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Mission Statement
The Smithridge Staff is committed to providing a safe and respectful learning environment to ensure that all students will learn and achieve to their fullest potential.
Smithridge shares Washoe County School District's Mission to provide each student the opportunity to achieve his or her potential through a superior education in a safe and challenging environment in order to develop responsible and productive citizens for our diverse and rapidly changing community.
2010-2011 Smithridge becomes a SIG School.
The school day is longer, ready bell rings at 8:45AM and the school day ends at 3:00PM. Wednesdays are early release days ... allowing teachers to meet and assess student progress and plan for the upcoming weeks goals.Class changes include adding a Science Lab, PE, and bringing the COW bus pre-schoolers on campus in a classroom. There will be two after-school programs, Team-Up and RTI. Due to busing, the Dpre-kindergarten will be on the same time schedule ... the days change to: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Breakfast in the classroom continues, and recess will go back to after lunch.Smithridge students will also be required to wear school uniforms: Black or light blue collared shirt (tucked in), black or khaki pants or skirt (no black on black).
2009-2010 Successes, Honors, and Unique Features
Smithridge Elementary is a large, PreK – 5 neighborhood school, with most of the 600 students walking to school. HeadStart is located on campus to serve the community. Smithridge also hosts four half-day special
education pre-kindergarten classrooms. The COW bus also services neighborhood pre-school children, Monday – Thursday. The CALF van provides weekly parenting classes for the parents of our COW bus pre-schoolers. Smithridge has five full day kindergartens which is helping our students to be better prepared for first grade.
Smithridge teachers continue to develop professionally to better serve the needs of our large ELL population. SIOP (sheltered instruction) and GLAD are a main focus of professional development. Twelve teachers have their ESL endorsement with three additional cohorts (another twelve teachers) working towards completion of an ESL endorsement. Grades 1-5 reading intervention blocks include nine teachers who have been trained in Reading Recovery.
ARRA funding from Title 1 has provided additional reading resource/intervention help by funding a .5 position. Other Title 1 funding allows kindergarten classrooms to have bilingual aides and assistants which greatly accelerates learning English.
RTI is a successful program at Smithridge. A team of teachers along with the administration, counselor and school psychologist meet weekly in IAT to discuss student progress and achievement. Smithridge is adding math intervention along with the current reading intervention/enrichment blocks in response to AYP data that shows more math intervention/enrichment is needed.
Parent Involvement has increased. We continue to address the needs of the families in this community through response to parent surveys.
During the summer of 2009, Smithridge was revitalized and received new classroom furniture, updated electrical supply, greater internet access, Promethean (ActivBoards) in every classroom, new bathrooms, fire alarm system, and phone system. Overall, Smithridge has been modernized with improved safety features.
Smithridge provides a comprehensive literacy program focusing on the diverse learning levels of all our students. Every student has a 90 minutes daily reading block along with a daily intervention/enrichment block. Students in grades 1, 2, 3 have a 30 minute daily intervention/enrichment block and students in grades 4 and 5 have a 45 minute daily intervention/enrichment block. Additionally, students who are in tier 2 or 3 receive additional support through reading resource and reading recovery. Title One also provides SES afterschool tutoring.
2009-2010 Report Smithridge Made AYP
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