8th graders celebrated the end of middle school with a fun and exhausting overnight trip to Bethany Birches Camp this week. With sunny skies and temperatures in the high 80s, students spent lots of time swimming in the pond, socializing in the pavilion, and competing in—and losing at—many games against their incredibly athletic teachers.
On Thursday afternoon, Ms. Gravel's AP Art History class took a tour of the new exhibits at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont with Ms. Piccoli. The students enjoyed seeing over 100 works by Andy Warhol in the small is beautiful exhibit. One of the highlights was wearing 3D glasses to view the stereoscopic silkscreen painting titled Patty Oldenburg. In the Susan Rothenberg retrospective, students practiced Visual Thinking Strategies with a piece titled Impending Doom. And, when looking at the shield-like armatures created by Ron Gorchov, Katie Jones found inspiration for a future art project.
Thanks so much to the Hall Art Foundation for making these exhibits accessible to our students. They also offer teachers professional opportunities over the summer.
From May 26-June 10, AP Art and seniors exhibited their artwork at Artistree in Pomfret, Vermont. Woodstock Community Television interviewed students at the gallery during an opening reception. Congratulations to all of our artists!
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.
Congratulations to Luke Pomeroy and Maddy Snide for their participation in the Twin State Math League Junior All-Star meet held on May 22nd!
Special congrats to Luke who earned a 5th place finish! Thank you to both for doing a tremendous job representing our school!!
The senior class took their senior trip to Boston on Monday. They started at the Aquarium, then had lunch at Faneuil Hall, shopping on Newbury St. and finally jumping at a trampoline park. It was a great great time! Thank you to Lily Gubbins, Norah Harper, Audrey Emery and Will Coates for planning this super awesome trip!
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.
AP Literature seniors finished the year reading Hamlet and created a final project around the play's central question, "Who's there?"
This project, produced in a visual thinking/sketch-note style, was an opportunity for seniors to reflect on their childhood, adolescence and future prospects, as well as the literature of the year and what has mattered them in positive ways, as well as in less than desirable ways.
Thinking about their own humanity and the humanity in an array of characters from the works of John Steinbeck, Ian McEwan, Mary Shelley, Ralph Ellison, and back to Shakespeare, seniors set about composing a "To be" page, a "Not to be" page, a "Let be" page, and a concluding "Who's There" page for themselves.
These works (along with two proofs for all the ways The Lumineers' song Ophelia proves this band knows their Hamlet) are hung along the river behind The Bowl. If you'd like to check them out, they'll be up until Sunday, June 18th, weather permitting!
