Students at Pendleton Elementary School develop the world class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate through developing collaboration and critical thinking skills in our students.
Pendleton Elementary students, staff, and school community continue the vision of being World Changers through both behavior and academics. Our school has been successful this year continuing our character education program where we teach students life skills with our school wide essentials and character traits with our Bulldog GROWLS (Gratitude, Respect, Ownership, World Changer, and Leadership.) Hundreds of teachers and students were nominated all year for displaying these traits and essentials. Many community volunteers and churches worked to partner with our teachers to tutor and assist in the classroom weekly. We have a true learning community in Pendleton.
By focusing on collaboration in the classroom through small group work, students learned to work together more in the classroom setting and take ownership of their learning. We focused on student ownership which means students take more pride in their learning. They can talk about what they are learning to each other and their parents. We highlighted a character trait of the month which collaboration and creativity were target traits to improve upon at our school. Teachers nominated students of the month and they were celebrated at our monthly character breakfast.
This school year the ultimate goal for PES was to CONNECT. We wanted to CONNECT academically but also socially and emotionally. The focus all year was working hard to meet high expectations in all subject areas and grow our math scores. We developed a multi-tiered systems of support that was followed school wide in K4-6th grade. We used ESSR funds to hire interventionist in math and ela. These interventionist along with classroom teachers worked with students on their level to close learning gaps. We saw record growth in multiple grade levels. We also continued Second Step, a social emotional learning curriculum. This helped us make sure that all students were well socially and emotionally and were ready to learn each day. We are PROUD of what we accomplished as a school.
The team at PES is committed to preparing students academically along with equipping them with the skills to be successful in their lifetime. We strive to develop responsibility, respect for others, as well as the importance of resourcefulness, punctuality, and regular attendance. We invite all community members to join us in our efforts as together we prepare all students for their future.
Always a World Changer!
- Mr. Simpson
