​​Enrichment at Bishop

The largest allocation of PTO funding each year is towards enrichment - bringing in outside educators and performers to the school to complement and enhance the curriculum and the school themes of Respect, Responsibility, and Regard for others. This is coordinated by the PTO Enrichment Committee. Enrichment can occur in the form of large group assemblies or smaller scale presentations or workshops in support of, and coordinated with, specific areas of grade-level curriculum. Each year, the Enrichment Committee adjusts and enhances the programming based on teacher input. 

While transition to remote learning in the spring prevented some of our enrichment programming, the PTO spent $11,000 on Enrichment for our students during the 2019–2020 school year. Themes were around Science, Engineering, Math, Art, Culture, Social Studies, and Geography.​
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Kindergarten Enrichment Activities
  • Mass Audubon, Habitat: Life Cycles of Frogs
  • Science Made Fun New England: Survive and Thrive
  • New England Aquarium: Tide pools
  • Kemp Harris, Storyteller​

First Grade Enrichment Activities
  • Eyes on Owls: Alaska Wilderness
  • Audubon Habitat: Soils workshops
  • Discovery Museum: Light and Lasers Workshop
  • African Storyteller
  • Purchase of eggs for annual unit on hatching chicks

Second Grade Enrichment Activities
  • Motoko, Japanese Storytelling assembly and classroom workshop
  • David Zucker, Poetry in Motion
  • Field Trips to Museum of Science to learn about butterflies and Children’s Museum to learn about Japan and tour the Japanese House

Third Grade Enrichment Activities
  • Museum of Science: Weather, Wind and Water Temperature
  • Origamido, math and origami workshops
  • Plimoth Plantation Pilgrim and Native American visits to Bishop
  • Field Trips to Jason Russell House, Concord Museum & Museum of Science
  • Discovery Museum: Force & Magnetism
  • RoyallHouse: Belinda’s Footsteps

Fourth Grade Enrichment Activities
  • Museum of Science: Electromagnetism
  • Museum of Science: Geology, Rock Detectives
  • Spellman Stamp Museum
  • Origamido, math and origami workshops

Fifth Grade Enrichment Activities
  • Museum of Science: Animal Adaptations
  • Origamido, math and origami workshops
  • Theatre Espresso: Uprising on King Street Play (with Stratton 5th grade)

All-School Enrichment Assembly
  • Coming soon! 

Enrichment Committee: Katie Stencik, Jen Davidson, and Heather Spector.