Newsletter

This week, we had great experiences with SailMaine for ourstudents in Kineo! Half the team went sailing and the other halfat King did tye-dying and team building nautical games. Seepictures below! Students across teams also were engaged inimportant learning this week!

Next week and continuing through October 10th, we have ourteam-building work with RippleEffect. Sixth grade students willparticipate in Deering Oaks park with their crew leaders andRipple Effect facilitators for a half day on Oct. 4th.

I am writing to share that Co-Superintendent Melea Nalli and myself will be recommending to the Board of Public Education that Amy Marx serve as the next principal of King Middle School, beginning July 1. After a selection process that included 14 candidates from multiple states and multiple rounds of screening, we are confident that Ms. Marx is the right leader for the King community moving forward.  Thank you to the members of the King community that participated in the interview process. 

I’m writing to let you know that our school had a “soft lockdown” this afternoon for a short period of time due to activity by Portland Police near our school. The activity was not school-related, but police were in the process of arresting a suspect, and they recommended that we make sure the area around our school was secure and that there was no one outside beginning about 1:45 p.m.