New Assistant Principals at Aitken and Hurley

When classes begin on August 30, there will be new assistant principals at the Aitken Elementary School and Hurley Middle School.

Jessica Borges will serve as assistant principal at Aitken and Matt Scott will serve as assistant principal at Hurley, Seekonk Public Schools Superintendent Rebecca Kidwell announced Monday.

Borges recently served as an assistant principal at Pleasant View Elementary in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She was previously employed at the Henry Barnard Laboratory School in Rhode Island, where she served as an intervention specialist and taught kindergarten and first grade before becoming interim principal.

Borges has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Salve Regina University and two masters degrees, one in literacy from Providence College and one in educational leadership from Rhode Island College.

Scott has over a dozen years of educational experience, with six as an administrator. He most recently served as vice principal of the Resiliency Preparatory Academy in Fall River. He also was director of operations and physical education and was a health teacher.

Scott began his career at Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical High School in Taunton as a physical education teacher.