Van Buren Elementary School

Van Buren Elementary students loaded the bus and headed to the Imagination Lab. What a great opportunity to safely learn outside the classroom!

Van Buren Elementary students enjoy some quiet reading time in the library... socially distant and reaching reading goals!

Learning, joy, safety, and friends the first week back to school at Van Buren Elementary!

The Van Buren students had a fantastic start to the 2020-2021 school year. The students were excited to see friends again and meet new ones. The students and teachers spent time l...

Welcome back students! We've missed you! Everyone is excited to get settled in and back to school! \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

Our Van Buren PTO and school community celebrates Mr. Helmuth and his love for woodworking by purchasing books for the student library. Van Buren Elementary will forever treasure...

Don't forget... Our Supply Pick Up is here! Please pull around to the back of Van Buren and remain in your car. Staff will assist in locating items for you. We are looking for...

VB staff is lining up and getting ready to leave. We can’t guarantee the time we will be on each street, but just know we are heading out soon! Can’t wait to see everyone!

This Thursday, May 21st the Van Buren Staff will be parading through many of our Van Buren neighborhoods from our cars. We miss the students very much and know that everyone need...

Some of our students and teachers took full advantage of the December snow fall. They enjoyed working together to create snowmen and other masterpieces!

Students and staff enjoyed a fun filled ceremony to celebrate our school's National Blue Ribbon Award. Mr. Olinger, Mr. Helmuth, Mrs. Bennett, and Mrs. Pineda had the honor of rep...

First Grade students had quite a week learning about honey bees! They researched how bees live and what they need in order to survive. After a wide variety of activities, they wer...

Fourth grade students collaborated to engineer a moon rover, a type of all terrain vehicle (ATV), out of items such as corrugated cardboard, straws, pencils, and rubber bands. T...

Over the last two years, PCMS and PHS have hosted student convocations featuring Nathan Harmon, currently the most frequently booked school speaker. Nathan's personal story of fam...

Fifth grade students spent a STEM filled day recently and designed their own pizza shop. They worked on creating a menu, pricing, and design of a new and improved pizza box. The s...

Van Buren's PTO put on an AMAZING night of fun for our students at Friday's Fall Festival. We are so thankful and fortunate to have such a supportive group of parents and voluntee...

Our third grade students have been working diligently on creating a playground design, and they were fortunate to hear directly from the landscape architects of Context Design tha...

First grade students had the pleasure of meeting a variety of community helpers on Friday and learned about their various roles. Climbing into some of the vehicles was a huge hit ...

This fourth grade class had a special treat this afternoon when they arrived back to class following specials. Mrs. Speck, or chef as she introduced herself, had created a special...

Van Buren Elementary students joined forces to put together a special celebration for our local first responders today. Fourth grade students took charge of planning the event, an...