Rountree Elementary, An IB World School

05/14/2026

Not sure what to do for dinner tonight? 🍕 Don’t worry—it’s Rountree Night at Papa John’s!

Treat your family to an easy dinner while supporting a great cause. A percentage of tonight’s proceeds will go back to our Rountree PTA.

Skip the cooking and join us for a delicious way to give back.

04/14/2026

Check your calendar and if you are free we would love your help in our Rountree Garden to gear up for spring and the summer ahead. We will have a community work day this Saturday--hope to see you there.

04/09/2026

We can’t wait to meet our FUTURE OWLS tonight at 5:30 p.m. in the Rountree Library! 🦉

Students and families will enjoy a fun learning activity, take a tour of the building, and wrap up the evening with popsicles on the playground.

It’s going to be a great night… and yes, there will be goodie bags! 🎉

04/07/2026

It's a Tuesday and their is NO SCHOOL for students today. Happy Election day and we will see our Rountree Owls back in action tomorrow.

04/06/2026

Tired from all the cooking this holiday weekend. Join us tonight for dine-in or carry-out at Bambinos Cafe on Delmar from 4:00-90:00 p.m.. A portion of all sales will come back to our Rountree PTA.

03/13/2026

03/05/2026

Rountree is one of three PYP schools in Springfield Public Schools, and we are excited to host our 2nd Annual PYP Week. This special week gives us the opportunity to celebrate and share the unique learning experiences that come with being a Primary Years Programme school.

Tonight, we are excited to welcome families into our building to see learning in action. Parents and students will have the opportunity to review artifacts from their most recent Unit of Inquiry, explore grade level inquiry boards, and help celebrate our 5th grade students as they present their Exhibition projects. Exhibition is a culminating experience that showcases the research, collaboration, and action our students have been working on throughout the year.

To wrap up the evening, our Kindergarten and 1st grade students will present their musical performance as the grand finale. Please note that the musical performance portion of the evening is open only to K–1 families.

Join us tonight from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. We cannot wait to share our learning with you.

02/12/2026

We are so thankful for Mr.Don! He is the best crossing guard and we are so thankful he is part of our Rountree family.

"I love the kids. I retired when I was 58 years old after I worked for Walmart for 15 years. I went as long as I could, and then I just couldn’t do it anymore. Then I sat around, and sat around, and sat around — there’s only so many things around the house that you can do. So I said ‘I gotta do something’ and I saw a girl over on Mt. Vernon street crossing kids and she turned me over to Josh. I met with him and in no time and he said ‘You’re hired, Don.’

I’ve been a crossing guard at a lot of schools. I do Rountree Elementary, An IB World School and Pershing K-8 now. When I came over here to Pershing, no one would wave. Everyone had stern faces, didn’t want to wave or nothing and I waved anyway, smiled at them. After about three weeks, you’d get a couple once in a while. Now everyone waves at me. And if I don’t wave back they get mad at me, I can tell. I’ve met so many nice people over here. The kids come by and they wave and they want to talk to me. There’s kids that just go crazy about wanting to wave at the crossing guard. I met two real nice people who have just about become family. I used to think I didn’t like people, but now I’m starting to realize that maybe I do like people.

My wife passed away two years ago of cancer and when the people over at Rountree found out, they just surrounded me like I was family. They told me right off the bat, about three months into working over there, ‘Don, you just fit right in here, like you live around here.’ And I said, ‘Well I feel like I live around here.’ They were just wonderful and they still are. The kids, I just can’t get over the kids. I just love it. So many people tell me, ‘You’re such a good crossing guard,’ ‘You do your job so well,’ and ‘I don’t know if you know it or not, but you’re such an asset to this community.’ I’ve never had things like that happen before becoming a crossing guard."

- Don Richards, crossing guard

02/11/2026

Looking for someone to fill our HEART!! Only a few days left...

Let’s finish strong, Springfield! 🤝❤️

We are officially in the final week of our Love SPS campaign, and our heart map is looking beautiful—but we still have schools waiting to be claimed! Our goal is to hit $50,000 by Valentine’s Day, and we need your help to get there.

Your donation goes into the Foundation’s general fund to power district-wide programs that change lives, including: 🎒 Back-to-School Grants that help teachers innovate in the classroom. 🚌 Pay to Ride Waivers (88 students helped this year!). 🧥 Coats for Kids (keeping nearly 500 students warm). 🎓 Scholarships for graduating seniors.

Help us turn every single school on this map red by Saturday. Whether you are an alum, a parent, or just a believer in our students, let’s show our schools some love!

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02/04/2026

We LOVE SPS.

Join Foundation for Springfield Public Schools' community-wide campaign, providing a heartfelt mid-year boost to our incredible educators.💕🧑‍🏫💌 Visit www.supportsps.org/lovesps to directly fund innovative projects and programs that empower students and teachers across the district.