At the invitation of the Planning Board, Patrick Troy, Principal of the Paul School, and Priscilla Colbath, School Board member, attended the May 14th Master Plan forum to discuss the possibility of developing a school project related to the Master Plan. Mr. Troy and Mrs. Colbath were excited by the proposal and thought it would be a great opportunity for 4th and 5th grade students to look at Wakefield's past, present and future.
Some general project ideas that included essays and artwork by the children were discussed and Mr. Troy and Mrs. Colbath agreed to return to the June 4th Planning Board meeting with a written plan for the project.
At the June 4th meeting, Mr. Troy told the Planning Board that he had met with the 4th grade teachers who suggested that a series of panels that would contain student essays and artwork that show how Wakefield came to be and what we want to become. The project would be called "Wakefield - a Walk from the Past into the Future". Mr. Troy suggested that this would be an on-going project beginning in September and ending on Pride Day 2010.
More to come on this when school is back in session. In the meantime, the minutes from the May 14th discussion can be found here:
http://www.wakefieldnh.com/PlanningBoard/2009/PB%20Minutes%205-14-09.pdf
The link to the minutes from the June 4th discussion will be posted as soon as those minutes are online.
