Welcome to
George Washington
Elementary School

• Cafeteria Earns 3 Black Diamond Awards from Health Department--Congratulations to the Washington cafeteria staff, who recently received 3 Black Diamond Awards from the Allegheny County Health Department as a result of its most recent inspection.  Black Diamonds are presented to the facilities that have demonstrated exceptional conditions of cooking, cooling, reheating, hot and cold holding, protection from cross-contamination and sanitation, as well as having a certified manager on staff.  Congratulations!

• Washington Earns Keystone Achievement Award! For the third consecutive year, George Washington Elementary School has been awarded the Keystone Achievement Award by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the PSSA Exams for two consecutive years.  This year's award is for PSSA Scores in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.  Congratulations to our third and fourth graders and their teachers for their outstanding work on these tests and keep up the good work!  To see the district's PSSA scores for 2006-2007, please click here.

• PTO to collect used cell phones--The Washington PTO is conducting a Used Cell Phone Campaign during the 2007-2008 school year to raise funds for PTO-funded student activities and ensure that the unhealthy components of cell phones (lead, mercury and cadmium) don't enter the water supply.  Refurbished cell phones are also made available to battered women for their use in emergency situations.  To date, we have collected over 300 used cell phones and raised almost $800!  If you get a new cell phone over the holidays, please consider donating your old cell phone in 2008.  Collection boxes are also located in the offices of Buildings 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the high school campus.  Thank you for helping to make a difference!

• Visitor Sign-In Procedures Revised for ALL Bethel Park Schools.  ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools must adhere to the following sign-in procedures. We appreciate your cooperation as we continue to provide a safe environment for our students and staff.

1. ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools will report directly to the main office upon entry into the building.
2. Visitors will log-in their name, date, time and reason for visit on a standardized log-in sheet in each school office.
3. The building secretary will verify the information is complete and will obtain photo identification from the visitor, which will be held in the office for the duration of the visitor’s time in the building.
4. Visitors will be issued visitor’s tag that must be worn visibly during the time of the visit.
5. At the conclusion of the visit, the visitor will return the visitor’s tag to the office, log out and their photo identification will be returned to the visitor.

• NEW in 2007-2008—On days when a two hour delay is called, the district will operate a Modified Kindergarten Schedule as follows:

• Morning Kindergarten will attend from 11:20 AM to 1 PM
• Afternoon Kindergarten will attend from 2 to 3:40 PM

Modified Kindergarten equalizes both sessions to 1 hour, 40 minutes of instruction.  Please take note of this change to the schedule.  Please click here for more information.

All Bethel Park elementary students have been given a log-in and password to allow access to these two textbooks from home (or any computer) via the website. We encourage parents to log-in with their children to experience the learning opportunities these e-books provide.
The directions are simple:

1. Go to www.eharcourtschool.com
2. Enter your log-in (you can find your log-in name on the Welcome letter that was sent home)
3. Type your password
4. Select your on-screen textbook by pointing and clicking on it.