Mennies School celebrated our 2nd marking period Magnet Club students with a special ice cream treat during lunch periods! Mrs. Weir personally hand-delivered ice cream to students who earned their spot in the club.
To make the Magnet Club, students must demonstrate good attendance, positive behavior, and strong academic performance. The ice cream treat is just one of the special ways we recognize our hardworking students.
We are so proud of our Magnet Club members and love honoring their dedication and success!
Taco ‘bout a delicious surprise!
Mennies students got a special treat during lunch on Monday — Mrs. Rosa in the cafeteria made walking tacos! Our 5th graders were the first to try them and gave them two thumbs up! 👍👍
Thank you, Mrs. Rosa, for bringing this tasty new menu item to our cafeteria. We can't wait to have them again!
Hello Kindergarten…Here we Come! Little Lamb P4s visited D’Ippolito School to learn all about Kindergarten. Students were able to tour the building in anticipation of entering kindergarten. Thank you to our tour guide, Melissa Sileo, for showing us around in preparation for kindergarten next year!
Students ended our Read Across America Week Two at Little Lamb by doing a “Drop Everything and Read”! Students and staff grabbed a book and read in our halls for 10 minutes together to share and promote the love of Literacy!
Students continued to celebrate Week 2 of Read Across America Week at Little Lamb Preschool! Special guest readers from our district staff, family members, retired teachers, and VPS graduate students came in to read for 10 minutes independently. Students ended the week's celebration with a D.E.A.R. time (Drop everything and Read) to end our RAA celebration of a love of literacy.
Sabira and Lexy from Ms. Miller's third-grade class at Mennies Elementary School were the first to earn enough tickets to have lunch with their teacher! Students earn tickets by demonstrating positive behavior, active participation, and strong academic performance — all while following our core character traits and Portrait of a Graduate competencies.
To earn a special lunch, students need 150 tickets — and since Sabira and Lexy were the first to reach this milestone, Ms. Miller let them pick a special treat! lunch!
Many Upcoming Events at Vineland Historical Society Museum
The public is invited to visit the museum and take part in a variety upcoming events.
The “Legacy in Brushstrokes” Exhibit and silent auction will conclude on March 29, following the Open House from 1-4 PM. This is the last opportunity to bid on paintings. The highest bid will take the painting home. Contact the museum for alternate visit times.
Art at the Museum will open its new display on April 12 with “Molded and Blown- A Journey through Glass, Pottery and Ceramics.” Once again, area artists are asked to donate one or more pieces for silent bidding. Proceeds will benefit the museum. Donations may be dropped off at the museum on April 3, 2025 from 9AM-4 PM.
The museum will also display pieces of its permanent collection.
A Titanic-themed Tea Party will be held on Sunday, April 6 from 1-4 PM. Special guest Alisa Dupuy will present at Eliza, a Titanic survivor. Donation is $25 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under. Advance registration is required. Spots are limited.
A “Poet-Tea” will be held on Wednesday, 4/23 at 6:00 PM. Area poets are invited to presents their works and sample teas. Contact the museum to present your works.
Sign up for the “Vineland Landmark Trolley Tour.” The trolley will pick up passengers at the Vineland Historical Museum and proceed to Siloam Cemetery. A tour of the cemetery with historic persons and evented will be presented. The trolley will then proceed to the” Palace of Depression,” for a tour of the palace, the palace museum and the oddities of its creator George Daynor. The trolley will then return to the VHAS Museum for a tour of the museum and a look at Vineland’s past. The rain date is April 27. Donation is $30.00 per person. Registration is required.
The Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society Museum is located at 108 South Seventh St., in Vineland. Visit discovervinelandhistory.org for a calendar of events and to register for events. Please call 856-691-1111 for questions and leave a detailed message. The Society Museum is a 501 c3 non-profit, non-governmental organization. It is funded by memberships, grants, donations, and bequests.
Three Veterans Memorial School students and their physical education teacher put Vineland Public School's vision of Portrait of a Graduate into practice by taking Responsibility when they tracked down the owner of several lost checks with significant monetary value.
VMS Eighth graders Yadier Alvarez Colon, Genesis Banderas, and Deena Margolin stumbled upon the checks and a bank deposit slip while participating in physical education class on the VMS football field on Friday, March 14.
"The wind was really blowing around, and we saw these papers on the field, and we first were laughing because we tried getting them, but the wind kept taking them further and further down the field," said Margolin.
The students caught up with the papers. "Once we picked them up, we thought they looked really important," said Banderas. "So, we ran to our teacher, Ms. S."
"These students showed amazing responsibility by acting with great integrity," said Mrs. Dawn Spickenreuther. "They all were so concerned about the person who lost the checks and wanted to go above and beyond to return them to the rightful owner."
Spickenreuther and her students, Alvarez-Colon, Banderas, and Margolin, turned into sleuths using clues on the checks and the deposit slip to contact Donna Tarabbio of Sandcastle Home Watch who said that the strong winds earlier that week blew the checks out of the window of her car and they were nowhere to be found. Although she immediately stopped payment on the checks, she was relieved when she received the phone call from Spickenreuther at the end of the week. Tarabbio commented on the integrity of all involved and how grateful she is for the students and their teacher.
"I would hug them all, but I know I can't," Tarabbio said. They are such great students, and they are so lucky to have such a nice teacher, too."
The students were so excited about being able to do a good deed for a community member that all three students, with administrative permission, called their parents from the AP's office to tell them of their act of being responsible citizens.
"I am just happy that we were able to find the person and return the checks to her," said Alvarez-Colon.
PLTW (Project Lead the Way) is an incredible hands-on program that fully immerses students in learning at all of Vineland’s middle schools. On the evening of March 11th, Pilla’s Air Skimmer event was made possible thanks to the Vineland Education Association’s PRIDE Grant! Families came together to design, build, and race air skimmers while enjoying a night of fun and pizza. The evening's champions—Luke Petrini, Lucas Ruberti, and their dads—set a new record in Ms. Morgan’s PLTW class with launches reaching nearly 80 feet! Who’s ready to take on the challenge and beat their score?
Vineland High School AFJROTC Cadet Van Osten, our Inspector General (IG), has earned his wings pin after completing five months of training and passing his exam—a first for our unit! Thanks to the Young Eagles program, which was introduced to AFJROTC last year, he received ground school training at no cost. He is now ready to move on to the next stage of obtaining his private pilot license. A great achievement worth celebrating!
In spite of the gloomy weather, a few members of the VHS S.H.A.P.E. Club participated in Cumberland County Improvement Authority's annual Trash Hunt. Students volunteered their time Saturday morning cleaning up the front of the school and a section of Chestnut Avenue.
Come out to Red Robin on Delsea Drive this Thursday, March 20, to support the Veterans Memorial School Safety Patrol. This fundraiser is active ALL DAY and the VMS Safety Patrol will receive 20% of food sales if you show the attached flyer or tell your server. More information is available on the flyer. All proceeds will go toward their trip to Washington, D.C. in May.
Students in Ms. Ecret's class at Wallace Middle School are reading Romeo and Juliet. After reading the famous balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet, her students were tasked with one of two projects. They could either create an Instagram post representing the conversation while citing lines from the play or create vows for Romeo and Juliet's wedding following Shakespeare's Sonnet Style of writing. These students did an AMAZING job and surpassed expectations! We are so proud of their hard work!
At Petway Elementary School, the 4th-grade students in Mrs. Scarpa and Mrs. Bond’s science classes had an exciting hands-on learning experience. As part of our study on animal anatomy, students worked in small groups to carefully examine and identify both the internal and external structures of an animal through a supervised “dissection” experiment. This lesson helped students understand how different body systems function and how the structures of an organism support their survival and growth. It was a great opportunity for discovery, learning, and teamwork. It was also a lot of fun!!
A special shout-out to the Petway Safety Patrol, who volunteered at the Vineland Soup Kitchen! Your hard work and kindness brought smiles to so many faces. They were responsible for making sandwiches and a holiday trail mix! They also packed 150 bagged lunches, with festive bags donated by Mrs. Nonnemacher’s 1st-grade class. Petway is so proud of your efforts and grateful for the positive impact you’ve made in our community. A huge thank you to the families of Petway that donated peanut butter, jelly, and bread to the kitchen for future meals. You truly make a difference!
Save the Date! Mark your calendars and save the date for the Vineland High School Marching Band car wash and yard sale. There will be opportunities to sign up in the coming days, so gather your yard sale goods and be ready to grab a spot! Proceeds will go to the Vineland High School Marching Band.
Join us for the All City Pops Concert this Thursday, March 20th, at 6:30 pm at the Vineland High School Asselta (South) Gym. The talented Vineland Public Schools music program students are excited to show their latest material! Come out and enjoy an evening of music and community.
On Friday, March 7, the Veterans Memorial School participated in a Staff Wellness Day. Staff rotated through stations of Chair Massage Therapy, Mindfulness Art Therapy, Tanita Scale, Blood Pressure Screening, Healthy Habits Made Simple Presentation, Participated in PickleBall and BasketBall, and enjoyed healthy snacks. This event was coordinated by Nurse Kelli Donnelly in cooperation with the administrative team of AtlantiCare through the Healthy School Grant.
Congratulations to the Veterans Memorial Students of the Month for February and Memorial's Giraffe Hero, James Owens IV!
February students:
Mary Frazier 6th
Sebastian Colon 6th
Sutuan Moore 6th
Kaiden Cook 7th
Alexis Garcia 7th
Nataly Rodriquez Santiago 7th
Isabel Lopez 8th
Edrian Morales Colon 8th
Steven Kohanksy 8th
For the month of March, Mennies School focuses on the character trait of Acceptance. Mrs. Lucienne Prato, basic skills teacher, visited Mrs. Myerson and Mrs. Hadley's first grade students to read the story "Bianca Teaches Acceptance", a book she authored. The story is about a group of students who learn an important lesson about including others and respecting other's differences. After reading the story, students partnered up to discuss and share their own personal strengths and weaknesses and what makes them unique and special. Students were very engaged in the book and follow up activity, and it was a valuable learning experience for all!
