The Mountain Views School District Board is hosting three upcoming information sessions about the new high school and middle school building project. You can learn about each event by following the links.
February 12, 2024, · 6:00 PM
February 13, 2024, · 6:00 PM
February 15, 2024, · 6:00 PM
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 Safe School Ambassador Program is in its 9th year at WUHSMS. With 45 members in grades 8-12, this nationally recognized program uses socially influential leaders of the school’s diverse friend groups to shape positive social norms and behavior. The students in SSA had the opportunity to participate in a 2 day retreat, where they did some powerful self reflection, and learned and practiced the skills needed to resolve conflict, defuse negative incidents, and support their peers .
Thank you to the returning students, most of whom have been participating since 8th grade, for their many years of commitment to our school, and thank you for the warm welcome you gave to the ten new 8th grade members; Oliver Bennett, Elisabetta Cirovic, Lexi Gebardi, Lucas Geller, Alaythia Lockhart, Sam Molalley, Joey Palazzo, Declan Roylance, and Lindsey St. Cyr.
These students were selected based on an anonymous survey that their peers filled out, and have been identified as people their friends turn to, listen to, and trust. With that respect comes responsibility. We look forward to watching you grow and develop as leaders.
CRAFT classes have been busy! MS students in Gardens and Greenhouses chose a local fruit or veggie to learn about for their final project and then they made a dish with that ingredient to share with the class. In a picture above, Nolan Alberty is proudly displaying his homemade apple pie.
Students in Stewardship Action Project recently worked with Sustainable Woodstock to make window inserts for homeowners. Our SAP students were essential in stretching the plastic over the wooden frame to create the insulating layer that will help the community stay warm this winter and reduce their heating costs.
Students in Foundations of Agriculture are finishing up our fall garden preparation by planting garlic. They have been learning about the value of seeds as an investment in our future. We purchased $100.00 worth of garlic and if each clove turns into 10 cloves, we now have $1000.00 worth of garlic to eat, share and replant!
Students in Food and Forest Systems went to Marsh Billings Rockefeller NHP to learn about the more sustainable tradition of horse logging and the forest management practices employed by the natural resources team at the park. Students got to watch at a safe distance while an ash tree was felled as a precaution to the emerald ash borer which has begun to show its presence in our forests. This foreign pest will have a devastating effect on our ash trees in the coming years and the park wants to be proactive by removing the ones that could pose a danger along the hiking trails.
The WUHSMS mountain bike team captured the Vermont Youth Cycling Championship (VTYC) for the second consecutive year at the Mt. Peg trails. A record-setting number of athletes (239) from 13 teams challenged themselves in this enduro-style race on Peg’s most popular trails including Cloud Drop, Sir Berm’s A Lot, James’ Jungle, and Hardstyle.
The atmosphere at Knox Meadow was festive with team tents, a fire pit, and yard games. The Brownsville Butcher and Pantry sold food, and Vermont Farmstead Cheese and McNamara Dairy donated chocolate milk to every racer.
Adding to the excitement was the reopening of the Sir Berm’s A Lot trail which was masterfully remodeled by the Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association’s trail builders, Gavin Vaughn and Graham Farrington. Farrington is a WUHS graduate and former captain of the team. The trail's berms, jumps, and flow were a highlight of the day for many. Spectators willing to hike were treated to riders carving high-speed berms and launching trail gaps.
This was the final race in the four-race VTYC series. Woodstock entered the day as the series leader and was determined to earn the win on its home trails, and that is just what they did. The Category A boys and girls nearly swept the podiums with Schuyler Hagge and Pea Richardson taking 1st and 3rd for the girls. The boys took four out of five podium spots with Graham Fox (5th), Zev Wysocki (4th), Averill Stevens (3rd), and Quinn Uva at the top of the podium in first place. Chelsea McDermot finished 2nd on the day in Girls B, and Cole Little earned 3rd in Boys B. Seventh grader Micah Mahood had an impressive day, earning his first podium of the season as the 5th place finisher in the Category C boys race. Every racer on the podium was awarded a bottle of Richardson’s maple syrup.
Racers were also recognized for their overall series’ performance The overall girls’ podium featured Luca Morris (5th), Arden Rossi (4th), Pea Richardson (3rd), and Schuyler Hagge (1st). The A boys were also strong, with Averill Stevens (5th) and Quinn Uva taking 1st overall. Co-captains Hagge and Uva were vital to the team’s success by finishing in either second or first place in every race in the series. Seventh-grade racer Calvin Seman established himself in his first racing season by taking 3rd place overall. Isla Segal continued her consistent ways, securing 5th for the C girls.
Co-captain Ada Mahood was recognized by VTYC with the “Fuel More Fun” award for embodying excellent sportsmanship and positive attributes including “looking out for others, encouraging peers, a commitment to bettering the community, self-discipline and perseverance, and asking for help when needed.” Ada truly embodies these attributes.
This team is young and talented and ready to make an impact at the Northern New England Race Series Championship at the Holderness School on October 28th. Woodstock is currently leading its division in this series and is looking to better its 2nd place finish in last year’s championship.
On Wednesday, October 4th, the eighth grade class spent a beautiful day on Mt. Tom. Students hiked enthusiastically (despite the heat), vied for bragging rights in advisory-based challenges, ate lunch at the top by the star, and ended the day enjoying popsicles and shade on the school grounds. It was a great fall day!
Students in Ms. Jimerson’s Middle School Studio Art class made “garden focaccias”. Using dough prepared from a King Arthur Flour recipe: students shaped their dough, brushed it with olive oil, and carefully created their “gardens” atop the dough using sliced vegetables, herbs, seeds, olives and capers.
Their creations were baked by Ms. Jimerson and WUHS senior Charlotte Nunan, Ms. Jimerson’s TA for this class. When the students sampled their creations, they all concluded that they were not only pretty but really yummy!
This was a fitting conclusion to their recent study of botanical illustrations, which included a multi-day visit from Susan Sawyer, a renowned botanical illustrator.
Thirty-three students went and spent part of the day at Billings Farm learning, viewing and tasting all things pollinators. Students explored the bountiful pollinator gardens, made pollinator smoothies with pedal power, and viewed and identified flower parts in a microscope.
They also had fun exploring the amazing sunflower house which has 100 varieties of sunflowers. At school, students have been learning about our native pollinators, doing pollinator observations, netting bees, and growing herbs!
Yoh Theatre Players will present Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman on October 20 and 21 at 7 p.m.
We are proud to present our first Vlog episode documenting our work, created with the help of our new Assistant Director Claire McKey Berkman.
