About Woodmen Hills Elementary School

  • Woodmen Hills Elementary School, located in Falcon Zone at 8308 Del Rio Road in Peyton, is in its 13th year of existence with an enrollment of more than 700 students, pre-school through fifth grade. The staff and community are proud of the fact that this large school has an overwhelming "small school" sense and feel about it. The teachers and students embrace new technology, engaging all learners with a Promethean Board or SMARTboard in every classroom.
     

    Curricula


    Woodmen Hills Elementary School has adopted Layers of Success, a new writing method, which is a building-wide emphasis on instructional strategies focused on generating strong ideas, vocabulary and challenging every child. Layers of Success is highly engaging and is embedded across all content areas. It's a positive behavior support school, which teaches school-wide behavioral skills directly. Similar to academic skills, these social behaviors are taught, reviewed and re-taught as necessary. This maximizes academic engagement and student success, while providing instructional support.
     

    Extracurricular


    Woodmen Hills Elementary School offers convenient before and after school care provided by Champions. This includes quiet homework areas, fitness and a character-building curriculum. The school also offer a variety of enrichment classes including: Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts, land sharks running club, karate, basketball, cup stacking, rocket-building, arts and crafts, cooking, math and science enrichment, instrumental music and choir.
     

    Community


    The students benefit from an active Parent-Teacher Association that goes the extra mile to make the school one of the best in the Pikes Peak region. They also have a tremendous amount of supportive parent volunteers, averaging more than 10 volunteers per day.

  • Falcon Zone has a strong tradition that dates back to 1900. That tradition carries on today with six highly successful schools: Falcon High, Falcon Middle, Falcon Elementary School of Technology, Woodmen Hills Elementary, Meridian Ranch Elementary, and Bennett Ranch Elementary. You can learn more about our history, traditions, and our vision for modern personalized learning here below.

     

     

    Falcon Zone offers the following programs: Academy of Health Science, Academy of Finance, Academy of Information Technology, Air Force JROTC, FBLA, Distributive Education Clubs of America, Link Crew, National Honor Society, Student-to-Student program, and many others. The zone offers more than 20 advanced placement and CU Succeed Classes. Its schools performed well on CMAS and SAT.

    While the Falcon Zone greatly honors tradition, we also embrace that our leaders today deserve a different learning experience from yesteryear - one that will prepare them to be successful in our ever-changing world.

    Through Empower Falcon Zone (Empower FZ), we aim to empower our learners by offering three main things:  

    Engaging Environments

    Enhanced Opportunities

    Elevated Instruction 

    We want our students to have more voice and choice in their education. We desire to cater more to their interests and needs while at the same time providing them with unique, challenging, expanded, and blended learning opportunities. 

     

     

     

Portfolio of Schools

  • Portfolio of Schools District 49 will create a robust portfolio of distinct and exceptional schools.  It’s not enough just to have a bunch of different kinds of schools; the district needs to have high quality, exceptional schools.  District 49 strives to offer wonderful schools in all of its zones, schools that are different from each other and superior to the options students might have in neighboring districts and communities.
     
    District 49’s board-approved strategic plan provides unified vision, goals and strategies to prepare students to achieve like never before.  Its strategic plan is organized around a big rocks metaphor.  If the district identifies and focuses on what's most important – its big rocks to Sustain Enduring Trust, Engage Our Community, Build Firm Foundations, Offer Exceptional Choices, Launch Successful Students, and Value All People – and then adds other things around them, the medium-sized rocks, and finally works in the pebbles, everything better fits together.  District 49 has applied this metaphor in its strategic plan, which identifies the district's Big Rocks.  These strategic initiatives will be emphasized over the upcoming years, representing the district’s commitment to its community.  These five rocks are its foundation for building an excellent future with its staff, students and greater community.

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