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
- Step Team
Community partnerships, such as Palmetto Baptist Church (Welcome Campus), KEYS (formerly the Cura Foundation), Cliffs Residents Outreach, Balloon Envy, Greenville County Sheriff's Office, Parker Fire Department, Five Forks Methodist Church, Tremont Church of God, Public Education Partners, 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 Hispanic Heritage Night, Spookly the Pumpkin event, Gingerbread Literacy, and STEM 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