The summer months have been busy with building maintenance, hiring of new staff and ordering supplies for the 2001-02 school year. Sacopee Valley High School has a new roof over the eighth grade wing of the building and renovations on the track are underway. New carpeting has been installed at Hiram Elementary School, South Hiram Elementary School, Cornish Elementary School and Baldwin Consolidated School. An application for a new middle school building was submitted to the Department of Education on July 31st and we will be anxiously waiting to hear about funding.
Work continues in the area of curriculum and assessment.
Local Learning Results have now been developed in the areas of Mathematics, Social Studies, Language Arts, Health and Physical Education. The staff has worked closely with the district's Curriculum Coordinator to develop assessments in all areas of the Learning Results. This work will continue to take place on late start and in-service days. This year the district has established goals that support this on-going work. As the new school year progresses the staff will be working to achieve these goals by reviewing and analyzing assessment data and developing strategies to address the needs in each school.