May 2024

Greetings!

This year has moved along at an incredible pace - it is difficult to believe that the end of the school year is weeks away - and that the summer months are on the horizon!

Graduation activities are in full swing! Our Seniors are preparing for their graduation ceremony, while ensuring that they take full advantage of this last opportunity to connect with friends and build final memories with their classmates, prior to the school year ending. Multiple activities are planned that include a banquet, picnic, rehearsals, yearbook signing, Scholarship Night, and the Senior Walk through.

The Senior Walkthrough activity began last year, and is a special opportunity for our graduates to walk through their elementary and middle schools one last time prior to graduation. The staff and students in the individual schools line up outside of their classrooms and celebrate the graduates as they walk the hallways with applause and high-fives, and lots of vocal notes of congratulations! It is a special event and one I especially look forward to.

At this time of year, we also celebrate those staff who are leaving us and heading into the next phase of their life journey - retirement. We want to express our profound appreciation to all staff who have served Nauset Public Schools in their roles for many, many years and have decided to move to a new phase. A lifetime of working in education is a commitment and dedication to doing your best to serve children in our communities. Our NPS staff is exemplary, and we will miss those who have decided to leave us at the end of this year, and we are most appreciative of their service to the district and all they have done to make a difference for our students. We are including the list of retirees in this newsletter. We thank each of them, and wish them the very, very best in their next life chapter.

We would like to acknowledge and commend Susannah Remillard on the recent announcement and recognition by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education of her attainment of MA Teacher of the Year Semifinalist status. Ms. Remillard teaches at Nauset Regional Middle School. It is an honor to be nominated for this award - and the process is difficult to achieve this level of Semifinalist at the state level. Massachusetts, through this process, recognizes the very best educators within the Commonwealth. We are incredibly proud to have Ms. Remillard on staff and appreciate all that she has done. Congratulations!

The NRHS project continues to move along at an incredible pace - we have included pictures in this newsletter so that you can see the growth of the overall project.

Thank you to each of our communities for your continued support of all we do within Nauset Public Schools. Each of our Towns has now successfully passed each of our budgets and Eastham has successfully passed its override. We are grateful to live in communities who place a high value on the education and growth of its children, and recognize its importance in building communities. Thank you to each of you who have continued to support the budgets and continued excellence of the Nauset schools. We are filled with gratitude to be surrounded by people who care.

Yours in partnership,

Brooke Clenchy

Superintendent

Susannah Remillard, Adventure Education Teacher at Nauset Regional Middle School, was recently announced as a Semi-Finalist for the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year award. This prestigious state award is bestowed upon the very best educators in the state. To be nominated for this award is, in and of itself, an honor. To be announced as a semi-finalist is a clear sign that Ms. Remillard is considered to be one the very best educators within the state. The process to arrive at Semi-Finalist is not an easy one, and it is most impressive to receive this level of recognition at the state level.

We are appreciative of the role Ms. Remillard has fulfilled in terms of the Adventure Education program at Nauset Regional Middle School. She has balanced honoring the program that was in place while at the same time seeking ways to continue to build upon its foundation.

Please join us in congratulating Ms. Remillard on her excellent work for the students of Nauset Reigonal Middle School!

Nauset Administration

Joanna Hughes

Nauset High School

Jodi Birchall

Stephen Boskus

Sean Fleming

David Potts

Nauset Middle School

Beverly DiPaolo

Cathy Monaghan

Ann Paulus

Aldona Pauliukonis

Christy Simpson

Eastham

Coreen Olson

Brewster

Leah Belliveau

Antionette Young

Orleans

Lori Youngman

It is hard to overstate how considerable the changes have been to the four buildings that are phase one of the Nauset High School building project. In approximately six weeks, we will be moving new and existing furniture and equipment into these classrooms preparing them for students to return in September. It seems as though it has been years but, in reality we began the deconstruction and construction only last February (2023). This is when many classes moved into the modular classrooms from the existing buildings. Two buildings were completely razed and two other buildings were erected in their footprints. Some of those same teachers previously displaced will be moving into the new E building, the renovated G building, N Building and the new F building.

The new E building will house largely science classrooms as well as special education classrooms, and some general education classrooms. This building will feature several state-of-the-art labs for classes in physics, chemistry, biology and salt-water eco systems to name a few. These labs will allow students to work on performance-based activities in these lab/classroom settings.

G Building houses our gym. The gym floor has been totally renovated and reworked. Locker rooms and storage have also been completely redesigned with the students in mind. In addition, G Building will house the kitchen, and servery. The culinary arts program will also be located in this building to share some of the main kitchen’s infrastructure. The new cafeteria will feature improved aesthetics and seating access to the one-of-a-kind center courtyard; making the school continue to have a college campus feel. Our cafeteria also has a wall of reclaimed siding from some of the original buildings’ exteriors as a nod to the former campus.

N building was the most recent addition to the school in the 1990’s. It has completely been reconfigured to house the Fine Arts programs of Nauset High School. Purpose-built spaces such as jewelry, woodworking, clay, photography and architecture to list just some of the offerings will enjoy the features of these new spaces. There will be a drama classroom as well as a classroom for architecture classes.

Our administration, guidance, nurse and student services will be moving to the new F building. This building will be the main entrance of the campus going forward. Offices for the principal, assistant principals, school resource officer and guidance counselors will all be housed together in the new main office.

The Auditorium will not be ready for occupation in September due to the complexities in that space, but it will be worth the wait. This new community space will be one of the centerpieces of the school design. The new PAC (performing art center) will be a place for concerts, lectures, recitals and events for years to come.