CHRISTOPHER FARMS ELEMENTARYBy, Taylor Chappell

DR. AMY CASHWELL MR. BRUCE CLARKE PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

LOCATION2828 PLEASANT ACRES DR.VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23453

School Layout

ABOUT CFES Christopher Farms Elementary is located in the

Christopher Farms housing development. Their doors opened in September 1997. The school was won the Superintendent’s Best-of-the-Beach Award, is housing the Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy, and has past all SOL test for five consecutive years. The mission of Christopher Farms Elementary School is to maximize student learning using research-based instructional strategies to prepare their students.

HOME OF THE COLTS

ETHNIC DIVERSITY

African American : 12.1%American Indian: 0.1%

Asian: 4.6%Caucasian: 70.0%

Hispanic: 5.8% Native Hawaiian: 1.4% Unspecified: 6.0%

STUDENT TO TEACHER RATIO

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (without resource personnel)

Pupil- Teacher Ratio (with resource personal)

K 1 2 3 4 5

20:1 24:1 20:1 20:1 23:1 19:1

K 1 2 3 4 5

17:1 19:1 17:1 17:1 19:1 15:1

Christopher Farms Elementary Staff Administration: Two Office: Three Kindergarten Teachers: Three and two assistants First Grade Teachers: Six Second Grade Teachers: Five Third Grade Teachers: Six Forth Grade Teachers: Six Fifth Grade Teachers: Six Special Education Teachers: Six Assistant Special Education Teachers: Four Resource: Four teachers Specialist Teachers : Sixteen

STAFF

5TH GRADE TEACHERS

Mrs. BagnallMrs. GaskinMr. KenisonMrs. MoranMrs. Sulich

Mrs. WaldmanSpecial Education: Ms. Sawyer

Spanish Immersion Program

The Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy at Christopher Farms Elementary School, is a program designed to offer students a foreign language class in the elementary school. Christopher Farms has developed the Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy to provide additional educational choices for students to expand their learning and careers. All Virginia Standards of Learning are still covered in the program.

The curriculum is divided into two sections, one taught in English and the other in Spanish. Mathematics, science, and health are taught by the Spanish language immersion teacher to help them learn numbers and words that are not used in every day language. The grade level language arts and social studies are still taught in English. However, both the language immersion teacher and the grade level teacher work together integrate all the curriculum.