Pat Hopkins, Superintendent of Schools for MSAD 11: No school in MSAD 11 tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 16th. With student absences ranging between 15 - 26% and district-wide staff absences around 20% coupled with the weather pattern, it makes it difficult to safely run our schools and to provide meaningful instruction.
I appreciate your understanding. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and hope the early notification is helpful for planning purposes. I hope the extra day will help students and staff get the rest needed to be able to return to school on Monday. Enjoy the snow and Happy Holidays.
Enjoy our December newsletter!
A big thank you to the Elks Club in Gardiner for donating $500.00 to each of MSAD11's elementary schools to support the fight against food insecurity. Your dedication to supporting our young students and the community is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
December and January Lunch Menu
Our PTA Holiday Fair is coming right up, and the PTA needs our help!
Please drop off your donations of new or gently used items by Friday, December 9th.
For all Students in band and chorus
Dear Families,
Please read this letter from Mrs. Gould regarding safety at school.
A big thank you to all of the students, staff, and community members at Helen Thompson School for supporting and donating to our National Honor Society Turkey Drive! Our school raised $651.94 to help our local families celebrate Thanksgiving!
MSAD11 administrators meet with local first responders on a regular basis to discuss confidential elements of our emergency plan. The goal is to strengthen our ability to respond to future emergencies.
There have been a few inquiries from the public as to attendance at the workshop this afternoon. The pre-scheduled meeting is for administrators and local law enforcement and is not a public meeting.
Superintendent Patricia Hopkins update from Gardiner Area High School: bit.ly/3gayEbE
This is Pat Hopkins, MSAD 11 Superintendent of Schools with an update on the situation at the Gardiner Area High School. The high school has been thoroughly searched and cleared law enforcement. As a result, the lockdown has been lifted. Today’s threat was received by dispatch via a phone call concerning multiple school districts around the state. Multiple law enforcement agencies were on site supporting us and ensuring the safety of all students and staff.
Parents who wish to pick up their students to take them home for the day may do so by checking them out of the main office.
I commend students and staff for following our emergency plan and doing what they were supposed to do in these type of situations. As additional information presents itself, I will provide all of you with an update, including next steps.
Good afternoon. Today, the MSAD11 notification system will be tested. Text messages, phone calls, and emails will be sent to parent/guardians and staff in all buildings. Please contact the office in your child's school to request phone number and/or email address changes. If you do not have any children in MSAD11, call the central office at (207)582-5346 ext. 1211 to have your information removed.
All phone issues have been repaired, and the system is fully functioning. Thank you for your patience.
MSAD11 is having issues with the phone system in some of our schools, the bus garage, and the central office. If your call is not answered, please leave a detailed voicemail message.
An additional notice will be sent when the trouble has been repaired.
Thank you to all who have served, and to Mrs. Snow for delivering heartfelt Veterans Day cards from our students to Maine Veterans Homes!
Each year, the National Honor Society at Gardiner Area High School provides 200 Thanksgiving baskets for families in our community! To support this project, we invite you to help stuff our turkey jar! Students have until Friday, November 18, to bring in money donations to help GAHS help our families!
Just a reminder -
Thursday, November 10 - Early Release, 12:00 dismissal, no PreK
Friday, November 11 - Veterans Day, no school
Have a safe and restful weekend!
Common Sense Media, (commonsensemedia.org), is a website for parents and caregivers to get information on all forms of media to help guide families in what children may be watching or exposed to. There’s a “Parent Tips and FAQs” tab and from there you can choose to search “By Age,” “By Topic,” “By Platform,” and “What’s New.” We urge all parents and caregivers to pay attention to what your children are accessing through their phones, tablets, TV, and streaming sites like Netflix, YouTube, etc.
Enjoy our November newsletter!
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Be sure to enter Helen Thompson School’s Discount Code upon checkout for 32% OFF your entire order: HTS32
Please feel free to share our school link and discount code with EVERYONE. As long as our link/code is used, Helen Thompson School will earn profit from each order!
