The City of Essex Junction, in collaboration with community members, presents the 2024 Essex Community Resource Guide!
🍽️ Summer Meal Service is ongoing! For details on locations, meal times, and menus, visit ewsd.org/childnutrition. 🍎🍔🍉🍕🥕🥯
The Essex Westford School District is seeking full-time Mainstream Instructional Assistants in grades K-8, beginning in the 24/25 school year.
In this role, you get to assist and supervise students instructionally, behaviorally, and physically in the general mainstream program. You'll have the chance to work with a special educator and gain valuable experience supporting students with emotional challenges and mental health diagnoses. To apply 👉 https://bit.ly/3LH3TqJ
💫 Congratulations to the EHS boys and girls who competed in the Vermont High School Decathlon State Championship: Nathan, Max, Finnian, Gracie, Isabella, Ada, and Grace. Over 60 Vermont high school track and field athletes came together to compete in 10 track and field events.
Before EES preschoolers headed into summer break, they enjoyed Water Day on the playground! Not only is water play fun, but it is incredibly beneficial; offering cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development opportunities.
The 2024 Heart of a Hornet Award was awarded to Tom Emery! Each year EHS faculty and staff can vote for a colleague to receive the Heart of a Hornet Award. Criteria are that the nominee shall have met the following: Provided extra hours for students beyond the school day, consistently went beyond the normal ‘call of duty, exhibited a love for students and had an enthusiasm for teaching, and consistently displayed a positive attitude.
🎨 Hiawatha's 3rd-grade artists finished their beautiful fringe-edge weavings, and for the last few art classes, all K-3 students got to use the outdoor classroom to try drawing "en plein air." Plein air is a French word for "in the open air, " meaning drawing nature outside.
🎨 Students briefly learned about the history of the impressionists like Monet. They viewed some of his sketches and then used a viewfinder to find outdoor compositions to sketch. Artists did a fantastic job using their viewfinders and appreciating the nature around them.
Hiawatha's end-of-year celebration looked like this 👇🎈💦😁🎉🫧
ADL Speech Language Pathologist, Claudia Abbiati, was recognized as an Outstanding Educational Support by the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI). 👏👏👏
UVM Chemistry Professor Dr. Giuseppe Petrucci joined ADL 7th and 8th grade science classes to perform a series of big exothermic reactions, including a 10-foot-tall elephant toothpaste and exploding sodium metal.
Congratulations to EHS junior, Tess Adams, for breaking the 37-year-old Vermont Division 1 state record at this year's New England Track and Field Meet! 👏👏👏
Today is the summer solstice, signaling the official start of summer.🌴🌺🏖️🌞🍉🕶️🌊
Check out The Media Factory's live recording of the 2024 EHS Graduation Ceremony held on June 15! Watch it here: https://bit.ly/45t8PbY
Check out The Media Factory's live recording of the Center for Technology's 2024 Recognition Ceremony held on June 13! Watch it here: https://bit.ly/3RrqJpW
The EWSD Librarians look back on the 2023-2024 school year! Discover their favorite books, student top picks, circulation stats, and the community they served.
EHS is proud to announce six finalists in the annual NCTE Writing Contest. This year, Ben Smith earned the top award First Class; Alyse Bibeau and Ashtyn Morel-Blake earned an Excellent award; Jaila Palermo and Trinity Anaya earned Superior; and Derin Suren earned Merit.
EHS welcomed many local teams as part of the Essex Track and Field Invitational on May 25!
Photo credit: Lea Ann Smith
Team Equinox at EMS participated in the Trout in the Classroom (TIC) program this year. Through TIC, classrooms get 100 brook trout eggs from the Vermont hatchery in January and they raise them until it is time to release them into a local stream. Along the way, students learn about water quality, fish life cycles, and riparian habitats. Team Equinox successfully raised and released 72 trout into the Browns River on May 28.
As part of an artist in residency, Hiawatha students performed as part of the Wunderle Big Top Adventure Circus on May 23! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTfmdFBVYjU
