It’s back to school for U-CF

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It’s the unofficial end of summer and this year it came on
Aug. 31. “It” is the first day back to school for the Unionville-Chadds Ford
School District.

For Chadds Ford Elementary School it means the return to
class for 313 students this year. This is also the year the school will be able
to legally display the sign telling passing motorists that CFES earned the
designation National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

The school earned that designation in 2008 and a sign was
made and displayed on the front lawn along Route 1. Pennsbury Township ordered the sign removed because it
violated the township’s sign ordinance, so the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education
Foundation sought and won a variance for the sign. The sign will remain on
display throughout this school year.

 New
within the education curriculum this year, according to Principal Mark
Ransford, will be programs emphasizing Spanish in the school. Ransford said the
school will be looking for ways “to infuse” Spanish in the school.

 He
said Spanish would be used during morning announcements, there will be fiestas
in the cafeteria, posters in the classrooms along with students being exposed
to Spanish music and literature.

 The
rationale behind the program, he said, was that “Spanish is fluent in the
community. Children hear it in grocery stores. It’s also becoming more
predominant in the U.S.”

[Editor’s note:
ChaddsFordLive will be paying special attention to the elementary schools in
the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District this, our first academic year being
published. Special monthly columns and features are being planned, some are
close to fruition. There will be announcements made as they approach their
debuts.
]

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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