Fort Worth Downtown Neighborhood Alliance supports Nash Elementary
February 13,2018
The Fort Worth Downtown Neighborhood Alliance (FWDNA) collaborated with the Charles Nash Elementary School PTA to support the PTA’s initiatives to enhance the school’s outdoor play area. FWDNA members collected over $1,500 during the fourth quarter of 2017 to help the school fund a shade structure for the playground. On February 6, 2018, two FWDNA Board Members presented a check to the PTA during a school-wide fundraiser assembly.
Charles Nash Elementary School is nestled between the Trinity Urban Apartments on the Bluff and the Villa De Leon Condominiums on Samuels Avenue. Over the past several years, the school has been recognized as an Exemplary School, National Blue Ribbon School, and was awarded the National Excellence in Urban Education Award. Nash has approximately 280 students enrolled in Pre-K through 5th grade and is uptown and downtown’s (north of Lancaster) neighborhood school.
The PTA at Nash is currently focused on enrichment of the school’s outdoor play. The school’s historic campus was built in 1927 and has expansive and unique external grounds. Last Spring, the PTA funded the construction of an outdoor amphitheater, creating additional space to support the school’s music and performing arts programs. During the summer, the PTA also commissioned local artists to create a beautiful mural of the school’s mascot: the Roadrunner.
The PTA's vision is to add more outdoor play and learning areas for the school’s growing student body, including: adding shade structures to the existing playground for protection from our Texas heat and U.V. rays, revitalizing unused lot space for an expanded children's play area, and providing amenities for outdoor instruction opportunities to classes. The PTA now expects to finish the addition of the playground shade structures by March 2018.