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Welcome to Westmeade Elementary School
Looking Back - We are Proud!
 Westmeade is a unique neighborhood school. When our P.E. Instructor was called away suddenly in the night to be by an ailing parent in another state, the first thought might have been to cancel our Field Day scheduled for the next morning. It would have been a great disappointment, so it just wasn't an option. Neighborhood parent and substitute teacher, Viki Cauthen stepped in to take the lead, and everyone took a part. Mr. Silva, who donated some of the inflatables pitched in, and one of our educational assistants spent the entire day manning a single inflatable. As our Secretary noted at day's end, "The willingness of our staff and parents to be there for one another is what helps make Westmeade as great as it is."
As our year together concludes we have much to be thankful for. 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.
Many parents work as tutors, chaperon field trips, assist with art instruction, work the two book fairs to help raise money for Accelerated Reader, and help with other fund raising efforts for the school. They provide so much more in the form of support for teachers and students by simple encouragement. Westmeade was blessed to get a school gardening grant to emphasize the value of living in harmony with nature. Our students now are growing vegetables and a butterfly garden. They are composting their lunch scraps and we have families scheduled to tend the gardens over the summer! We hope to help students and families make wise choices for health--mental, physical, and educational! This is a direct outgrowth of Metro's Healthy Schools Initiative and the support of Metro Government's Beautification program.
We are a community working to make our school an environment where learning is a joy. Efforts are made to use differentiated instruction to enable each student to develop their maximum potential. Westmeade is indeed a unique neighborhood school with a stable faculty and wonderful parental support. Come check us out!
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