Colt Andrews School To Host Golf Classic

Sponsors and teams are needed for the event.

Members of the Colt Andrews School community are seeking players and sponsors for the first Annual Colt Andrews Golf Classic. On Saturday, May 19th, registered players will take their swing at 18 holes at the beautiful Crestwood Country Club, enjoy a first class dinner. Proceeds from the golf classic will help the Colt Andrews Parent's Group continue to provide enrichment programs such as field trips and after school clubs for the students. Anyone interested in sponsoring a hole can visit the Colt Andrews Golf Classic website to become a sponsor. Those interested in registering themselves or a team for the tournament can either download a registration form or sign up online. The entry fee of $125 per golfer includes a day of golfing, a …

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Photo of the Day: Colt Andrews Students Give Back to Food Pantry

Take a glimpse at life around Bristol and Warren.

Thank you to Susan Jones of Colt Andrews School for snapping this photograph this morning and sending it in! And thank you to the students who were out performing a good deed for the community! Do you like to take pictures? Have you recently captured a shot of something neat in town? Send us your favorite shot from around Bristol and Warren and it could become our Photo of the Day! E-mail photos and a few sentences with information including when the photo was taken, where it was taken and who is in it, to sara.bagwell@patch.com or text them to (401) 835-8843. Want to be notified when there is a new Photo of the Day? Click the "keep me posted" link below!

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Colt Andrews School Welcomes New Student Government Members [Video]

More than 20 students were sworn in on Friday morning.

Newly elected members of the Colt Andrews School student government were sworn in on Friday morning. Just after 8 am, proud parents gathered in the Colt School auditorium to watch as more than 20 students officially took their membership oaths. Attorney and School Committee member Paul Silva presided over the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected members. The class officers were elected from the upperclassmen at the end of last year and elections for the class representatives were held earlier in the week. There are two representatives from each class and each class elected a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. Submitted by Cara Cromwell

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Superintendent, Emergency Officials Commend School for Orderly Evacuation

Officials say the evacuation went as well as expected.

Faculty and staff at Colt Andrews School were put to the test on Monday afternoon when the building was forced to evacuate for a gas leak in the area. Emergency officials notified the school shortly after the gas leak was reported and Fire Chief Robert Martin said that the school was very quick to comply. "By the time I called for the evacuation they were all down Bradford Street already walking up" Martin said, noting that teachers and staff members wasted no time and walked students up the road to Bristol's First Congregational Church on the corner of Bradford and High Streets to await bus and parental pickup. "We didn't want to take any chances with the children." "They did an amazing job," said Melinda Thies, Superintendent of Schools…

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Tammy L Mojkowski

5:37 pm on Monday, October 24, 2011

Ok as a grandparent of a child at CA school. I would just like to say that I would first and foremost like to know I can count on her teachers to take her safety as thier first priority. There are alot of children at Colt Andrews and "what did you expect them to do? Have all the children wait inthe school with a gas leak in the area, while they called each and every parent or make sure youre …   more ›

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Parents Let It Out at Colt Andrews School's Boo-Hoo Breakfast

Going back to school isn't just hard on the kids. It's tough for the parents, too.

Sending a child off to school every fall can be a tough transition for many parents. But the parents of  Colt Andrews School's kindergarten students received a little reassurance Tuesday morning during a "Boo-Hoo Breakfast."  After dodging the morning rain and ushering children to their classrooms, watery-eyed parents gathered in the multipurpose room in Andrews School to let out their first day of school sobs. Other parents and faculty members were there to lend support. Jen Davies held her composure after dropping her daughter off at her classroom. Then she began talking about what the first day of kindergarten meant to her.  "It's the reality that she's five years old now," she said, while starting to cry. "She's already going to school…

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