Three times a year, Vermont Day School participates in C.L.I.C week (Create, Learn, Innovate, Celebrate), an opportunity to participate in an all school project with a unified theme. This week, students were immersed in our first ever virtual CLIC week, and focused on finding solutions to address the unique challenges we are facing during the global pandemic. Each day brought a new challenge! A few highlights included: choosing a local business and finding a creative way to provide support, creating artwork and hopeful messages for residents at a local senior center and the Critical Care workers at Fletcher Allen hospital, and engineering a new way to transport an object to a friend while social distancing and keeping six feet apart!

Every Thursday evening, Vermont Day School families are invited to participate in a family event night via Zoom. Highlights have included a Family Trivia Night, during which parents and students tested their knowledge of geography, history, pop culture, sports and more! During this week’s virtual STEM Challenge, participants were given the task of building a suspension bridge that would span 14 inch distance and hold as many pennies as possible, using only 2 pieces of paper and 6 inches of tape. Families had fun working collaboratively on this challenge at home, and their sharing their bridges with others via the Zoom call. The Thursday evening Family event nights have been a wonderful way for VDS families to stay connected during this period of campus closure!

 

 

Vermont Day School closed it’s campus on March 13th, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 18th, the school launched its Continuous Learning program to allow students to continue to advance their academic skills, and maintain connections with their classmates and teachers. Each day, students follow a suggested schedule that consists of classes in core content areas of Literacy, Math and STEM, along with Spanish, Art, Music and PE. The K-5 students are using SeeSaw for Schools as their digital platform for learning, while students in grades 6-8 are continuing with Google Classroom. Each classroom has daily video calls, where they may participate in literature circles together, work on a collaborative project in STEM or simply enjoy lunch together!