Summer Happenings June 2024

~Mission~

We empower our community of learners in a safe and supportive environment to nurture compassion, cultivate curiosity, and inspire innovation.

~Vision~

The Barrington School District strives to be a community learning and growing together; giving students roots and wings.

Hello Barrington Families;

It is already that time of year where we are firmly holding to tight instructional practices while starting to weave in end of year activities and celebrations. It is always a challenge for students and staff alike to remain in the current school year while still planning for and thinking about the year ahead. While the end of a school year is exciting and somewhat of a relief for some, it can be a challenge, sad and anxiety provoking for others. We all approach endings and change differently and those differences are expected, embraced, and celebrated!

Dates to Remember:

Thursday, June 13th at 6:00pm: 8th Grade Celebration on the Upper Soccer Field

Tuesday, June 18th: Last Day of School (½ day)

New Opportunity:

This summer Barrington will be participating in a summer meals program offered through the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County. For the first time, Barrington qualifies as a rural site to receive this free assistance. There is no need to sign up and no personal or identifying information is needed. Once we receive final program approval, you simply need to arrive at the Middle School Parking lot each Tuesday from 4:30-5:30pm from June 18 - August 20th. Be on the lookout for the final program approval flyer!

There will be employees and volunteers from the Community Action Partnership at the Middle School parking lot on each of the specified Tuesdays. You will simply need to drive through the line, tell the worker how many children you have from birth to age 18 and they will provide you with a week’s worth of meals for your family. We are extremely grateful to be able to offer this partnership.

Schedules and summer commitments demand that we as leaders and administrators think very proactively, carefully, and critically at the needs of our students, curriculum, and facilities as we approach the summer months. Although most staff who work in any school district are not year round employees per se, some do work year round, teachers engage in summer curriculum work as well as other committee work and there is a constant hum around the district. This Newsletter will serve as a sneak peek into the “Happenings Across the School District” from when the last school day of this year concludes and the first student day of the 24/25 school year is anxiously awaited.

To get us started, I will share some of the work that the Administrative Team will be engaged in throughout June, July and August.

June:

• Placement for the upcoming year

• Superintendent’s Conference

• OGAP Training

• The Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) is a formative assessment system that is used alongside the regular math curriculum and is based on research-based learning trajectories for core content areas (addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, and proportions.)

July:

• Administrative Team On-boarding

• Administrative Team Data dive and Preparation for the Board Workshop Session (July 9)

• Board Workshop (July 16)

• 2 Day Administrative Team (District Guiding Coalition) Work Session (July 17 & 18)

• Administrator Advanced iReady training

• Administrator training for Guiding Coalition Teams (building a strong data driven culture)

• Administrator training for new Teacher Evaluation Tool and Process

• Administrator training for Performance Matters

• Town/District Collaborative Committee meets

• 2 Day Administrator training for new Title IX Regulations

• District Audit

• Regular School Board Meeting (July 30)

August:

• English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum selection and cost preparation for the 25/26 Budget Process

• Teacher contract negotiations begin

• Other Contracts that are due for negotiation/consideration:

• Dover High School

• Oyster River High School

• Transportation

• Preparation of/Creation of Required Annual trainings

• Preliminary Budget Discussions/Preparations

• Mentor Day (Aug 21)

• Regular School Board Meeting (Aug 20)

• Open House, Meet and Greets, Welcome Nights, Organized Playdates

• Opening Day/District Message

• First Day for Staff Preparations (Aug 26)

• First Day for Students Preparations (Aug 29)

Summer Hours: (June 24, 2024 - August 16, 2024)

District Office (SAU) -

Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:00pm

Friday, 8:00am - 12:00pm

BMS -

Office:

Monday - Thursday, 7:00am - 4:00pm

Friday - closed

Administration (unless otherwise noted via email return receipt):

Monday - Thursday, 7:00am - 3:00pm

Friday, 8:00am - 12:00pm

BES -

Office:

Monday - Thursday, 7:30am - 4:30pm

Friday - closed

Administration (unless otherwise noted via email return receipt):

Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:00pm

Friday, 8:00am - 12:00pm

ECLC -

Office:

Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:00pm

Friday - closed

Administration (unless otherwise noted via email return receipt):

Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:00pm

Friday, 8:00am - 12:00pm

Enjoy these last days of the 23/24 School Year! Make memories! Cherish the moments!!

We will be sending one more regular District Newsletter the week of June 17th to close out the school year.

Respectfully,

Deannah Rae

Superintendent

drae@sau74.org

Good Afternoon Barrington Families,

There are so many exciting things happening here in the district over the summer months. We have two sessions of STEM Camp this year, August 5-8 and August 12-15, 2024. Our theme this year is The Science of Super Powers where students will learn about engineering and the design process to develop prototypes, hands-on building projects (forces in nature, properties of matter, and interactions in physics), use concepts of math (place value, measuring, number facts, problem solving, and estimation), and collaborate in groups/teams...all while having great fun!

The Nature Camp still has openings for this year. Please click here to register your child for the nature camp if they are entering grades Kindergarten through 5th grade and love to be outdoors! We are partnering with the Four Winds Nature Institute to host a Nature Play Exploration Camp this summer. We will play and explore the nature areas around BES...this camp will be held entirely outside rain or shine!

Many Barrington School District teachers will be participating in a Summer Curriculum Day for grade level teams to meet and create new units of study, explore new curriculum, create learning projects, etc. Barrington Middle School will be creating new collaborative units at each grade level that span across all content areas providing students with the opportunity to develop and deepen knowledge and understanding. Our Math Implementation Team is meeting for the final time this summer to create the final scope and sequence for our new math programs. ELA pilot teachers are also meeting to begin the process of teaching the pilot programs and ensure a smooth transition for their students.

Take care,

Sarah E. Rollins, PhD

Curriculum Coordinator

srollins@sau74.org

Katie Kukesh

Director of Student Services

kkukesh@sau74.org

Hello Barrington Families.

It's shaping up to be a busy summer for the Technology team. Here's whats happening in tech this summer:

We will be collecting all Chromebooks and updating, cleaning, and relabeling cases and Chromebook carts. We will also be refreshing the inventory with 100 new Chromebooks for the fifth grade students as well as 120 new Chromebooks to replace the oldest models at the Elementary school and ECLC. Also approximately 30 teacher laptops will be retired and replaced with new devices.

We are finishing our fiber reconfiguration and network installation of new cameras across the district.

We will begin the process of ordering and installing Interactive Classroom Projectors across the district. In my initial budget presentation on October 17th I presented a plan to replace all classroom projection systems with modern interactive projectors. My initial research is aimed at the Epson BrightLink® model of interactive projectors. These are cost effective systems that work with existing whiteboards but provide wireless interactive capabilities.

Stay cool!

Jeff DeLangie Sr.

Director of Technology

jdelangie@sau74.org

Hello Barrington Families,

Currently we are all getting geared up for the end of the school year.

Congratulations to all of the students graduating, moving on to new schools, and new buildings.

We will be completing many projects over the summer. Some of these will include; a new bridge for the cross country track trail at BMS, a renovated sign at BMS, as well as summer cleaning at all school buildings.

BES will have new entry way flooring and a front foyer face lift.

We will spend some time in the ECLC woods performing tree work for the Owl’s Nest.

Hope you all enjoy the summer and will see you in August.

Best,

Joe Williams

Facilities Manager

jwilliams@sau74.org

Greetings Barrington Families,

The following is the Breakfast, Lunch and Milk cost for the 2023-2024 school year:

Breakfast:

$2.00 Regular

Reduced rate- Free

Lunch:

$3.25 Regular

$.40 Reduced rate

Milk:

$.65

Best,

Sue Williams

Food Service Director

Fresh Picks Cafe

Barrington School District SAU74

Barrington@FreshPicksCafe.com

www.freshpickscafe.com