EVENTS Lost and Found Announcement
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EVENTS Lost and Found Announcement
December 13, 2011 UPCOMING EVENTS December 15 December 15 December 19-30 January 5 January 11 Holiday Concert 6 PM Second Quarter Ends Teacher Appreciation Luncheon Winter Break! Alumni Event One Act Performance 12/13 Choral Holiday Concert 12/15 The One Act Club is performing an original interpretation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. The first performance will be next Tuesday, December 13th, at VCS. This version of the Tempest incorporates an abundance of comedic characters with a mixture of modern language and Olde English and a twist of the circus life. The play, adapted by Don Wright, will be performed by students from each grade level. This version of The Tempest promises to be a fantastic show! Please join us in the Commons Room at 6 PM for a delightful evening of one acts. Submitted by Maggie Homer Please join us on Thursday, December 15th for the 2nd annual Vermont Commons School holiday choral concert! The concert will feature 17 students singing seven different selections of music, ranging from classic pieces like “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond to contemporary music by Adele. The concert will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Commons Room at Vermont Commons School with refreshments provided. Submitted by Willie Strausser VCS Water Bottles for Sale –by Suzanne Mantegna, PACS Co-Chair Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer for your VCS student or Alumni? Thinking about the next Encounter Week and wondering where you child has left his water bottle? Look no further, PACS has Aluminum Water Bottles with the Vermont Commons name and logo available for the low price of $7. The bottles will be for sale prior to the Evening of One Acts (tonight) and prior to the Holiday Concert (Thursday). Not attending either event but would still like a Water Bottle? Then please contact Suzanne Mantegna ([email protected]) to set up delivery prior to Friday. Lost and Found Announcement This Friday at 3:15 PM marks the start of our two week vacation, hooray! But, before we take off to relax, visit with family members and celebrate the holidays, we ask that you take a look in the Lost and Found for your belongings. We plan to donate everything in the bins (located in the lunch room by the ping pong table) just before break so that we may return to school with a fresh start. Thank you! 1 College Corner –by Sarah Soule The Vermont Commons Class of 2012 has been busily applying to colleges! Over fifty colleges sent representatives to VCS this fall to meet with our students and to share information and the process of applying to college. I was impressed with the thoughtful questions our students asked of the admissions officers as they considered the various colleges and universities during their visits to our school. Our eighteen seniors will be submitting a total of 182 applications to 109 different colleges across the country and Canada. We utilize an online college counseling partner, Naviance, to process the submission of transcripts and letters of recommendations for our students. Naviance has enabled us to greatly streamline the process of sending out our student’s documentation to colleges and universities as it is all done electronically. In a future edition of Turtle Tracks I will include a complete listing of the colleges and universities that have admitted our seniors as well as listing of where our Class of 2012 ultimately decides to attend. In early February, the juniors will be introduced to Naviance and will begin the process of searching for colleges. Juniors and their parents should mark their calendars for the College Planning Session with Sarah and Liz on Tuesday, February 7th at 4:00 p.m.! Research and Service Class Receives Award! –by Ruth Heindel This semester the ‘Greening Our Cities with Trees’ R&S class has partnered with the local volunteer organization Branch Out Burlington! in order to care for trees along city streets and in the Burlington Community Tree Nursery. This past Thursday evening, 8th grader Eli Hinds and I attended the Branch Out Burlington! annual meeting. Unbeknownst to Eli, we were there to receive the ‘Volunteers of the Year!’ award, given to our R&S class “in appreciation for [our] efforts to make Burlington green and help supply the city with healthy trees to plant along our streets and in the parks and greenspaces.” According to Margaret Skinner, Branch Out Burlington!’s president, the tree nursery has never looked so good, and she never believed that high school students could accomplish so much! Eli accepted the award certificate, along with tree identification booklets for each member of the R&S class. The final installment of the award will come in the spring – a tree to be planted somewhere on the Vermont Commons campus! Congratulations to Eli, Justine, Christian, Phineas, Oban, Amber, Lutes, Lauren, Ben, Lyn, Miles, and Josh for your hard work and dedication this fall! 2 Common Hour Update –by Sarah Soule We were fortunate to have Karen Taylor Mitchell of the Vermont Governor's Institute as our featured Common Hour speaker on Wednesday, December 7th. She spoke to our students about their summer offerings and the upcoming "Winter Weekend" which is scheduled for February 10-12 at Goddard College in Plainfield. The registration deadline is January 20, 2012. They will have special program that weekend in the arts, current issues, engineering and information technology. For further information: [email protected] or see Sarah for an application. On Wednesday, January 4th at 9:40 a.m. Vermont Commons will welcome Out of the Blue, an a capella singing group from Yale University to our school. They will entertain our students, faculty, and staff with a variety of tunes including Steve Winwood, Guster and Lady Gaga. All members of our community are invited to join us for this very special event. Sign up for the Ski Club! –by Ben Patrick Hello Skiers, Boards and Parents, Winter marks the beginning of our ski club! We will be skiing/boarding at Bolton Valley this year and will be leaving at 3:30 PM and arriving back to VCS at 8:30 PM on Friday evenings.This should allow for almost four hours of exercise and fun. All abilities of skiing/boarding are welcome to join us. Our group is all-inclusive, and everyone rides/skis with a group of peers. The only requirement is that you bring a helmet and be prepared for cold weather conditions. This year, the cost for transportation is $120.00 per student for six rides to and from the mountain. This pays for a large bus and a driver and allows all of us to be together with plenty of room for our gear. If you do not have a Bolton Valley Ski Pass, the cost for skiing will be $120.00 per student. If parents want to join us, there is plenty of room on the bus, and we receive three chaperone passes every time we visit the mountain. These chaperone passes will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. I look forward to having a safe and fun skiing and boarding season. Below is the list of dates that we will be at the mountain. Please make checks ($120 if you only need transportation and have a ski pass, or $240 for both tickets and transportation) payable to Vermont Commons School and deliver them to the front desk by Friday, December, 19, 2011. Ski Dates: Jan 13, Feb 3, Feb 10, Feb 17, Feb 24, and Mar 2. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, Thank you, Ben Patrick 3 The Unconscious Landscape, New Works by Ben Patrick An exhibit of oil paintings by Ben Patrick, artist in residence, is currently showcased at Stephen and Burns, 116 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont. The unconscious, restless landscapes of our surroundings become the occasion for this new series of compositions: purely pigmented, lucid, and questioning. There is an exploration of what is underneath here, a gaze into the reflections that we too often forget to look at. Please visit Stephen and Burns Salon located on Church Street for these new selections of paintings. All works are currently installed, and there will be a reception on Tuesday, December 20th from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm. We look forward to seeing you there! This Week in Photos 4