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Elementary Student Brings Birthday Cake Box Drive to Calais

By |2018-06-12T15:36:29-04:00June 1st, 2018|Calais Happenings, Inspiration, Lower School|

Claire, one of our elementary students, recently participated in a Birthday Cake Box Drive through her Girl Scout troop. The sweet treat food drive benefited Grace’s Food Pantry to help supply families in need with the necessary and sometimes expensive [...]

Promoting Collaboration and Exploration Through S.T.E.M.

By |2018-05-09T15:20:59-04:00April 27th, 2018|Academics, Class Projects, Lower School, STEAM|

STEM is a regular part of our academic curriculum for all grades. Activities related to STEM provide students with time to focus on collaboration, creativity and communication while also offering exposure to different aspects of science and technology.  Our [...]

Sadecky’s Puppets Delivers Sunshine, Prosperity and Wonder to Calais Elementary

By |2017-12-05T15:49:41-05:00November 20th, 2017|Calais Happenings, Lower School|

On Tuesday, November 14th, our elementary school students were visited by Sadecky’s Puppets for an educational but heartfelt performance called “Good Fortune.” The students were not only entertained but learned some valuable life lessons. The show was about a boy [...]

Thinking Outside of the (Cereal) Box

By |2018-03-28T15:23:26-04:00October 16th, 2017|Class Projects, Lower School|

After reading the novel Tuck Everlasting, Ms. Perillo's reading group completed a character analysis project using cereal boxes. The students had to use their creativity to complete a different assignment for each side of the box. Once completed, each box [...]

Calais Celebrates Reading During Read Across America with Provident Bank

By |2017-03-06T12:37:07-05:00March 6th, 2017|Academics, Calais Happenings, Lower School|

Once again this year, volunteers from Provident Bank in Morristown celebrated Read Across America with students at The Calais School, a private, non-profit school for children with special needs. Provident Bank’s volunteer day was part of our annual week-long celebration [...]

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