Golden Apple Award goes to Little Compton teacher
LITTLE COMPTON —Wilbur & McMahon 4th grade teacher Dietra Medeiros has won the prestigious Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. Little Compton School Superintendent Superintendent Kathryn Crowley said the award was handed out by Rhode island Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist and Channel 10 at a special school assembly in front of the entire [...]
Read More →Users grade Little Compton modular classrooms
LITTLE COMPTON — There’ve been issues with mud, lockers and intercoms but students and staff at Wilbur & McMahon Schools say their temporary home is working better than some had feared. It’s now been a few weeks since 275 Wilbur & McMahon students and all their teachers left the old school building, now under renovation, [...]
Read More →Wilbur & McMahon closes; classes move to modulars
LITTLE COMPTON —The long-awaited shift from the old Wilbur & McMahon School to the modular classrooms about 300 yards to the west has been underway for days, but began in earnest Monday, the first day of the winter break. An e-mail announcement from the school department went out on Saturday, Feb. 16, that read: “The [...]
Read More →No school Monday for all Little Compton students
LITTLE COMPTON — There will be no school for all students in Little Compton Monday, said Superintendent Kathryn Crowley early Monday morning. The cancellation of school will be effective both for students in grades K-8 attending Wilbur & McMahon and for high schoolers from town who bus to Portsmouth High School, which cancelled school late [...]
Read More →Little Compton school renovation project turns corner
LITTLE COMPTON — Ending months of uncertainty, the renovation of Wilbur & McMahon schools has finally reached two benchmarks that signal a new beginning for the much-delayed project. First, a date has been set — Monday, February 25 — for the move of about 275 students from the old building into temporary classrooms. Second, [...]
Read More →Flu spares Tiverton Little Compton schools so far
Schools here have been spared the worst of the flu bug so far, officials say.Elementary schools in Tiverton — Walter Ranger, Fort Barton, and Pocasset — all report a low incidence of flu absences. “We had very little, one or two, but attendance has been fine,” said Manny Cabral, Principal at Walter Ranger. Suzette [...]
Read More →After tragedy, schools seek ‘normalcy’
SAKONNET AREA — In the aftermath of the tragedy in Connecticut, school and town officials here say they have been working to establish a calming presence and project an atmosphere of normalcy. Portsmouth Police kept a close eye on all town schools Monday but did so without trying to be conspicuous, Chief Lance Hebert said. [...]
Read More →In Little Compton, the modulars are coming to town
LITTLE COMPTON — The first few of the long-awaited 27 modular classroom units arrived in town last week on wheeled carriers, and were left parked side-by-side at the northeast edge of the Peckham Lot, which is being readied for their installation. Right now they look like trailers. But when “seamed” together — that’s what workers [...]
Read More →Little Compton modulars in race to Jan. 30 finish line
LITTLE COMPTON — The race is on, against the clock and winter weather, to prepare the Peckham Lot site and install two 70-foot modular classroom buildings for 275 Wilbur & McMahon students during the year (or more) school building renovation project. There’s a Jan. 30 deadline for starting work under the existing construction contract, past [...]
Read More →Site work imminent for Little Compton modulars
LITTLE COMPTON — In a sequence of regular and special meetings, Little Compton’s School Committee took action last week and this to start site work on the Peckham Lot in preparation for the installation of two 7o foot-long modular temporary classroom. The classrooms will house the 275 students enrolled in Wilbur & McMahon School, soon [...]
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