We envision Virginia Cross Elementary School as a multi-cultural community where students, parents, and teachers partner in life-long learning and strive to create responsible global citizens.  This is accomplished by providing a safe, supportive, positive, and challenging environment for the entire Pride, students and staff.  

Mission and Vision Statements

Our school has a clear vision of what our school should accomplish (our vision) and we know what we need to do to accomplish it (our mission).

Vision Statement

(Defines our destination)

All members of the Pride will be valued and celebrated as individuals. Each one of us has something to contribute. Ours students will

• recognize their own value and worth and appreciate one another’s differences,
• become critical, creative and perceptive thinkers,
• and serve their families, communities and the world.

Mission Statement

(Defines what we do to get there)

We will create a safe, supportive, positive, and challenging environment for the entire Pride. We will teach our students to be readers, thinkers, and leaders in the 21st century.

Focus Statement

(Helps us stay focused on our job)

Learning, Leading, and Succeeding

Links between Focus Statement and School Initiatives

Thinking

21st Century Skills, Flexible Grouping

Reading

Recipe for Reading, Reading 3D, ClassWorks, Balanced Literacy Instruction,

Leading

Leader in Me, Small Group Reading, Flexible Grouping