Thursday, January 21, 2010

Announcements 01-22-10







The YMCA is offering a vacation camp for school age children at the town School during February break. The theme is: Y-Olympics. For more
information, brochures are available in the school office.

Dear 8th Grade Parents,
You are invited to attend an information session with the Director of
Guidance at BFA concerning course registration for your current 8th grade
student. This will be held at City School on January 25th in the cafeteria
at 6:30.

8th Grade class of 2011: The PAG needs your help!! What is PAG,it stands for parent Advisory Group and what we do is to help you the students plan for you eight grade year. Together we plan everything from your field trips,dances,graduation activities,to your yearbook. We will be meeting monthly and are in the process of planning our first fundraiser which will be taking place on Thursday,February 18th. The event will be the seventh grade basketball teams taking on the teachers and possibly the coaches. We will have special activities and cheerleaders will be performing a halftime show. So, There is a lot of planning to do,ideas are welcome. It is important that every parent gets involved.The next PAG meeting will take place Monday,February 8th at 3:30 in the library.There are lots of ways you can get involved even if you can't attend meetings. Please contact :
Shannon Lamothe at lamothes@sacsvt.org or Linda Pacheco at adoni#1@myfairpoint.net





The Power of School Breakfast-Student creativity contest: The School Nutrition Association ( SNA ) of Vermont in preparation for hunger awareness day on February 11th ,2010 are inviting elementary schools throughout Vermont to participate in our first Power of School Breakfast student creativity contest. Students in grades k-6 may submit one original work.


•A poster on 8 1/2 x 11 paper
•A poem
•a one page essay which
addresses... The importance of a nutritious school breakfast to students.
Students will be judged on the strength of the message promoting school breakfast and on individually creativity. We intend to chose one winner from each school. The selected group of winners will be invited to join our legislative committee when we participate in the Hunger awareness day on February 11 at the State House in Montpelier. Students will assist SNA-VT representatives hand out school breakfast bags to state legislators as they enter the chamber and will have the opportunity to tour the state house.