Pierrepont School

Pierrepont School
70 East Pierrepont Avenue
Rutherford, NJ 07070
201-438-7675

Engineering a Finger: Where Science Meets Creativity

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The students in Mrs. Colucci's and Mrs. Barone's science classes are learning about the skeletal and muscular systems. With our Mystery Science program, we built a robot finger out of paper and string, and compared it to our human fingers.
This project especially highlighted our PORG quality of creativity as students considered ideas for how to make the finger stronger, or to combine the fingers to use like a hand. Critical Thinking skills were also encouraged as students compared our model to the development of … [Read more...] about Engineering a Finger: Where Science Meets Creativity

Inclement Weather

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Should a one-session day be called because of inclement weather, students in 4-6 will be dismissed at 12:20 p.m. It is imperative that your children know the procedures you expect them to follow upon leaving school. The “Connect 5” system will notify parents by contacting phone numbers and/or email addresses currently on school records.  Each Pierrepont Family received a “Connect 5” call earlier this year during our test run.  If a phone or email contact has changed and the school has not been notified, the system will not be able to alert you to an emergency closing.  Please keep the … [Read more...] about Inclement Weather

Bulldog Buddy Program

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This November, we kicked off our Bulldog Buddy Program here at Pierrepont School. The Bulldog Buddy Program is a leadership opportunity designed for 6th-grade students who demonstrate respect, responsibility, and self-awareness. Students who are selected will serve as positive role models by visiting a 5th or 4th-grade classroom to read books that focus on social-emotional learning, character education, and our Profile of a Rutherford Graduate pillars. Through these shared reading experiences, Bulldog Buddies help reinforce the values of our PBSIS program while fostering connections across … [Read more...] about Bulldog Buddy Program

December 2025

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I am so proud of all the hard work our students and staff demonstrated during the first quarter of the school year! The first few weeks of quarter 2 are off to a great start. The Silver Bells program is underway! Silver Bells provides needy families in our school and community with items for the holidays.  We will be collecting monetary donations through December 12th. This year we will also collect gift cards from the following vendors: Shop-Rite, Target and Amazon.  This special program has been a great success in the past and we thank the Pierrepont community who has always been so … [Read more...] about December 2025

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