Poynette School District Reconfigures

At the December 21st School board meeting, action was taken to reconfigure our elementary schools. For the 2010 - 2011 school year, the Poynette Elementary and Middle School building will be used to house all first through eight graders in the school district. Following are the numbers of sections at each grade level:

• First Grade - 4 sections
• Second Grade- 4 sections
• Third Grade- 3 sections
• Fourth Grade- 3 sections
• Fifth Grade- 4 sections

The Arlington School building will be used to house the four sections of kindergarten. In addition, the Arlington building will house our Early Childhood program. The Four Year Old Preschool program will continue to operate out of the three Childcare Centers in our community (St. Peter's, Kids First, and Main Street Youngsters).

This configuration will allow all of our students at a particular grade level to be under one roof. It will give us opportunity to place students in classrooms with the right mix of kids to help maximize learning for our students.

We are currently working on the details of the changes and the logistics of all the moving that will need to take place. We have also begun preliminary discussions about activities we will do for students and families later this spring. We are tentatively looking at doing activities in mid-April, and will give more specific information when it becomes available.

We hope you will use this blog space as a place to ask questions and post concerns. We will do our best to answer these questions for you.