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Welcome to Westmeade Elementary School
 Winter = Planning
Our outdoor classroom/ school garden emphasizes the value of
living in harmony with nature and developing healthy eating habits
as our students grow vegetables and nurture a pollinator (butterfly) garden. At left we see Principal Stephen Breese, our beloved cafeteria ladies Ms. Jackie and Ms. Jo, and Councilman Charlie Tygard who has taken our garden to heart helping us get mulch! Be sure to thank him when you see him around town!
The
garden is also a place where students observe and record their
observations in gardening journals adding to science and math
experiences. At present they are obse rving the decomposition of several varieties of pumpkin. The Westmeade Conservancy donated a class set of the book Noah's ARK and helped us identify plants on the property as we introduced students to our wonderful trees.
Our garden is
part of Metro Nashville's Healty Schools Initiative and is meant to
encourage health--mental, physical, and educational! Metro Government's
Beautification program has contributed to our efforts as school
gardeners. Plan to be involved!
Because you patronized our book fair we added $1,000 of new books to our library, earned $945.52 in Scholastic
Resources (these include prizes, teacher incentives, and equipment), $907
in prizes for AR achievement and books to 56 students who might not have had an
opportunity to buy a book otherwise!Fall Book FAIR grosses more than
We were $2,000 more than our Fall fair last year. This allow us purchasing power of an additional $2800.00 worth of materials, and resources.
Walden's Puddle came in November to help students appreciate and learn to care for local wildlife! 
Students gathered a mountain of things that Walden's needed from baby blankets to a printer! Two teachers tied for the most and earned $50.00 in prizes for their classes.....
Ms. Bryan and Ms. Childress were the lucky winners.
We are blessed to be a technology demonstration school where teachers have a variety of tools at their disposal to integrate technology activities into lessons, and our library provides an array of technology tools for parents, students and teachers to use both in the Library Lab and at home. To see those things provided simply click on http://www.westmeade.net
Our parents work as tutors, assist in the library, office and art programs, serve as chaperones for field trips, and work hard on the PTO's many fund raising efforts. They provide support for teachers and student through their positive encouragementand the work they do with students.
We are a dedicated community of teachers, parents, students, and staff who work to make our school a place where learning is a joy. Come check us out!
The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, color, age, and/or disability in admission to, access to, or operation of its programs, services, or activities. MNPS does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices. Contact MNPS ADA Coordinator at 259-8531.
MNPS maintains an official complaint procedure that complies with the standards set aside by Federal Programs under No Child Left Behind. Complaints regarding Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) are covered under this procedure. It can be found by clicking on Complaint Process.
Click on the links provided for more detailed information. <Complaint Process.> |
