Welcome to Ambler Elementary School: A Great Place to Work
by Carlton Lewis, Principal
Ambler
Elementary School is indeed a "Great Place to Work!" I am currently
serving this strong community school as principal for my 16th year.
We are fortunate to have a staff full of Team Players, in my opinion,
and we love our jobs! We are an extended family, we work hard to
support each other as well as to teach and encourage our precious
children.
I love the phrase, "People do not care how much you know until they know how much youcare."
At Ambler Elementary School, we have a staff full of caring adults who
love encouraging children to put out their best efforts each day toward
striving to reach his or her full potential. We have a very positive
school climate that is conducive to learning, and I am very proud of our
academic success here. Our teachers and students earned a perfect score
of 100 on the School Report card two years in a row from the State
Department of Education. This score was based on the spring PASS Test
data over the last 2 school years. This earned Ambler a Palmetto Gold
Award in both the Absolute Rating and the Growth Rating areas. The
Ambler teachers are very dedicated, talented educators who go the extra
mile to do everything they can to give each child the individual
attention they need to be successful. We take a great deal of pride in
each of our Ambler staff members—both certified staff and support
staff—showing "a Heart for Children" with the pursuit of using each work
day as an opportunity to encourage as many children as possible. Our
philosophy is centered on the fact that our children are our greatest
gifts and blessings so let's do our very best to make sure each one
feels special.
Our
goal this school year is to try and be more empathetic and more
compassionate individually and collectively as a TEAM! We aim to do our
very best to move each child forward as much as possible from Day 1 to
Day 180 or however long we serve them. We want to build a strong
academic foundation as well as to build strong character as we work to
teach our children right from wrong in their early, impressionable years
from K4-5th grade.
We are departmentalized in grades 3-5 meaning two teachers work closely
together in team teaching the students. One teacher focuses on the
math and science curriculum standards while the other teacher focuses on
the ELA and Social Studies curriculum standards. This has proved
successful for our students here at Ambler over many years.
Lastly, our Ambler family is focused on growing each student into
lifelong learners. We begin each year ready to meet challenges head on
with a positive attitude and a smile. Our goal is for everyone who
enters our doors to feel welcomed and to sense our mission of learning
and growing our children into successful students.