Update: June 4, 2018
Congrats Class of 2018!!
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| Senior Walk through GMS |
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| Members of "Golden Grads" Class 1968 attend Class Day |
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| Mr. McKeone & Ms. Jones congratulate 2018 valedictorian Gregory Pershing and salutatorian Peter Theodores. Gregory was also named a 2018 Presidential Scholar, one of only 160 seniors to earn this distinction in the United States. |
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| Checking out the graduation program |
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| Principal Dan McKeone with Senior Class Advisor Pat Thibault, the last Greely graduation for both |
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| Ready for the diplomas |
Fourth Grade held their annual Friendship Concert on May 22. This year, as part of the 4th grade Ukulele Group, several students also played along with some of the songs. Special thanks to music teacher Barry Saunders for his work with these students!
First Responders Event
On May 25, students with special needs attended the 2018 Community First Responders Event. Thanks to CPD, CFD, NYFD and Maine State Police for participating! Special thanks to Kristin Marks for organizing this awesome event.
Outdoor Classroom Week
May 14-18 is international "Outdoor Classroom Week". Several teachers took their students outside for lessons this week to enjoy the fresh air and natural surroundings. Thank you to the Environmental Stewardship Committee for organizing this district-wide week. It was wonderful to see all the students enjoying some time outside while continuing their education.
Real World Learning in our Backyard
Over the course of the past few weeks, Greely High School Geometry CP students have been given the opportunity to see how the math they are studying in their classroom directly connects to and is used daily by Ledgewood Construction employees at Greely's Center for the Arts (GCA) construction site.
Students were first provided with a walkthrough tour of the building site where they could get a sense for the overall layout and for the context of a specific component of the auditorium's construction, the orchestra pit under the GCA stage.
Following that, students used Ledgewood's actual foundation and concrete detail blueprint plans to determine how much material would need to be purchased for the cement roof of the GCA orchestra pit. Mr. Scott Clark from Ledgewood visited students while they did this work, and then he shared with them the importance of mathematical precision to avoid waste on site, especially seeing as this calculation represented only one of scores of different concrete pours necessary to support the mass of the building. Students also got to think through the financial implications for the company caused by a lack of precision in employees' work.
Finally, Mr. Clark described the different skilled trades needed for this project. He shared that a particular need in this industry right now is for trained masonry workers, as retiring ones are not being replaced by younger ones yet. In this conversation, students saw how Greely's Habits of Work grading domains are consistent with the work habits of the highly employable in the construction trades -- i.e., arriving to class (work) on time and prepared, using appropriate tools and resources to confront challenges in learning (work), and contributing actively and respectively to collaborative tasks.
Geometry CP teachers Erin Pollock and Don Legere want to especially thank Mr. Clark and his Ledgewood crew for all his help in enriching our students' learning, as well as Ashley Caswell for assistance in the logistics of scheduling the tour and visit, and the support of their GHS colleagues in excusing students from other classes to accommodate it in the midst of a very busy work season for all involved!
Congratulations Are In Order
2018 Cumberland County Teacher of the Year: Congratulations to our own 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Connie Russell, who was named 2018 Cumberland County Teacher of the Year! Connie will now go on to compete for the 2019 State of Maine Teacher of the Year.
Girls Track & Field - Class B State Champs! The Girls Track team won the Class B state title for the second year in a row on Saturday, June 2. GO RANGERS!
2019 National Merit Scholarship Program: Nicolas Giandrea, Timothy Lester, Luke Marsanskis, Edmund Paquin, and Matthew Todd.
Maine Municipal Association Essay Contest: Congratulations to Cassidy Dean and Lauren Dennen, seventh graders at GMS, who are both winners of the Maine Municipal Association Essay Contest.
Math League Competition: Greely had three students on the Maine state math team this year: Gregory Pershing, Peter Theodores, and Maddie Albert. They attended the prestigious invitation-only American Regions Mathematics League competition on Saturday, June 3.FY 19 BUDGET VOTE
Please go out and VOTE on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Polls will be open from 8am-8pm (at Cumberland Town Hall and North Yarmouth Memorial School)