From Glen Sturtevant’s website: Mary Munford has successfully applied for a grant from the “Safe Route to School” program! This grant includes proposed improvements of about $300,000 for new crosswalks, new warning lights, some sidewalk improvements, etc. A public meeting to discuss the program will be held on January 17 at 6:30 pm in the [...]
From Mary Munford Elementary: Spooky Saturday is in need of spooky sponsors. If you’re a business, family or individual interested in sponsoring our event and wish to be included on advertising materials, please email me at mandymcdowellpatterson@gmail.com And mark your calendars for the 20th Annual Spooky Saturday to be held on October 27th from 3-7pm [...]
This Friday, Richmond Parks and Recreation presents Shrek Forever After – 8 p.m.; Mary Munford Elementary School Playground, 211 Westmoreland Street. Admission is free. Co-sponsored by 106.5 the Beat (via Richmond Bargains Blog)
Congratulations to Erin Flanagan, 2nd grade teacher at Mary Munford Elementary School, who won the Richmond VA’s Top Teacher contest sponsored by Richmondmom.com. In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that Ms. Flanagan was my daughter’s teacher this year and I nominated her. Still, the honor is well deserved! Ms. Flanagan is incredibly [...]
* Spring Playground Clean Up Day (and Pancake Breakfast!) are THIS SATURDAY at Mary Munford * If you use the playground, why not stop by and help make it prettier? Saturday, April 26 from 8am-noon. Volunteers are needed to help weed, prune and mulch both playgrounds. You do not need to stay the entire 4 [...]
Style Weekly’s cover story this week is carefully timed to come out just a few weeks before the long awaited and stressful process of the open enrollment lottery for Richmond City Schools on March 31st. In the article, Richmond Council of PTAs President, Tichi Pinkney-Eppes, takes issue with the open enrollment policy, saying that it [...]
The Near West End’s Mary Munford Elementary School is hosting an auction to raise funds for its student foreign language program on March 1st at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Highlights of the even include MC and auctioning performed by juggler Jonathan Austin, paintings by Ed Trask, and Laura Loe, framed and signed [...]
The Near West End’s Mary Munford is among those schools honored by the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. The award is the highest honor under a new incentive program for schools and school divisions created by the Board of Education to advance Governor Timothy M. Kaine’s “competence to excellence” agenda. “Students in these schools are [...]
