East Fallowfield Elementary School

Principal: Melissa Willis - willism@casdschools.org

Guidance: Lynn Stover - stoverl@casdschools.org

Secretary: Jaclyn Bernardo - bernardoj@casdschools.org

Attendance - Sam Frost - efattendance@casdschools.org

The mission of the Coatesville Area School District, rich in diversity, and committed to excellence, is to create innovative educational experiences, which are funded by the taxpayers, supported by the community, delivered by dedicated teachers and administrators, to ensure all students will become responsible, contributing global citizens.

Email: willism@casdschools.org

Website: https://www.casdschools.org/eastfallowfield

Location: 2254 Strasburg Road, Coatesville, PA, USA

Phone: 610-383-3765

Twitter: @CASDEFallowfld

5/14 - Orchestra, 8:15 am

5/14 - Tie Dye Day

5/15 - Early Dismissal, 12:30 pm

5/16 - Band, 8:00 am

5/16 - Tie Dye Day – Rain Date

5/16 - Spanish/Garden Club

5/17 - 5th Grade Girls Trip

5/20 - Band, 8:00 am

5/20 - Spring Concert (Orchestra/Band/Chorus) at CAIHS (8/9 Building), 6:30 pm

5/23 - Field Day, Grades 3-5 from 10 am - 12 pm and Grades K-2 from 1 pm - 3 pm

5/24 - No School!

5/27 - No School!

5/29 - Field Day – Rain Date

5/31 - 5th Grade Field Trip

6/5 - 5th Grade Promotion - 10:00 am

6/5 - Kindergarten Ice Cream Social - 2:30 pm

On Wednesday evening, East Fallowfield hosted their first annual Arts Night and it was a magical evening! The halls were buzzing with students and their families, admiring all of the amazing art work our students have created this year! Our Big East musicians put on multiple performances that wowed the crowd! We had a visit from the Coatesville Library and students received free books! Our reading specialist, Mrs. DiSands ran a raffle and guessing game station and we had a Poetry Slam featuring some of our 5th grade poets! One of the highlights of the show was the Glow in the Dark exhibit! It was an amazing night and an awesome way to celebrate the talents of our students!

Special thank you to Ms. Willgruber for turning our school into an art museum and to Mrs. Mullen for leading our musicians!

Coatesville Area School District first graders joined nearly 10,000 elementary students across the Pennsylvania to participate in discoverEd 2024! This was a virtual collaborative design challenge focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, also known as STEAM! Thank you to our amazing STEM teacher, Mrs. Billman for facilitating this opportunity for our first graders!

As a culminating project for our 4th and 5th grade graffiti unit, our amazing art teacher, Ms. Willgruber, asked artist Seper Torcasio to come to East Fallowfield. He is a professional graffiti artist who lives and works in Philadelphia. Seper showed the kids how to use non-toxic spray paint and everyone worked together to create 2 large scale paintings. The pieces themselves were made up of 8 x 8 in. canvases that were nailed together to create 2 large works. The students were shown how to use different techniques such as making straight lines, fades, and blurs.

The paintings were displayed at our first annual Arts Night and were a fan favorite! After the art show, Ms. Willgruber took the larger works apart to give a canvas to each of the students to keep. These paintings will not only remind our students of this incredible experience, but will also remind them of what they learned.

On Friday morning, our Garden Club started the day off by spreading joy throughout the school. The students and their advisors Ms. Gina and Mrs. Rodriguez, have been hard at work creating beautiful bouquets to hand out to our staff for Teacher Appreciation Week. It was a lovely surprise and a great way to celebrate our teachers!

As you know, back in March our students participated in a March Madness bracket to choose the book for our One Book, One School challenge. It was a close race but ultimately the winner was 8 Class Pets, Plus One Squirrel Plus One Dog Equals Chaos.

Students in grades 1-5 have received a copy of our book that they are reading in class with their teacher. Kindergarten students will participate in this building initiative in their classrooms as a read aloud instead of a one-to-one reading assignment.

🗣️ GROWN-UPS OF BIG EAST! 🗣️

Please find below our PTO board nominations and the attached ballot (in the comments)! For reference, while all nominees are running unopposed, we would love for you to know a little bit more about the people on the ballot!

First, our veterans! 😉

✨Stephanie Kershner is a mom of two current EF kiddos and two grads! She organizes lots of Big East events like our Scholastic Book Fair and our book giveaways. Steph is excited to be nominated for President for the upcoming school year!

✨Nita Leech is a mom of two current East Fallowfield kiddos and one future! You may not see her around school much but she's behind the scenes working her magic or at some sports event for one of her 3 boys! Nita is excited to be nominated for Vice President for the upcoming school year!

✨Teresa Walker (hi! 👋🏼) is a mom of two current Big East besties and one future! I run the EF Facebook page, do the yearbook, and try to get all your kids to smile for the 10,000 pictures I take at EF! I'm grateful to be nominated for Public Relations for the upcoming school year!

And now onto our newbies - our future looks bright with them! 😎

✨Kasie Ross is a mom of one current East Fallowfielder and one future. Kasie has been a valuable volunteer and is excited to be nominated for Treasurer for the upcoming school year! Yay Kasie!! ❤️

✨Brittany Macey is a mom of two current EF kiddos. Brittany has been an outstanding volunteer and is excited to be nominated for Secretary for the upcoming school year! We are excited to have Brittany join us on the board (and we hope she’ll bring a foster pup or two whenever she visits Big East)! 🐶

✨Amanda Favuzza is a mom of two current EF kiddos and one future! Amanda has been an amazing volunteer and is excited to be nominated for Fundraising Coordinator for the upcoming school year! Welcome aboard, Amanda!! 🏒💙

✨Jamie Campbell is a mom of one current East Fallowfielder and one future! Jamie has been a wonderful volunteer and is excited to be nominated for Events Coordinator for the upcoming school year! Thrilled to have you, Jamie! 💖

We are so fortunate to have 4 new volunteers nominated to our board and can't wait to see our PTO continue to grow!

Voting is open until Friday, May 17!! 🗳️

Also (and even more importantly), we would LOVE to have new parents/ grownups join us for the 2024-2025 School Year. It takes time and effort and occasionally some💰to put on these events, and we would appreciate any help or contacts that our community has/ is willing to share! We love your kids and want to offer them everything we can, and the stronger our PTO, the more we can do!

Our last pretzel delivery of the school year will be this Friday, May 17th. Thank you for supporting our pretzel sales this year! We appreciate you!

Chromebooks

• Please be sure to send your child back to school with their district-issued Chromebook and charger if they took it home for the summer.
• If your child turned in their Chromebook at the end of the year, they will be distributed within the first few days of school.
• If your child is in kindergarten or new to the district, laptops will be distributed within the first weeks of school.
• Technology Insurance Fees (TIF) can be made via RevTrak on the school district’s website: https://coatesvillearea.revtrak.net/casd-technology/.
• Should you have any technology concerns please contact our Technology Department at ithelpdesk@casdschools.org.

The district is continuing our contract with A Child’s Place as our before and after care provider. Please see the attached flyer below for information about rates and how to enroll your child. We are happy to announce that we will have both before and after care at East Fallowfield this year!