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| OUR VISION: The vision of HW Smith PreK8 School is to be highly regarded for academic excellence where every student is achieving at his or her maximum potential in an engaging, inspiring and challenging learning environment. |
Dear Parents and Guardians,
On behalf of the staff at HW Smith PreK-8 School, we are excited to welcome you to the 2016-17 school year! We are looking forward to a productive partnership with you to ensure our students can achieve their highest potential. We know a strong partnership with you will make a great difference in your child’s education. As partners, we share the responsibility for our children’s success and want you to know that we will do our very best to carry out our responsibilities. We ask that you guide and support your child’s learning by ensuring that he/she:
1) Attends school daily and arrives on time, ready for the day’s learning experience
2) Completes all homework assignments given by teachers
3) Reads daily to develop a love for reading and to improve literacy skills
5) Informs you if he/she needs additional support in any area or subject
6) Knows that you expect him/her to succeed in school and go on to college
Sincerely
Principal Theresa Haley
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School News
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SCSD Students Become Avid Readers Thanks to Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge:
As part of the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge, SCSD students were tasked with reading as much as they could this summer. Their minutes spent reading were tallied, and Mayor Miner visited classrooms with the most minutes read at each school building to present students with a bookmark, sunglasses and a cake.
“I like reading big chapter books,” LeMoyne summer school student Debora Yangwa, now a 6 th grader at Grant Middle School, said. “Reading helps my fluency ...
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HW Smith Girl Up Program Empowers Girls to Be Their Own Advocates:
A new program in partnership with the United Nations Foundation is empowering girls at HW Smith to become advocates for themselves and others. “Girl Up,” the first of its kind in the SCSD, brings eighth grade girls together to talk about issues impacting them and their future.
“We were hearing that girls felt in the shadow of boys, especially with the Building Men program available to boys here at our school,” eighth grade ELA teacher and Girl Up advisor Carrie ...
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SU Students Help Develop Young Leaders through Empathy Matters Program:
Second graders at HW Smith are learning how to recognize emotions, display empathy, create support networks and work through stressful situations, thanks to SU mentors and a semester-long program called ‘Empathy Matters.’
Once a week, SU student volunteers visit with select HW Smith students, where they teach how to identify emotions based on facial expressions, how to treat each other, healthy ways to manage stress, and even how to treat animals, thanks to a special lesson ...
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#SCSDGivesThanks for Our Vice Principals:
In celebration of National Assistant Principal Week (April 10-14, 2017), principals and secretaries nominated vice principals that they think are exceptional to be recognized!
Frazer
Frazer Principal Wil Mecum wanted to celebrate his vice principals this week in celebration of National Assistant Principals Week! “I know this will sound a little over-the-top,” he said. “But all three of Frazer’s Vice Principals are truly exceptional, in the ...
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Third Annual SCSD CTE Expo Highlights Unique High School Program Offerings:
Eighth graders throughout the SCSD had the opportunity to see firsthand all 24 Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that will be open to them as high school students, thanks to the third annual SCSD CTE Expo.
Hosted by current CTE students, the Expo allowed eighth graders to experience specialized programs of study ranging from Culinary Arts and Computer Forensics to Fire/Rescue, Drone Technology, Pre-Engineering and more. The CTE Expo was intended to help the eighth grade students ...
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