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Ms. Nguyen

Ms. Nguyen is teacher of the month!

Ms. Nguyen was awarded Teacher of the Month! She was surprised by a visit from Superintendent Dr. William Hite while she was teaching. All of her 1st grade students both in the classroom and those learning from home got to watch Ms. Nguyen be honored. Her class was also joined by teachers and other friends…

principal Cheung award winner

Principal Cheung wins Lindback Award!

Ms. Cheung has won the 2021 Distinguished Principal Leadership Award. This award is give each year to select principals across the city. Principals are nominated by their staff and the community. This is truly a great honor!                     After graduating from Temple with a degree in...
Black Lives Matter at school

Black Lives Matter at Key

Our students have been participating in many different kinds of activities for Black Lives Matter. In particular, we have been taking part in Black Lives Matter Week of Action. You can find more information here in Spanish and in English. Your child’s teacher will tell you more about what is happening in the classroom. You…

Students pick up art award for art competition

Key winners in #VoteThatJawn

Congrats to Danny and Shu  for placing in the Vote That Jawn Art Competition! They created logos to inspire friends and family to vote in November. They picked up their prizes of art supplies last safely at school. Thank you to our art teacher Ms. Patel! She also won a Limited Edition Set of Cray-Pas.

4th graders talk opera and service learning!

4th graders talk opera and service learning!

Ivanna spoke for the class during our Opera Philadelphia Celebration: “Good Morning, my name is Ivanna. Room 24 has so much fun making our Flipgrids to express what we are passionate about. We talked about how we love opera, some of us sang, some of us acted, and some of us recited our poetry about…

virtual book

Creating a virtual book about a virtual classroom

The 1st graders in Ms. Nguyen’s class created a virtual book with Ms. Hawley about being in a virtual classroom. Students drew their own pictures about their favorite part of virtual school. They also wrote their stories for the pages in the book! Have fun reading the book!  

Valuable clinic information for your child's immunization!

Valuable clinic information for your child’s immunization!

Parents, please use this information to find out how you can get your child’s vaccinations for school! You can find out more information on the School District of Philadelphia’s webpage. You can get your child vacinated: Your child’s doctor A school immunization clinic A CVS Pharmacy Philadelphia’s City Helath Centers       Please call…

Back to School!

Back to School!

The first day of school starts September 2 for students. You can see a list of supplies your teacher hopes you will have ready before we begin remote learning! In addition to getting a message in Class Dojo, you can also find the list on this page of our website and on the student page….

Christ Church food distribution

Food sharing with families

While we were quarantined, Principal Cheung, parents, and teachers coordinated and volunteered to help distribute food. Pastor Matt from Christ Church was able to help families with boxes of food so that everyone had plenty to eat! It was a great way to see students, their families, and our neighbors. It also helped staff get…

chromebook distribution

Key staff distribute Chromebooks!

Staff and teachers volunteered to distrubute Chromebooks to the families of our students. The Chromebooks would be used by students to keep up with school work while schools were closed. All safety precautions were taken during the distribution. Key handed out just over 300 Chromebooks on the first two days of distribution.