Update: December 6, 2021
NASA's Real "Deep Impact" Plan involves Greely Grad
Greely grad Mark Jensenius is working on NASA's DART mission to deflect potential future asteroids away from Earth, gives credit to Greely teachers for preparing him for this work in this WMTW (Channel 8) feature: https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-engineer-nasa-dart-mission-asteroid/38333323#
8th Graders Discover Earth's Place in the Universe
8th-grade science classes at GMS are studying Earth’s place in the Universe & made a scaled distance model where 1 foot=3,145,265 miles. The model starts in the GMS lobby & winds around outside towards Tuttle Road to show approx. scale of objects from the Sun. This project is aligned to Maine Learning Result standard MS-ESS 1-3: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
How Can We Support Equity in Our District?
Save the Date!
January 11th, 6:30-8:00 via Google Meet
Are you Interested in supporting the district in developing an equity plan? If so, Save the Date for this exciting and engaging conversation led by Lawrence Alexander and facilitated by MSAD #51’s Equity Leadership Steering Committee.
More information available in the coming weeks. For more information regarding the district’s Equity Leadership Steering Committee and view Lawrence Alexander’s presentation to the Board, go to: https://www.msad51.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2401132&type=d&pREC_ID=2242626
GHS Celebrates National French Week
Students in French V IB/AP participated in a Slam Poetry Workshop promoted by the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques. Only 25 schools in the Americas were chosen to participate, Greely High School being one of them. The Slam Poetry workshop was given by Amélie Prévost from Québec. She holds the title of Champion of the Slam World Cup 2016. Students learned to write their own slam poetry to share with the class.
New School Project Update
On December 6, the Board of Directors approved the grade span for the proposed new school that will be located on 77 acres of land at 80 Gray Road in North Yarmouth. After two Board workshops and a recommendation from the Board's Facilities Committee, a PK-grade 3 span was settled on for the new school. With this grade span in North Yarmouth, grades 4 & 5 would be housed at MIW, grades 6-8 would be at GMS, and grades 9-12 would remain as it is now.
Oak Point Associates, the architectural firm hired to do the design for the new school, has been tasked with looking at whether the new primary school should be one facility or two separate, smaller buildings on the same site. If separate, the grade spans could be PK & Kindergarten in one building and grades 1-3 in the other building. Both buildings would be within proximity with one another but it would reduce the size of both schools. Oak Point will bring the designs and costs back to the Board for review before proceeding further, most likely sometime in January. Pending Board approval, a referendum on the new school could be set for June 2022.
In-Person Concerts Return to the GCA
In-person choral and band concerts resumed this month at the Greely Center for the Arts after almost two years of virtual concerts due to the pandemic. Kudos to the GMS 4-5 Chorus on their wonderful concert last week. Special thanks to their Choral Director, Bethany Perkins-Hall, and Piano Accompanist, Katie Stetson.