A big kudos to the Varsity Boys' Soccer team who raised over $2300 at their bake sale last weekend!
ACADEMIC INFORMATION
- September 12, 2019: Open House 6:30-8:30 See SCHEDULE HERE.
- September 13, 2019: Teacher Advisor/Student Conference Day. Please click HERE for more information on this day.
- Juniors (and parents and guardians). This is to let you know that each junior at MHS has been pre-booked for a Solon Block in the library on either Sept. 9, 10, or 12 to hear about the upcoming College Fair and to discuss and receive materials regarding next steps in the college exploration process. Of course if you have specific questions about your individual situation (whether college-related or not!) please always feel free to contact your counselor.
- Seniors (and parents and guardians): This is to let you know that each senior at MHS has been pre-booked for a Solon Block in the library on Sept. 23,24, or 26 to discuss and receive materials regarding next steps in the college application process. If you have specific questions about your individual situation (whether college-related or not!) please always feel free to contact your counselor.
- During the final marking period, the AP Spanish class looks specifically at what life is like for immigrants working on VT's dairy farms. The group talks with farmers, representatives from Migrant Education and Migrant Justice, law enforcement, and others to answer the questions that the students have about life for VT's dairy farm immigrant workers. The final product of this exploration is a bilingual radio program produced by the students and Colleen Purcell called the Migrant Experience. The full program will be airing on WGDR (91.1FM) next Tuesday, September 10th from 2-3PM. Additionally, there will be a program that will include English excerpts from the program and an interview with Colleen talking about the project this Thursday from 9-10. If you miss the live airing but want to listen afterwards, it will be available for 2 weeks on WGDR's archive and then after that as a podcast.
- The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTRANS) invites students to attend the 2019 Innovation Showcase and Career Day, to be held next Wednesday, September 11th. This event showcases the research and innovation work of the Agency, transportation professionals, and local colleges in a variety of transportation areas including Planning, Traffic, Materials and Pavement, Environmental, Snow and Ice, Structures, and Asset Management. This is a great opportunity to learn about potential career tracks and connect with professionals in these areas. The day includes workshops and demos followed by a career panel. Some of the workshops/ demos include:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles (i.e. Drones)
- Weather & Communications
- Automatic Vehicle locators (AVL) & the MEGA plow
- Culvert inspection technology
- Signal Cabinets
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Tour of the Materials Lab
- Research Posters
If you would like to participate in this event or have questions, please contact Sarah Olson or Bill Laidlaw. Participants will leave MHS at 8:45 and return at approximately 2:15. - MHS WILD (Wilderness Inquiry and Leadership Development) Is an expeditionary wilderness program open to all MHS students. The program is housed within the school and is designed to help students connect more deeply with themselves, each other and the natural environment through shared adventure. Here are some important updates for this year. We will embark on 10 Wilderness trips throughout this year, and all are free of charge to students. These include adventures to the Adirondacks, Green's and White Mountains. WILD Personalized Learning Studies. New this year, students are able to utilize their WILD course of study to fulfill proficiency indicators in Global Citizenship. I will discuss in greater detail at our first meeting. An information session and our first meeting will be held Wednesday, September 4th at 3pm, upstairs across from the computer lab.For detailed curriculum information click here For this years poster and trip dates click here
- For more news, information, and pictures from various sporting events, check out the MHS Sports Update.
ARTS INFORMATION
Seeking Students for Opportunities! *Please reach out to Kianna Bromley if interested!
- Featured Dancers and Choreographer to appear in the Fall Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dancer schedule will be tailored to fit with busy dance schedule)
- Graphic Designers! We would love an MHS student to create the artwork and poster for our two productions. Could be two different people.
- Music Composition Student to write background music for Fall Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Builders and Carpenters to help build and mechanically design the set pieces for both theater productions! Painters for Scenic Painting work for the theater productions! Both will include incredible amounts of detailed and large scale painting work!
DISTRICT INFORMATION
- If you are a resident of Roxbury, please read an information letter from the district regarding the activity van for co-curricular activities.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INFORMATION
- The 3rd annual Race/Rally Against Racism is coming up on September 22nd! This family friendly, social justice event hosted at Montpelier High School kicks off with a rally at 11am and a 5k starting at 11:30. Running is optional! There will be other highlights at the Rally - including speeches, music, food, several organizations tabling, and art making.
- The 4th Annual Montpelier Fall Festival will take place on Sunday, September 29th from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at Montpelier High School. Check out the details here: http://www.
montpelierfallfestival.com This is a family-friendly event that is open to the whole community. It includes a one-mile kids’ fun run, a festival with food and games and marketplace. We will continue the tradition of a family friendly kickball tournament.Entrance to the festival is $5 per person or $20 for a family of four. This is the biggest fundraising event of the year and we have a goal of $10,000! All proceeds from the Fall Festival benefit the parent groups at Union Elementary School, Roxbury Village School, Main Street Middle School, and Montpelier High School. Parent group funds are used to support school field trips, student enrichment activities, and teaching materials not covered by the Montpelier school budget. Start your fundraising today and win great prizes....check out all the event details here http://www. montpelierfallfestival.com and keep up to date by liking the Facebook Page www.facebook.com/ kidscupVT To learn more about Montpelier Fall Festival please contact: Adrienne Gil kidscupvt@gmail.com 404-308-0510 - Social Thinking Introduction for Parents and Professionals Monday, September 9th from 5:30-7:00 in the Hayes Room at the Kellogg Hubbard Library. Come learn about some of the foundational principals of Social Thinking. We will look at strategies to assist children and teens navigate their social worlds. For those parents who attend this information session, they will receive a $50 discount on the Being Social Class for teens offered in the fall.
- Being Social Class for Teens Being Social is an eight-week course for motivated teens that want to build their confidence and skills with social situations. Discussion topics include: deepening friendships, non-verbal communication; school dynamics; social media; and social rules in the work place.
- When: Tuesdays evenings starting on October 1st
- Where: 159 State Street, Montpelier
- Cost: $500 for the 8 week series
- For more information go to: https://www.sarahrosenthalvt.
com or call at 793-7377
ENRICHMENT INFORMATION
- For a list of co-curricular opportunities this year, please click HERE for more information. Our co-curricular fair will be held on September 17th during our Solon Block time.
- Women Can Do is a one-day career immersion experience for 9-12th grade female and gender non-conforming youth from across Vermont. It features dozens of hands-on workshops and action stations highlighting careers in the skilled trades and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Hands-on workshops are led mostly by women professionals in the skilled trades or science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At Women Can Do, girls may operate an excavator, weld, climb a fire ladder, build a robot, design a 3D model, create an online game, wield a chainsaw, extract DNA from cells, or change a tire. More than 25 workshops highlight careers in architecture and engineering, computer programming, law enforcement and public safety, medicine and health, science and natural resources, and skilled trades. More information can be found here. Interested in attending? Please contact Sarah Loveless at sarahl@mpsvt.org. Registration packets are available on the bulletin board outside of the CBL office (room 110). MHS REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY 9/20. Please submit your registration forms to me as soon as possible; this conference fills quickly!
- MHS students recently completed a marine biology course taught by former U32 biology teacher Brian Slopey (Catherine Hennessey and Grace Murphy). A component of the course was research on fish populations in Bermuda using REEF (www.reef.org) protocols. SEE OUR FISH POPULATION DATA AT https://www.REEF.org/db/
reports/batch/ vtvlc2019bermuda.dat . Bermuda values the data collected as it is the only data of this kind collected at shallow snorkeling depths. Go to https://bermuda2019. wordpress.com/ and read the student blog and https://photos.app.goo.gl/ vkaQ4F7ZhELtA67i9 to see photos and video.
Renée DeVore
Principal, Montpelier High School
Go Solons!
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