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Welcome to
William Penn
Elementary School
110 Woodlet Lane
Bethel Park, PA 15102
Phone: (412) 854-8522
Fax: (412) 854-8411
District Voice Mail: (412) 833-5005
AM Kindergarten:
9:20 AM to 12:05 PM
PM Kindergarten:
12:55 PM to 3:40 PM
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 School Contact |
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Mr. George Spalaris, Principal
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About Our School |
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William Penn is one of five elementary schools in Bethel Park. Approximately 200 students in grades kindergarten through four attend our school. Forty staff members work together to ensure the best educational experience possible for all of our students.
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Latest News |
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• District to
use ALERTNOW Notification Service as an additional communication tool
between the school district and parents--Keeping
parents informed is a top priority of the Bethel Park School District, and
we will be using the ALERTNOW Notification Service to send telephone and/or
email messages to parents and/or employees to notify them of things such as
school delays or cancellations due to inclement weather. With ALERTNOW,
you won't have to watch television to wait for Bethel Park's status to
scroll onto the screen. Parents will be notified by phone when the
district makes the decision to close or delay. ALERTNOW can also be
used to remind parents of upcoming events at school. But most
importantly, in an emergency, ALERTNOW has the capability to launch 12,000
phone calls a minute, so parents don't have to rely on Phone Chains to get
emergency information. In an emergency, ALERTNOW has
the capability to call up to five phone numbers per student. ALERTNOW
also has the capability to send out email messages to up to five email
address per student, but we will not test the email system until the fall. Please click
here
to learn more about ALERTNOW. We hope you will agree that ALERTNOW is
another way the district can keep parents up to date. |
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• Earn Pirates
Tickets for a 3.0 GPA. The
Pittsburgh Pirates, Trib Total Media and the U.S. Army are rewarding
students with two complimentary tickets to a Pirates home game for earning a
3.0 GPA during the final grading period, maintaining perfect attendance
during the final grading period or excelling in other areas such as community
service or special achievement. Please click
here
to learn more and to print out an order form. |
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Penn Earns Keystone Achievement Award! For the third consecutive
year, William Penn 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. |
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Visitor Sign-In Procedures Revised for ALL Bethel Park Schools. The following sign-in procedures
have been adopted for ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools. We appreciate your cooperation as we continue to provide a safe environment for our students and staff.
- ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools will report directly to the main office upon entry into the building.
- Visitors will log-in their name, date, time and reason for visit on a standardized log-in sheet in each school office.
- 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.
- Visitors will be issued visitor’s tag that must be worn visibly during the time of the visit.
- 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.
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On days when a two hour delay is called, the
district will operate a Modified Kindergarten Schedule as follows:
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Morning Kindergarten will attend from 11:20 AM to 1 PM
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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. |
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• The Bethel Park School District has purchased subscriptions to the Online Edition of your child's textbooks for Science in Grades 1-4, and for Social Studies in Grade 4. The Harcourt Brace e-books feature the student edition pages, plus a variety of dynamic and engaging resources to enhance students' learning experiences. We are excited about the extensions of learning that can take place without taking books home from school. The e-books provide interactive graphics, animations, along with audio, vocabulary words, and printable pages to support learning. |
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• 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:
- Go to www.eharcourtschool.com
- Enter your log-in (you can find your log-in name on the Welcome letter that was sent home)
- Type your password
- Select your on-screen textbook by pointing and clicking on it.
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Upcoming Events |
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HAVE A GREAT
SUMMER! WE'LL SEE YOU ON MONDAY, AUGUST 25!
Thought for the Month:
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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