School News

In March, parents and guests were invited to come to VDS to view student’s projects in Global Studies and STEM during our annual PBL Shares. Below are some photos from these wonderful showcases of student learning:

 

Hosted by BETA, The Young Inventors’ Program and Vermont Day School, the Vermont Invention Fair was a very inspiring event with 20 inventors from 6 schools participating. Congratulations to the 10 inventors from Vermont Day School who participated! Check out this WCAX report with a fantastic interview from VDS 6th grader, Emme Lanoue.

 

 

The Vermont Day School 4th-8th grade recently brought down the house with their sensational performance of “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory!” Students worked hard for this performance and created the set, costumes and choreography! Congrats to all the performers, and to our Music and Theater Director, Kendra Gratton!

The Vermont Day School Community enjoyed a fabulous Winter Concert on December 12th at the Shelburne Town Hall. We enjoyed several instrumental pieces from our Upper School band, along with some holiday and winter themed classics. It was a fun and festive evening for our PreK-8 performers, their families, staff and guests!

 

 

The Vermont Day School Lego League team placed 3rd in the qualifier competition in Montpelier and secured a spot at the Vermont FIRST Lego League Championship on January 18th. We look forward to seeing their coding and robotics skills in action! Best of luck to all the teams!

Congratulations to all the walkers and runners who participated in this year’s VDS Jog-a-thon! Student of all ages demonstrated tremendous endurance and sportsmanship as they completed as many laps as possible during a 45 minute time period. The event was a fundraiser for our outdoor education programs to New Village Farm, Shelburne Farms and Hosmer Point. Congratulations to all the participants, and thank you to all our supporters!

Hello! We are so excited to kick off the new school year together! This year is a milestone year, as Vermont Day School celebrates its 10th birthday. Please check back for updates to our website as we highlight happenings throughout the school year. It is going to be a tremendous year of learning and growing together!

This Spring, we celebrated major milestones for two of our student groups: PreK students moving on to Kindergarten, and middle schoolers moving on to high school!

For Spring CLIC Week, Vermont Day School partnered with Vermont Green Football Club. Our driving question was: How can Vermont Green FC engage the local youth community?

Our CLIC week started with a visit and presentation from Sam Glickman, Co-Founder of Vermont Green FC, to provide us with background on the organization and our challenge for the week. Next, students worked collaboratively in groups to generate year long and game days ideas to increase youth participation. On Friday, our students groups had the opportunity to present their ideas to Mr. Glickman and Vermont Green FC interns.

This CLIC Week project was an impactful learning opportunity for our students, and we hope that we provided Vermont Green FC with some helpful and creative ideas! Go Green!

 

 

The end of the school year is marked by two of our most fun traditions – Music Cabaret and Spring Carnival! Music Cabaret was hosted by our very own Kendra Gratton and Hallie Carpenter. Students and teachers took the stage to show their talents in Irish dance, singing, magic, stunts, jokes and more! All the acts were impressive and it was so much fun to cheer on our classmates and teachers!

Following Cabaret, we celebrated our annual Spring Carnival. Families enjoyed carnival games, prizes, bouncy house face painting and the infamous dunk tank, where we had the chance to dunk our teachers, Head of School and 8th grade graduates!

To kick off our annual Food Drive, Vermont Day School was honored to welcome two Board Members from the Shelburne Food Shelf to our all school assembly. The Board Members spoke to students about food insecurity in Vermont and the important work of the Food Shelf in helping our community. Students asked questions and the 4th/5th grade class shared our school goal to collect 750 pounds of non-perishable food and hygiene items by the end of March. Donations can be brought to school. Representatives from the 4th/5th grade class will be in the front hall every morning at drop off (until March 28) to accept donations. Thank you in advance for supporting our Food Drive! Let’s go VDS!

This week, VDS Students celebrated Fallas, a traditional festival originating in Valencia, Spain. To prepare, students learned about the important traditions of this event and made creative sculptures in Art and Spanish class. At our celebration, students performed skits in Spanish, explained the significance of this holiday to audience members and let go of the sculpture they had made! It was very special day of experiential learning!