Twin Valley School District is centered in Elverson, Pennsylvania

Elverson, Pennsylvania

Elverson is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2010 census.Settled near the region's early iron mines, Elverson is close to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, an example of a 19th century "iron plantation".-History:Elverson's earliest...

. It comprises Five schools, all within half an hour's driving distance of each other.

Schools

Twin Valley School District comprises:

• Twin Valley Elementary Center
• Robeson Elementary Center
• Honeybrook Elementary Center
• Twin Valley Middle School
• Twin Valley High School
  Twin Valley High School (Pennsylvania)
  Twin Valley High School is a public secondary school in the Twin Valley School District located in Elverson, Chester County, Pennsylvania.Classes and Programs=Twin Valley offers a variety of classes to suit most students educational goals...
  
  

The District office is found in a separate wing of the high school

High school

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, which can be found sitting atop Clymer Hill. The high school and middle school

Middle school

Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...

 are easily viewable from the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Pennsylvania Turnpike

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.

Elementary

The Elementary schools are located in Robeson Township, Elverson, and Honey Brook. They are operated in the traditional system of one teacher

Teacher

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 per class teaching English

English studies

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, Social Studies

Social studies

Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...

, Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 and Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

. The curriculum

Curriculum

See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...

 is a balanced literacy approach that utilizes authentic text to develop reading and writing skills. Math is taught using the Everyday Math program. The district offers full day kindergarten to all students. Parents may choose single graded traditional classes or multi-age classes for grades first through fourth. Multi-age classrooms are not available annymore concluding the 2010-2011 school year. The elementary schools also offer gym

Gym

The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...

, art

Art

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, guidance

Guidance

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, library

Library

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, and music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 classes.

Middle school

The Middle School

Middle school

Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...

 uses the block schedule. Students attend three hour-and-a-half long blocks per day, along with two classes during another hour-and-a-half long period. The two forty-five-minute classes are swapped halfway through the year with a different forty-five minute period so that a student may have four electives to choose from per year. Electives include art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, gym

Gym

The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...

, music (band

Band (music)

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, chorus

Choir

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 and/or orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

), family and consumer sciences, technology education

Technology education

Technology education is a study of technology, in which students "learn about the processes and knowledge related to technology". As a study, it covers the human ability to shape and change the physical world to meet needs, by manipulating materials and tools with techniques.-External links:...

, and a world language. Languages offered are German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Spanish

Spanish language

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 and Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

. Students attend the Middle School from fifth to eighth grade. For lunch, students have a half hour lunch.

High school

The High School

High school

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 also runs on a block schedule, though it comprises four blocks a day in addition to a flex period in which a student will return to one of their classes for additional instruction depending on the day. Students are required to take English, Science, Social Studies, Math, Gym, Personal and Professional Dynamics(not required for the 2011-2012 school year), language classes, and Health classes in their four-year stay at the High School. Students are otherwise permitted to take multiple electives. There are at least forty electives to choose from, ranging from Agricultural Science classes to TV and Media Classes to Informational Technology classes to Yearbook and Newspaper Classes to Project Lead the Way classes. Languages offered to students are German, French, Spanish, and Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

. Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 is also available. Twin Valley also offers music classes including Chorus, Band, Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 Band and Orchestra, all of which have won numerous awards throughout the county.

Grading scale

The Twin Valley School District utilizes a standards based grading system for students in grade K-6. A traditional percentage grading system is used in grade 7-12.

Alumni

YouTube.com founder and businessman Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley

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 graduated from Twin Valley, where he was an Cross-country running star and computer genius.