Mission: At Alpine Elementary, we take every necessary step to ensure all students reach their full potential and achieve at the highest level.
School Website
2008 Bond Projects
History
School Focus
Achieving Academic Success
What Makes Alpine Unique
Before/After School Activities
Feeder Pattern
Alpine Elementary School
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Grades: Pre Kindergarten - 5th |
Deanna Frothingham, Principal |
School Website
Alpine Elementary School maintains a separate school web site [http://aes.stvrain.k12.co.us]. The school's web site makes it easier to communicate news and information to parents. Please visit the web site for more detailed information and events concerning Alpine Elementary School.
In addition to the separate school web site, an overview of Alpine Elementary School is provided [below]. A similar summary is provided for each school within the District to make it easier to find the same information for each of the District's schools.
2008 Bond Projects
Thanks to the community, the passage of the 2008 Bond will provide funds for building repairs and infrastructure upgrades.
History
Situated in the Ute Creek neighborhood in northeast Longmont, Alpine opened in the fall of 2004. Alpine is currently the only school in the St. Vrain Valley School District to house the International Baccalaureate Organization’s (IBO) Primary Years Programme (PYP). --Authorization by the IBO expected during 2007-2008.
School Focus
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) provides a transdisciplinary curriculum that is engaging, relevant, challenging, and significant for learners. In the IB-PYP, a balance is sought between mastery of essential knowledge and skills, development of conceptual understandings, demonstration of positive attitudes, and taking responsible action. The IB-PYP develops internationalism in students by teaching and modeling the qualities identified in the Learner’s Profile in order to create positive and productive citizens of the world.
To reach these goals, the Alpine staff supports and maintains a Professional Learning Community focused on grade level and cross-grade level collaboration to enable staff to create instructional programs that meet the needs of diverse learners.
Achieving Academic Success
To achieve academic success for all students, several opportunities have been designed.
- Strong literacy support for all students that includes differentiated and small group instruction with over 12,000 leveled texts.
- Gifted and talented program to meet the needs of those higher performing students in grades 3-5.
- Math clustering for students in grades 3-5. Students are pre-assessed for each unit of study and then clustered according to individual needs.
- A strong Specials Program (Art, Music, and Physical Education) that features collaborative and integrated units of inquiry.
What Makes Alpine Unique
Six school wide themes organize the school’s Program of Inquiry in preschool through fifth grade: Who Are We? Where Are We in Time and Place? How Do We Express Ourselves? How Does the World Work? How Do We Organize Ourselves? How Do We Share the Planet?
Eight key concepts are used to help students look at topics of study: What is it like? How is it changing? What are the points of view? How does it work? What is our responsibility? Why is it like it is? How is it connected to other things? How do we know?
Monthly All School Meetings support the attitudes and profiles we see students and staff demonstrate. Additionally, student work is celebrated in the action component of the IBPYP where students are encouraged to reflect, make informed choices, and take action.
A No Bully Program to address bullying behaviors and to create a school wide prevention program.
Before/After School Activities
Lion’s Den: a before (7:00-9:00 a.m.) and after (3:35-6:00 p.m.) school child care program.
Kinder Cubs: a fee-based kindergarten enrichment and child care program for students to attend opposite his/her regular kindergarten time (kindergarten students attend 2 1/2 days per week that includes a half day on Monday and all day on Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/Friday).
Community Schools provide a variety of classes/events including after school movies, arts and crafts, Odyssey of the Mind, Math Olympiad, cooking, athletics, and seasonal/holiday classes.
Camp Invention, a week-long summer enrichment day camp for children entering grades 2-6 that fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive thinking skills, and science literacy.
Feeder Pattern
Students leaving Alpine Elementary School will attend Heritage Middle School and then move on to Skyline High School.
