First day of school in Wiscasset
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 8:45am
Wiscasset Elementary School fourth grade teacher and 2024 Lincoln County Teacher of the Year Becky Hallowell, now a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year, greets incoming fifth grader Patience Davis Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, the start of the new school year. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Elementary School fourth grade teacher and 2024 Lincoln County Teacher of the Year Becky Hallowell and incoming fifth grader Patience Davis catch up Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, the start of the new school year. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Max Widbiller drops off son Finley, 7, for the start of second grade at Wiscasset Elementary School Tuesday, Sept. 3. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
William Rivas, 7, incoming Wiscasset Elementary School second grader, arrives for the first day of school Tuesday, Sept. 3. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
WES’ new administrative team of Principal Stacey Clements, left, and Assistant Principal Danielle Harris on the first morning of school Sept. 3. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
WES occupational therapist Amanda Fortier on the first day of school Sept. 3. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
With backpacks and many with smiles, Wiscasset Elementary School students arrived to start school Tuesday, Sept. 3. They, families and school faculty and staff got a sunny morning in the mid-50’s F to come back together.
“I missed you so much!” fourth grade teacher Becky Hallowell told incoming fifth grader Patience Davis as they hugged outside the school at drop off time.
Hallowell said, three decades in, she gets that excited every first day of school. The night before this first day of school, she was redoing part of a lesson plan to make it as good as possible, she said as students continued arriving. The 2024 Lincoln County Teacher of the Year, now a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year, then resumed greeting and hugging students.
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