Mrs. Sutterfield's 7th and 8th grade science classes worked on a Christmas STEM project this week in order to combine science and engineering education with the Christmas spirit. The students learned about resources such as renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Students had to first design their house on paper, get it teacher approved, and then began to build... READ MORE >
Teachers at Roland Middle School selected these exceptional students as Students of the Month for November, 2020. They were selected due to their academic performance, citizenship skills and their willingness to lend a helping hand to other students and teachers alike. We are all very proud of you! L to R: 6th grade-Halle Freeman, 7th grade-Kaylee Cowan, 8th... READ MORE >
Teachers at Roland Middle School selected these exceptional students as Students of the Month for October, 2020. They were selected due to their academic performance, citizenship skills and their willingness to lend a helping hand to other students and teachers alike. We are all very proud of you! L to R: 6th grade-Lily Cole, 7th grade-John Allen, 8th Grade-Hailee... READ MORE >
Congratulations to Mrs. Gina Hamlin, Roland PS librarian, for getting her project funded through Donors Choose! Mrs. Hamlin will receive many award winning library books, including several series. Some of the series awarded include: The Legend Trilogy, The Missing Series, Dog Man, The Red Queen Series, Matched Series, and The City of Ember Series. Mrs. Hamlin was... READ MORE >
Congratulations to Mrs. Durrell Mooney on receiving funding for her classroom project, "Please Give to the Giver Series!" through Donors Choose. Mrs. Mooney's 7th grade English/Reading classes will now be able to enjoy Gathering Blue and the Giver Quartet of Messenger, both by Lois Lowry. All of these books will be used in Mrs. Mooney's classroom to meet Oklahoma... READ MORE >
Congratulations are in order for Mrs. Armer once again. She was awarded funding through Donor Choose to further expose her students to quality literature pertaining to her 6th grade social studies class. Mrs. Armer received funding for a classroom set of copies of Alan Gratz's novel Project 1065. This novel is about a young boy living in the era of WWII. RMS... READ MORE >
Parents, Students and Staff, Due to the most recent events concerning COVID cases and staff quarantines within Roland Middle School, we have made the difficult decision to adjust our middle school only to a virtual setting until November 19, 2020. Our staff will remain on campus during regular school hours to ensure that our students course of education is not... READ MORE >
The Roland Middle School teachers are fired up about receiving funding! Be sure to congratulate Mrs. Sutterfield on receiving funding through Donors Choose. She was able to secure funding for a model human skeleton and 24 rocket wizard class packs. Mrs. Sutterfield and the administration at Roland Middle School would like to thank all of the donors who made this... READ MORE >
Parents, Students and Staff, Due to the most recent events concerning COVID cases and quarantines within Roland High School, we have made the difficult decision to adjust our high school only to a virtual setting until November 9, 2020. Our staff will remain on campus during regular school hours to ensure that our students course of education is not effected... READ MORE >
Teachers at Roland Middle School selected these exceptional students as Students of the Month for September, 2020. They were selected due to their academic performance, citizenship skills and their willingness to lend a helping hand to other students and teachers alike. We are all very proud of you! L to R: 6th grade Emmaline Fouts, 7th grade Gracie Just, 8th grade... READ MORE >
Give Mrs. Floyd a high five! Her project, "Let's Add This Up!" was recently funded through Donor Choose. Through this funding, Mrs. Floyd will receive 60 pocket size calculators for her classroom. These calculators will help Mrs. Floyd's 6th grade math class with order of operations, ratios, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers and fractions,... READ MORE >
Give Mrs. Armer a high five! Her project "Take a Seat and Read!" was recently funded through Donors Choose. Through this funding, Mrs. Armer will receive four 42" round tables for her classroom and four copies of the novel, Refugee, by Alan Gratz. The novel which will be read in class will help students understand differences and similarities in geography, culture,... READ MORE >
Roland Schools is pleased to announce the arrival of our new activity bus! The fifteen passenger Micro Bird was purchased with the recently passed school bond. This bus upgrades our transportation fleet and provides us with another opportunity to safely and efficiently transport our students. READ MORE >
Here are some very useful google classroom resources for parents to utilize to get familiar with their students virtual classroom setting. This is beneficial for all students K through 12th grade attending in-person and virtually. Check out the link and be watching for more: Parents: READ MORE >
Indian Capital Technology Center is honoring our 2020 senior class by posting their picture and congratulating them for their accomplishments on ICTC's Fort Smith billboard located at Rogers Av S/S, 50 ft W/O Massard Rd, W/F, EB from April 22nd through April 29th. Thank you ICTC for being such a great partner for our students and community! READ MORE >
Our roofs have been repaired! We are excited to share with you the good news! The roof repairs were completed in late March just in time for spring rains. The bleachers at the football stadium have been completed as well. The final railings were added in March, and we would have been ready for graduation in May if only.... The softball facility is nearly... READ MORE >
Parents and Students--We are heartbroken over the events of this past month with the closure of the school for the remainder of the school year and actually beyond into the summer months (as far as athletics and preparing for the fall are concerned). We understand this is time in our students' lives that they can never recoup. We absolutely hate this for them as... READ MORE >
Blakely Fowlkes was awarded 3rd place in the State of Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom art contest. She is a kindergarten student in Mrs. Jetton's class. Congratulations Blakely ! READ MORE >
The Roland Show Team participated in the 55th Annual Sequoyah County Junior Livestock Show on February 27, 2020. In the goat division the following students placed: 1st grade Kash Earnhart-2nd for doe goats 8th grade Kynlei Earnhart-4th for wether goats and made the premium sale Senior Chloe Offineer-5th and 6th in doe goats, 6th and 7th in wethers and made... READ MORE >
Last week, Makayla Whittenburg took the reins and headed up Roland High School's participation in a nationwide youth-lead denim drive for teens in homeless shelters. We were able to collect 116 pairs of jeans for this worthy cause. We absolutely love and promote students taking care of and nurturing each other. This is our fundamental philosophy at RPS--Every... READ MORE >
FFA's annual petting zoo is always a huge success with Roland's babies. Our Head-Start through Third grade students, 300 total, had a blast interacting with all the animals. Our FFA students bring their show animals and pets for the younger crowd to enjoy. Truth be told, our older students love this event as much as our younger ones do; who wouldn't want to... READ MORE >
Monday Night, The Runnin' Rangers clinched the NOAA Conference Title with a win over the Muldrow Bulldogs, and in doing so, handed Coach Eddie Lewis his 700th win. 700 wins in and of itself is an amazing feat, but to have all 700 of those wins come at one school is simply unheard of. Coach Lewis became our head coach in 1984 and has compiled a record of 700 wins... READ MORE >
This past summer when the district was set to replace our wooden bleachers with aluminum bleachers, we had the choice to dispose of the bleachers or to attempt to re-use them in one form or another. Our Agriculture Department held back some of the better boards for future projects. This past week, our Ag Mechanics students built a nifty trailer and used the boards... READ MORE >
JH students held their annual Valentine’s Day dance on Saturday, February 8, from 6-8. Student council hosted the dance where students had pizza, cookies, cupcakes and soda. The money raised at this dance allows stuco to rent a water slide for the last day of school for all jh students to enjoy. We would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Swofford, Mrs. Boswell and Mrs.... READ MORE >
Jr High announces the teacher selected students of the month for January. Freshman: Braeden Looper, 8th grade: Zariah Releford and 7th grade: Joseph Stone. Congratulations to these great kids! READ MORE >
Our latest group of students to earn their AR shirts before Christmas break are pictures above. These students had to reach or exceed forty (2nd grade) and fifty (3rd grade) accelerated reader points to earn this milestone. Congratulations ! READ MORE >
These first grade students reached 30 or more accelerated reader points to earn their AR T-shirt this semester. Congratulations ! READ MORE >
One second grader and seven Third graders earned their AR shirts before Christmas break. These had to reach 40 and 50 points respective in order to achieve this milestone. Congratulations ! READ MORE >
Here is our second group of First graders to earn their Accelerated Reader T-shirts this semester. First graders must reach 30 AR points in order to achieve this milestone. Congratulations ! READ MORE >
Freshmen students from the Jr High had the opportunity to experience Challenge Day on Wednesday, Dec. 18. The overall goals of Challenge Day are to increase personal power and self-esteem, to shift negative peer pressure to positive peer support and to teach students that teasing, violence and all forms of oppression are unacceptable. Students participated in... READ MORE >
Roland FFA team placed second at the Northeast Area Wildlife Management Career Development Event held Thursday, Dec 12, at Muldrow. JH student Wyatt Harvell placed first in wildlife management. Congratulations to these boys and to Mr. Lockwood. Pictured from left to right: Jana Green, NSU graduate student, Wyatt Harvell, Dakota Bush, Drake Davis and Warren Bobbitt. READ MORE >
In October, students from Mrs. Benefield’s AP English class entered the VFW Voice of Democracy contest where they wrote and recorded an essay to the theme of “What Makes America Great”. Seniors Lana Edwards and Makayla Whittenburg were chosen as local winners to advance to the district level. Makayla ended up taking 1st place in the district and will now advance to... READ MORE >
The Roland High School entrepreneurship class, along with our National Honor Society and Student Council visited the nursing home in Roland to deliver Christmas presents and to sing Carols for our community seniors this past Monday, December 9th. Earlier this month, the students gathered and decided as a community project that they would love to collect and make... READ MORE >
Mrs. Colwell found out that the items she had requested to be funded through Donorchoose.org had been completely funded on Tuesday, Dec 3. She teaches 8th grade English, reading and 7th grade home economics classes at the Jr. High. The items she will soon be receiving are: a classroom set of fiction novels, a Hue HD portable USB camera and Magpro pendant necklace... READ MORE >
Members of the Jr High and High School student councils, honor clubs and their sponsors traveled to the Fort Smith Convention Center on Wednesday, Dec 4, to help prepare the Christmas wreaths that will decorate the Fort Smith National Cemetery. They joined several other schools who donated their time and efforts to this worthy cause. We are very proud of all of our... READ MORE >
Sixth graders traveled to Tulsa in early November to Junior Achievement’s BizTown. Students experienced a day-long visit to a simulated town. They learned about entrepreneurship and financial literacy through a hands on experience. Thanks to all the volunteers! READ MORE >
During the last week of October, as part of Roland Lower Elementary's Acts of Kindness, students donated spare change. By choosing to donate to the local animal pound, students knew their money could help provide blankets and food for animals during these cold winter months. Pictured above is Ms. Sara Poindexter's PK3 class presenting our Roland Animal Control... READ MORE >
On Saturday, November 16, The Big Boy Steam Engine wasn’t the only thing rolling into town in Roland, Oklahoma. It was the official start to the VEX Robotics season. Roland Schools hosted the first official tournament of the year, which qualified four teams for slots in the state tournament in the spring. Teams from all over the state came to compete and try to... READ MORE >