Thomaston Grammar School

Welcome to Thomaston Grammar School

65 Watts Lane

Thomaston, ME 04861

Telephone:  (207) 354-6353

Fax:  (207) 354-6238

 

Susan Stilwell, Principal

Laura Curtis, Administrative Assistant

Sara Gilfenbaum, Head Teacher

Colleen Kreps, School Counselor

Jim Leonard, Athletic Director

 

 

RSU 13 Text Alerts Available

The Director of Information Technology for RSU 13 has set up a server to send out text alerts for the district. If you are interested in signing up please visit:

text.rsu13.org

When entering your cell phone number, the area code is necessary, but do not use spaces or dashes.  Once you submit your cell phone number, you’ll be prompted to enter your “verification code”.  This code will be texted to your cell phone within a few minutes.

 

Please see the Upcoming Events tab for dates and events at TGS!

 

PLAYGROUND: The days are getting colder so please make sure to send your child with warm winter gear. Students are outside for 20 minutes before school and 20 minutes at lunch time.

 

January

Sunday 1-29 through Tuesday 1-31   Special Olympics, Winter Games

February

2/3                   7^th grade trip to the Challenger Space Center

2/3                   7^th Grade Snowball Dance, 7-9pm

2/3                   National Go Red for Women Day, wear red and support The American Heart Association,

                        contributions for the AHA will also be accepted.

2/9                   The Finnish Kantele Group Assembly

2/10                 Snowball – snow date

2/14                 Valentine’s Day

2/20-2/24         School vacation Presidents’ Day Holiday

2/20                 End of Trimester 2 grades K-7

 

March

3/6                   5^th grade tennis at MRC

3/9                   End of Trimester

3/9                   6^th Grade District III Music Festival, Mt. Ararat, All day, Concert time TBA

3/13                 5^th grade tennis at MRC

3/15                 Report Cards go home

3/16                 In-service day (no students)   

3/20                 5^th grade tennis at MRC

3/27                 5^th grade tennis at MRC

 

 

Thomaston Grammar School News

 

We have twelve students in the Middle Level Alternative Education program. They go to the Herring Gut Learning Center three days a week to conduct their aquaponic business, which is growing fish and plants together as a closed system. This is an academically based program, which integrates all subjects into the HGLC curriculum. They also run the recycling project at TGS, in which they collect and sort all paper, cans and bottles at the school.

 

TGS has been reconfigured, and has several new staff and students. The staff felt a unifying experience was needed for both staff and students, and to meet that need they selected Tanglewood’s “Building Our Human Community” program. This program is designed to foster positive communication and help students identify the strengths that they bring to the group. It also helps students think critically, problem solve, work cooperatively, and become more effective communicators. Heather Francis, Tanglewood’s School Program Director, provided a scholarship to the school that covered all costs for this program. The work begun at Tanglewood will be continued through “Crew” (the TGS advisory program) throughout the year.

This summer the TGS 5th grade Common Ground Garden donated lettuce to the Rockland soup kitchen. Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Butler and the cafeteria staff, students have harvested beets, carrots, broccoli, onions, and cucumbers to add to their lunch in the TGS cafeteria! The garden continues to be a favorite learning activity for the 5th grade students at TGS.

  The students in grade seven are becoming a great community of kids. They started the year with two activities to help them become aware of what it takes to be a classmate and friend. The first was the Tanglewood program, followed up by “The Paper Clip Unit” which teaches about respect and tolerance by focusing on the atrocities of the Holocaust and the price people paid for the biases of others.   In math the students have been working on shoring up computation skills and learning how to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data. In Science they are learning about measurement and the metric system. Social Studies work has centered on a review of geography skills and Maine studies. During ELA, the seventh graders have been assessing Grammar skills, learning about Reading/test taking strategies, and writing acrostic poems about themselves.