Facts About Our School
Year School Built 1948
Square Footage 55,490
Number of Students 440
Grades Served K-4
School Hours 8:00 - 3:00
School Colors Green, White
School Mascot Hornet
School Motto:
"A School of Thought and Thoughtfulness"
Principal:
Dr. Eileen Wills - eileen.wills@mnps.org
District 8 School Board Representative:
David A. Fox - david@fox4schools.com
District 34 Metro Council Representative:
Carter Todd - carter.todd@nashville.gov
Parent Support Group Contact:
PTA President, Lia Southwick - liasouthwick@comcast.net
What Makes Our School Unique?
Julia Green School for Thought and Thoughtfulness has a great reputation in the community as an outstanding elementary school. The teaching staff is highly trained and experienced in the teaching profession. Through collaborative planning, we continue to grow personally and professionally. Our area specialists excel in their abilities to instruct in art, music, physical education, resource, library skills, and science. We place strong emphasis on reading, writing, and math. Our schools safety and school climate are essential in our success story.
We are a Participatory Leadership School and we follow the “Character Counts” guidelines. Our hour of planning each day provides us many opportunities to share ideas to better meet the needs of our students. We have ten 21st century classrooms and four Schools for Thought trained teachers. We value the technology training and project-based learning/problem solving, questioning techniques.
Our parental involvement and support are phenomenal and vital to the success of our school. The PTA meets monthly and parents serve on each school committee. The teachers, parents, and members of the community join hands to support our most important natural resource, our children.
Who Attends Our School?
Students attending Julia Green live in the southwest area of Davidson County and are zoned to Hillsboro High School. The elementary schools in the Hillsboro cluster are: Carter-Lawrence Math & Science Magnet, Glendale Spanish Immersion, Eakin, Julia Green, Percy Priest, and Sylvan Park Paideia. The middle schools in this cluster are J.T. Moore and West End.
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What Does Our School Offer?
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21st Century technology classrooms
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Annual Read-a-thon earns funds for school and students
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Approximately 25,000 books
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Character Education program
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Computer/technology director
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Daily physical education classes
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Fall carnival
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Library Media Center also includes storytelling and research units
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Musical performances
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Orff music
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Reading Recovery
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Spanish teacher
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Spring art show
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Spring field day
Community Partners
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Chess and Violin Club
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Girl and Boy Scout troops
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Julia Green Extended Care, Inc (JGEC).JGEC is a nonprofit organization providing working parents of Julia Green students with continuing attention and adult supervision during the normal working day when their children are not attending classes. Its policies are established by an independent parent board. Signup for the next school year occurs each spring. A summer day camp run by JGEC is available on a weekly basis. Mrs. Sandra Yarnell is the director (298-5145).
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Parent support includes working as classroom aides, tutoring, fundraising, assisting in the art and technology programs and organizing the fall carnival, spring auction and INVEST in your child.
PENCIL Partners
PENCIL Foundation, a nonprofit organization, links community resources with Nashville public schools. A PENCIL Partner is a business or other community organization that teams up with a Metro school to volunteer time and donate resources that promote student success.
Hillsboro Cluster Map (2008-2009)
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