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RSU 56 Monthly Newsletter

December 2022

RSU 56 Monthly Newsletter December 2022

DHS November Student of the Month: Joe Conron

Pam Doyen, Principal, Joe Conron, Christine Carrigan, mother

November Classroom Awards

Back row: Alyssa Ellis, Skylar O'Connor, Connor Halacy, David Searles, Grace Robbins

Front row: Madison Knowles, Molly Garey, Ava Bean, Ella Cote, Kaylin McLean, Kendra Domina, Camden Averill-Curtis

Absent at time of photo: Noah Downs, Sophia Archer, Mitchell Giberson, Carlito Cepeda, and Lilah Tyler

Dirigo High School and TWK Dirigo Middle School Combined Choirs performed at the Church on the Hill.

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TWK Dirigo Middle School Choir

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DHS Choir

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Combined DHS and TWKDMS Choirs

Charlie Houghton joined the 1,000 point club at DHS on December 14, 2022. Congratulations Charlie!

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Charlie shooting the 1,000th point

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Fans celebrating

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Fans celebrating

8th grade students in Mr. Buck’s Capstone classes spent some time in November and December designing and making toys for DES Kindergarten students. They had a ball!

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Toys made by 8th graders

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Toys made by 8th graders

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Toys made by 8th graders

Congratulations to the Speech and Debate Team for another fine finish at Poland on Saturday, December 3. Junbei Chen finished 3rd in Oral Interpretation of Literature at her first attempt in the event. Jocelynn Ridley came in 4th in Varsity Debate. The big news was that Daisy Sweatt finished 1st in the top debate division. Together Jocelynn and Daisy earned a 3rd place team Sweepstakes trophy also. Well done!

This photo includes the 3 with their "trophy IOU's" since the nutcracker's that Poland usually gives out did not arrive in time.

The Debate Team's "legal mentor", Mike Dunn '09, was there as a judge (doing some AG Office work too in the photo) and proved very helpful to them when preparing for the tournament.

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Pie the Principal Winners at TWKDMS

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Pie the Principal Winners at TWKDMS

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Pie the Principal Winners at TWKDMS

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TWKDMS Winter Fun Day Activities

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TWKDMS Winter Fun Day Activities

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TWKDMS Winter Fun Day Activities

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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T1 Academic Awards at TWKDMS

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TWKDMS Alt Ed Preparing a Wooden Craft for PreK students

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TWKDMS Alt Ed facilitating a Wooden Craft for PreK students

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TWKDMS Alt Ed facilitating a Wooden Craft for PreK students

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Building Patience

Grade 2 listening to Mrs. Muller and Mrs. Buck

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Pies

Mrs. Muller and Mrs. Buck took time to make pies with grade 2 so they could teach patience. The second graders were able to enjoy the pies!

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Pie

Yum!

The Giving Tree at DES

Grade 6 beginner band. (They sounded awesome at the concert!)

SCHOOL NUTRITION DEPARTMENT

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Scratch cooking

Spaghetti with scratch cooked meatballs offered at the middle and high school levels with garlic bread

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Local Beef

Beef Stew featuring beef purchased through Conant's Farms utilizing Local Foods Funds with a scratch made biscuit.

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Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry, with Cole slaw, fresh broccoli and apple

Sometimes you need to make a mess to create magic

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Annual RSU 56 Spirit Week

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Charlie in his Tacky Tourist Tuesday outfit

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Heidi in her Tacky Tourist Tuesday outfit

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Kristin in her Tacky Tourist Tuesday outfit

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Terri in her Tacky Tourist Tuesday outfit

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Ami in her Tacky Tourist outfit

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Shiloh and Cathy as Tacky Tourists

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Barb in her Tacky Tourist attire

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Nick as a Tacky Tourist

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Jason on Winter Wednesday

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Charlie on Winter Wednesday

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Pam on Winter Wednesday

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Chris in his Ugly Sweater

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Mary and Cathy in their Ugly Sweaters

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Jillian in her (daughter's) Ugly Sweater.

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Nick in his Ugly Sweater

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Kristin and Cathy sporting their Fancy Friday attire

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Lea on Fancy Friday

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Charlie in his PJ's

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DES won the annual competition for the second year in a row.

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TWKDMS finished second.

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DHS finished third. (Consistent bronze medal every year.)

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4/5 Concert

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2/3 Concert

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K/1 Concert

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Student Council Giving Tree

The DHS Student Council completed a Giving Tree for Pinnacle and Rumford Group Homes.

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Spanish Test

Logan taking a Spanish test. Miss Broomhall was on the other end of the line, asking him questions.

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Random Picture

This is what happens when you ask Trent to snap a picture of something using your phone. Random Trent Selfies.

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Shawn Webster as an Elf

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Jay Nicholson as Santa

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An Elf Driving the Bus

Shawn
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Santa Driving the Bus

Jay
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Elf (Trent Holman) with Santa (Jay Nicholson)

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Polar Express Day at DHS

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Chillin' for Polar Express

Emily, Grace, Alyssa

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Franklin Savings Donates

Huge thank you to Franklin Savings for donating towards the DHS food bank.

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Dixfield Discount Fuel

Huge thank you to Dirigo Discount Fuel for donating gift cards at DHS.

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Santa with Wyatt

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Santa with Dylan and Addison

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Santa with Mrs. Doyen, Charles and Dylan

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Santa with Miss Bell

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Santa with Ms. MacFarlane

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Santa with Mrs. Robbins

A sincere "thank you" to the group at ND Paper who provided donations to help families in need.

RSU 56

RSU 56 is proud to offer a monthly newsletter to showcase happenings across our district. The monthly newsletter will come out at the end of each month.

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RSU 56

RSU 56 has three buildings: Dirigo Elementary School for grades PreK-5; TWK Dirigo Middle School for grades 6-8; Dirigo High School for grades 9-12.

Email: pdoyen@rsu56.org
Website: www.rsu56.org
Location: 147 Weld Street, Dixfield, ME, USA
Phone: 2075624300
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DirigoSchools/

Brian Keene
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