Pleasant Street School students celebrate with Larry Johnston of McDonald’s of New Hampshire, a sponsor of the competition, after hearing their school received the New Hampshire Elementary School of the Year award on Friday morning. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)Laconia’s Pleasant Street School surprised by being named the state’s Elementary School of ExcellenceBY RICK GREEN, LACONIA DAILY SUNLACONIA — To the strains of "What Makes You Beautiful," children and adults threw their hands in the air and danced Friday to celebrate Pleasant Street School being named the state's 2017 Elementary School of Excellence. "No matter where you go, you can say, 'My school, in 2017, was the school of the year, the best elementary school in the state of New Hampshire.'" In other categories, winners were Winnacunnett High School in Hampton, Deerfield Community (K-8) School and David R. Cawley Middle School in Hooksett. Another committee member, Collette Flanders, a first-grade teacher at Thortons Ferry School, an elementary school in Merrimack, was impressed with the energy she sees at Pleasant Street School.

Source: Daily Sun May 06, 2017 06:00 UTC