the wet weather dampen our spirits. Kennedy’s caring community raised over $1700 for this amazing cause! Thank you to everyone that supported this event.

Ring the Alarm for Kennedy Elementary School!!! Kennedy School started a shoe drive after noting how we all were concerned for the victims affected by the recent natural disasters in our country (recent California wildfires, North Carolina storm, Nebraska, New Mexico, Florida, and Texas) - and wanted to do something to help. As a result, we started the Soles4Souls (S4S) Shoe Drive to donate shoes to be a part of the positive change in this world. The project initially started in January of this year (2025) and was supposed to run for a month. However, mid-February, Mrs. Dupiche was reassigned to another building, but the students, staff, and parents continued to donate more and more shoes, so we decided to ride it out until April! And to our surprise, we collected a total of 229 pairs of shoes of all sorts! The Kennedy School Family displayed extraordinary efforts, support, and commitment in this shoe drive. It is an amazing testament to the power of unity, compassion, and purpose! What began as a one-month initiative quickly grew into something far greater than we ever expected. Kennedy School is a beautiful example of what we can accomplish when we put our hearts and minds together for a common good. There is power in serving with actions and truth, not just words. We are so grateful for the success of this project. Even those community members who didn’t get a chance to donate participated by spreading the word and cheering us on. We teach our students to be upstanders and make good choices. I believe the students at Kennedy School understand the power in being change agents in this world, and that simple acts of giving can leave a lasting and positive impact on someone’s life. Their actions reflected selflessness and a spirit of service. Please see the link below to view the News 12 NJ report: https://newjersey.news12.com/jersey-proud-south-plainfield-students-collect-shoes-for-those-in-need