ORLEANS — Nauset Public Schools Supt. Brooke Clenchy has confirmed that her retirement at the end of the current school year, first announced last month in an email to parents […]
Learning
NAUSET SCHOOLS
Clenchy’s Successor Will Have Some Tough Tests
New superintendent will face shrinking enrollments and rising budgets
ORLEANS — Nauset Public Schools Supt. Brooke Clenchy has confirmed that her retirement at the end of the current school year, first announced last month in an email to parents […]
PUBLIC HEALTH
Kindergarten Vaccination Rates Fall Short
Lack of ‘herd immunity’ risks outbreak of preventable diseases
The immunization of children entering kindergarten against preventable diseases in all four towns on Outer Cape Cod lags far behind statewide averages. In both Truro and Provincetown, less than 80 […]
BACK TO SCHOOL
Nauset High Reconstruction Is Almost Half Done
New spaces for art, physical education, and science will update an old campus
EASTHAM — The eastern half of Nauset Regional High School’s campus has been under construction since February 2023, pushing faculty and students into temporary modular classrooms, but with the new […]
HATS OFF
The Class of 2024 Made the Best of 4 Trying Years
Nauset High graduates 186 seniors in a foggy but happy ceremony
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School Class of 2024 walked confidently onto the football field on Friday, June 7 for their graduation ceremony. Among the 186 graduates from across […]
ON STAGE
Students Take the Stage at WHAT to Sing and Dance ‘The Jungle Book’
A collaboration among grown-ups who know ‘theater skills are life skills’
WELLFLEET — Music is in the air at Wellfleet Elementary School. On the heels of their annual spring concert, performed earlier this month, students have been preparing to perform The […]
ART AND WORDS
Workshops at FAWC Inspire Provincetown Schools Artists and Poets
A showcase of spring prints, dreamy cityscapes, and peace-seeking poems
PROVINCETOWN — Seven third-graders from the Provincetown Schools took the stage at the Fine Arts Work Center on April 11 to thank artist Vicky Tomayko for showing them how to […]
BUDGET CRUNCH
Eastham Faces $1M in Unexpected School Costs
Officials attribute need for budget override to faulty communication
EASTHAM — Voters at the May 4 annual town meeting will be asked to approve two Proposition 2½ overrides totaling $1.32 million to fund the town’s fiscal 2025 budget — […]
STUDENT ART SHOW
We Are Artists Too
Students’ Works On View at The Truro Public Library
The Truro Central School Art Show is up in the Anne H. Brock Room at the town’s library, with works by students in kindergarten through grade 5 — but just […]
FIRST 100 DAYS
New Waves at Wellfleet Elementary
Adam O’Shea is the 91-student school’s new principal
WELLFLEET — A few things have changed at Wellfleet Elementary School since Principal Mary Beth Rodman retired last year and Adam O’Shea took the helm. For one, the signs look […]
COOKING CLASS
An After-School Culinary Club Explores Healthy Foods and New Flavors
On pizza day, it’s jalapeños, red peppers, and spinach — but hold the artichokes
Students in the Wellfleet Elementary School’s culinary club have, over the past month, stayed after school to make things many of them had never heard of, like pho, the Vietnamese […]
CIAO
Italian Instruction Is ‘Presente’ in Provincetown
Students, all starting from scratch, sit up and take notice in new language classes
PROVINCETOWN — When Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools students enter the classroom of their new Italian instructor, Tiziana Murray, they’re faced with an immediate challenge: a sentence on the board in […]
AT SCHOOL
In Truro, Teachers Wear Many Hats
That’s part of what it means to work in a one-school district with fewer than 100 students
TRURO — As a sixth-grader at Truro Central School in 1993, Abby Roderick drew a life-size portrait of herself in a billowing purple skirt, wielding a puppet in one hand […]
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS
Students Accentuate the Positives on High School Renovation
The project is on track for early completion
EASTHAM — Since construction crews broke ground on the Nauset Regional High School renovations last March, students have watched the new buildings going up with more excitement than nostalgia. “I […]
SCHOOLS
Nauset Is ‘Neutral’ on MCAS as Graduation Requirement
The district’s results are better than the state average
ORLEANS — The Nauset Regional School Committee will meet virtually on Thursday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. to review results from the 2023 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) for the […]
