Welcome to Parkside Elementary

Rockford Public Schools is teaming up with Hand 2 Hand to help raise awareness for the support needed by hungry kids in our district!

Nearly 65,000 children in West Michigan are at risk of hunger. That's roughly 834 school buses filled with kids being dropped off at home each weekend, who are at real risk of having little to no food for 68 hours!

Hand2Hand exists to eliminate that 68-hour gap so every kid has an opportunity to thrive. They do this by mobilizing schools, churches, businesses, foundations, and individuals to provide a backpack of nutritious food over the weekend and extended school breaks. Beyond physical nutrition, this food provides hope for students who are experiencing hunger. RPS wants to do our part and join volunteers across West Michigan who drive the Hand2Hand grassroots movement to eliminate child hunger ... because a hungry child hurts.

• RPS has 129 Students getting H2H assistance. 

• Each Friday, H2H delivers backpacks of food to each of these Parkside students for the weekend to keep them from going hungry.

• A backpack with 2 days' worth of food is approximately $4.00.

• RPS students utilize $18,576 a year of H2H resources.

• H2H helps over 15,000 students across 280 schools and 145 churches throughout West Michigan.

HOW TO HELP: May 5th - 9th

Drop off your grade-level selected food items in the Rams Care box by the office. Boxes will be collected and sent to H2H after school on Friday, May 9th. Please provide individually wrapped, prepackaged, unopened items. These food items will be used by H2H to fill backpacks for our students in need this summer and next school year.

Kindergarten: Popcorn

1st grade: Fruit Snacks

2nd grade: Chewy Granola Bars

3rd grade: Breakfast Bars

4th grade: Instant Oatmeal

5th grade: Sweet Treats (Rice Krispies)

Our EPIC Talent Show and Field day is 5/16 and we need your help to make it great.  Please consider signing up below to run a field day station!  

Field Day Sign Up

Also, just a friendly reminder to send in your order form and money for guest lunches by 5/7 if you would like one.  

Walk, Bike, Roll to School is May 7th!  Let's get those kiddos moving and enjoy some outdoor movement before/after school!