Incoming Kindergarten Play Groups

Early each spring, new students register for the Kindergarten classes starting in the fall. At Covington, a current parent with an incoming Kindergarten student organizes monthly playgroups for the new students and families. The playgroups are held at the Kindergarten play yard and give the children a chance to familiarize themselves with both the playground and potential classmates. New families to the school mingle with returning families, gaining helpful information and insight.

Back to School Night

This event is usually scheduled within the first two or three weeks of school. Parents are invited to visit their children’s classrooms to meet with the teachers and learn about what the year has in store for the students. At this important event, there are also sign ups for volunteer opportunities for the class, in areas such as field trips, library aids, class parties, and many more.

Walk-A-Thon

The Covington Walkathon, one of the PTA's most important fundraisers, is a fun annual event, eliciting nearly 100% participation from Covington students. The event takes place on the Covington field in October. Most families stay for the entire event, coming early and leaving late.

Halloween Parade

The Halloween Parade is fun-filled event for spectators and participants. Students march in the parade with their classmates, showing off their colorful and creative costumes! Parents and siblings line the parade route, cheering for their favorite entry!

Book Fair

The Book Fair is a fundraising event that directly benefits the library. Held after the Thanksgiving break, a nationally recognized bookseller sets up shop on campus with thousands of new books for sale. The fair usually runs for one week. The profits from the book sale are used to purchase new books for Covington’s library.

STEM Expo

The STEM Expo is a time for young scientist to emerge. There are volcanoes, electric projects and any science project you can think of. This is an optional event that is for all grade levels and is loads of fun for all ages. Every year the prize medals are giving to each contestant for being a good scientist. So have fun and when it's over start thinking about next years project!

Auction

The Covington Auction is our school's most important fundraising event. In addition to raising money for our PTA, it is a fun-filled evening that brings parents together with teachers and staff to celebrate our vibrant community. At the Auction, attendees can bid on donated items in silent and live that range from the practical to extravagant! Offers include getaway weekends, reserved parking spots, tickets to cultural and sporting events, goods and services donated by local merchants, as well as passes to a variety of themed parties for families, adults or kids hosted by other Covington parents. Donations from families are warmly welcomed and greatly needed to make the event a success!

Junior Olympics

The Junior Olympics is a district-wide track and field event for 4th through 6th graders, organized by grade and gender. It is designed to build school spirit, inspire children to make physical activity a part of their lives, and showcase the culmination of training done through the District’s P.E. program. All Covington students in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades are eligible to participate. Students choose their own events and may participate in three events. It is usually held the last Saturday in April.

Multi Cultural Festival

Covington’s Multi Cultural Festival is a community-building spring event highlighting the amazing diversity of Covington’s student body. Booths are set up displaying information from various countries. Regional food and crafts are sampled at each booth. Dancers entertain the crowd with native costumes, music and dances. A fashion show showcases the vibrant traditional clothing of cultures from around the globe, and features Covington’s own students, parents and teachers as high-fashion models!

Teacher’s Appreciation Day

Teacher Appreciation Day occurs the day before Open House. Children are asked to bring in cut flowers from their yard or from the store before school starts. Parent volunteers arrange the flowers from each class into a beautiful bouquet. The bouquet is presented to the teacher along with a special book signed by each student in the class. The bouquet is proudly displayed during Open House.

Open House

Each April, Covington’s students invite their families to tour their classroom during Open House. Work completed throughout the year is brilliantly displayed and children proudly walk their families through the class, and acting as a tour guide and class docent. Children eagerly tour the next grade level classrooms to see what they will be working on in the coming year.

Field Day

Field Day is a fun-filled end-of-the-year activity at Covington. Students and their teachers spend the morning participating in a variety of games and activities. Water balloons, jump ropes, ring tosses, and relays are all part of the fun!