Central Community Elementary School

Have a healthy, safe and happy Halloween to those who celebrate. Please see the Healthy Halloween Habits provided by NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals).

Happy Friday! Today is PJ day! Wear your cozy PJs!

Good Morning! We have been notified of our pool testing results for testing on Tuesday, October 26. We have one positive pool at CCES, three positive pools at CMS and two positive pools at CHS. All secondary testing is now complete and positive individuals have been identified. All pool participants and close contacts of positive cases have been notified. If you have questions please contact your school principal or one of our school nurses.

Today is Camouflage Day. Are you sporting your camo? Tomorrow will be Pajama Day (Who doesn’t like to be cozy on a Friday?!)

Today is Career Day. Remember to wear something to represent what you want to be when you grow up. Tomorrow will be Camouflage Day (wear as much camo clothing as you can! Gray camo? Pink camo?)

Today is Halloween Theme Day. Remember to wear something to represent the holiday (Halloween socks, headbands, shirts, black/orange clothing) but please no costumes! Tomorrow will be Career Day. What do you want to be when you grow up? Dress like that profession!

Good Morning! All of the follow up testing of our positive and indeterminate pools is now completed. We have not identified any additional positive cases in the follow up testing done yesterday or today. Thank you for your patience and I apologize again for the communication error yesterday regarding the indeterminate pool at CMS.

I apologize. I misspoke earlier. The indeterminate pool at CMS has not completed secondary testing. It is being done now. I will let the school community know if we are able to identify a positive in that pool. Again, I apologize for the error in my earlier message.

All pool testing results are confirmed from the lab. In summary, this week we had one positive pool at CCES, one positive pool at CMS and one that they were not able to determine as positive or negative. When this happens, we test all individuals in that pool. All individuals in the indeterminate pool at CMS tested negative. We also had four positive pools as CHS this week. All secondary testing and contact tracing has been completed and all parents have been notified.

RSU 64 is in desperate need of substitutes for all areas but especially Food Service and Custodians. If you are available at short notice and would like to be considered, please call 207-285-3334 for an application and next steps. Thank you for helping to keep our schools open for our students during these challenging times!

Plan to join us this Saturday at CCES in the parking lot for a Trunk-or-Treat event. The CHS Senior class will be hosting the Trunk-or-Treat event on October 16th from 3:30-5:00 pm. Admission to the event with be $5. Come and enjoy a treat!

Good Morning! All pools at CMS are negative. With the exception of the two pool cases I communicated about last night via email, all other pools at CCES are negative. We are working on follow up testing at CHS on two pools that we have not had confirmed negative results on. We will notify you once those two pools are completed. Thank you for your continued patience!

The parent culture survey is available until 11/9/2021! Please take the time to complete the survey so we can better understand areas of school life that are going well here at CCES and areas where we may need to improve. Every voice counts and we hope that your voices can help guide us in our work to make CCES a great place to learn and grow. Click below for the parent survey. https://jhuedu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bdUjSciuhb2bNzM?Source=CentralCommunityElementaryParents

Check out this informational meeting for the Girl Scouts of Maine. If you would like to find out more information about this program stop in to the school on the night of October 25th at 5:45. Also, see the attached flyer for more information.

It was Fire Prevention week and we had some special friends come to visit CCES. Students were able to learn about the important jobs of our First Responders and some important tips on staying safe. Thank you First Responders for all you do in saving lives and keeping our communities safe!

We were notified by the lab that all pools at CCES are negative except one pool being labeled “indeterminate”. This means one pool was neither positive or negative. We have completed secondary tests on all individuals in that pool and all results are negative. There are NO positive pools this week in RSU 64.

We have been notified by the lab that all pools at CMS and CHS are negative. We are still waiting for test results for CCES but will notify you when we get more information. Thank you for supporting pool testing!

Our Grade 3-5 students have been participating in our Bike Program during PE classes for a couple weeks so far. Students, even some staff, have been having a great time biking around the bus loop at the front of CCES. This has been a wonderful opportunity for our students!

We have been notified by the lab of one positive pool at CHS. All other pools at all three schools are negative. We will complete secondary testing today in an attempt to identify and isolate the positive case. If your student is in the positive pool you will be notified of the secondary test result. Thank you for participating in pool testing. This kind of screening is helping to keep students in school and keep us open to in person learning!

We have been notified that there has been a rather large cyber attack on the company that manages our phone services at CMS and CHS. This attack is still impacting nation wide callers using Verizon Wireless accounts and may continue for some time. This attack is also impacting several other companies in addition to the one we use. If you are unable to reach one of our schools, please contact the Superintendent’s Office at 285-3334 and we will coordinate communication with the school.