A Message from the Principal
Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year
Dear Families,
The excitement that the onset of a new school brings has not diminished from when I was a student myself! We welcome our new students and their families as well as our returning students. At DCS we emphasize academic, behavioral, and social learning in order to continue to achieve our mission and vision. We have spent much of the summer planning and preparing for the exciting year ahead filled with learning and progress.
At DCS, the staff, students and their families work diligently to ensure growth for all! The connection we have with our wider community deepens the educational experience for all our students and I feel exceedingly fortunate to be a part of the supportive community in which I work and live.
Student success is best achieved when we work as a team. We want you to join us in supporting the learning and growth of your student/s. We value your interest and involvement in your student’s education. Be sure that your student’s teacher understands any special needs or information that would be helpful in the teaching/learning process. Communication is a vital part of fostering a positive and effective home-school connection. You will receive bi-weekly newsletters via email from me, which include school updates as well as important information.
Please know we welcome communication from home via emails or phone calls should questions or concerns arise. Our school phone number is 603-563-8332, and you are always welcome to email me or Jo-Ann Hopkins. (npease@conval.edu or jhopkins@conval.edu).
The DCS staff and I look forward to working together to make this another wonderful school year!
Nicole Pease Principal Teacher, Dublin Consolidated School
Newsletters
[April 12, 2024](http://Note from Robin Gregg, School Counselor It has been so good spending time with our returning DCS students and meeting our new students over the past few weeks. Along with the other elementary school counselors in our school district, I have started having “minute meetings” with students. These short one-to-one meetings (they are longer than one minute!) are a chance for each of the returning students to have some time with me and for the new students to get to know me and for me to get to know each one of them. During the next several weeks I will eventually meet with every student at our school. Among other things, I am learning that many students have a number of pets and most of them can identify more than one thing that they enjoy at our school. In addition to the minute meetings, I have started to teach weekly classroom counseling lessons in every classroom. The younger students (K, 1 and 2) are learning about skills for learning, such as listening, focusing, and paying attention and also how practice helps us get better at something. The older children are learning about the brain (third grade) and goal setting (fourth and fifth grade)—including the fact that good goals should be specific, challenging, and do-able. Most lessons begin with a “brain builder” activity and/or a yoga pose or two and a breathing practice. Ask your child(ren) to show you balloon breathing or bumble-bee breath or flying bird (also known as flying raven) breath. As always, I welcome communication with you, our students’ families. I am at DCS every Thursday rgregg@conval.edu)