Regional School Unit 1 -

In Science class, 5th graders at Phippsburg Elementary School studied the chemical reactions in the process of making potato pancakes. What a yummy science experiment!

It's been a great start to the new year for Morse athletics!

Please note that all RSU1 schools will be in session tomorrow, Thursday, December 21st. Power has been restored at all locations.

The PES generator is working like a charm and so are the students!

ALERT -- Please Read Carefully -- Dike Newell School is closed for today, Wednesday, December 20th, due to power outages. All other RSU1 schools will be back in session today. Please note that today is a Late Start Wednesday.

ALERT -- Please read carefully -- There will be no school today, Tuesday, December 19th, for Dike Newell School and Woolwich Central School due to power outages. All other RSU1 schools will be in session, but have a two-hour delay.

*** There will be no RSU1 school board meeting this evening, December 18th, due to the storm ***

More news from BMS! Our Map, Compass & Orientating Connections classes spent a day at Pineland Farms putting their work from this Connections rotation to use! Throughout this trimester's class, students learned the basics of how to read topographic maps and some basic compass reading skills! It was great to spend a beautiful day outside navigating all the trails. Thank you Mr. Luchies for helping make this great experience happen for our students!

This week our culinary arts students prepared and served a wonderful meal for the Bath Rotary. Their skills really shined as part of this live work.

Kindergartners at Phippsburg Elementary have been busy completing a snowman project and playing their favorite math games!

See what's happening at Woolwich Central School!

Bath Middle School recently held a canned food drive for the Bath Area Food Bank. This was aligned with last month's theme of gratitude. Way to go BMS!

Each year the Mid-Coast Maine Retired Educators’ Associations gives out three grants to any teacher in the Bath Brunswick area. The applicants submit a proposal in October and the executive committee meets and rates each proposal. This year the Association chose Chef EB Baldwin, Culinary Arts Instructor, as one of the three recipients. The committee was very impressed that the program “Lobster Week” included the professional lobstermen, elementary students and the high school culinary arts students.

The new gaga pit has arrived at BMS! Thanks to Mrs. Willis' and her classes and expertise of building our new and improved recess set up. A special shout out to Mrs. MacPhee and the student council who has been fundraising for the past two years to help make recess time a little more fun and purchased our new equipment piece. Within seconds of finishing, the pit was filled and they were ready to play!

Dike-Newell students are participating in Hour of Code in their weekly library classes this week. Hour of Code is a free introduction to computer science through fun activities and videos for learners of all skill levels. Schools around the world join the Hour of Code movement as part of Computer Science Education Week.

There will be a two-hour delay for all RSU1 schools today, Monday, December 4th, due to the weather.

Phippsburg Elementary School fourth graders had a lesson in the garden on how to plant garlic. It was a cold but beautiful day!

If you drive by the project house that our Bath Tech carpentry and electrical students work on, check out the new sign! Thank you to Hammond Lumber for sponsoring the sign and thank you to our welding students who created the steel stand that supports it.

This message is for Fisher Mitchell School Only -- there will be no school at Fisher Mitchell School today, Monday, November 27th due to power outages. All other RSU1 schools will be open and operating normally.

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