CorpusRecord 56300

60 in 16 this week: East Kingston Elementary

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Source
YouTube / Blue Hawk Media
Date
2025-10-10
Location
Rockingham County, NH
Material
Transcript
Extent
281 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-07

Transcript

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001Good morning, SA16. This is Superintendent Chris Andrriski with SAU16 Spotlight School, East Kingston Elementary School for 16 and 16. Let's take a walk inside, see if we can find Principal French. Hello, Principal French. Thanks for having us at East Kingston Elementary School. Can you please tell us about all the amazing things that are happening here? >> Sure. Um, over the last 5 years, academically, we've seen a wonderful steady rise in our state assessments. Uh, and we have, um, surpassed where we were pre-COVID. So, we're really excited about that. It's been uh because of a dedicated staff, a wonderful group of hardworking students, and a really supportive uh family atmosphere we have here. >> Principal French, we're joined by some amazing friends. Can you tell us what we are about to witness? Yes. So, this group

002of students here, they are now currently second and third graders, but as first and second grade students, they were the kickstart to our fundraising efforts for our outdoor classroom. These students along with their teachers in the back created a makers market where they made and sold goods to our East Kingston town and they had a number of community vendors here along with them to help fundra for our outdoor classroom. We are so excited about this effort. It's been a long time in the making. We also have some community members that we want to thank you. Sorry, we want to thank for helping us get this started. our EKS PTO. We had two companies donate wood chips, Doug's Tree Service and Null's Tree Service. We also had a number of families donate to our King Fisher

003benches that are going to be out in the outdoor classroom. We are currently working with Seco School of Technology to make a beautiful outdoor whiteboard for us. So, we want to thank everyone involved, especially these kids here for making our makers market and getting the ball started with our outdoor classroom. Congratulations, Excellent. >> And we want to end our time here with saying to our SAU, one, two, three, have a great weekend. SAU16.

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