Sixth-graders add new level to WLC

This school year is different than any other year for Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle/High School. Instead of WLC gaining only new seventh-grade students, this year it has an even bigger addition, new sixth-grade students. At WLC, the new  sixth-graders have the opportunity to participate in competitive team sports, new classes, pep rallies, Spirit Week and Red Ribbon Week. “I love being in the middle school, because we have more responsibilities and more options,” sixth-grader Abigail LeBlanc said. “I like it here because we get treated like adults, not babies,” sixth-grader Adrienne Losee said. It has been an adjustment for the students and teachers. The sixth-grade teachers had been used to spending entire days with the same students, but now they have only 45 minutes with one class. The sixth-grade team includes Muriel Pawlik, English/language arts; Laura Bujak, science; and Carl Jutras, mathematics. All of them teach social studies, as well. All members of the sixth-grade team previously taught in the Wilton-Lyndeborough School District – Jutras at Florence Rideout Elementary School and Bujak and Pawlik at Lyndeborough Central School. “I love it here,” Pawlik said. “The staff is great, the school is great and it’s just so much fun for us and the kids. “As a bonus, I get the chance to catch up with the alumni of LCS.” Along with Pawlik, Jutras and Bujak, there are other teachers who are sharing the new experience with them.