Principal's Corner Newsletter

Dear Students and Families,

We look forward to hosting families at the Open House on Thursday, October 6th, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Families will follow an abbreviated version of their student’s schedule and meet teachers, learn about classes, and see the school. Each class will meet for 10 minutes. Follow this link to view the schedule. Looking ahead, Family-Teacher conferences will be held on Thursdays, November 10th and 17th, by appointment from 3:00 to 7:30 pm. We will start scheduling appointments in mid-October. Watch this newsletter and your inboxes for sign-up links.

Please read the highlights from this week, including the High School Club Fair, 9th-grade class elections, fundraising for Puerto Ricans, connecting to literature through flyfishing, and updates from the CRAFT program.

Sincerely,

Garon Smail

The WUHS Student Council coordinated a Club Fair over the span of three days during the lunch/ARE block part of the schedule. Fifteen clubs were represented by student members and advisors, including but not limited to: French and Spanish, Chess, QSA, Social Action, Future Farmers of America, Scholars Bowl, Outing Club, VTLSP, Creative Writing, and more! Students were able to learn about the various club activities as well as sign up for the club. It was a lively and well-attended event!

Ninth-grade students participated in the annual tradition of running for student government positions at WUHS this past week. The students submitted an application along with a poster to communicate their enthusiasm for a robust school community, competing for class officer positions (president, vice president, secretary and treasurer), as well as for one of the five seats available on the WUHS Student Council. There were some tight races and energetic voting took place on Tuesday. The following results were announced at the end of the week. Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to those who won!

9th Grade Class officers -
Class of 2026 President: Finn Costello
Vice President: Sadie Boulbol
Secretary: Aleks Cirovic
Treasurer: Kaitlyn Burres
Student Council Representatives: Milo Farrington, Mimi Kanda-Olmstead, Schuyler Hagge, Anna Fink and Annesonia Beardsley.

The AP Spanish class and the Advanced Spanish Studies class conduct fundraising efforts to aid people in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria five years ago. This past Monday, Puerto Rico was hit by another Hurricane named Fiona. Power outages and destruction damaged the whole island. Let's show our support by contributing to our collection jars. They are located in Maestra O´Neill Classroom 234, Maestra Megyesi Room 107, Mr. Villanueva´s classroom, Mrs. Justice Sullivan classroom, Mrs. Gravel classroom and there is one at the library with Ms. Piccoli. The collection jars will be in those classrooms until Tuesday, September 27th, 2022.

All money will be donated to our fellow citizens from Puerto Rico. Our point of contact is photographer Juan Carlos who was born in Puerto Rico and lives in Woodstock. Bio below.

On Tuesday, September 20th, Bob Stocker from the Greater Upper Valley Trout Unlimited (GUVTU) visited Ms. Hagge's English III class to talk with students about fly fishing. This class is reading Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, and Mr. Stocker brought a collection of fly fishing rods, including a bamboo rod from the time period of the book, to show the students. He provided a demonstration of fly casting, and a couple of students gave casting a try. Mr. Stocker shared that he began fly fishing and making his own rods after seeing the movie version of A River Runs Through It. In addition to conveying his passion for fly fishing, Mr. Stocker also spoke about his work with Project Healing Waters, an organization that helps wounded military service veterans experience the healing powers of fly fishing. Another member of GUVTU, Dave Eastman, will be visiting Ms. Hagge's block 7 English III class on Tuesday, September 27th. Thank you to Kat Robbins for helping us make a connection with these inspiring volunteers!

In SAP (Stewardship Action Project) students have created their own definition of stewardship, by developing action project ideas and help with stewardship actions on our campus like planting these American Chestnut Trees to help a non-profit bring this species back to our forests.

SAP students are also helping to grow and harvest Abenaki red flint corn and cranberry beans as part of the Abenaki Land Link Project which helps to cultivate heirloom Abenaki seeds to give back to the indigenous community to continue growing their native crops in the future.

Students in Foundations of Agriculture have been focused on harvesting, weighing and processing the many crops in our garden like beets (40 lbs), carrots (40 lbs), basil (3.8 lbs), kale (15 lbs), butternut squash (70.6 lbs), spaghetti squash (50.75 lbs), garlic, onions, pumpkins and herbs. We have sent most of that food to the cafeteria while some of it is waiting to cure. We have also cooked with our produce making herbed garlic bread and kale basil pesto. YUM! FA students have also been testing our soil to see what nutrients are needed in the garden, growing microgreens for our cafeteria and starting seeds for our hydroponic system.

In our middle school class, Gardens and Greenhouses, students have been learning about the medicinal, edible and ecological benefits of cultivated and wild plants, the features and processes of plants, and how to grow and use herbs. They got to make and eat parmesan roasted carrots with thai basil, roasted beets and kale chips using the local food from our gardens!

Thanks to some of our students noticing our huge sunflower in the garden, we entered this sunflower head in the 150th Tunbridge Fair, tying for 1 st place with a diameter of 1’ 6”. FFA students went on their first field of the year to the Tunbridge Fair after earning funds from their bake sales last year.

Hello 7th and 8th grade students!

You are invited to join the Junior Math team! Here is information about our team:

WUHSMS is a member of the Twin State Math League (TSML) which is comprised of 14 area schools. Below is information regarding our upcoming season.

• The team is open to all students in 7th and 8th grade.

• We attend 4 meets during the regular season. Students are bused to and from the meets. We depart around 2:15 pm and return approximately 6:15 pm.

• Host schools provide a slice of pizza and a cookie during the meets, but students should also bring their own snack and drink to supplement :) .

• An all-star meet is held in May, location to be determined, during the morning of a school day. Top 4 scorers from each team are invited to compete.

• Team points, as well as individual points, are tracked.

• We practice once a week with questions from previous years’ meets so that you are well-prepared. Once we get our team together we will find a practice time that works best. In the past we’ve met once-a-week during lunchtime.

Please fill out this form if you are interested in joining the math team:

Math Team Member Information Form

Feel free to send me an email or stop by Room 103 if you have any questions.

I'm looking forward to another great season!

Mrs. Whitehead

Math Department Chair

Pre-Algebra, Grade 8 Algebra, and Introduction to Computer Science
Woodstock Union High School Middle School

Come Support WUHS Class of 2025
Cookout
Date: October 1, 2022

Time: 11:30-3:00pm

Where: Norman Williams Public Library
Burgers
Hot Dogs
Chips, Guac, Salsa
Baked Goods
Apple Cider & Lemonade

Follow WUHS Athletics on Instagram @wuhsstudentsection

Interested in staying up to date on upcoming athletic events, as well as their outcomes? If you are an Instagram user, you can follow WUHS’s StudentSection account. This account was set up by Kendall Taylor (Class of 2022) last year and is currently being maintained by Junior Zach Martsolf-Tan, as an independent study in social media through the Center of Community Connections (C3). Know when the games and matches are happening--and come out and cheer on our student-athletes!

Want to keep up with middle school news? Check out The Hive, Woodstock Union Middle School's student newspaper. The website is updated weekly with stories for our students, about our students, by our students.

Team Pathfinders
The Week in Learning: 9/23/22

Here is the link to our weekly newsletter.

Please Complete Your Annual Forms - Now!

We ask you to complete a packet of information for each student you have enrolled in the district. To make it quicker for you, all these forms will be completed online in Alma. To start the process, log in to Alma at wuhsms.getalma.com and click on Alma Start forms and tasks under your student's name.

If you have never logged into Alma, check your email -including spam- for an activation email with the subject:

Welcome to [Alma School]'s school and classroom management system, Alma!

Any questions can be directed to Sarah Cook. The deadline to complete these forms was Wednesday, September 21 - Please complete now!

Middle School Volleyball Club - Mon. & Wed. 3 - 4:30 pm

The middle school volleyball club is underway and will go through October 26th. We are all about learning volleyball skills. playing, and having fun - so please join us! This is for both boys and girls and our club requires no prior experience. We meet two times weekly (Mondays and Wednesdays, 3 pm-4:30 pm) in the middle school gym. Please contact Annie Luke (aluke@wcsu.net, ext. 1163) for more information and permission forms.

Upcoming Days Off
Monday, October 10, 2022 - Indigenous People’s Day – No Classes
Monday, November 7, 2022 – Teacher In-Service – No Classes
Friday, November 11, 2022 – Veterans Day – No Classes
Thanksgiving - November 23th - 25th, 2022 - No Classes
2 Hour Delay Days - Oct 5, Nov 2, Dec 7, Jan 4, Feb 1, March 1, April 5, May 3,

VeggieVanGo

Presented by: VT Foodbank & Site Sponsor WCUD School Nutrition Program

FREE Produce & Food Distribution

No questions asked!

Drive-up & Curbside Loading

Please be respectful of the traffic pattern and our volunteers.

Every Second Wednesday of the Month

10am -WUHSMS-Union Arena Rink Entrance

October 12

November 9

December 14

High School Yearbook Sales Are Open!!

Purchase yearbooks HERE for $55.00 before prices go up on OCTOBER 21st, 2022

Parents, Grandparents, and guardians: You can now purchase and design your own parent ads right on the Jostens website. Just click HERE to get started. If you have any questions please reach out to the yearbook staff at yearbook@wcsu.net.

Senior Yearbook Packet Due October 28th!

The deadline for the yearbook is Friday, October 28th, 3 PM. There are no exceptions to this deadline. If students do not complete the form and send in their photos they may not be featured in the yearbook. The Senior Yearbook Packet is in Digital Form this year and was sent out to the Class of 2023.

In this week's From the Library, read about Mrs. Lessard's 7th grade library orientation, learn more about the Young Adult Diverse Books Book Club at the Club Fair, donate to the fund for Puerto Rico and get reminders about the upcoming Faculty/Staff Book Club on October 3 and Jason Reynold's livestream for Vermont students on October 4.

Please remember to return the books you've checked out when you're done and check out some more for fall reading!

Yoh Theatre upcoming Performance
Learn more at https://yohtheatre.com/about/

Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory

Join the Yoh Theatre cast and crew on October 14 and 15 at 7 pm in the Yoh auditorium for the play The Radium Girls, by D.W.Gregory.

“Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Called a “powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece which offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.”

This is a one-hour show. More information about tickets coming soon!

Schedule Your Senior Meeting!

With the College Application Season upon us please schedule your senior meeting with your counselor!

Gabriella Durgin: calendly.com/gdurgin or stop into the counseling office and connect with Janet

Sarah Smith: calendly.com/sarahsmith1 or stop into the counseling office and connect with Janet

Sofia Bertocci: sbertocci@wcsu.net or stop into the counseling office and connect with Janet

College Admissions Visit-

College visits take place in the Counseling Services office unless otherwise posted. Please check in with your teacher and ask for permission to attend. Allow 30 minutes per visit. A complete listing of college visits can be found on Naviance in the college menu, in the Counseling Office and on the bulletin board across from the senior solarium. Please log into your Naviance account and sign up for the college visits in advance! This is important as we would like to know whether or not to expect any students for a particular school.

At the bottom of the home page is an area called "What's New" with the list of college visits. Click on "more info" on the school you would like to visit and add your name to the list.

Monday, September 26

10:00am National Guard

Wednesday, September 28

1:30pm Georgetown University (DC)

2:00pm Union College (NY)

Thursday, September 29

10:30am Marines

Friday, September 30

10:00am Springfield College (MA)

11:00am VIRTUAL Skidmore College (NY)

AP Exam Information!

If your student is currently enrolled in an AP Class please click on the following link to review and complete important information regarding the AP Exam Registration Process as well as helpful AP Information.

Sophomores and Juniors - PSAT TEST on Wednesday, October 12th

All sophomores and juniors will be taking the PSAT (Preliminary SAT) on Wednesday, October 12th in the morning at no cost to the students. This is a great way to practice and understand what to expect in taking the SAT. All sophomores and juniors are automatically signed up (opt In) to take the PSAT unless a parent emails Janet North at jnorth@wcsu.net or Gabriella Durgin at gdurgin@wcsu.net with the Opt Out.

If you have any questions about your schedule, please contact your counselor.

Grades 10-12 Sofia Bertocci, sbertocci@wcsu.net

Grades 10-12 Gabriella Durgin, gdurgin@wcsu.net

Grades 7-9 Sarah Lyon, slyon@wcsu.net

Grades 10-12 Sarah Smith, sarahsmith@wcsu.net

Grades 7-9 Vali Stuntz, vstuntz@wcsu.net

STUDENT MEALS ARE FREE!

Students can access one free breakfast and/or one free lunch every school day. Students enter their 4 digit lunch number at the register stations as they exit the meal line. Student meal accounts will not be charged. This is for tracking purposes only.

SALAD BAR IS BACK!

In addition to the healthy main meal option, students can add items from the salad bar to their meal. Fresh veggies and fruit help complete the meal and keep students nourished for the school day,

FREE & REDUCED MEAL APPLICATIONS

Even though meals are free, it is really important that you return the VT Free & Reduced Meal Application if you think you qualify. Our school district relies on the Free & Reduced percentage for other school funding so it's important to apply today. You will also need to renew your application if you previously qualified as applications from the previous years will expire on October 15th. Please reapply today! If you have application questions, please email Gretchen gczaja@wcsu.net or call 802-457-1317, ext. 1123.

Hard copies of the application will be mailed out soon. You can download an application on our WCUD School Nutrition Program website or request a packet from the school’s administrative assistant. Please email the scanned completed application or picture copy to Gretchen Czaja, gczaja@wcsu.net or mail to: WCUD School Nutrition Program 100 Amsden Way Woodstock, VT 05091

GRAB & GO BREAKFASTS-Grab & Go breakfasts are available in the north cafeteria. A full breakfast includes 3 food items with one of the items being a fruit portion.

VEGGIEVANGO FREE FOOD DISTRIBUTION-Every second Wednesday of every month-Next one is October 12th. Mark your calendars for the next dates- November 9th, December 14th The distribution takes place at the Union Arena end of the WUHSMS parking lot @ 10am. The VT Foodbank distributes fresh produce items. Proteins are now provided by the VT Foodbank!

Scan the QR code to access lunch menus, program information and the VT Free & Reduced Meal Application.

Follow us on @vtschoolmeals on Instagram.

Alma Student Information System

2022-2023 School Calendar

High School Class Schedule

Middle School Class Schedule

Bus Routes

Windsor Central Supervisory Union

Email: gsmail@wcsu.net
Website: wuhsms.org
Location: 100 Amsden Way, Woodstock, VT, USA
Phone: 8024571317
Facebook: facebook.com/WUHSMS/
Twitter: @wearewoodstock