Clubs and Extracurriculars
Good News Club
Good News Club is a ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship in which trained teachers meet with groups of children in schools, homes, community centers, churches, just about anywhere the children can easily and safely meet with their parent’s permission.
Each week an exciting Bible lesson using colorful materials from CEF is presented. This action-packed time also includes songs, Scripture memory, a missions story and review games or other activities focused on the lesson’s theme.
Each club includes a clear presentation of the Gospel and an opportunity for children to trust the Lord Jesus as Savior. Every club also includes strong discipleship training to build character and strengthen moral and spiritual growth. All children are encouraged to attend a local church.
Historical Exhibition Competition Team
Advisor: TBD
This competition will be open to 4th and 5th grade students from all DPS Elementary schools. Each school may have as many teams as they desire; however, only four students are allowed per team. Only one team will be entered into the district competition for each school. Each team will submit a collaborative product to be entered into the competition.
LEGO Robotics Competition Team
Advisor: Cori Sowers
The Lego Robotic Competition is a district-level event for Danville Public Schools. As a team, students in grades 3-5 engage in research, problem-solving, coding, engineering, building, and programming a Lego robot that navigates the missions of a robot game.
Math Competition Team
Advisor: Debra Pyles
The competition goals are to stimulate enthusiasm and love for mathematics, develop mathematical flexibility and perseverance in solving problems, strengthen mathematical intuition, and foster mathematical creativity and ingenuity. Furthermore, mathematics drives the innovations that shape our society and is useful in a broad range of careers, even those that are not traditionally mathematical, scientific, or technological in nature. By offering this competition, our goal as the Math Curriculum and Instruction Team is to challenge and inspire students to become lifelong learners of mathematics.
Reading Bowl Team
Advisor: Lori Hanks
The Ruby B. Archie Reading Bowl is a district-level competition for Danville Public Schools. Up to twelve students in grades 4-5 are welcome to participate in teams of four. A school-wide competition is held to determine the one team who will represent Park Avenue at the district competition. Using Virginia Readers' Choice winning books, students are asked to read up to 10 books for the competition. Our goal for this competition is to instill a love of reading.
Science Symposium Team
Advisor: Debra Pyles
This competition will be open to teams composed of students from 3rd through 5th grade from all DPS Elementary schools. Each school may have as many teams as they desire; however, only four students are allowed per team. Only one team will be entered in this district competition for each school. Each team will submit a collaborative product to be entered into the competition.
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Advisor: Heather Ferguson
Danville Public Schools will continue its tradition of division-wide participation for students in grades 3-8 during the 2025-26 school year. Each school has been registered with Scripps and now has access to all materials at spellingbee.com.
We are excited for Danville Public Schools students to have the opportunity to participate in the National Scripps Spelling Bee Competition. As you are aware, the first step is school level participation. Please refer to the timeline below for expected dates and completion. It is imperative that our students be given the opportunity to succeed by being well prepared. The materials are available to each school through https://spellingbee.com/. Please have your school level teams login and distribute materials to each English Language Arts teacher in your building grades 3-8. Word lists are available for each level of the competition.