East Grand School is cancelled for today, Jan. 10, 2024.
East Grand School now has Live Streaming on YouTube for Basketball home games. There is a streaming link on the school website ( eastgrandschool.org ) for the YouTube Channel Playlist or search YouTube for East Grand School. Upcoming and past Live Streams will be available in the Playlist.
Posted Dec. 1, 2023 4:13pm on Facebook
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The Maine Outdoor Economy Summit was amazing! Great
discussions on essential topics impacting Maine's outdoor
industry in the areas of economic development, workforce,
access, and equity such as "Preparing The Next Generation
of Outdoor Leaders in Rural Maine". Congratulations Korah
Soll - Rural Aspirations Project, Angela Cowger (and her
daughter) - East Grand School ELO Coordinator, and Tammi
Matula - East Grand School Educator.
Over the past 20 years, the East Grand School has
developed an impressive outdoor education program that
invites all students, k-12, to develop exemplary outdoor
leadership and stewardship skills, from basic survival skills
to whitewater canoeing to moose hunting. Students and
teachers utilize the plethora of natural assets in their region
and beyond to enhance learning across all content areas. In
this session, participants will learn how the faculty and
community partners have worked together to design and
implement diverse programming that encourages outdoor
learning, crosses subjects and grades, and eventually leads
students toward a clearly defined natural resource pathway
in high school that prepares students to sit for their
Recreational Maine Guide license upon graduation.
East Grand School is cancelled for today, Dec. 4, 2023.
Send a Student or Staff Member a Treat.
Buy a Child a personalized Candy Gram for $1.00.
Send your child's entire grade a Candy Cane Gram for $10.00. (Each Child in that Grade will receive one.)
For $175.00 you can send the whole East Grand School a Candy Cane Gram. This includes every student and ALL Staff members.
Buy and return your personalized Candy Cane Grams by December 18th. Deliveries will be made during school between December 20th and December 22nd!
Contact a class member or call Tammy Cropley at 448-2882 to purchase.
Students from the 5th/6th-grade class presented to the RSU 84 Board on Nov. 20th about their class field trip to UMO Hutchinson Center.
Girls in grade 8 participated in the annual Totally Trades. Girls learn about nontraditional trades through this program and get to take time actually participating in the trade. “The event will feature sessions ranging from carpentry and cable technology to heavy equipment operation and welding, all providing an opportunity for the students to experience some aspect of the profession through a practical exercise.”
Fall parent/teacher conferences for all students in grades pre-k to twelve. Please call and set an appointment with your children's' teachers.
Friday, November 3, 2023 5:00pm - 8:00pm East Grands Seniors are hosting October Fest. Come and go through the Haunted hallway and play some games in the gym. Refreshments will be available. Haunted hallway is $5.00. Games are $1.00 each to play. Refreshments: Walking Tacos $5.00, Cookies/Sweets $1.00, Popcorn $1.00, Bottled Water $1.00. The ASP and The Seniors will be selling the popcorn. The Sophomores will have a table for games and or sweets. Machias Savings Bank will be doing face painting.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Come and walk the Trail of Terror from 6pm-9pm.
East Grands Senior Class & Danforth Lovable Communities invites you to walk the Trail of Terror!
Starts next to the Danforth Town hall.
Starting at 4pm GAMES, TREATS and MORE.
Walking Tacos, popcorn, sweets, and water will be available to buy.
Games will cost $1.00 each.
Paint a pumpkin for $5.00.
Color a slap bracelet for $3.00.
$5.00 to walk the trail plus get your glow necklace for $1.00 more.
(glow necklace allows you to be touched)
JH Basketball will begin Monday, Oct. 30. Girls will practice 2:30-4:00 and Boys' 4-5:30. There will be a mandatory JH basketball meeting for parents and students on Wednesday, November 1 at 4:00
Look who got their deer on day 1 and was still in school on time. Go Gavin. Nice 9-pointer. Ms. Matula even let us go on a field trip to see it.
The food pantry will be open at the Danforth School today, Thursday, October 19 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am.
Fourth graders broke into groups to teach their classmates about wind, water, and ice erosion as part of their earth science unit. Then they wrote about what they learned in their science journals.
Tom Farr, of Tom Farr and Associates, is donating his time and expertise to train East Grand students to handle medical emergencies, once again this year. Over the course of the year, the upper level high school physical education students will be trained in wilderness first aid, while the outdoor education students will be trained in both wilderness first aid, as well as advanced first aid through ASHI. Tom's approach is to keep the training practical and as hands on as possible. He plans to incorporate a number of scenarios where students will need to assess and treat victims in an outdoor setting. Because it will span the course of the year, students will have multiple exposures to assessment opportunities as well as chances to demonstrate proficiency in a number of medical skills. This will allow students the opportunity to adequately digest and internalize the needed skills.
Because of our rural setting, students are all first responders and it is important that they are trained to help prevent and respond to medical emergencies and trauma. Additionally, we have a number of students that love to take advantage of outdoor activities, and most likely will encounter a situation where medical care is needed over the course of their lifetime.
Note to parents: Students who do not ride the bus are not dismissed until after the busses are released. If they do come out of the building prior to the busses being dismissed, they will need to wait until we dismiss the busses to go to their vehicles or walk home. This is for safety reasons. We thank you for your support in keeping ALL of our students safe.
DANFORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS' SOCCER TEAM TAKES THE WIN OVER SOUTHERN AROOSTOOK
TALK ABOUT "WITHITNESS"! PERSISTENCE, TEAM, AND DETERMINATION ARE GOOD WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS GROUP OF BOYS. CONGRATULATIONS, ENJOY THE WIN.
Reminder: Friday Oct. 6 is a Teacher Workshop Day, and Monday, Oct. 9 is a holiday. There will be no school for students these days. Enjoy the extra long weekend.
We here at East Grand Schools have a long history of pride in our Vikings and would love to rekindle a
more hand-in-hand relationship with the community. Let’s get together and discuss the formation of a
brand new East Grand Parent Advisory Team! This team would be comprised of volunteers from the
community and would work with administration at our school to discuss and help to develop policies
and procedures, raise funds for things that fall outside of the budget of the school, and so much more!
Together, we can make a difference!
This meeting will take place at the East Grand School Cafeteria, October 5 th , 2023, at 5:30 pm. Please
come with ideas, questions and concerns about this club and its role in our students’ lives.
Order your East Grand School gear now through Oct. 18, 2023 on Wight's website https://eastgrandhs23.itemorder.com/