Courtney Champion’s six-year-old son, a student at Springfield Park Elementary School, broke two bones in his wrist after falling on the school’s playground in late October. “He fell from the wooden structure where the rope climber was attached – except that it wasn’t well attached,” Champion said. “He
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Melanie Moore always knew she wanted to become a teacher when she grew up. With a mother and sister working as art teachers, Moore grew up well acquainted with what it would take. Now, as she approaches her 39th year of teaching elementary school students, Moore still gets excited every
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Maria Kirtley still remembers the excitement she felt as a student at Gayton Elementary School years ago when, on her birthday, her teacher gave her a pencil with the school’s motto at the time: “Knowledge is power.” “It was just always something that stuck with me,” she recalled of
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The Henrico School Board Thursday unanimously approved school redistricting plans that will impact some students at a handful of western Henrico elementary schools. The boundary shifts will relieve some overcrowding issues at Rivers Edge and Colonial Trail elementary schools in the Far West End and also shift students from Kaechele,
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A vote next week by the Henrico School Board could bring in-person learning back for thousands of students countywide. But for some, it’s already underway. The school system last week began in-person learning for select groups of students at both elementary schools and its ACE (Advanced Career Education) centers.
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