Thursday, October 25, 2012
Parents and residents learned of several options under discussion by the Elementary Building Use Committee and offered suggestions of their own.
Wayland is once again looking at the configuration of its elementary schools, but this time, the process is designed around public input and a thoughtful, calculated discussion. Superintendent Paul Stein organized the Elementary Building Use Task Force to "identify options and priorities regarding the utilization of elementary space, and conduct a cost/benefit analysis for each option to ensure an equitable, high quality educational program for all students." The task force, Stein explained, was formed after an independent assessment found utilization issues at Wayland's three elementary schools: Happy Hollow, Claypit Hill and Loker School. Additionally, enrollment projections for Wayland have proved under estimated. There are 190 …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The composting project began about a year ago and received important approvals in mid-July.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
This article was submitted by Kaat Vander Straeten. July 17 was an important day for Claypit Hill School and the Wayland Schools Green Team. That day, the school's composting system was inspected by the Wayland Health Department and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). This visit had been long coming. It started in June 2011, when a Green Team waste audit revealed that, of the 20 pounds of waste collected from the 125 second-graders in one lunch session, only 4 pounds constituted “real” trash, 5 pounds was recyclables, and no less than 11 pounds was food waste. This galvanized the team to start composting these scraps, on site. With the help of volunteers, several high school students and a town employee, the …
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Claypit Elementary School
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Vegetables will be abundant this fall at Claypit Hill.
Thanks to the generosity of the Wayland Public Schools Foundation, the Claypit Hill School vegetable gardens are getting a fence installed. The fencing is designed to protect the plants from the local wildlife population of deer, rabbits, raccoons, fox and more. In addition, Claypit Hill families have volunteered to care for the raised garden beds over the summer months so students returning in September will have beautifully maintained produce ready for harvesting. Each grade level at the school was responsible for one of the six raised garden beds. Also, in the extra raised bed, Sharon Postma’s fourth grade class planted sunflower and morning glory seeds to create a Sunflower House. And finally, volunteers from the High School Summer …
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Claypit Elementary School
86 Claypit Hill Rd, Wayland, MA
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
School Committee members authorized several projects intended to make the schools safer.
The Wayland School Committee Monday night authorized the installation or upgrade of various security features at Wayland’s elementary schools. Public Buildings Director John Moynihan told School Committee members that he wanted to complete a project originally approved during the 2009 Town Meeting. The funds allocated for the project remain available. According to Moynihan, the 2009 allocation allowed for the replacement of locks at Wayland Middle School and the elementary schools as well as the installation of card swipe security and security cameras at the elementary schools. “When we started implementing it … the superintendent decided that he didn’t want cameras put in the buildings,” Moynihan said. The superintendent at the time was …
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Wayland High School
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Claypit Elementary School
86 Claypit Hill Rd, Wayland, MA
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Happy Hollow School
63 Pequot Rd, Wayland, MA
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Loker School
47 Loker St, Wayland, MA
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Wayland Middle School
201 Main St, Wayland, MA
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Claypit Hill seems to be the most adequately used of Wayland's elementary schools.
Wayland School Committee members Monday night heard a report detailing the findings of an elementary school utilization study conducted, in part, to determine the future of modular classrooms that were once part of the now-razed Wayland High School. Bob Jefferies, a representative with TBA Architects, the firm hired to conduct the studies, said that in general, Claypit Hill is well-utilized, the Loker School is underutlized and Happy Hollow is overutilized. The assessment looked at how the various areas of the schools are used in terms of both time and space. The benchmark for determining under or overutilization was the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s guidelines for new construction projects. Jefferies said that none of the …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The award is given annually to a Wayland Public School teacher.
Robbin Rossi’s three children will get to see places of their birth this summer thanks to an award their mother, a Claypit Hill School first grade teacher, has received. Rossi, a 26-year Wayland Public Schools teacher, Monday afternoon accepted the 2012 Mary L. Johnson Travelship Award during a reception at the Wayland Town Building. The award is given annually to a Wayland Public Schools teacher who "loves children, respects them and helps them grow beyond themselves." It is awarded in memory of Mary Johnson, a Wayland High School graduate who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. The Johnson family established the Mary L. Johnson Travelship Award with the insurance money received after her …
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Claypit Elementary School
86 Claypit Hill Rd, Wayland, MA
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Wayland Town Building
41 Cochituate Rd, Wayland, MA
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Monday, January 16, 2012
This information was by Connie Burgess, WSCP communications coordinator.
An ambitious Crafts/Bake Sale fundraiser at Claypit Hill School BASE that raised nearly $600 will have far-reaching effects this year as it boosts the efforts of a Central American orphanage rescuing orphaned children from the streets of Guatemala. For several weeks this fall, Claypit Hill School students attending the after-school program created duct tape bracelets, hand-painted candy pots, stained glass sun catchers, stuffed animals, and decorative trivets. They decorated gingerbread cookies to sell and on the two sale days, their parents brought in freshly made popcorn, chocolate brownies, and homemade oatmeal bread. With the preparations finished and their wares on display for the Claypit Hill community, the children spent two …
Friday, December 16, 2011
Projects on sale at the Wayland Whole Foods will support developing countries.
Some Claypit Hill BASE students are using their creativity to raise money that will help individuals in poor and developing communities around the world. The students visited with Jaimee Rondeau, Whole Foods Market Team Leader and Whole Planet Foundation volunteer. Rondeau talked to the students about The Whole Planet Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Whole Foods Market. According to a press release, the Whole Planet Foundation supplies "innovative assistance for entrepreneurship, including direct micro-credit loans and tangible support for community projects." Each micro-loan is for less than $250 and requires little or no credit to obtain. More than 25 students then created small globes that depict their visions for a "Whole Planet." The …
Friday, October 21, 2011
A knitting class at Claypit Hill School has eight students excited about an age-old craft.
Bonnie Lieberman likes to knit and has for many years. This year she took her love of the craft to the hands of elementary students at Claypit Hill School by offering the first "Learn to Knit" class as part of the Wayland School Community programs. Every Wednesday afternoon, eight students bring their yarn and knitting needles to a classroom at Claypit and work on knitting a scarf as Lieberman coaches them along. "I love the fact that they are inquisitve about it," Lieberman said. She expected the class to include no fewer than four students, but she was hoping six would sign up. In the end, eight girls are in the class and working toward completing a scarf by the end of the six-week course. Lieberman, a special education teaching …
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Claypit Elementary School
86 Claypit Hill Rd, Wayland, MA
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Debbie Besso's final day at the school was Friday, Sept. 30.
Debbie Besso has been a smiling fixture in the front office of Wayland's Claypit Hill School for the past 32 years. On her final day before retirement, the kids at Claypit Hill made sure she went out with ... well, a bang. About 650 students filled Claypit's gymnasium to sing and dance a routine to Katy Perry's song "Firework." General music teacher Bernadette Vanaria said the students had been working on the routine for about two weeks, though the first time they all practiced together was just moments before Besso walked into the gym for the surprise. "We wanted to do something all together," Vanaria said. "It was great. I'm very proud of them." Besso stood on the stage, intermittently laughing and tearing up, as the students sang along …
Deane Coady
7:49 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Thank you Kaat. Your support and knowledge have been indispensable to the success of the gardens. more ›