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A Message from
Mrs. Ahearn
A
Message from the Principal
Have you noticed all the new
faces around Magruder? We have students
and teachers who have joined
us from all over this country and the world!
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Ms.
Angela Collins, a Visiting International Faculty member hails from British Columbia in Canada,
but taught for the last several years in South Korea.
Mrs. Collins now teaches kindergarten at MES.
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Mrs.
Beth Beaubien, second grade teacher, joined us after teaching in Florida and Michigan.
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Mrs.
Debbie Bennett, kindergarten teacher, and Mr. Phillip Canady, third
grade
teacher, are from Bethel Manor Elementary in the southern part of the
county.
o Mrs.
Ronda Crosby, third grade teacher, comes
to us from Chesapeake Public Schools.
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Mrs.
Jennifer Walker, fourth grade teacher taught for the last several years
in New Kent County.
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Ms.Lyndsay
Kimbro is a first year teacher from Kent
State University
in Ohio
working with our Special Education team.
We also have several new para
educators this year. Mrs. Cindy Curtin
works in our pre-school,
Mrs. Tucker Monk, and Mrs. Mary Burgette are kindergarten para
educators, and
Ms. Megan Whitaker works with the Special Education staff.
Mrs. Beverly Naylor works in reading and general
education classrooms as a para educator.
Mrs. Beth Posada is our new
secretary in the MES
office. She and Mrs. Sebert make a great
team as they welcome visitors and help parents register students. This summer they registered 140 new
kindergarten students! MES now has the
largest kindergarten enrollment in the entire Division with 7 classes.
As I write this, we have a total
enrollment of 670 students,
an all-time high for MES. Luckily, our
new addition containing 4 classrooms is due to open in the next two
weeks. Four of our fourth grade classes
will take
over those new rooms after opening the year in the Learning Cottages,
the art
room, and the stage. I’m sure that
Mrs.
Powell and Ms. Brown will be glad to have their art and music areas
back!
Our final new staff member
isn’t really new—she got a
promotion! Congratulations to Mrs.
Alexis Swanson, former Special Education teacher, on her promotion to
Assistant
Principal!
Welcome to these highly qualified
staff members and to our
new families as well. We are glad that
you are a part of our Magruder family!
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