Throughout the primary grades, each teacher has a certified aide to assist with smaller group reinforcement. Phonics is introduced at the kindergarten level and continued throughout the primary grades. Students also have a special class every day - Physical Education, Music, Art, Spanish, or Computer. Foreign language is offered to all students in third, fourth, and fifth grade and becomes an elective in the jr. Successfully completing the SSPP Foreign Language Program entitles students to enter the same high school foreign language program at the sophomore level.
Computer education is enhanced by instruction in both the elementary and junior high labs.
Our elementary building computer lab was constructed in 1999 and the junior high lab was constructed in the summer of 2000. Both labs house 35 PC's which are networked and connected to the Internet. Computers are also available in the Learning Resource Center and in the classrooms. Each classroom can receive Internet and network connections through the wireless LAN which was installed during the summer of 2001. Depending upon the grade level, students complete lab and classroom projects in word processing, graphing, spreadsheet, database, multimedia, Internet, and research.