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 Reflex, IXL, Brainpop, and Storia
- Response to Intervention in all grade levels K5 through 5th grade in reading and math
- Inclusive practices with Special Education and ESOL teachers
- Communities In Schools
In addition, Welcome Elementary provides opportunities for students to be involved in extracurricular activities based on their interests. Some of these included:
- Battle of the Books
- Honors Chorus
- Safety Patrols
- Student Council
- WETV program
- Student Ambassadors
- Alpha Pack
- LEGO Robotics
- Step Team
This year, teachers had opportunities for professional growth in the targeted areas of Balanced Literacy, Capturing Kids Hearts, Google Classroom, SeeSaw, Rime Magic, Math in Practice and Professional Learning Communities. Community partnerships, such as Parker Fire Department, Welcome Baptist, the Tajh Boy Foundation, 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 parent partnership events such as Daddy/Daughter Date Night, Mother/Son Shindig, Tuesday Tours, Fang’s Fall Festival, 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 Parent 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
