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Artist in Residence and Outdoor Classroom
We are not holding a wedding reception on the front loop in front of PES. The canopy, on loan from the Pittsfield Rotary Club, is providing cover for third-grade students and parent volunteers working with art teacher Lisa Stevens and artist-in-residence, Emile Birch.
Three concrete sculptures, benches with original relief art designed by third graders, will be installed to form a circular seating area. At a later date Project Home will add landscaping features to help contain the area as an outdoor classroom.
Third graders have been involved in all stages of the project, designing the benches, building the wooden forms in the art classroom, and soon, installing the sculptures. The forms will be placed outside next Monday and the concrete poured. Students will be staining the concrete benches on May 29. We plan an opening “unveiling” celebration on June 1 at 1:45.
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The “Year of the Book”
Next school year will be “The Year of the Book” at PES. Our school is one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire to win a Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) “Year of the Book” grant award for the 2012-13 school year. The grant will bring $20,000 of resources to PES, including 2,000 books for individual students and families, funds for the school library and the town library, special programming for students, and teacher mini-grant funds for reading work.
The focus of our work at PES will be improving school-family literacy connections and bumping up the volume of children’s reading in and out of school. Library Coordinator Susan Kinney will be the grant coordinator. The Josiah Carpenter Library will also be working with our school in this exciting grant. Any parents who would like to help organize are encouraged to call the school and ask for Ms. Kinney or Mr. Kilmister.
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Spring Music and Arts Festival Fourth through Eights Grade – Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 pmYou are cordially invited to join us this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 for our Fourth through Eighth Grade Spring Music and Arts Festival. The night’s festivities begin between 6:00-6:30 pm, featuring student art work on display in the lobby at PMHS. The musical performance will begin at 6:30pm in the PMHS gym. Students performing need to report to the PMHS gym by 6:00 pm, all other performers report to the PMHS café by 6:10 pm. The students have been working very hard for this end of the year performance/display and we are excited to share our music and art with you. It will be a great time for all, so please help us celebrate their successes!
Parents
Bike Rodeo, A SuccessThanks to the PES PTO and many community volunteers, Pittsfield Police Department, the Central NH Regional Planning Commission, and the organizational work of PES Guidance Counselor, Mike Curtin. Last week’s Bike Rodeo was a great success. More than 47 kids participated. Many children are sporting new helmets donated by the Safe Routes to School Grant.
Project HOME
Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden
Pittsfield Project HOME, a habitat improvement initiative that aims to develop our schoolyard so it is attractive to wildlife and people as well as creating an outdoor classroom for our students, has completed it’s first project at the Elementary School. With the help of energetic Kindergarteners, hard working six graders and enthusiastic volunteers, a beautiful butterfly and hummingbird garden will now serve as a study area for the Kindergarten classes. The Project HOME team would like to give special thanks to Darcy and Aaron Kendall who championed the effort and generous donations received from Millican Nurseries and Leach Perennial Field.