Banks Elementary School Families, Parents, Staff and Students
are Committed and Dedicated
to:
• Providing a safe and secure
learning environment
• Maintaining high expectations for student success
• Collaborating and communicating powerfully!
School Focus:
Learning to live in and take
care of our environment by Recycling, Reducing and Reusing. We have
educational partnerships with Camp
Cooper, the Desert Museum, Pima College and others in our community.
A Brief History:
Laura Nobles Banks Elementary School opened in 2002.
It is a Kindergarten through 5th grade school and has an enrollment of around
425 students.
The school is named to honor Dr. Laura Nobles Banks, an educator for TUSD for 39 years.
She was a scholar and community advocate, serving with the Tucson Urban League, YWCA, NAACP, and the Rotary Club.
Dr. Banks now makes her home in Texas. Meet
Dr. Banks
About Us:
Like our school mascot, the
bobcat, we are always
willing to go the distance when it comes to our school pride and success
in the classroom. Our hunger for knowledge will lead us to a
successful and independent life.
Banks Elementary is part of
the Tucson Unified School District Family. Programs include full-day kindergarten with their own
playground, an after-school program, a Parent-Teacher Organization (P.T.O.),
Gifted and Talented Education (G.A.T.E.) and Project ABLE. We have a
Computer Lab, Mini-Labs in every pod, a Library and a Health Office. We
utilize Success Maker, Waterford and Study Island for student assistance and
intervention. Art courses and field trips are offered through grants and
other funding. Full breakfast and lunch is served daily.
We will be adding additional programs as financial support becomes available through Targeted
Assistance and Title 1.
We also have ELD classes
with SEI trained teachers. In addition to our Exceptional Education
teachers our itinerant staff includes a Psychologist/Social Worker,
a Physical Therapist, an Occupational Therapist, an Adaptive P.E. teacher and a Speech teacher.
School uniforms are NOT
REQUIRED.
School
Mascot:
Bobcat
School Pledge:
I pledge today, to do my
best, in reading math and all the rest
I promise to obey all the
rules, in our class, and in our school
I will be safe, respectful,
responsible, too
I'll expect the best in all
I do
I'm here to learn all I can,
to try my best and be all I am
School Song:
We are the Banks Elementary
Bobcats,
We think that learning is
such fun,
We always try our best, we
think, create
We have respect for
everyone!
B - A - N - K - S
! Go................ BOBCATS !
(sung by Ms.
Hawley's 1st graders)
4th and 5th
grade students co-author and publish a
book about our desert environment called the Desert Palette.
Map
& Directions