• SAS State Testing Continues for 3rd and 4th Graders in Math
  
• Tuesday, 5/14 - 1st Grade - Cornucopia Garden Program, 8:50-9:40am
• Thursday, 5/16 - 4th Grade Field trip to Great Bay Estuary
• Thursday, 5/16 - 3rd Grade Field trip to Harris Center
• Saturday, 5/18 - Children and the Arts Festival in Peterborough
• Friday, 5/24 - All Staff PD - No School for Students
• Monday, 5/27 - Memorial Day - No School
• Monday, 6/3 - Field Day at Barbara C. Harris Center
• Wednesday, 6/12 - 4th Grade Celebration, 5:30-7pm (See Below for RSVP)
• Friday, 6/14 - Last Day of School for Students

Wednesday's performance at Night of the Arts was a wonderful event, filled with singing, dancing, students playing instruments, student sculptures for the Birds of a Feather Children and the Arts Festival next Saturday, where they carry their sculptures in a school parade, and the program for the evening which students helped put together in library. This culmination of the arts was really unique because our specialists rarely get to work together since we use a rotating specials schedule among the smaller schools. A special thank you goes out to our specialists for making this event possible, staff for being present to support students that night, and families for coming to the event and being a fabulous audience! It was a fantastic night and we are so proud of the hard work that went into this event, thank you all!

Parents/Guardians of Incoming Fifth Grade Students: Hold the Date! Great Brook School will host a family orientation event on Monday, June 3rd. The program will begin with a welcome in the school cafeteria at 5:15 p.m. The event will highlight important aspects of GBS and will end at approximately 6:15 p.m. Due to space limitations, we ask that this meeting be for parents only. We hope to offer childcare, and will follow up with information on this.

We will also visit the elementary schools in late May with an informational video to share and to answer questions, and look forward to hosting the students when they visit us for the Fly Up Day event on June 4. More details coming soon! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Laura Gourlay, School Counselor, at 603-588-6630 x 6003 or lgourlay@conval.edu.

Regards,

Laura Gourlay

Our Art Teacher, Mr. Melle asked if anyone might be interested in carrying the giant bird during the parade on Saturday at our Night of the Arts performance. If you or someone you know are interested, please reach out to Alisha Hansen-Proulx: ahansen@conval.edu or call the office to share that you are interested. Thank you in advance!

We are moving forward with the new playground installation after July 1st this summer. We've been waiting on the new ADA compliance regulations and hope to begin breaking ground in July. Several meetings have taken place already to continue moving toward the new playground and the PTO is working to sign a contract shortly. The work continues and we are grateful for all the fundraising and hard work everyone has done to get the school to this point, thank you for all of the efforts and work so far...more information to come!

Email: Alisha Hansen-Proulx at ahansen@conval.edu
Website: https://bes.conval.edu/en-US
School Phone: (603) 588-2131