DIXFIELD — The Regional School Unit 10 board of directors has approved transportation for several overnight and day trips for elementary school students and a senior class trip to Massachusetts for Buckfield Junior/Senior High School seniors.
when they met on Monday.
Fifth-graders at Rumford Elementary School will take part in an overnight nature experience at the University of Maine 4-H Learning Center at Bryant Pond on June 1 and 2. Fifth-graders at Dirigo Elementary School will take part in a similar event on May 27 and 28.
Grades three through five at Dixfield Elementary will take part in a daylong visit to Bryant Pond on May 18.
The trips have been paid for through a variety of grants, including those from the Western Foothills Kids Association and a parent-teacher association.
“Our goal is to get kids outside into the natural world,” Lyndsey Smith, lakeside classroom coordinator at Bryant Pond, said during her presentation to the board Monday night.
Buckfield class trip coordinator Faith Rines said about two-thirds of the 40-member graduating class is expected to travel to Massachusetts on a chartered bus after Project Graduation activities end early June 7. The cost for each student and chaperon is estimated at about $325.
Rines said no district funds would be used; the cost for the senior class trip will be covered by fundraisers during the seniors’ four years at the high school.
In other business:
* Assistant Buildings, Grounds and Transportation Director Jonathan Chalmers submitted his resignation effective March 2 to take a similar position at neighboring RSU 9 in Farmington.
* Other resignations include Mountain Valley High School math teacher Sarah Knowlton, Mountain Valley High School education technician Jane Doucette and Nezinscot-region speech and language clinician Deborah Berman.
* Newly hired are Mariah Briggs, Mountain Valley Middle School special education technician, and Michelle Young, special education technician at Pennacook Learning Center.
* Technology director Kevin Kaulback announced a plan to provide one laptop computer for every 2½ prekindergarten through fifth-grade students through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Superintendent Craig King said the nearly $800,000 cost will be built into the next four district budgets.
* Mountain Valley High School junior Ronnie Russell was appointed student representative to the RSU 10 board.
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