Welcome Elementary provides rich and meaningful instructional activities to help all students develop world class skills, including life and career characteristics of the Profile of the Graduate. Welcome Elementary provides many opportunities to support the academic success of our students.   Some of these opportunities include:

• Personalized Learning with 1:1 iPads (grades K-1)
• Personalized Learning with 1:1 Chromebooks (grades K-5)
• Reduced class sizes through Title I funds
• Online learning through Lexia and Dreambox Math
• Multilingual Co-Teaching service model schoolwide
• Communities In Schools
• Positive Behavior Intervention Supports

In addition, Welcome Elementary provides opportunities for students to be involved in extracurricular activities based on their interests.  Some of these included:

• Girls on the Run
• Chorus
• Safety Patrols
• His Turn Soccer Club
• Cub Scouts
• WETV program
• LEGO Robotics
• Art Club
• Girls with Purpose
• Mentoring Club
• Step Team

This year, teachers had opportunities for professional growth in the targeted areas of Professional Learning Communities, Capturing Kids Hearts, Rime Magic, Math in Practice and Professional Learning Communities.  Community partnerships, such as Welcome Baptist Church, KEYS (formerly the Cura Foundation), Cliffs Residents Outreach, Balloon Envy, Greenville County Sheriff's Office, Parker Fire Department, Call Me MISTER Program, OnTrack Greenville, etc. have had a tremendous impact on our school. These partnerships are essential in allowing us to support the needs of our students.   

As a Title I school, we offer many exciting family partnership events such as Pastries with Parents and Loved Ones, Fang’s Spring Fling, Spookly the Pumpkin event, Gingerbread Literacy, and Hispanic Heritage Night. Each of these events are historically well attended by our school community. We also provide a Family Resource Room in which parents can check out literacy and math activities for use at home with their child. The number of parent volunteers has also increased allowing us to enhance the resources available to the community, such as the provision of Rosetta Stone to Hispanic families.    

At Welcome Elementary, we believe that every student can succeed. We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with parents, our partners, and the community in an effort to ensure that every student has access to a world of possibilities.

At Welcome we are #WelcomeStrong

Wallace Cobbs, Principal

Luisa Piza, Student Improvement Council Chair