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Anyone looking to explore what holds Windham Middle School together should look no farther than the longtime school receptionist and attendance secretary Debbie Hall.

About 14 Windham High School students joined 60 other teens from Westbrook and South Portland High Schools in the Third Annual Collective Impact Youth Summit held on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church.

Windham Primary School’s third graders provide relief of first-day jitters for Kindergartners. As an adult, anxiety is a common experience when you start a new journey and step out of your comfort zone. Those first-day jitters are even more intense for five-year-old Kindergartners attending a ‘big’ school that houses almost 800 other students they have never met.

Often referred to as ELOs, Extended Learning Opportunities are personalized community-based programs that provide hands-on career exploration options outside the traditional classroom setting.

The game of chess has many benefits for young minds and educators at Windham Middle School are tapping into its resurging popularity to help students to tackle the academic challenges ahead.

Welcome to the Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment
newsletter. We are here to help staff connect with the tools to assist in
student learning. It is our hope to share this monthly update to share the work we are doing and the ways we can assist. The team will share instructional tips, resources, and invitations to participate in upcoming events.

COVID hit us all a lot. It struck workplaces, schools, shopping malls and the list goes on, but perhaps where it was most felt was in the theater industry. Since the pandemic, it has been difficult for the theater program at Windham High School to get its wheels rolling again. But as time goes by and everyone is slowly adapting, so is the theater program. This November, they will be staging the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Students aspire to be members of talented and community-adored Windham Chamber Singers

WHS presents Little Shop of Horrors, November 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 7pm. November 13 & 20 at 2pm.

Everybody has their place; a place where they know that they are welcome, where they know that they can serve those around them, where they feel like in a second home. The most important part is to find this place, to find this welcoming community where each laugh and smile never ends. For some, this place is harder to find than it is for others. But for Tianna Burton, this place found itself and never left her.