From the Principal’s Office
It is hard to believe that we have come to the end of the year! This will be our last Dunn Deal of the year, so we want to wish everyone a wonderful summer. Best wishes to our fourth grade and Pre-K students and families as they move on to different schools. We look forward to welcoming our 3rd grade students back as 4th graders next fall. In the meantime, have a great summer!
4th Grade Celebration: A reminder that on June 9th we will be celebrating our 4th grade students’ time at Dunn School and recognizing their transition to the middle school. The celebrations will be at the bridge on the Pineland campus. Below is the assigned time for each team. It is recommended that parents arrive at the bridge roughly 10 minutes before their teams assigned time. We hope you can take a few minutes to celebrate our 4th grade students with us. For those who are unable, we will be taking pictures and can provide you with photos of your child and their class upon request.
9:30 Fecteau/Marzilli
10:00 Keepes/Rausch
10:30 Gamage/Skilling/Robash
11:00 Gillis/Audette
June 9th Budget Referendum: Tuesday, June 9th is the district budget referendum. We STRONGLY encourage all registered voters to participate in this process.
PowerSchool forms for the 2026-27 school year: Please take a few minutes to update your student’s profile in PowerSchool for the upcoming school year. It is very important that we have those completed as soon as possible. Thank you.
Ms. Lindsay’s School Counseling Corner
Dunn students have been busy with transition activities! Last week, we hosted incoming 2nd graders from Russell and Memorial Schools to help them get acquainted with staff and students to ease their transition to Dunn School in the fall. We also hosted GNGMS school counselors and students from their leadership groups to give presentations to our 4th graders about life at the middle school. This week, our 4th graders attended step-up visits to GNGMS where they got to meet with their assigned advisory (homeroom) teacher and meet other students in their advisory groups, as well as tour the school. We hope that all of our Dunn students have found it helpful to get a taste of what their GNGMS transition will look and feel like in the Fall.
Also this week (June 3rd and June 4th), our 4th graders attended an all-day field trip to University of Maine at Bryant Pond’s Lakeside Classroom for outdoor education and fun! Students and staff went on trail hikes, learned proper paddle techniques for canoeing on the beautiful Bryant Pond, utilized their incredible team building skills to complete low-ropes group challenges in the forest, and learned a TON about Maine wildlife, nature and survival skills. Our U-Maine at Bryant Pond Outdoor Educators were incredible facilitators for these activities, and taught our students so much during their daytime visit. We also extend so much gratitude to our Patriot Parents Group who fundraised and made it financially possible for our 4th graders to attend this special trip to close out their time at Dunn School!
I will greatly miss our outgoing 4th graders, and I send you lots of love and success for your upcoming middle school experience! I’m sending “air hugs” to our outgoing Pre-K’ers and wish them all the best adventures in kindergarten next school year! I look forward to getting to know our incoming 3rd graders from Russell and Memorial Schools, and catching-up with our rising 4th graders this Fall. I hope that you all have happy, healthy and fun summer vacations. 🙂
Best, Lindsay Friberg, Dunn School Counselor, lfriberg@sad15.org
From the Library
Summer Reading Fun!!! Check out both Gray Public Library and New Gloucester Public Library for their summer reading programs!!!
Save these links from the Dunn Library for reading at home or on the go:
ABDO: https://www.abdodigital.com/browse/title/?pid=40517&tk=2A5D991C51F6425512DA3218DE14C73B
CAPSTONE: https://app.pebblego.com/shell/modules Username: dunn1, password: school
STORY LINE ONLINE: https://storylineonline.net/
Please return all library books ASAP. If lost or destroyed, please pay so we can replace them. If books are found over the summer, your child can return them to the library at any of our district schools and they will get back to their rightful home. Thank you very much for your help with this.
From the Office
Please contact the office if your student will be tardy or absent: 207-657-5050 or email jsouthard@sad15.org. If you are leaving a voicemail or sending an email, please include your child’s full name in your message.
Our Lost & Found continues to grow – please encourage your students to check for any missing coats, gloves, sweatshirts, water bottles, etc. Any items left at the end of the school year will be donated.
Dates to Remember
June 9 4th grade celebration at the bridge by the Pineland corner pond – here’s the schedule again:
9:30 Fecteau/Marzilli
10:00 Keepes/Rausch
10:30 Gamage/Skilling/Robash
11:00 Gillis/Audette
June 9 Last day of classes for preK
June 15 Last day of classes for grades 3 & 4: dismissal at noon
Updated June 8, 2026