Kingston Elementary School assists all students in developing world class skills along with life and career characteristics from the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate. This is accomplished while providing a safe, caring, nurturing, and academically challenging learning environment. We provide such an environment through the implementation of our school mission: Kingston Elementary School, serving a diverse family-oriented community, strives to provide a personalized college and career ready curriculum so that all students are prepared to reach their full potential as responsible and productive citizens. We demonstrate this mission by challenging our students with best practices to reach their full potential and by the continuous professional development of our teachers. Success for today, preparation for tomorrow.
Our teachers are always seeking to improve curriculum implementation and to learn new and effective strategies to use in the classroom. We accomplish this through Everyday Math professional development, science kit trainings, small group reading instruction trainings and our work on student engagement and standards based instruction planning. We work with two professionals, John Antonetti, a consultant with Colleagues on Call and Jessica Phillips, a consultant with Beyond the Classroom. In addition, we promote social emotional learning through the use of Caring School Communities. Collaboration and teamwork is fostered in our K-2 curriculum through the use of workstations and technology based projects. Rigorous standards in ELA and Math for career and college preparedness are provided through math focus classes based on RIT ranges, M3 for gifted learners, and Reading Intervention programs consisting of BURST and Passport. We are proud of our academic successes.
At Kingston Elementary we have various programs outside the academic world to focus on the development of the whole child. School-wide we focus on being “Respectful, Responsible, and Ready”. We believe it is imperative that our students learn the value of being respectful, responsible, and ready at school and home. Our K-Kids Club worked on several service learning projects including making worry worms for the Pediatric Unit at Grand Strand Hospital, Fleece Tie Pillows and Valentine's Day cards for a local nursing home, Bookmark Tassels for Conway High School Seniors, and making dog toys for the Humane Society. This was also the first year that Kingston Elementary had a Jr. Beta Club. The club was very active in the school and community by organizing and participating in activities such as clean up events, reading with Kindergarten thru second grade friends during Reading Camp, and hosted a yard sale/car wash for the community. Our Jr. Beta Club also attended the National Jr. Beta State Convention where they earned several awards.
Kingston Elementary students, staff, and parents are supporters of the March of Dimes and American Heart Association. This year we raised over $5,000.00 for March of Dimes and $6,500.00 for the American Heart Association. Kingston Elementary is an active participant with Talkin’ Trash which is a school recycling and waste diversion competition that encourages elementary schools to engage in waste reduction, recycling, composing, and waste management practices. At Kingston Elementary we believe the school, family, and community must share the educational responsibility of our children. Thank you for all your support in helping with the development of our future South Carolina graduates and world leaders!
Dawn N Brooks, Principal
Susie Prosser, SIC Chair
