Lady’s Island Elementary is helping all students develop World Class Skills aligned to the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by embracing critical thinking and creativity. We offer a curriculum rich with opportunities to form positive relationships with others while immersed in the visual and performing arts.
For the 2021-22 school year, we returned to our “new” normal with an intentional focus on culture, leadership, and academics. We revamped several systems: Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, and our instructional framework. We launched a social media campaign and renewed our social media presence by adding Twitter and Instagram, revamping Facebook, and redesigning the school’s website. We utilized social media platforms to showcase school events such as Literacy Night, Math & School Choice Night, Arts Showcases, and Osprey News.
Preliminary benchmark data indicates that our students experienced significant learning loss due to the pandemic. We have worked diligently to close the gap created by this event and have seen tremendous growth in our students over the year in all grade levels due to our academic initiatives. We offered an extensive afterschool program tailored to support select students in reading and mathematics recovery, provided all students with math and literacy intervention daily for 60 minutes, conducted data conferences, and implemented a new literacy curriculum, Scholastic Literacy. As a school, we observed exceptional growth on benchmark assessments in literacy and math due to our strategic focus on data, instruction, and intervention.
Our school continued the operation of the National Honor Society and had an intentional focus on increasing our gifted and talented population. During the school year, our gifted and talented population increased by nearly 60% from the previous year. Our NEHS participated in various community service and community-building projects during the school year. Projects included food collection for Thanksgiving meals, a toy drive for Toys for Tots, item collection for a local animal shelter, and a paper product drive for CAPA.
We closed the year with a school-wide field day, an end-of-year celebration with bounce houses and Kona Ice, award ceremonies, and in-person moving-on ceremonies for students. We are proud of the revival of our school during this unprecedented time and look forward to continuing to work with all stakeholders to help all students achieve at high levels next year. Let’s continue to P.U.S.H. Ospreys!
Davina Coleman, Principal
Latoya Hagood, SIC Chair
