On Friday afternoon of June 14, 312 seniors of Champlain Valley Union High School paraded into Patrick Gym at UVM. Family, friends, teachers, staff and numerous other supporting community members watched as the class stood together one last time.
Just days before sixth graders at Charlotte Central School were released into the wild to swim and have fun with their friends, they traveled to Starksboro to release some trout into Lewis Creek to do the same.
The mention of NASA brings to mind things hurtling through the air—for third graders at Charlotte Central School, those flying objects are mosquitoes, and their mission is to figure out when those pesky summertime visitors are going to show up. As part of The Globe Program, Mission Mosquito is a citizen science project that helps NASA scientists identify patterns in mosquito growth and infectious disease around the country.
Gerry Leckerling and Ena Jesset have a combined 42 years of teaching service at Charlotte Central School. This week is the last for both women, who spoke recently the bittersweet language of walking away from many years in teaching and into their private lives.
The Black Lives Matter flag issue and the aftermath of the controversy earlier in the year dominated the conversation at the Champlain Valley School District school board meeting on May 21. The meeting at CVU featured talks from current foreign exchange students, an update on proficiency indicators and a lengthy discussion about a comprehensive policy moving forward regarding flag raisings at district schools.
Charlotte’s Hadley Murphy scores her 100th goalRice High School senior Hadley Murphy of Charlotte scored her 100th goal as a Green Knight against Burlington High on May 6, then added a hat trick in a win over Mt. Anthony.
My mother is a very committed person. In the past she couldn’t afford college, so…
On Thursday, April 4, I walked through the doors of CVU High School and braced for the frigid cold beside my fellow peers and teachers.
Charlotte Central School students in grades 6 through 8 danced, sang, growled and glowed as the cast of “Beauty and the Beast, Jr.” from April 4-6. Seventh grader Charlie Taylor intimidated and ingratiated as the cranky-beast-turned-besotted-prince, and eighth grader Rory McDermott was fortunately typecast in the role of Belle, a fierce book-loving beauty with a big heart who isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
After five years, Charlotte Central School is changing the way elementary education is experienced by students in grades one through four. The current model is to “loop” students, by grade, in a two-year period with the same teacher and same students for both years. Starting this fall, first and second grade students will be placed in multi-age classrooms, and moving forward, all subsequent 1-4 students will do the same.
The first astronauts in space seemed like superheroes: larger-than-life explorers with tales that were almost unfathomable. As people, they seemed as untouchable as the stars themselves. On Monday, Charlotte Central School students in grades four to six got to speak with NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, who was also larger than life—but mostly because his face appeared on a big screen in the school library, where students spoke to him through videoconference.
On February 19, the Racial Alliance Committee (RAC), led by CVU students Katelyn Wong, Paige Thibault, Akuch Dau and Prince Yodishembo, presented the following proposal to the CVSD board:
The Champlain Valley School District, which is comprised of six schools in four towns, has one big budget that covers the needs of every school in the district. This is the second year after local schools merged to form one district and the school budget went from being a town-based issue to a district-wide vote.
A team of 6th grade problem-solvers competed—and won first place—at the Vermont State Destination Imagination competition in Burlington on March 23. They also received a special award for teamwork and team spirit.
Vegarandhura Tariyal.Charlotte sixth grader Vega Tariyal said that for his final question at the Vermont state finals competition of the National Geographic GeoBee, his nervousness ranked a three out of 10. “I was more nervous in the beginning,” he said, during the preliminary rounds.
The Champlain Valley School District budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 passed in all five voting towns at Town Meeting Day on March 5. The budget, which totals $78,901,170, covers all six schools in the district.
It’s Hornets against Hawks in gymnastics Although seeded second behind CVU during the regular season, Essex gymnasts managed to…
The Champlain Valley School District Board meeting on Monday, Jan. 22, was brief with no adjustments to the agenda and little discussion from the board prior to voting to adopt the final budget for FY20.
The Champlain Valley School District Board Meeting on Monday, January 22, was brief with no adjustments to the agenda and little discussion from the board prior to voting to adopt the final budget for FY20.