King Hiram Masonic Lodge 57 in Mexico donated 28 bikes at Dirigo Elementary School.
Dirigo Elementary School
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Returning to Dirigo Elementary School
Middle school classes begin Wednesday; prekindergarten on Monday.
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Dirigo Elementary School students invite veterans to breakfast, honor them for their service
Students and staff showed their appreciation for their family and friends who are veterans at an assembly on Friday.
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Veterans honored at Peru school assembly
Veteran Scotty Kilbreth of Canton attends the Veterans Day breakfast and assembly at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru on Friday morning. (Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times) PERU — More than 50 military veterans were honored by students and staff at Dirigo Elementary School on Friday morning. Principal Charlie Swan called the men and women — most […]
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Peru school holds 10-year birthday party
PERU — Dirigo Elementary School students, staff and parents marked the school’s 10th year Wednesday with a birthday party and open house. It was held in conjunction with a community fair. Students and their families were treated to cake and apples from a local farm. Students participated in a scavenger hunt — searching the building to find […]
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Dirigo students share Boston Tea Party knowledge
PERU — Fourth-grade students in Kristi Holmquist’s class at Dirigo Elementary School presented a Boston Tea Party readers’ theater to family and friends Thursday. Some students dressed as colonists or representatives of the British government to tell the story of colonists throwing chests of British tea into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773. Besides their performance […]
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Salty taste in water blamed on softener malfunction
PERU — Students and staff at Dirigo Elementary School have been drinking bottled water rather than the school’s water since mid-November, when a salty taste was noticed. Regional School Unit 56 Superintendent Pam Doyen said Tuesday that the water softener is the problem. Kenny Robbins, the district’s building, grounds and transportation director, told Doyen on […]
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Library receives books from Eastern Star
DIXFIELD — The Order of the Eastern Star No. 142 Mount Zircon chapter received a big “roar” of thanks from the students and everyone at Dirigo Elementary School’s morning assembly when they donated 41 new books to the school library. “There’s some of everything; the Nancy Drew Diaries, a whole set of kid-friendly Shakespeare books, […]
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Commissioner visits school to see literary pilot program
PERU — Maine Department of Education Commissioner Robert Hasson visited Dirigo Elementary School on Wednesday to see how a literacy program known as Momentum is progressing. The program provides students in grades kindergarten through three with iPads, and their teachers with professional coaching. “These are the schools that have the most potential for growth in […]
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Wax museum presentations teaches students to reflect on others’ lives
PERU — Dirigo Elementary School fourth grade teachers Kristi Holmquist and Erin Deprey decided to “do something different and a little more creative this year” with their students’ biography presentations, Deprey said. Each student chose a famous person’s biography to read, took notes and wrote a report about the biography, and they also prepared a […]