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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
Teaching artists from the Clemmons Family Farm engaged with classes at FMS through their Windows To A Multicultural World (Joy in Motion!) program. Students took part in dance/movement, painting, and musical poetry!
CTE Health Professions students held their first Health and Wellness Fair on May 16 and 17. Students created marketing materials, scheduled appointments with CTE staff members, and performed health screenings. Students measured staff members' pulse, respiration, temperature, oxygen saturation, vision, height, and weight, calculated their body mass index, and provided dietary guidelines.
In April, EHS Athletic Leadership Council students from EHS visited Summit St. School and EES to share their love of reading! It was exciting and nostalgic for some high school students to return to their first classrooms in the EWSD, as they read their favorite books to the younger students.
The latest issue of the ADL Creative Writing and Art Journal is now available! This is the second publication and represents a collaboration between the Creative Writing Club, ADL art teacher Tina Logan, and CTE. CTE student Hto-Lwee Wah organized the journal and designed the cover. View the journal here: https://5il.co/2mkvp
FMS fourth grade students participated in a joint STEAM project with STEM teacher, Colleen Williams, and music teacher, Tyson Valyou. The students explored coding and creating instruments using Scratch, a Makey Makey, and recycled materials that are either insulators or conductive.
EHS junior, Katie Preston, was selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship to Germany by the U.S. Department of State and AFS-USA. Preston is one of 250 high school students from across the United States to be awarded for the 2024-2025 academic year. Preston intends to spend the year in Germany living with a host family, attending a German high school, and participating in language learning and cultural immersion training to gain a better understanding of German culture, language, and everyday life.
Hiawatha third graders helped plant a native Swamp Oak in celebration of Arbor Day. The tree was granted to the school through the UVM Extension Greening Schools Program. The Essex Tree Committee assisted in showing the students how to plant, mulch, and water.
Thomas Fleming School invited rising 4th grade students from Hiawatha and Summit to join their PBIS celebration. Fleming students demonstrated their Dance-Off routines, and played the ukulele and school Jeopardy!
Two physical education classes at EHS participated in Green Up Day to help clean up trash in Essex!
The EHS Academy of Visual and Performing Arts students hosted their annual showcase, which included performances and an art exhibit for all to enjoy!
EHS senior, Connor Nick, plans to start an apprenticeship in the fall, aiming to become an electrician and possibly an entrepreneur in the future.
š Do you have a senior graduating this year? We want to celebrate them! Share a photo of your senior with communications@ewsd.org.
EMS hosted a tree planting and mulching ceremony to commemorate Arbor Day. The Essex Conservation and Trails Committee, along with Full Circle Gardens planted the Hop Hornbeam tree in front of EMS by the sidewalks. The science teachers put together a list of students from each team to represent the student body, who participated in the ceremony by mulching/watering the tree.
EHS student, Anthony Matas, was named winner of the 2024 Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. This award recognizes and celebrates the nation's most outstanding high school senior male wrestlers for their experience in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship, and community service.