Facts About Our School
Year School Built 1962
Renovation 1999
Square Footage 58,573
Number of Students 344
Grades Served PreK-4
School Hours 8:00 - 3:00
School Colors Purple and Gold
School Mascot Eagle
School Motto:
"Bellshire Design Center: Where Eagles DARE" (Discipline, Achievement, Responsibility, Excellence)
Principal: Donna Wilburn
donna.wilburn@mnps.org
District 3 School Board epresentative:
Mark North - mark.north@nashville.gov
District 3 Metro Council Representative:
Walter Hunt - walter.hunt@nashville.gov
What Makes Our School Unique?
Next to world peace, our nation’s most important goal is the development of a high quality educational system that will prepare our children for life in a fast changing and complex world. Bellshire Design Center is working to achieve this goal with the mission of cultivating and celebrating the talents and gifts of all students.
Today our design includes a low pupil-teacher ratio that allows us to meet the individual needs of children and engage in inquiry and project based instruction. We offer a challenging curriculum with a focus on the arts and humanities. Technology is an important instructional tool and thematic units are being developed at each grade level. There is a clear focus in academic achievement as grade level teams plan together and use data to guide instructional decisions. The faculty is committed to staff development that strengthens their ability to deliver the best education possible.
Community Partners
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YMCA Fun Company, 6:30am - 6:00pm, contact Lisa Beck - 228.5525
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Boys and Girls Day Care
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Early Learning
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Small Wonders
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Hunters Lane High School FLIP program
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Grace Baptist Church
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church
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Vic Lineweaver and Metro Juvenile Court |
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What Does Our School Offer?
Special Programs
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Accelerated Reader Program
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After School Tutoring
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ArtSmart
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Black History Month
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Character Education
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Computer lab, grades 2-4
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Conflict Management Program
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Ellington Extension Agriculture Program
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Encore Program
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Food 2 Families school food drive
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Guitar Lab
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Junior Achievement
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Music
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Nashville Academy Theatre
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Newspapers in the Classroom
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PENCIL Partner Tutoring
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Physical Education
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Reading Recovery
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Reading Specialist
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St. Jude Math-a-thon
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Volunteer Program
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Writer’s Showcase
Who Attends Our School?
Students attending Bellshire live in the northwest corner of Davidson County and are zoned to Whites Creek High School. The elementary schools in the Whites Creek cluster are: Bordeaux Enhanced Option, Cumberland, Alex Green, and Joelton. The middle schools in this cluster are Ewing Park, Haynes Design Center and Joelton (Middle).
Bellshire is a design center that has a specialized program and voluntary enrollment. Students living within the school zone have the first choice at enrolling in these schools and do not have to apply. Students living in the Whites Creek high school cluster have second priority and must apply through the lottery.
Students living outside the cluster must apply through the lottery. Call 259-INFO for more information.
PENCIL Partners
PENCIL Foundation, a nonprofit organization, links community resources with Nashville public schools. A PENCIL Partner is a business or other community organization that teams up with a Metro school to volunteer time and donate resources that promote student success.
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Marsh
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Skyline Medical Center
Whites Creek Cluster Map (2008-2009)
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