We want to recognize our students for being respectful, responsible, safe, and caring!  Our student advisory team sponsored our October school spirit day, Pajama Day.  Students were encouraged to show school by wearing pajamas.  We have spirit.  Yes we …

The weather was a little brisk but the walk was invigorating as Greenwood students and staff took a stroll through the neighborhood, part of Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative. Click the photo to see more of Greenwood taking to the streets.

Greenwood has started a student advisory team.  We have a representative from each homeroom on the team.  Our student advisory is responsible for planning monthly school spirt days and monthly celebrations.  The group also helps us problem solve …

We want to recognize our students for being RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE, SAFE, and CARING! Our student advisory team sponsored our first school spirit event this year, Mismatch Day. Students were encouraged to wear mismatched clothing. They could wear stripes and spots or animal print with floral print. They could even just wear two different socks. We had some students mismatched from head to toe. Check out more pictures by clicking on the title.

It was game day and members of the Roosevelt football team, cheerleaders, and Coach Link stopped by Greenwood. The student athletes answered questions, read with students, and participated in classroom activities. The Greenwood students were excited to see the players and cheerleaders in uniform! Thanks for giving back and showing our students you care! Click on the headline for a link to more photos.

Please join us in welcoming our new principal, Andrea Safina! Principal Safina has been with Des Moines Public Schools for more than a decade, and longtime families may remember her — she used to be on staff at Greenwood! Principal Safina is looking forward to welcoming all of us back when school starts later this month!

In late March five 8th graders at Callanan Middle School – Zoe Zmolek, Claire Bissmeyer, Natalie Bennett and Grace & Ella Sundstrom – launched a project to provide free books for summer reading to all students at their elementary alma mater: Greenwood. United Way and Half Price Books came aboard as sponsors, and today the girls delivered nearly 900 book for every student at their old school. Click the headline to read and see more.

Greenwood Elementary School’s coding club demonstrated the value of computer science during a press conference today with Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa Department of Education Director Ryan Wise, who spoke about legislation recently signed to encourage computer science education. The star of the press conference, however, was Greenwood’s coding club, a group of more than 75 students who meet after school to work on technology projects. Click the photo to see more of the event.