The Maine Department of Education and ConnectME Authority have contracted Redzone Wireless to provide broadband access to staff and student locations in your area to support remote learning. Please complete the form at the website linked below by November 8th to be included in the program.
A Redzone representative will contact you to arrange an installation appointment to ensure that your location is connected before December 30. For more information and to complete the form visit https://www.redzonewireless.com/cares
FYI for 8th grade parents and students
And the results are in! The winners of our 3rd annual Whitefield Elementary School Pumpkin Decorating Contest are as follows:
1st place is Hamburger done by Amy Perkins ( front office)
2nd place is Puffer fish by Ashley Burdick ( kitchen )
3rd place is Unicorn by Billie Jo Grady ( Title 1)
A little Halloween fun at Whitefield Elementary!
Flu Shot Clinic
Whitefield School will be back running a 4 bus run starting this afternoon. Thursday afternoons will continue to be a 3 bus run each week.
Tomorrow Whitefield School will be having a 3 bus run both in the morning and afternoon.
November Breakfast and Lunch Menus
Lincoln County is distributing FREE food boxes starting Monday, October 26th at 6 locations around the county. These boxes contain 20+ pounds of produce, meat and dairy products. This event is funded by the USDA and any person, regardless of income or residency is encouraged to join in. The locations will be drive-through service and the boxes will be loaded into your vehicle for you.
Some locations include:
Monday, Oct. 26 2:30-6:00pm Waldoboro Town Office
Tuesday, Oct. 27 9:00am-12:30pm Wiscasset Community Center
Wednesday, Oct. 28 1:30-5:30pm Whitefield Calvary Baptist Church
Please spread the word to your family, friends, neighbors of this event.
There are A LOT of boxes coming, and they want to make sure they don’t go to waste!
See https://www.lincolncountymaine.me/ for a full list of locations and dates for pickup.
FYI
If you missed picture day last week, or find you will need retakes, our Picture Retake Day will be on Monday, November 23rd.
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Attention all families: Please take this 5 minute survey from The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. Even if you completed the survey last year, we need your participation again!
Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a prize drawing and five lucky winners across the state will each receive a $100 Amazon gift card for their personal use AND if you win, our school will receive $1,000.
Other schools are participating, so the more families from our school who complete the survey, the greater our chance of winning $1,000!
Contact information for the prize drawing will be collected at the end of the survey and will not be connected to your survey responses. All survey responses are anonymous.
Click the following link to begin the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020FamilySCHLincoln
Thank you!
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Kendra Anderson, RN
RSU #12
Whitefield School
This is a reminder that there is no school on Friday October 9th and Monday October 12th.
Update on tomorrow's bus run.
We will have a normal 4 bus run in the morning. Tomorrow afternoon will still be a 3 bus run.
FYI:
Picture day will be on Friday, October 16th. Order forms will go home on Tuesday.
This is a reminder that we will be conducting a 3 bus run on Thursday, October 8th for both the AM and PM run.
As planned, all schools in RSU 12 will resume in-person learning starting tomorrow, Wednesday, October 7, 2020. If your student was contacted and told to quarantine, then they should continue to do so. Thank you to everyone for following the safety protocols in our schools. We look forward to resuming in-person learning tomorrow.
If you would like food delivery for your students during school closure, please call the school or email Meagan Soule before 2pm today. She can be reached at 549-7691 or at msoule@svrsu.org
We still have LOTS of pumpkins to sell. There are some very nice ones. If you are interested in getting one, please contact Ms. McCormick at kmccormick@svrsu.org to schedule a time to pick one up. We will be selling them again when we return to school as well. Thanks.
Important information about school picture day:
School pictures have been rescheduled for Friday, October 16th.
