Smith School principal highlights full‑day pre‑K, family engagement and nutrition partnerships

Leroy H. Smith School Principal Dylan Moore presented the school’s monthly report to the RSU 22 School Board, summarizing classroom activities, family-engagement programs and supports that staff say have helped increase attendance.

Moore told the board that pre-K will move to a full-day, full-week schedule next year and that the program uses an open-source pre-K curriculum from the state department of education. He described monthly SNAP-Ed visits — a nutrition education program — and several family-engagement events including mystery readers, family math night and "be our guest" classroom visits that bring parents onto campus for activities.

Moore also described several schoolwide initiatives: an Adopt-a-Cow program run with a local farm that provides updates to students, a BFit activity that gives grade-level groups 15 minutes of supervised physical activity in the gym to boost attendance, and arts-center concerts that bring the whole school together. School staff reported that attendance has improved except for an illness-related dip in February, and administrators credited targeted outreach and attendance-tracking support from county-level partners.

The presentation included routine academic and extracurricular notes: choir and band performances with high ratings at state events, upcoming prom and drama productions, and Early College Day for juniors to explore dual-enrollment options. Moore invited questions; board members asked for follow-up about distribution plans for an informational parking-lot video and the link between engagement programs and attendance trends.