The Green Clean Recycle Team worked to clean our outdoor space!!

Showing our Cougar Pride!! 💙 BIG thanks to our PTO for providing a Cougar Pride shirt for all of our new El Paso students!

Thank you to Maria and Jennifer from Wichita State University’s Dental Hygiene school for presenting to our kindergarteners about how to properly care for our teeth!! 🦷

Are you in the market for a new place? Fifth graders have been writing listings for some really THRILLING houses! The deals sound simply chilling and the homes are to die for! You’d better check these out - before it’s too late!

Chick-fil-a Spirit Night tonight from 5:00PM-8:00PM.

At the November 8 Board of Education meeting, Principal Ashley Wagner recognized El Paso Elementary fifth-grade student KJ Gray and parent volunteer Laci Ehret. #DerbyProud Pictured left to right: Laci Ehret, Principal Ashley Wagner and KJ Gray. El Paso Cougars

At last night's BOE meeting, El Paso Elementary staff were recognized for their years of service at Derby Public Schools. Congratulations to (10 Years) Kelsey Gonzalez, Lanie Hladik, (15 Years) Heather Gee, (20 Years) Susan Coonce & Jaime Poulos. Thank you for your dedication!

Fifth graders ready to deliver turkey decor for Westview and Copperstone!

Third grade investigated how to unlock a door with magnets!

Check out our artists in art club! This STEAM club was made possible by MCASP (Military Connected Academic and Support Program) which El Paso was granted this year!

Crazy 8 Math Club had lots of fun making different shapes out of glow in the dark sticks!

Mrs. Jewett's third grade class wore pajamas to celebrate all of the hard work that they have done in iReady this year. They have passed over 1,000 math lessons with a 91% average.

Art club got to experience a new way to paint by doing bubble painting! They all had a blast and got to make some really cool art!!

Kindergarten had Ms. Wagner in as a guest reader to read “Oh the Places You’ll Go”!!

Mrs. Jewett’s class read the most minutes during Read Across America Week!!

Cole read the most minutes school wide during Read Across America Week! He read a total of 700 minutes!! Good job!

We set a building goal of reading 12,000 minutes during Read Across America week. El Paso students read a total of 15,936 minutes throughout the week!! Since our students exceeeded our reading goal, Ms. Wagner and Officer Malcolm had to kiss three baby goats!!

Mrs. Stotts’ class has been focusing on being kind. During today’s morning meeting they played Cover the Table with ways to show kindness to others.

The math club worked on pattern recognition and probabilities as they solved messages with secret codes. They had to solve mysteries to find the next clue. At the end the treasure was a magnifying glass for each one of them.

Kindergarten talked about the color red! They read Clifford Goes to School. Then, each student created their very own Clifford, while practicing their cutting skills.