Read the April Teaching and Learning district newsletter! https://westbrooksdme.edurooms.com/engage/westbrook-school-department/newsletters/april-teaching-and-learning-newsletter
We had an amazing turnout for our Congin UA night! Thank you to all of those who attended, and thank you to Ms. Cyr, Miss E, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Gaulrapp, and Teacher Jones for planning all of the fun activities!
Congin Cougars are inclusive! This month, we are working on the theme of inclusivity and students are filling out bingo sheets with a variety of inclusive actions. We have a goal of 200 bingo sheets by the end of the month. Check out Antonio from Mrs. Townswnd’s 3rd grade class who was the first Congin Cougar to finish his inclusive bingo board!
Tonight's event at WMS, "Raising Humans in a Digital World", has been postponed. The speaker's flight to Maine was cancelled. We are working to reschedule for September and will share the new date as soon as it's confirmed.
Today we had the Ned Show join us at Congin as we celebrate meeting our goal for our perseverance challenge! NED is an acronym that stands for Never Give Up, Encourage Others, and Do Your Best! This engaging assembly teaches students how they can persevere and work hard!
More pictures from our inclusion assembly!
Check out our 4th grade civil rights team! Yesterday, our cougars got to walk the Portland Freedom trail and learn a little bit about Portland history. Finally, they ended their day with lunch at Otto’s pizza! Thank you to Mrs. Richardson for making this field trip happen!
We had an amazing turnout on Friday night for our bingo and plinko event! Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed some fun, and thank you to Congin School PTO who helped plan this amazing event!
Today our 4th Grade College Knowledge Team went to the Westbrook Performing Arts Center to compete against Saccarappa School and Canal School! Our cougars got to show off all of their knowledge about college! Nice work, cougars!
Check out these 3rd grade cougars from Ms. Doherty’s class who did a research project using the Who was books. These cougars then created posters sharing fun facts about the person that they chose, and they got to got to make cut outs to replicate the cover of their books! Nice job third graders!
First day of Spring is the perfect day to start some egg incubation in Mrs. Townsend’s third grade class! Students were involved in putting the eggs in the incubator and they will be closely observing each day. Students will be writing about their observations, and they will learn more about the egg hatching process!
Our cougars had some guest readers from the high school come in to read to them yesterday! Thank you to Sam Johnson, High School English Teacher, and Kim Walls for organizing these readers in classrooms!
We hope you enjoy reading the March Teaching and Learning Newsletter!
https://westbrooksdme.edurooms.com/engage/westbrook-school-department/newsletters/march-2025-teaching-and-learning-newsletter
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Check out Mrs. Armstrong’s first grade cougars who designed and created leprechaun catchers! Throughout the day, classes and teachers came to visit the classroom and students explained how their contraption would catch a leprechaun. Nice work, cougars!
We had some early rising cougars come join us at Congin this morning for Weather at Your School with Ted McInerney from channel 8! Take a look at our broadcasting cougars in action.
Today ends our Read Across America week, but take a look at Mrs. Morowski’s kindergarten cougars who celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by reading a variety of his books!
It’s Read Across America week! Classrooms have had some guest visitors come in to read to students. Guests have included Superintendent Dr. Lancia, Assistant Superintendent Dr. O’Donnell, Principal Mr. Bisson and News Anchor on WGME News 13 Jeff Peterson. Some of our students have even read virtually to local daycare providers!
More pictures from our Perseverance Assembly!
It’s youth art month! Congratulations to one of our third grade cougars, Luke Westover, whose art will be featured at the Portland Museum of art!
City Clerk Ellis Ledoux came to talk to our 4th graders today about voting! Students got a chance to vote to name the City Voting Mascot! After a close race, the students decided to name the mascot….Bob!
