This year’s Winter Carnival will be held:

Saturday, February 18th
12:00-4:00
$5 per child
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Volunteer sign-up and more information coming!

The 2012 R.E.B. Awards for Teacher Excellence

Nominate an outstanding teacher at our school for an R.E.B. Award of up to $12,000.
The R.E.B. awards are designed to identify, recognize, and support teaching excellence in the metropolitan Richmond public school systems. Professional development grants ranging from $4,000 to $12,000 each will be awarded to teachers who have distinguished themselves by their inspiring classroom performance.

Nomination forms are available online at http://www.tcfrichmond.org/.  Nominations are due by February 25th, 2012.

New! Now you can order your favorite Gator Spiritwear items online and have them shipped directly to you! Choose from hundreds of items and customize them however you’d like. 25% of all purchases go to our school! Click here to order from Spiritweardirect.

Swift Creek Elementary School participates in TerraCycle’s Juice Pouch Brigade and Lays Chip bag Brigade Programs. The school earns 2 cents for every juice pouch and chip bag the school ships to TerraCycle (shipping costs are covered by TerraCycle). TerraCycle turns these juice pouches and bags into backpacks and other neat school supplies. This past year we collected over 4,800 chip bags and 6,700 juice pouches. 

In order to make this program successful, volunteers are needed! Please sign up online to help. Email Pam with any questions.

Ancient Civilization day is a huge 3^rdgrade tradition at SCES! It is a full day event highlighting the SOL information for the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, Greece, Rome and Mali. The day is packed full of fun learning activities, crafts, games, and lots of wonderful food! The children, teachers, and even many of the volunteers wear costumes representing one of the five countries. The one-day event takes much planning and lots of volunteers to be successful!

Third grade parents and families who would like to join the fun can sign up online to help. If you have questions feel free to email.

Each year our 5th graders have the opportunity to enter our yearbook cover contest. We are pleased to show you the fabulous artwork that was chosen for our 2012 “Super Gators” yearbook front and back cover! (Click on the images to see them larger)

Our front cover was drawn by Ashley Bann. Her design was used to help create the comic books themed cover seen here and that will carry on through the book.

2012 Yearbook Front Cover

Our back cover was drawn by Alaina Jencik. Her design was used to help create a very important reminder to all of our Super Gators to “Dream Big!”

2012 Yearbook Back Cover

Congratulations to each of the winners and thank you to everyone who submitted art for all your hard work!

Our first book club will be starting this November. “Books for Breakfast” will start Friday, November 4th from 8:15-9:00 in the cafeteria. The featured book they will be reading is “Surviving the Applewhite’s“, a Newberry Honor book by Stephanie S. Tolan. We are sure these 4th and 5th graders are going to love having their very own book club. Special thanks to Jennifer Adams for organzing this event and conducting the club meetings. For more information please contact Jennifer.

Bill Wellington will be performing a special concert for SCES familes on Thursday, November 17th at 7pm. Bill Wellington’s Radio WOOF family concerts are a celebration of family, folklore, and fun with music, song, and story. Bill’s high-energy banjo, fiddle, and guitar playing are irresistible, and his zany antics make everyone laugh out loud. Whether in a school, library, or as part of a festival or concert series, Bill entertains young and old in a marvelous way. Learn more about Bill on his website.  Special thanks to our PTA’s Arts in Education for planning this great event!