The school plans
to strengthen reading programs.
FAYETTE – Fayette Central School students will see a new face this year. One educational technician will also now serve as a prekindergarten teacher. School starts Wednesday, Aug. 27.
Cathy Corey of Readfield is the new part-time Title I teacher. Corey has 15 years experience teaching and last taught in Gardiner.
Susan Morin began her student-teacher training at Fayette Central School three years ago. For the past two years she has served as an educational technician. This year she will be a pre-kindergarten teacher.
Principal/Superintendent Briane Coulthard, who has held that position for the past four years, said the school will strengthen its Aspire Reading Room and Read to Me programs. The school will also continue to offer students more multipurpose room activities.
The Read to Me Program begins right after Christmas vacation. That program enlists volunteer adults from the community to come in and read books the children choose. In turn the children read stories to the adults that they have mastered in school. The program covers every child from kindergarten to grade three. This will be the fourth year the program has been in place. Coulthard said he feels that rural schools such as his allow children to have more one-on-one attention.
Coulthard said multipurpose room activities afford the children entertainment, cultural learning and demonstrations of art, including Irish cloggers, mimes. “We look for events that would teach them the basic steps of dance,” Coulthard said. Sept. 10 there will be free ’60s and ’70s music and dance for all members of the community at 7 p.m. in the multipurpose room.
About 10 years ago Fayette seceded from SAD 36 after the district refused to support a renovation project for the Fayette School in favor of constructing a consolidated school. Fayette wanted to keep its rural school. Shortly after secession, Fayette completed the project on its own.
The school includes pre-kindergarten through grade five. In grade six Fayette parents choose which school they want their child to attend, such as Livermore Falls and Readfield, that Fayette pays the tuition.
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