JB Watkins Elementary - CCPS

Congratulations to Mrs. Bayly for receiving the Superintendent's Game Changer Award!

Congratulations to Ms. Borgman!! Wishing the two of you a lifetime of happiness!!!

Start with Hello Spirit Week kicks off today

We’re proud to be fully accredited and have 0 out of 6 quality indicators at Level 3(below standard)

J.B. Watkins Elementary - Virginia School Quality Profiles Virginia’s School Quality Profiles provide information about student achievement, college and career readiness, program completion, school safety, teacher quality and other topics of interest to parents and the general public for all Virginia public schools.

What an amazing first day!!! It’s going to be an amazing year!!!!

The Tear, Fold, Staple Party is happening! Thanks to all that came!

So excited to see you tomorrow! Check your email for some tips to make next week go even smoother!

Families, the entire staff is offsite tomorrow morning for our opening staff meeting and breakfast. The main office will not open until 9:30.

Also, we will resume our regular office hours this week of Monday-Friday from 8:30-4:30.

One of our fellow CCPS elementary schools is welcoming 25 BRAND NEW teachers tomorrow. They are looking for donations to help outfit their classrooms. If you have any children’s books, organizing tubs/baskets, desk supplies,board games that you’re no longer using we’d love to get those items to them! Are you a former teacher that has boxes of classroom decor stuff that you know you’ll never use again? We’ll take that too! Donations can be dropped off at JBW and we will arrange for their staff to pick items up. 25 new teachers in one building…let’s see how as a Coalminer community we can help them out with things around our house!!

.....and our last introduction is Mr. Evangelisto who will be our Itinerant Music Teacher!

Next up is our itinerant Art Teacher - Ms Duarte

Next up... Mr. Donovan who will be our itinerant STEAM teacher!!!

While not brand new (she started in April) we would likely to official welcome Mrs. Ramos to our staff as our Clinic Assistant!

We are almost there.... next we are fortunate to have Mrs Werner as our part time ESL teacher! Welcome!

So exciting to see all of our newest Coalminer staff this morning!!! It’s going to be a great year!!!!

Today's spotlight new Coalminer is Ms. Mallory joining us this year in 5th grade!

Next up is Mrs. Boothe joining our Special Education Team!

Next let's welcome Mrs. Greenwood one of our 4th grade teachers!

Happy Monday! Next up is Ms. Bullis another new first grade teacher!

Hi Coalminer families!

We wanted to let you know that this is still the page used by JBW Admin. We had to make some changes to the name and profile picture in order to be able to link it to Apptegy, the new CCPS communication platform.

Ms. Weatherford & Ms. Borgman

Please help us welcome Ms. Richmond!

Today we will introduce Erin Jefferson, one of our new special education teachers!

JBW Girls on the Run, led by Ms. Weatherford, will be returning again in the fall! Information on registration will be sent out soon. This is open to girls in 3rd-5th grade. Practices will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30 starting the week of September 25th.

Happy Monday! Next up is our new itinerant PE teacher, Mr. Resnick!

Next to join our team is Ms. Tolliver! She will be teaching 5th grade this year!!! Welcome!

We are still looking to hire a library itinerant teacher that we will share with Winterpock and Grange Hall. If you know of someone who might be interested, please have them reach out to Ms. Weatherford or Ms. Borgman.
J.B. Watkins Elementary PTA

We have many new faces in Coalminer Country! In the next few weeks we will introduce them. First up Ms. Morgan who will be a 1st grade teacher!

Congratulations to Ms Weatherford for getting this year’s Superintendent’s Game Changer Award at our Leadership Academy!!!!

We are looking to hire a library itinerant teacher that we will share with Winterpock and Grange Hall. If you know of someone who might be interested, please have them reach out to Ms. Weatherford or Ms. Borgman.

Help me wish Ms Weatherford a very very happy birthday!!!!! Hope you are having THE BEST day!!!!

Starting on Monday, June 12th, we will switch to our summer hours in the office. We will be open Monday-Thursday from 7am-5pm and closed on Fridays.

Please continue to encourage new neighbors to register their children for school. Class rolls and bus routes are being worked on and we want to make sure we’re adequately staffed at the start of the school year!

Have a great weekend!!

Don’t feel like cooking? Awesome then order pizza!
Use Spirit Night Code WATKINS when ordering Papa John and 10% will be donated back to our school all summer long!!!!!! Hope you’re enjoying every minute of summer break!!!!

Have a wonderful summer and don’t forget to check those backpacks for leftover snacks or lunches before you tuck them away until August! Looking forward to seeing you again next year!!

Ms. Weatherford and Ms. Borgman

Happy Administrative Professional’s Day to our front office super heroes Kathy Gunn, Ayonna Draggs and Lauren Hartman!!!

It was a great day in Coalminer Country! Congratulations to William Ungerer for earning the Superintendent’s Citizenship Award!!

Congratulations to Mrs. Zabel for receiving the Superintendent’s Game Changer Award today!!

…and we’re live! So excited to have a new, updated marquee!!!