Student Life

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From soccer games to food drives, co- curricular activities are an important part of student life at JCDSRI. We encourage our students to express their personalities and interests through their co- curricular experiences.

The After School Program offers several clubs such as Book Buddies, Woodworking, and Knitting.

Community Service is integrated throughout the grades. For Thanksgiving, the students collect tzedakah for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. At Hanukkah, Grade two performs for the residents of Tamarisk Assisted Living. Because of our successful participation in their Good Deeds Program, we are a Feinstein Leader School. Read our Feinstein Newsletter.

We are implementing the nationally recognized, award winning social curriculum, The Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program developed by Maurice Elias Ph.D. (Professor, Rutgers University) and John F. Clubby Ph.D. (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School). This program uses research validated skill building methods to promote good citizenship through teaching children the skills the need for effective social decision making. The overall goal of the program is to provide students in grades PreK – 8, with skills to make healthy and responsible choices in their lives. If you are interested in hearing more about the SDM/PS program, please contact Betsy Cable at bcable@jcdsri.org, or you may check out the SDM/PS website at http://www.umdnj.edu/spsweb.

Our school offers special trips and is especially proud of 8th Grade’s annual trip to Israel. Other trips include an overnight at the Boston Museum of Science, environmental and group-building camping trips at Camp Teva in Connecticut and University of Rhode Island Alton Jones Campus in Rhode Island, and the annual trip to New York and Washington for Grade 7.

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