Please join us this Thursday, February 22nd, at the Castleton Free Library for some coffee and conversation! Discuss the FY25 budget with administration and school board members. Children are welcome, supervision and creative activities will be available while adults meets. This event begins at noon. We hope to see you there!
Rutland Herald District Spotlight: February 16, 2024
Kindergarten students have been learning to write complete sentences with spaces between words, proper punctuation, and capitalization of first letters in sentences, names, people and places. They also have been working on letter formation. Students then read their best pieces of writing and explained why they used the punctuation and capitalization as they did.
Notice: The Fair Haven Playground will be CLOSED During Break (February 19 - 23) Due to Tree Cutting.
Mark your calendars! On February 28th, Join Director of Curriculum, Casey O'Meara, for a conversation about teaching and learning in Slate Valley Schools. 5:30 PM in the Fair Haven Union Middle & High School Library. If you can't come in person, join virtually by going to: meet.google.com/twg-ybvt-kx
Kindergarten literacy night for parents and students was a great success. Everyone had a good time and went home with new ideas to help their children.
What a fantastic assembly we had today! NED'S Mindset Mission visited FHGS and talked about having a growth mindset. We learned what the letters of NED'S name stands for, got to watch some great yo-yo tricks, and even a little magic!
Tonight - February 12, 2024
You’re invited to the Slate Valley Unified Union School District Board Meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Fair Haven Union Middle & High School Library. This meeting will be in person. You can virtually connect by going to: Video call link :https://meet.google.com/wtt-nrju-nit
Or dial: (US) +1 415-900-4570 PIN: 927 937 757#
This is definitely a highlight of the week! Thank you, Caring Canines! Our students love reading to you!
This week in Pre-K, parents and guardians joined their students for some fun Dr. Seuss activities. Stations included pin the Hat on the Cat, Fishing for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, creating beaded Truffula Trees, and finger painting Thing 1 or Thing 2. It was a great time!
On Wednesday, February 7th, Superintendent, Ms. Olsen-Farrell and Director of Curriculum, Mr. O'Meara, enjoyed conversation over lunch with members of the FHGS Student Voice. The students shared that school day favorites included recess, math, science and dismissal. They also gave Ms. Olsen-Farrell and Mr. O'Meara a tour of their school store. Their list of improvements were:
-to provide Vegetarian options at lunch
-Snacks should be free, but just 1 a day
-They shouldn’t use Lexia
-They really needed to stock up on stress balls in the school store!
What do you do on the 100th day of school? You make yourself 100 years old and wear Day 100 crowns!
This week the 5th graders worked on new vocabulary words with Kindergarteners . They had fun with this activity!
This week we celebrate both school counselors and our school-based clinicians for all they do. Slate Valley greatly appreciates their dedication, compassion, and hard work.
Thank you!
Exciting News!!! NED's Mindset Mission is coming to our school on Monday, February 12th. NED stands for "Never Give Up", "Encourage Others", and "Do Your Best". YoYos will be used by the performers as a way to share their message. We will have YoYos available for purchase next week. The money earned from the sale of YoYos will allow an additional school to host a NED performance at no-cost, just as we are at FHGS. Look for information about YoYos going home with students.
It's Vermont School Board Recognition Month! Thank you to our SVUUSD Board for their dedicated service and commitment to our educational system.
This past weekend, Castleton Elementary School's Assistant Principal, Bonnie Lenihan along with Linda Corliss, an Instructional Assistant also from CES, presented at the VPA Winter Symposium, in Woodstock, VT. They proudly shared information about our district's Instructional Assistant Mentoring Program. Wonderful job ladies, we thank you!
REMINDER TONIGHT! If you were not able to attend one of the in-person events, or did and still have questions concerning the FY25 Budget, please join us for the last of our Budget Forums tonight (February 5) at 6:30 PM. This forum is ONLINE ONLY. The virtual session link is:
https://meet.google.com/qpd-gxdf-ody
Or dial: (US) +1 559-856-2317 PIN: 113 535 185#
Other information links:
Slate Valley FY25 Budget Presentation: https://5il.co/2e2qf
2023-24 Slate Valley Annual Report & FY25 Proposed Budget: https://5il.co/2da4p
Available to every student, every morning!
