On October 29th, Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education (AFAEE) surprised Alison Shelton, principal of Centennial Place Elementary School, with a $7,500 award in front of students, faculty, partners and administrators. This award will fund the CPrizEs Project, a rewards system to increase parental involvement and student engagement at Centennial Place. “I’m super excited […]
Centennial Place Elementary School’s PTA hosted a hands on science day for third through fifth graders. The activities included an assembly, presentation from Big Thinkers, and hands on experiments in the classrooms. Students were overflowing with energy as they participated in an air and pressure show by Big Thinkers and tested the scientific method with […]
ATLANTA – Boyd, Centennial Place and Hutchinson elementary school students are heading back to class at 8 a.m. on Monday, July 15 as Atlanta Public Schools kicks off “Day One APS” for year-round schools. Boyd and Hutchinson elementary are two of the district’s new 58 Community Eligibility Option (CEO) schools. As part of this pilot […]
Congratulations to Morris Brandon, Centennial Place, Garden Hills, Parkside, D.H. Stanton, Toomer, Beecher Hills, and Drew Charter elementary schools for their outstanding performance in the fourth-annual APS Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl this last weekend. As the highest-scoring teams, Parkside and Morris Brandon will proceed to the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 5. […]
The Winter 2010 issue of the award-winning Atlanta Educator, a product of the Atlanta Public Schools’ Office of Communications, hits the streets this week to celebrate the many business and community partnerships that help our students in their journey to excellence. In this issue, read all about the collaboration with KaBOOM!, which helps schools and […]
Retired Atlanta Braves outfielder turned children’s author, Brian Jordan, visited Centennial Place Elementary School to promote the importance of reading as part of the Threshing Floor Academy‘s Authors in Schools Program. Jordan shared his experiences as a professional athlete and how getting a good and well-rounded education was always the first priority in his family. Jordan also shared […]
Parents of students at Boyd Elementary School and school staff members will be going door-to-door Friday afternoon (July 9) reminding parents and students that the first day of classes for the district’s three year-round schools is Wednesday, July 14. Groups of parents and school staff will assemble at Boyd Elementary (1891 Johnson Road, NW, Atlanta […]