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OCSU is proud to announce the dates for it's upcoming summer program! Please check out our flyer for more details.
Registration packets will be available by April 18th.
A reminder to report any potential threatening behavior. To place a report, use one of the following ways:
• Contact your school prinicipal or the superintendent of schools (1-802-525-1204)
• Use our dedicated hotline:
• Email the team at: crisis@ocsu.org
• Use our dedicated crisis form
To learn more about behavioral threat assessment in OCSU, please visit this website
Spring Sports registration is now OPEN to all 7th & 8th grade students. Visit https://www.ocsu.org/page/ems-athletics to sign up!
ANNUAL MEETING--Lake Region Union Elementary-Middle School District: March 10, 2025; 7:00 pm; at Lake Region: Annual Report can be found here https://5il.co/375id
Jam for the Dam - Winter Variety Show
Orleans, VT - on Friday, February 21st, 7:00 PM at the Orleans Municipal Building, the Lake Region Music Department will present their annual variety show. This year proceeds will benefit the Shadow Lake Dam fund. Students and community members will present a fun-filled and dynamic show featuring rock, folk and blues classics and original songs. The concert will include music by Rodgers & Hart, Sam Cooke, Metallica, Trombone Shorty, The Temptations, Neil Young, Adele, Goodbye June, and traditional ballads and songs. Under the direction of Sara Doncaster and Christopher Doncaster, many of the songs were selected by LR vocalists and instrumentalists. Admission is $10, $5 students/seniors. For further information please contact Theresa Perron at theresa@townofglover.com or Sara Doncaster at (802) 754-2500 x219 or sdoncaster@ocsu.org
The July floods of 2023 and 2024 took a toll on the over 200-year-old dam. The Town of Glover has undertaken a project to bring the dam into compliance by subsidizing the cost. This concert is a way to raise awareness of this important issue and to raise funds for the cost of the repair.
Tonight's board meetings for LRUHSD and LRUEMSD will be held virtually due to the weather.
Carousel (both boards together) 6:00 pm: meet.google.com/ixy-kccp-qyq. LRUHS 7:00pm: meet.google.com/tyb-xhsw-thq; LRUEMSD 7:00 pm: meet.google.com/equ-ffwv-dqd.
Reminder to OCSU Parents, Community Members, Faculty and Staff The OCSU Superintendent Search Committee has invited three candidates to visit our school community and participate in a second round of interviews with the Committee and School Board on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The Committee invites parents, members of the community, faculty and staff to meet each candidate in 30 minute sessions between 4:30 and 6:00 pm in the Lake Region Cafeteria. Your participation and input is important to this process. Sincerely, David Blodgett & Neil Urie OCSU Superintendent Search Committee Co-Chairs
Dear OCSU Parents, Community Members, Faculty and Staff
The OCSU Superintendent Search Committee has invited three candidates to visit our school community and participate in a second round of interviews with the Committee and School Board on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The Committee invites parents, members of the community, faculty and staff to meet each candidate in 30 minute sessions between 4:30 and 6:00 pm in the Lake Region Cafeteria. Your participation and input is important to this process.
Sincerely,
David Blodgett & Neil Urie
OCSU Superintendent Search Committee Co-Chairs
ATTENTION SENIORS!! The LR Local Scholarship packets are due no later than Feb. 14th!! Bring your completed packet to the School Counseling office by Feb. 14th !!
Congratulations, LR Musicians for your leadership in our food drive! We made cash donations to Northeast Kingdom Organizing ($200) and the Orleans Community Food Shelf ($150), and delivered 168 food items to the Barton Food Pantry, United Church of Newport Food Shelf, and St. Mark's Church Food Shelf. Non - perishable food items and toiletries were collected at our concert on January 5th and during our school-wide drive. Thank you to all students and teachers who supported this effort. Pictured is Audrey Grant, Northeast Kingdom Organizing Operations Director. NEKO is doing great work in bringing our Northeast Kingdom communities together. For more information, please visit their web site at https://nekorganizing.org/
Newport, VT - On Sunday, January 5th, at 2 PM at the United Church of Newport, the Lake Region UHS music department presents our first annual Midwinter Solo & Ensemble Concert. Singers and instrumentalists will be presenting classical solo and chamber music, and festive songs of the season. Repertoire includes music by Hindemith, Weber, Rieding, Tchaikovsky, Kern, Betinis, traditional and modern carols, and more. The Jazz Ensemble, Chorus and Select Chorus will be performing.
Admission is free, but donations or non-perishable food items will be gratefully accepted to benefit the NEKO Barton/Orleans Food Bank and the United Church Food Shelf. For further information, please contact Sara Doncaster at sdoncaster@ocsu.org or call (802) 754-2500 x219
VREC Echo Winter Edition: https://mailchi.mp/d1a3ee625aed/vrec-the-echo-issue-10-winter-6414292
Good evening,
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving break!
Since we've adopted a new grading a reporting system this year, report cards will look different than they have in the past. Therefore, before report cards are sent home to EMS families later this week, we wanted to provide some resources that may help you navigate the new report. The report is called a "Student Learning Snapshot" because it is meant to give you a "snapshot" of how your student is doing at this moment in time. As the year progresses, students will continue to learn and grow. Please remember that you can login and check on your student's progress on individual assignments at any time by visiting the SmartScore Family website (www.smartedsystems.com).
For now, you are welcome to review the "Student Learning Snapshot Cheat Sheet" (https://bit.ly/slscheatsheet) for a quick overview of the information included in the report card. A more detailed and in-depth overview is provided in the walkthrough video that is linked here (https://youtu.be/YvQZAMxKpdo).
As always, our goal is to make these report cards as valuable and informative as possible for you and your student. Please reach out to your student's teacher, principal, or the Curriculum & Instruction office if you have any questions or if you need additional support. Thank you!
Erica Harryman, Director of Instruction
Kyle Chadburn, Access & Opportunities Coordinator
8th grade science curriculum is physics and engineering. The 8th grade students were working with Art Laplante to design, build and market small projects such as a small table and bird house / bird feeder. The items will be raffled off to the community as part of the 8th grade trip fundraisers. All of Art's time and materials are being donated by Art (EM Brown's). Thank you for Art and E.M. Brown & Son for your time and generosity! More information coming soon regarding this fundraiser!
Echo Museum's traveling STEM program visited Barton in October for our PBIS celebration. Students and staff enjoyed exploring the various science, technology, engineering and math activities.
"Science is great for kids!" Barton Kindergarten Student
For more information about STEM in Motion or Echo Museum visit: https://www.echovermont.org/
Opening for Lake Region Union Elementary-Middle School Board Member from Glover The LRUEMSD board is currently seeking someone to fill a vacant spot on the school board. Candidate would need to be a resident of Glover. The school board meets every other Monday at 6:00 pm. If you are interested, please contact Lisa Worden, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent at lworden@ocsu.org or 525-1204 ext. 134.
As a follow up to a the Memphremagog Watershed Youth Discovery Program, Barton and Orleans students were invited to visit the Northern Star Ship. This trip was sponsored by the Memphremagog Watershed Association.
This floating classroom is a unique chance for our students to discover Lake Memphremagog watershed science with hands-on water quality monitoring on board the research vessel, The North Star.
PROGRAM GOALS:
1. Students will strengthen their relationship with our local watershed through hands-on, place-based activities and personal reflection.
2. Students will participate in outdoor activities that strengthen their connection to near by nature.
3. Students will take meaningful action to protect their local watershed.
Students used their knowledge gained on shore to be scientists monitoring the health of the Lake. Students made predictions of the health of the Lake and then tested their theories by data collection, such as, weather conditions; water clarity; benthic samples; and oxygen tests. While on board students also got a closer look at the geology of the area and discussed some of the stressors and challenges to the lake including phosphorus, invasive species, and historical use.
Orleans PTCA is having a Prize Bingo Night! Join them for a night of fun and winnings! There will be concessions.
Ms. Corkins brought Barton's 4th and 5th grade class on a walking field trip to Greater Barton Arts (GBA). Students toured the studio, explored the exhibition of local artist Larry Golden and did an art activity creating fall cards. For more information about GBA or to sign up for art classes, visit: https://greaterbartonarts.com/
