Expansion of Waters Landing complete as school prepares for opening day Monday in Germantown — Gazette.Net

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Montgomery County Public Schools IT project manager Kelvin Purvis (left) assists Kenneth Jordan of Clinton Learning Solutions as they hand the ActivBoard for the Promethean interactive whiteboard at Waters Landing Elementary School on Thursday in the Germantown schools new addition.

When students return to Waters Landing Elementary School in Germantown on Monday , they will not only see a bigger and brighter school but also reminders of the dolphin they recently adopted at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

You dont usually get dolphins on a carpet, said Principal Tina Shrewsbury about the images of blue-gray dolphins imbedded into a section of new floor in the newly expanded school.

Thanks to two new additions, Waters Landing is expected to enroll about 690 students this fall, about the same as last year.

However, all will be inside the school instead of some of them outside in portable classrooms that are now a thing of the past.

Its a pleasure to have everyone in the building under one roof, Shrewsbury said.

The additions will also enable adding another 50 students in the future, bringing total capacity to 740, she said.

Waters Landing Elementary is hosting a Sneak Peek visit for students and families at 3 p.m. on Friday before school starts.

Im very pleased about the additions to Waters Landing, said school PTA President Danielle Deaver in an email. The work looks wonderful, and the children and teachers are going to be very excited to see their new classrooms. Ive also talked to many parents who are happy that our children will no longer be attending classes in mobile units.

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