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 — […]
Learning
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 […]
EDUCATION
Nauset’s Music Man Is a Master of Ensemble
Daniel Anthony finds ways to blend players at every level
EASTHAM — The Nauset High School pep band stood under the frosty stadium lights on the football field, golden brass clenched in their hands, waiting to welcome the Warriors to […]
COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY
Truro’s After-School Program Will Start Again
Four new staff are creating a year-round program in the recreation dept.
TRURO — Families of students at the Truro Central School have been making do without consistent after-school care since the onset of Covid in 2020. But the town announced on […]
EXCURSIONS
Provincetown’s Fifth Grade Finds Beauty in the Dunes
Digging and rolling, finding tracks and foraging to learn about the natural world
PROVINCETOWN — As he trekked across the dunes with half of the fifth-grade class from the Provincetown IB Schools, Mark Adams slowed the pace for a moment to call attention […]
EDUCATION
Housing Crisis Hits Schools — and Will Get Worse
Enticing new staff to towns where teachers can’t live is ‘a really hard sell’
Faced with significant turnover of teachers, administrators, bus drivers, and support staff, every one of the Outer Cape’s schools is feeling the effects of Cape Cod’s year-round housing shortage. When […]
EARLY CHILDHOOD
Funds but No Staff to Grow Infant-Toddler Program
Without two new employees, school can’t add third child-care room
PROVINCETOWN — With a mix of federal and municipal funds already secured, a third infant-toddler room at the Provincetown Schools is ready to open its doors. There’s just one thing […]
CAPS OFF
Celebrating the Outer Cape’s Class of 2023
Graduates look to the future
The Independent invited the members of the Class of 2023 at Nauset Regional High School and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School from the four Outer Cape towns to tell […]
HIGH SCHOOL RENOVATION
Senate Budget Could Add $7.2M to Nauset Building Project Funding
Cyr wants to unlock ‘millionaire’s tax’ money for school construction, but green schools is a competing priority
EASTHAM — If the state Senate’s budget proposal for fiscal 2024 makes it through negotiations with the House this month unscathed, the Nauset Regional High School renovation project will receive […]
