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Heritage Elementary
School Website
School Address
Heritage Elementary
4801 Columbia Pike
Thompson’s Station, TN 37179
Phone: 615-472-4520
Fax: 615-472-4531
School Colors
gray, burgundy, and hunter green
School Mascot
Heritage Eagle
Principal
Laura LaChance
Assistant
Principal/Administrative Assistant(s)
Ms. Suzanne Storey
Enrollment
754 students
Pupil/Teacher Ratio
PreKindergarten-20.0
Kindergarten- 19.0
First Grade- 20.9
Second Grade- 20.0
Third Grade- 18.5
Fourth Grade- 23.0
Fifth Grade- 22.3
Total School Ratio 20.4
Zoning Maps
School History
Heritage Elementary School is nestled in the lovely country side of
Thompson Station, in the southern part of Williamson County. The school
opened its doors on August 16, 1999. The area has seen constant growth
since then. Now, in its ninth year, the school now serves Pre-K
through 5th grade. The school has approximately 740 students, 34
classroom teachers, 7 full time and 4 part time special area teachers,
and 10 student support services teachers. The staff, faculty, parents,
and community of Heritage cooperatively work to fulfill the mission at
Heritage Elementary School.
Before/After School Care
Before/After School Care is offered by the YMCA.
Parent/Teacher
Conferences
Conferences are held in the fall and spring. Watch for more information
from your child's teacher.
Parent Support
Organization
Heritage P.T.O. President is Marie Miller. PTO meetings are held the
third Thursday of every other month.
Special
Programs
Special programs offered at Heritage are: STAR Reading Program,
Accelerated Reader Program, Choir (4th and 5th), Heritage Run Club,
F.L.I.P. (Friends Learning in Pairs) Program, and Positive Behavior
Support in Schools.
Library/Media
Center
The Library/Media Center is staffed by a full time library media
specialist, a library assistant, and a computer assistant. The Media
Center is centrally located within the school and houses the print and
non-print collection that supplements and enriches the academic
curriculum. Computer terminals provide access to the Internet, online
encyclopedias, Accelerated Reader program, Follett OPAC, etc. The Media
Center continually promotes the enjoyment of literature and the use of
informational skills through various programs and activities.
Guidance
Heritage Elementary has a full time counselor, Tim Hovdet, and a part
time counselor, Stacy Landa. The Guidance Program at Heritage
Elementary School focuses on maintaining a healthy life style through
character building. Heritage Elementary is part of the Williamson County
Character Under Construction Initiative, which emphasizes a character
trait per school month. The students participate each day in their eagle
exercises to work on developing good character.
The school
counselor also presents a developmental K-5 guidance program that is
based on Williamson County, State of Tennessee, and National Curriculum
Standards. The counselor sees classes in rotation.
Opportunities are
provided for each grade level to have students meet with the counselor
in small groups, which focus on common needs or concerns (divorce,
death, social skills). In addition, individuals with private concerns
are free to visit the counselor.
Student Support Services
Heritage services include three full-time resource teachers and many
assistants, a full-time reading specialist, a speech and language
pathologist, gifted consultant, school psychologist, occupational
therapist, physical therapist, and a vision teacher.
Special Areas
Heritage has full time teachers for art, music, and physical education
as well as part time teachers in each area.
Students attend
art classes once a week. Children at each grade level create at least
one painting project and one clay project a year. In addition to paint
and clay, the students are exposed to a wide variety of different media,
such as pastels, colored pencils, chalks, water colors, crayons,
collage, and printing ink. We hold an annual art show at Heritage to
showcase the students' work. Every child has at least one piece of art
work on display. We also have an Artist for the Day each year and a
fourth grade field trip to an art museum.
Heritage Physical
Education Department's focus in grades K-2 includes space awareness,
locomotive movements, rhythmic activities, sequences, cooperative
behavior, fitness concepts, and sportsmanship. Grades 3-5 focus on skill
building, strategies for games and sports, dance and rhythmic
activities, healthy lifestyles, and sportsmanship.
The music program
at Heritage Elementary School encompasses many aspects. Students learn
about rhythm, melody, harmony, form, texture, composers, music history,
musical styles, and musical theatre. They experience all of these
through singing, playing instruments, movement, listening, discussion,
video presentations and other technological resources. We also have a
selected group of 4th and 5th graders who are a part of the
HES Choir, which participates in school and area events.
Partnerships
Platinum Sponsors:
First Tennessee Bank; Grand Buffet - Seafood, Steak, Sushi;
Huckleberry's Café & Coffee Shop
Gold Sponsors:
Cool Springs Dental Care; Domino’s Pizza - Spring Hill; Ideal Custom
Homes; McDonalds of Spring Hill; Redman Lawn Care & Landscaping, Inc.
Silver Sponsors:
Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire; Snodgrass & King Pediatric
Dental Assoc.; Country Corner Market; Cumberland Bank; Davenport
Properties; Integrity Crane & Hoist; Kemp Orthodontics; Miss Molly's
Homemade Ice Cream: Pancho's Place; Quality Mortgage Services; Rick,
Heather, Ashley & Nicole West; Southside Creamery-Premium Ice Cream;
Spedale Properties; Thompson Station Baptist Church; UAW Local 1853;
Vision Custom Homes; Wholesale Fasteners, Inc.
Bronze Sponsors:
Family Advantage Credit Union; Fifth Third Bank; First Farmers &
Merchants Bank; Hillsboro Orthodontics; John & Anita Miller
Site Based Management
Heritage is an Effective School involved in Site Based Decision Making.
Correlates and BLT members have been established and meet on a regular
basis.
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