Assistant Principal DeMaria and Ms. Corbett came to visit with our fourth grade cougars! They were able to give a brief overview of the middle school and answer some questions from our students. Our cougars will be going to the middle school on June 5th for Step Up Day!
4th grade cougars go to Mackworth Island! Check out these students enjoying all things nature and spending time with their peers!
Check out the new addition to Congin School! This year, we said goodbye to our original bleachers from 1974, the year that Congin was built. Mrs. Perkins, our art teacher, kept a panel from those bleachers and had GT art students make a sign to hang in the front of our building. Now everyone will be able to admire a little piece of Congin history!
Yesterday, our first grade cougars went to Pineland Farms and got to learn about various animals! Our cougars were a great audience!
Mrs. Morowski's kindergarten cougars are in the midst of their "Avid Readers" unit where students are applying everything that they have learned throughout this year. Our cougars are learning about what reading looks like on outside, and how it should feel on the inside! Keep on reading!
Want to join our Congin Cougar team? We are currently looking for an administrative assistant to work in our office! If you or someone you know would be interested, please go to https://www.applitrack.com/westbrookschools/onlineapp/ for more information and to apply!
Mrs. Downing's kindergarten cougars have been studying the lifecycle of lady bugs and butterflies. The lady bugs that they have been observing hatched over the weekend, and they just recently released them!
Check out our Sea Dog’s Most Improved Students! These cougars were nominated by teachers, and they received a certificate and a Sea Dog’s ticket to celebrate! Congratulations to Maclin Ver, Kevin Lopez, Aden Contreras, Aysha Qaney, Lukas Walker, Muhidden Muhidden, Maisy Douglass, Sarjoh Fofana, Jack Maurer, Jude Ali, Alejandro Paulino-Burgos, Maddy Tanguay, Rosie Evans, Jenna Hassan, Lachlan Mills, and Charlotte Neault!
Today our fourth grade cougars took a walking field trip to Mill Brook Preserve for lunch! They even had a surprise guest join them…Mrs. Nugent!
Did you know that next week is Teacher Appreciation?! We can't wait to celebrate our amazing Congin Cougar Teachers with the theme of Summer (Almost) Vacation. Students will be participating in a spirit week to help celebrate our teachers! Check out the flyer to see what we will be doing each day!
Today Congin had an epic College Knowledge: Teachers against Students challenge to see who had the most knowledge about college. After varying rounds, the students came out on top! Great job, Cougars!
Just a reminder… come to the Mad Science event this evening at 5:30pm at the Westbrook High School Auditorium. The presentation is about Space Science. There will be free books for all! This is a free event for families!
Congin Cougars fly drones! In STEAM, Mrs. Gaulrapp is teaching students how to fly drones. Students carefully navigated the drones to land in a hula hoop in the gym. This required a lot of perservance and problem solving!
Happy Administrative Assistant Appreciation Day to our amazing Administrative Assistants, Mrs. Bowie and Ms. Fulton. We are so lucky to have them as part of our Congin Cougar team!
Happy Earth Day! These second grade cougars from Mrs. Townsend’s class made some Earth Day seed balls and Ms. Preston’s class spent some time outside cleaning up our school!
Come check out our art show and see the incredible work of our Congin Cougars. Thank you to Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Sommerville for making this happen!
Just a reminder that we will be taking a break from our book fair on Wednesday, but it will be back up and running on Thursday. The book fair will be open from 11:30-6pm on Thursday!
Additionally, we will be having our Art Show on Thursday from 11:30-6pm! Come see some art that your cougar has created this year in our main hallway!
Mrs. Townsend’s second grade class has been hatching chickens! They have hatched 11 chicks and all are strong and thriving! Such an engaging and fun project for our cougars!
Congin Cougar Teachers on the eclipse day! Hope you and your families got to enjoy the cool phenomena!
Check out our remote day morning announcements at this link:
https://youtu.be/OnGd7UTitfw
I hope everyone stays warm and safe out there today!