FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th
JOKE OF THE WEEK
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BREAKFAST
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SNACKS
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LUNCH
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RECESS WEATHER
Back to colder weather. If you head outside, please wear appropriate clothing and use caution on the hill and field surfaces. There is a big icy patch at the bottom of the sledding hill that is not safe.
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JANUARY
OPEN DOORS SCHEDULE
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MUSIC PRACTICE WITH MR. KELLY
Week B
Friday:
7:25-8:15 5th/6th Grade Band (Brass & Percussion)
9:30-10:00 Orion Ward & Galen Schad
10:00-10:30 Isaac Ditch & Drake Remillard
11:15-11:45 Lyla Rouleau
11:45-12:15 Lexi Smith
12:15-12:45 Jaedyn Allen, Riley Cross, Daniel Mojica, & Alex Steiner
12:45-1:15 Ryan Blouin, Ava Giroux, & Tayah Paquette
1:15-1:45 Emily Ackel, Adam Boomhower, Natalie Cronin, & Sam Olsen
1:50-2:45 7th/8th Grade Band
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IMPORTANT DATES
JANUARY
Drama Rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast
Thursday, Jan 3rd - Thursday, April 11th. Mon, Wed, Thu. 3:15 to 4:30 PM. Location Large Gym and Music Rooms
Stewardship Committee Meeting Friday, January 25th. 7:45 to 8:15 AM. Location: Professional Library FEBRUARY
Discovery & Incredibles: Field Trip to Jay Peak
Tuesday, February 5th. 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus Everyone: Unified Arts Night
Tuesday, February 5th. 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Locations: Gymnasiums, Cafeteria, Library
Walking Wednesday. Link to Walking Routes and Meeting Times. Wednesday, February 6th. 6:45 to 7:30 AM. NAEP Assessment Day for Grade 8
Friday, February 8th. 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Location: Library
Travelers: Field Trip to Cairn's Ice Rink Arena Friday, February 8th. 9:00 AM to 1:45 PM. Transportation: Bus
Saturday, February 9th. 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. Locations: Cafeteria, Large and Small Gyms, Library.
BFA Parent Night at St. Albans City School Tuesday, February 12th. 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Location: Library Everyone: Trimester Two Fine Arts Showcase
Thursday, February 21st. 6:00 to 7:30 PM. Large Gym and Music Rooms
NAEP Assessment Day for Grade 4
Friday, February 22nd. 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Location: Library
MARCH Parent Community Council Meeting Thursday, March 7th. 6:00 to 7:30 PM. Location: Professional Library Parent Community Council - SURVIVermont Thursday, March 28th. 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Location: Cafeteria, Library
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EVENTS AND NOTICES
IMPORTANT BUSSING INFORMATION - for families
As we continue to navigate with busing and keeping schedules for SACS and SATEC, we want to remind all families of a few logistics. It is very important for students to be waiting and prepared at the bus stops. It is very difficult for the drivers to wait for students to exit their houses. We are not permitted to hold traffic for an extended time and we must be prepared for our second runs.
Please have your students at the bus stops prior to the bus arriving. Due to time restraints, the bus will leave when the last student at the stop boards. This may mean that any student not at the stop will miss the bus.
Thank you for your understanding.
UNIFIED ARTS NIGHT
Tuesday, February 5th. 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Locations: Gymnasiums, Cafeteria, Library Come learn about and experience the history of St. Albans City School 50 years ago. We will have old pictures (and yearbooks), articles and artifacts to view, a half-hour documentary video will be shown about the start of St. Albans City School and there will be many students performing short dramatic vignettes about our school history. In addition, you will be able to visit with the Unified arts teachers in their classrooms to see what students have been doing this school year.
WE WELCOME THE COMMUNITY TO THIS IMPORTANT EVENT
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE HEALTHY HEARTS FAIR
3SquaresVT benefits
As a result of the partial federal government shutdown, 3SquaresVT benefits for February will be issued on January 20, 2019.You May Need To Take Immediate Action
New applicants and participants whose benefits are up for recertification this month may need to take immediate action. All interviews must be completed, and all required documentation received, on or before January 15, 2019.
All available resources have been deployed to process 3Squares benefits. We will be contacting as many clients as possible to process outstanding applications and recertifications.
These benefits will be for the entire month of February so you need to budget accordingly.
Finally, schools and sponsors are reminded that any family with a change in income as a result of the shutdown (or any other reason) may apply for free and reduced-price meal benefits<https://education.
FAMILIES OF 4TH AND 8TH GRADERS
On February 8th, 4th and 8th grades will take the NAEP assessment. The links below will take you to letters that explain the expectations for that measurement.
LINK TO PARENT/GUARDIAN LETTER FOR 4TH GRADERSLINK TO PARENT/GUARDIAN LETTER FOR 8TH GRADERS What is NAEP? It is a Common Measure of Student Achievement The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only assessment that measures what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects across the nation, states, and in some urban districts. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, NAEP has provided important information about how students are performing academically since 1969.
YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY (YRBS)
Grades 6-8
Dear Parents/Guardians:
Our school is taking part in the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) . This was developed in 1991 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is sponsored by the Vermont Department of Health and Agency of Education. The YRBS gathers information about health risk behaviors of 6th through 12th grade students. Schools, communities, and state agencies will use the results of the survey to evaluate programs, plan new programs and to secure future funding. We are planning to administer the survey to our 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students on January 30, 2019 and January 31, 2019. If you would like to see the survey, a copy is available to view in the School Counseling office. If you do not want your child to participate in the survey, please complete the opt out form and return it to Kristen Hersey in the School Counselor’s Office. Copies of the opt out form were mailed home and are also available to download here. LINK TO OPT OUT FORM. Forms must be returned by January 28th, 2019.
8TH GRADERS
BFA PARENTS NIGHT AT ST. ALBANS CITY SCHOOL
Preston Randall, Director of Guidance, will be coming to City School to discuss the transition from 8th to 9th grade- talking a little bit about BFA, giving an overview of the paperwork that students and families are required to fill out (academic and elective course selection), and answering any questions. For students and families who are unable to attend- no fear! We will be handing out and going over paperwork in classes, as well. Everyone will get what they need.
Tuesday, February 12th
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PICTURES AND REPORTS
LIFE AT ST. ALBANS IN 1970 COMPARED TO NOW
The school opened on September 14, 1970. Parts of the building were still being worked on during the first few weeks of school.
St. Albans City Elementary was very different in 1970 than it is today. The 7th and 8th grade students were upstairs in the Triumph and Discovery hallway. Each grade had a science, english, social studies, math, and French teacher. Students rotated to each classroom throughout the day.
Only the 7/8 students had lockers.
There were science labs that had everything you needed to do experiments, including sinks and gas-powered Bunsen burners. One of the labs was in the Kaleidoscope area and the other was in the professional library.
There was a French language lab that had headphones wired into the ceiling in where Discovery’s Mrs. Brown is located.
Grades 5 and 6 were in the Voyager and Incredibles hallways. The 4th grade classrooms were in the current 7/8 community spaces.
The 2nd grade classrooms were in the Travelers hallway and 3rd grade classrooms were in the Investigators hallway.
Only grades 6 – 8 had physical education. The boys and girls had separate P.E. classes.
The outside playground was all gray metal structures that included swings, slides, “merry go round”, “monkey bars”, and “teeter-totter”.
The middle school girls took home economics and sewing classes. They learned things like setting a table, doing laundry, grooming, baby sitting and cooking. The sewing class made aprons and pillows. The home economics class was a double sized classroom. It included Mrs. Lamb’s room and Triumph’s Mrs. Lynn’s room. In the back of Mrs. Lamb’s room there was a formal dining room set up to practice their skills.
Pictures include Industrial Arts teacher Joseph Durfee
The boys took shop (Industrial Arts) classes that included wood working. The current fitness room and tech room was the shop. The snack prep room was for wood storage. The shop rooms were equipped with work benches and lots of power tools. Miss Hartman’s music room was a print shop. Mrs. Cameron-Muscente’s room was equipped with wiring circuits, drafting tables, and a button making machine.
The entire school was covered in striped carpet. That included the hallways, classrooms and even the cafeteria.
The school was designed around the learning center. All the classrooms on both sides of the library did not have real doors. They had folding accordion type doors. “Open classrooms” with no doors were popular during that time.
There were no computers in the school. No laptops, chrome books or iPads. No cell phones. No copiers. Teachers used things like chalkboards, movie projectors, film strips, overhead projectors, mimeograph machines, record players, tape recorders, cameras with film that had to be sent away to be developed.
There were only five buses to bring students to and from school. They had to do 2 separate runs to get everyone to school. That meant one group had to wait 45 minutes to an hour in the morning until everyone got there or they waited that long to go home at the end of the day.
INVESTIGATORS PE WITH MS. WIGHT 1-24-2019 LINK TO 11 PICTURES |