Springfield Park Elementary School

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Springfield Park Elementary School


School type Public Elementary School
Established 1996[1]
Principal Janice N. Adams
Colors
Mascot		 Blue and yellow
Kangaroo
Location 4301 Fort McHenry Parkway
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Information (804) 527-4630
Website Springfield Park Elementary School


Springfield Park Elementary School is a public elementary school in Glen Allen, in Richmond, Virginia's West End, serving students from kindergarten to fifth grade. It is located in the Three Chopt District of the Henrico County Public Schools division.[2] The school opened with 655 students in September 1996.[1] The school was formally dedicated in ceremonies held on March 9, 1997.[3]

Springfield Park has been recognized for its award-winning chess teams, its unusual German-English International Program, and for leadership in preventing choking deaths in school cafeterias.

Springfield Park runs a September to June school year schedule with no year round classes. As of the 2004-05 school year, there were 671 students enrolled in the school.[4] According to the Virginia Department of Education, for 2005-06, 40% of the teachers here had advanced degrees and the average class size per teacher (FTE) was 18.[5] Students in Springfield Park's attendance area are assigned to Hungary Creek Middle School in Glen Allen and to John Randolph Tucker High School in Richmond, Virginia.[2]

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[edit] Awards and recognition

Springfield Park Elementary placed second in Virginia's 2007 Knowledge Masters Open, an international computerized contest in which student teams compete to solve computerized questions.[6]

In 2004, Springfield Park was one of only 11 Twenty-first Century School of Distinction Award Semi-finalists from Virginia. (Virginia had no finalists in 2004.)[7]

Springfield Park was a winner in the 2004 Destination ImagiNation Virginia state finals.[8]

In 1999, the Virginia General Assembly and Senate approved a joint resolution encouraging local school divisions to take steps to prevent choking deaths in school cafeterias statewide, modeled on efforts initiated at Springfield Park Elementary School. In the resolution, the legislature recognized that the "PTA of Springfield Park Elementary School in Henrico County has led the effort to require local school divisions not only to train at least two staff members in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver, but also to require that they be on duty in school cafeterias whenever students are eating."[9]

In 1997, a kindergarten student at the school was one of ten grand-prize winners nationwide in the Math Is Everywhere essay contest organized by the Reading Rainbow public television program.[10]

[edit] German language curriculum

Springfield Park Elementary School offers a German-English International Program, for children whose native language is German.[11] The program was established at the start of the 1996-97 school year to serve the children of German-speaking employees of local businesses, many of whom are on temporary assignment in the United States. The program offers two hours of German instruction on a daily basis, provides English as a Second Language (ESL) support to help children with the English language, and acclimates children to the local school environment. Non-native German speakers must pass a German language proficiency test to show that they would be able to participate successfully in classroom subjects taught in German. The program continues for grades 6-8 at Short Pump Middle School.[12] The program was designed to serve the children of employees of the German firm Siemens AG, which has built a $1.5 billion computer chip factory in the eastern Henrico County area.[13]

[edit] Extracurricular activities

  • Chess Club – the Chess Club is sponsored by the Springfield Park Elementary School PTA.[2] At the 2006 Virginia Scholastic Chess Championship in Roanoke, Virginia, Springfield Park Elementary School won the 1st place trophy, with their top four players all finishing on the tournament top ten, earning a combined 21.5 points to take the title.[14][15] At the 2003 event, the school's kindergarten – third grade team came in first of the 27 teams entered, and had one of only two players in the section with a perfect 6.0 score, out of 166 players participating. The school came in fifth of 20 teams in the kindergarten – fifth grade section.[16] The Virginia Scholastic Chess Association will hold its Summer Metro Youth Tournaments at Springfield Park on July 21, 2007.[17]
  • Junior Achievement - Springfield Park is one of approximately 65 Virginia elementary schools participating in Junior Achievement. Junior Achievement's Elementary School Programs are designed to introduce students to the market system and its "relationship to democratic values and their responsibilities in this system."[18]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b "Coming Together; '96-97 School Year Offers Some Things New and Some Things True", Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 28, 1996
  2. ^ a b c Springfield Park Elementary School accessed February 22, 2007
  3. ^ "Springfield Park Dedication Set Sunday", Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 6, 1997
  4. ^ National Center for Education Statistics data for Springfield Park Elementary School, accessed February 21, 2007
  5. ^ Comparative data for Springfield Park Elementary School from GreatSchools.com, accessed February 21, 2007
  6. ^ News About You News About You, Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 21, 2007, accessed February 23, 2007
  7. ^ 2004 Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, Twenty-first Century Schools of Distinction!, accessed February 22, 2007
  8. ^ "Springfield Park School Wins", Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 27, 2004
  9. ^ SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 321 of 1999, accessed February 22, 2007
  10. ^ "2 Area Pupils Win in Math Contest", Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 12, 1997
  11. ^ "German Immersion Praised; program Aids Children of Siemens AG Staff", Richmond Times-Dispatch by Janet Caggiano, October 22, 1997
  12. ^ German-English International Program, accessed February 22, 2007
  13. ^ "German International Program Draws Praise", Richmond Times-Dispatch by Janet Caggiano, August 28, 1996
  14. ^ Springfield Park Elementary School Wins 2006 State Title, accessed February 21, 2007
  15. ^ "Best at chess", Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 11, 2006
  16. ^ Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships Draw Record Numbers, March 10, 2003
  17. ^ Virginia Scholastic Chess Association, VSCA Tournament Information & Events Schedule Accessed 2007-02-22
  18. ^ Junior Achievement of Central Virginia Accessed 2007-02-22

[edit] External links

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