Camden Elementary School is committed to helping all students develop the World Class Skills of the Profile of the SC Graduate by focusing on the whole child. Our mission is to Empower Everyone Everyday by providing challenging learning opportunities and leadership experiences. Our theme for the year was “Leading is our Super Power.” Our students and staff embraced the “Leader In Me” process and we officially began our journey and started living the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Our media specialist empowered our Colts to be super readers this year and we continued with our One Book/One School program. Everyone read Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and completed engaging activities related to the book. Our Colts also completed a reading incentive challenge and all students celebrated by attending the Fireflies Baseball game in the spring. Our youngest readers were also empowered by participating in the My First Library program. All 4K and 5K students received a bag filled with books to take home over the summer. We are definitely growing readers at Camden Elementary School!
We continue to empower our students by using a parallel block schedule to create time for teachers to provide differentiated instruction specifically for student needs. Our enrichment block of time is titled WINN (What I Need Now). Students receive small group instruction, may participate in pull-outs and receive enrichment and intervention services during the WINN block. Title One funds are also allocated to provide math and reading intervention. Interventionists worked with students during their WINN time by either pulling students out into a small group setting or by pushing into the classroom to assist with facilitating small group instruction. We continued our personalized learning initiative by implementing Dreambox and Xtra Math. Edmentum software products and iReady were also utilized to target specific skills.
We also empowered our students to participate in various leadership clubs this year. Our school clubs allowed our students to learn new skills. We are very proud of our new school garden created by our “Let’s Dig It” garden club. Our garden club participants learned new gardening techniques, and donated the produce from the garden to local community programs. We are looking forward to expanding our school clubs next year and strengthening our community partnerships.
We empowered our families by hosting our first Duke Energy Stem Night. Families were able to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) activities with their children. Our families were excited about this event and enjoyed the various resources.
We are ready to kick off the 2024 - 2025 school year by living our school mission and empowering our students, families, faculty, staff and community members. We will cultivate collaboration and student leadership by working together with our school community.
Matia Goodwin, Principal
Kyleigh Shirley, SIC Chairperson
