The 2024 Heart of a Hornet Award was awarded to Tom Emery! Each year EHS faculty and staff can vote for a colleague to receive the Heart of a Hornet Award. Criteria are that the nominee shall have met the following: Provided extra hours for students beyond the school day, consistently went beyond the normal ‘call of duty, exhibited a love for students and had an enthusiasm for teaching, and consistently displayed a positive attitude.
🎨 Hiawatha's 3rd-grade artists finished their beautiful fringe-edge weavings, and for the last few art classes, all K-3 students got to use the outdoor classroom to try drawing "en plein air." Plein air is a French word for "in the open air, " meaning drawing nature outside.
🎨 Students briefly learned about the history of the impressionists like Monet. They viewed some of his sketches and then used a viewfinder to find outdoor compositions to sketch. Artists did a fantastic job using their viewfinders and appreciating the nature around them.
Hiawatha's end-of-year celebration looked like this 👇🎈💦😁🎉🫧
ADL Speech Language Pathologist, Claudia Abbiati, was recognized as an Outstanding Educational Support by the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI). 👏👏👏
UVM Chemistry Professor Dr. Giuseppe Petrucci joined ADL 7th and 8th grade science classes to perform a series of big exothermic reactions, including a 10-foot-tall elephant toothpaste and exploding sodium metal.
Congratulations to EHS junior, Tess Adams, for breaking the 37-year-old Vermont Division 1 state record at this year's New England Track and Field Meet! 👏👏👏
Today is the summer solstice, signaling the official start of summer.🌴🌺🏖️🌞🍉🕶️🌊
Check out The Media Factory's live recording of the 2024 EHS Graduation Ceremony held on June 15! Watch it here: https://bit.ly/45t8PbY
Check out The Media Factory's live recording of the Center for Technology's 2024 Recognition Ceremony held on June 13! Watch it here: https://bit.ly/3RrqJpW
The EWSD Librarians look back on the 2023-2024 school year! Discover their favorite books, student top picks, circulation stats, and the community they served.
EHS is proud to announce six finalists in the annual NCTE Writing Contest. This year, Ben Smith earned the top award First Class; Alyse Bibeau and Ashtyn Morel-Blake earned an Excellent award; Jaila Palermo and Trinity Anaya earned Superior; and Derin Suren earned Merit.
EHS welcomed many local teams as part of the Essex Track and Field Invitational on May 25!
Photo credit: Lea Ann Smith
Team Equinox at EMS participated in the Trout in the Classroom (TIC) program this year. Through TIC, classrooms get 100 brook trout eggs from the Vermont hatchery in January and they raise them until it is time to release them into a local stream. Along the way, students learn about water quality, fish life cycles, and riparian habitats. Team Equinox successfully raised and released 72 trout into the Browns River on May 28.
As part of an artist in residency, Hiawatha students performed as part of the Wunderle Big Top Adventure Circus on May 23! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTfmdFBVYjU
Teaching artists from the Clemmons Family Farm engaged with classes at FMS through their Windows To A Multicultural World (Joy in Motion!) program. Students took part in dance/movement, painting, and musical poetry!
CTE Health Professions students held their first Health and Wellness Fair on May 16 and 17. Students created marketing materials, scheduled appointments with CTE staff members, and performed health screenings. Students measured staff members' pulse, respiration, temperature, oxygen saturation, vision, height, and weight, calculated their body mass index, and provided dietary guidelines.
In April, EHS Athletic Leadership Council students from EHS visited Summit St. School and EES to share their love of reading! It was exciting and nostalgic for some high school students to return to their first classrooms in the EWSD, as they read their favorite books to the younger students.
The latest issue of the ADL Creative Writing and Art Journal is now available! This is the second publication and represents a collaboration between the Creative Writing Club, ADL art teacher Tina Logan, and CTE. CTE student Hto-Lwee Wah organized the journal and designed the cover. View the journal here: https://5il.co/2mkvp
FMS fourth grade students participated in a joint STEAM project with STEM teacher, Colleen Williams, and music teacher, Tyson Valyou. The students explored coding and creating instruments using Scratch, a Makey Makey, and recycled materials that are either insulators or conductive.
