The middle school QSA held two successful bake sales in order to donate the proceeds to The Trevor Project in recognition of Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19) and LGBTQIA+ Youth.
The Trevor Project is a well-known suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ young people. They provide information & support to LGBTQ young people.
The yearbook club was awarded the Gold Level National Yearbook Program of Excellence for last year's yearbook. Woodstock Union High School was one of 7 schools nationwide to receive this distinction. The yearbook club strives to highlight and recognize all students and the activities that make Woodstock a wonderful place to be.
The Middle school volleyball club is wrapping up its spring season.
This awesome group of students have worked hard learning new skills, playing games, and just having fun!
Thanks to parent volunteer Jenn Tessier for participating this spring.
Middle School QSA Club designed gender neutral bathroom signs for Woodstock Elementary upon request of their students, and placed them on the doors of two single bathrooms. The signs simply said: Everyone's Bathroom.
Our Yearbook Club was selected to receive the Gold Level for the National Program of Excellence. Our yearbook will be featured in the "Look Book" that all schools receive nationally as an example of how to broadly represent the student body while helping students develop 21st-century skills. We were selected because we:
Created an inclusive yearbook
Generate school engagement
Successfully manage the yearbook creation process.
Please congratulate the following students who will be serving as student government leaders for 2023-24!! Elections will be held in the fall for rising 9th graders.
Class of 2024
Class President - Maggie Mello
Vice President - Sophia Nisimblat
Secretary - Skye Cully
Treasurer - Lila Beckwith
Class Advisors - Jennifer Stainton and Sherry Sousa
Student Council Members - Mac Abrams, Tess Belisle, Logan Knox, Leah Kuhnert, Ella Stainton and Farren Stainton
Class of 2025
Class President - Jane Stout
Vice President - Quinn Uva
Secretary - Bizzy Tindall
Treasurer - Jack Quicker
Class Advisors - Betsie O’Neill
Student Council Members - Izzy Cellini, Owen Courcey, Graham Fox, Aubrey Semen, and Joey Sluka
Class of 2026
Class President - Finn Costello
Vice President - Sadie Boulbol
Secretary - Aleks Cirovic
Treasurer - Kaitlyn Burres
Class Advisors - Janis Boulbol and Sarah Hagge
Student Council Members - Milo Farrington, Anna Fink, Schuyler Hagge, Maya Sluka, and Max van der Schoot
A group of students presented with Jennifer Stainton and Audrey Richardson at the Vermont Superintendent Association conference last Friday. They presented on Unity and Freedom: District Equity work through student voice.
Woodstock Union High School's Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program (VTLSP) students did their Project Sticker Shock Campaign in area convenience stores the week before prom and graduation.
This campaign addresses underage drinking and aims to reach those individuals ages 21 and over who legally purchase alcohol and provide it to minors. The youth-designed stickers are adhered to multi-packs of beer, alco-pops, and other appropriate alcoholic beverages. The students of VTLSP specifically plans this campaign to occur before prom and graduation, a very important time in students' lives that is extremely exciting and momentous with hopes it will be filled with good, safe, choices. The VTLSP team of students and advisor wish to thank Maplefields, Cumberland Farms, and Mac's Market for allowing us the opportunity to do this campaign in their stores. Pictured are: Eleanor Williams, Aleksandra Cirovic, and Mimi Kanda-Olmstead.
Members of the WUHS Social Action Club collaborated with the Montpelier High School throughout the year to help coordinate and sponsor an event: The Rally and Race Against Racism. In its 5th year, this state-wide annual anti-racist event, organized by youth from several Vermont high schools took place on Sunday, May 7th. The public rally, curated with a spectacular list of notable speakers, live music, and performances was attended by youth from around the state as well as members of the general public. Profits from the 2023 Race Against Racism will be donated to two, Vermont, non-profit organizations: Vermont Releaf Collective and Building Fearless Futures.
In addition to helping with the event, Woodstock was also proud to feature one of our very own at the event. Eighth-grader Tegan Miller, a talented musician, singer and songwriter, performed a song that she wrote during the Rally segment of the event. She is a gifted young person!!
