Bristol resident Christina Bradbury will be the first teacher of Bristol Consolidated School’s pre-kindergarten program.
Bradbury is a BCS alumnus and a mother of two BCS students – a son in fourth grade and a daughter in second grade. She currently works as an educational technician in the kindergarten classroom.
Bradbury graduated from Lincoln Academy and, in 1996, from the University of Maine at Farmington, where she received a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.
After college graduation, Bradbury taught preschool at Great Expectations, a child development center for the children of MBNA employees at the company’s Belfast location. She later became the Great Expectations program coordinator in Rockland.
Following a hiatus from professional life after the birth of her children, Bradbury returned to the workplace in 2009 as a special education teacher for children under the age of 5 at the Damariscotta office of Child Development Services. She started her present job last fall.
Bradbury said she enjoys working with preschool-age children.
“I love their fresh perspective on things,” she said in a June 11 interview at the school. “It’s fun. It keeps you on your toes.”
Bradbury worked with other faculty members to develop the pre-K program and, when voters green-lighted the program – the first in the Central Lincoln County School System – she eagerly applied for the position.
“I though it couldn’t really get better – this program, right here in Bristol where I live and where I grew up,” Bradbury said. “To be able to give back to the community… it’s a great opportunity.”
Bradbury said she will start to set up the classroom and prepare to welcome her first class after vacation starts later this month.
“I think it’s going to be a very busy summer,” she said.
