New Slide Brings Smiles To The Faces Of Students At CCS
The
2018-19 school year at Chichester Central School started with
lots of smiles as a new hillside slide was installed for the
opening of school. The hillside slide replaced an older
wooden slide that had become a hazard to students and needed to
be removed at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year.
This new slide is set into the slope of the hill on the
playground for the safety of students and to allow for
accessibility by all ages and abilities of students.
In
addition to the slide, the playground also received a new
basketball hoop for students to use, new playground equipment,
and a picnic table for gathering during recess. The slide
and other additions were made possible through a variety of
funding sources that had been pooled together in the last year
and a half. Chichester residents Sandra and Mike Curid
donated $5,000 at the 2017 Chichester School District meeting to
the school specifically targeting the purchase of a new
playground slide. The Globe Community Fund of the New
Hampshire Charitable Foundation also awarded Chichester Central
School an additional $2,500 for this fully accessible playground
project. Additional funding was appropriated by the
Chichester School Board for the playground design and slide
installation. In May of 2018, all students at Chichester
Central School took part in the first Rams-Run-4-Recess event
and raised the final funds needed for the project. For the
installation of the slide portion of the playground additions,
Luke Stevens of A.S.A.P Concrete of Chichester gave his time and
services for proper installation of the slide and Coleman
Concrete of Chichester donated the concrete material for the
footings. The slide project would not have been completed
in time for school without Mr. Stevens time and devotion to the
project.
Students and staff survived the heat in the first week and half
of school, learning about the new comptency based grading system
and becoming reoriented to the school year routine.
Families came to meet the CCS staff and to learn about all the
exciting changes at school at the annual Back-to-School BBQ and
open house held on Wednesday, Sept. 5. It has been a busy
start to the school year, but one that has been filled with
learning and many opportunities for fun.