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Emily Thomas' first grade class showing their appreciation to the
parent volunteers that they had in their classroom all year

Barre Supervisory Union Art Show

The Barre Supervisory Union Art Show, now in its third year, celebrates the talent of area students in grades kindergarten through twelve. It brings children's art to the community, making it accessible to people who might not otherwise have a chance to share and enjoy the artistic accomplishments of our students.

The show runs from February 16th through March 31st. Work will be displayed in the Aldrich Public Library’s Milne Room as well as on Main Street at Barre Books, Bob’s Camera and Video, Chittenden Bank, El Sol, Local Agricultural Community Exchange, Nelson’s Ace Hardware, No. 9 Boutique, and Studio Place Arts.

Join us for an opening reception at the Aldrich Public Library, Tuesday, February 16th, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. In case of inclement weather, call the Aldrich Public Library at 476-7550. A snow date is scheduled for Thursday, February 18th.

Please contact Anne Leeds, 476-6617, ext. 210; aleedbte@u61.net or
Jennifer Skinder, 476-6617, ext. 212; jskinbte@u61.net
 

Science in the News

Congratulations to Kieran Verret, 5th grade student at Barre Town, who is a national semi-finalist in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is our nation’s premier science competition for middle school students. Any student in grades 5 through 8 can enter the challenge. One student from each state was selected this past summer based on their science communication skills exhibited in a two-minute video about a specific scientific concept that relates to innovative solutions for everyday life. Of these students, one is chosen as the Top Young Scientist.

Student receives award. Principal congratulates student receiving award.

5th Grade student Kieran Verret.

Mr. Crowley congratulated
Award Winner Kieran Verret.

12/09

For his video, Kieran explained how hanging a curtain across any set of household stairs in the winter can conserve heat and lower heating bills. All video entries were evaluated by a panel of judges and assessed on creativity, persuasiveness, classroom suitability and overall presentation.

Although Kieran was not chosen as the Top Young Scientist, he is the youngest semifinalist selected in the past two years. He received a cash award as well as a certificate for his accomplishment. When asked about his experience, Kieran says he loved the learning experience and is very proud of his work. Kieran’s award can be seen in the display cases in the main lobby at Barre Town School.

For more information about the challenge, visit http://www.youngscientistchallenge.com/ or contact Shannon Lessley, Science Curriculum Specialist at slessbsu@u61.net

Barre Town's own 2009 Green Up poster contest winners!

This year in art class, Barre Town students created more than four hundred posters that were submitted to the Green Up committee for its annual, state-wide, poster contest. We were thrilled to have three finalists chosen from our school. Emilee DeLong, Rachel Maurice, and Kristen Desorda received a certificate of recognition along with a hearty congratulations from Governor Douglas at the annual Green Up awards dinner in Montpelier. We are very proud of their artistic achievement!

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Kristen Emilee Rachel

Update on Our Composting Effort

It has been some time since the last update on the success of our school in diverting dining room (and lunch-sack waste) from the landfill to the compost farm. The program continues and with wonderful results as follows:

June 2006 (our first partial year) = 3,080 lbs. or 1.54 tons
June 2007 = 34,100 lbs. or 17.05 tons
June 2008 = 28,930 lbs. or 14.47 tons
February 2009 = 16,720 lbs. or 8.36 tons

Our total to date: 82,830 lbs. or 41.42 tons.  So, we have taken many steps to improve our relationship with the planet. General recycling, our butterfly garden, our woodchip plant, our school vegetable garden, our juice pouch conversions, and our 41+ tons of composting effort are all aimed to teach our students/ your children that we do have, and must be protective of, our relationship with the earth..

Ted Riggen

The Barre Supervisory Union Art Show
Tuesday, February 17 through Tuesday, March 31, 2009

This celebratory exhibit showcases the creative talent of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Works exploring a diversity of media and artistic concepts will be shown. Elementary students, for example, used simple shapes to create complex images in a project titled, “Eric Carle-Inspired Collage.” Middle school students created “Calligraphy” while learning about Japanese culture. And, high school students explored proportion and scale of the human face in “Self-Portraits.” These are just a few examples of the many projects on display all aimed at cultivating the creativity of Barre student artists.

The bulk of the exhibit will hang at the Aldrich Public Library. The remainder of the artwork will be displayed in the store fronts of Barre’s Main Street merchants: Banknorth, Bob’s Camera and Video, Chittenden Bank, El Sol, Jerome the Florist, Local Agricultural Community Exchange, Nelson’s Ace Hardware, No. 9 Boutique, and Studio Place Arts. The public is invited to join the aspiring young artists for an opening reception Tuesday, February 17 in the Milne Community Room at Aldrich Public Library from 6:00-7:30 p.m. (snow date: Thursday, February 19). For more information, contact Anne Leeds, Barre Town Middle & Elementary School, 476-6617, ext. 210.

Two students showing their artwork.

 

Hannah Fuller and Cort Ballard, 4th grade students at Barre City Elementary & Middle School, proudly show their batiks, which are on display in the Barre Supervisory Union Art Show.

 

More photos from the art show...

 

 

Student artists and their parents enjoy the opening reception.

 

Carmen Mears, Calligraphy Journals, grade 8, Barre City. 

 

Codie & Cameron Lawson, grade 11 & 10, Spaulding High School

Stuart Parry, grade 1, with his Eric Carle-inspired collage.

 

Shelby Santor, VT Landscape Marker Print, grade 5, Barre Town.

 

A target sculpture by Codie and Cameron Lawson, grades 11 & 10, Spaulding High School.

 



Remembering
Christopher Rogers

A memorial was held in the memory of Christopher Rogers on October 17, 2008.

Third grade students, parents, teachers, and PTO members gathered with members of Chris' family to plant a maple tree and lay a granite plaque. Phyllis Wiggins served as master of ceremonies.

Special thanks to Boulevard Gardens and Joe's Custom Memorial for their generous donations. Visitors will find the memorial at the entrance to the bike path behind the baseball field.

In the fall of 2006, Barre Town Middle & Elementary School initiated what we hope will be a very effective composting program. Each year to date, we have sent an estimated 38 - 46 tons of refuse from our lunch program to the landfill! The school administration and staff along with Rick Young and his staff from the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District have visited other schools that are currently composting waste from their lunch programs, and we were eager to have at it with a similar program of our own.

So, in September, Rick and staff trained all the students, classroom by classroom, about the plan. Abbey group got ready. (Note: Abbey group piloted composting by collecting just the kitchen waste beginning about April 9. At the time of our board meeting in early May, they had collected 1,420 pounds of compost from just the kitchen)

Rick set us up with two cute little green wagons that haul the containers from the dining room to the collection bins just outside the doors on the dining room facing the driveway.

Within a few days of the beginning of school we had the students trained and all “reved up” and ready to go..

Our goal, as expressed to the board, was to collect 40,000 of compost material during the current school year.

As of June 1, 2007, our school has collected 38,370 pounds of compost from our lunch program. This also included a growing amount of material from “snack time” in the classrooms.

 

  

Solid Waste Management has told us that our compost is the most free of any foreign (uncompostable) matter that organization collects, which speaks volumes about the care our students and teachers are taking to “do it right.”

Things are going so well that on Tuesday, October 24, Abbey Group introduced the use of real silverware, which we discontinued the use of some five years ago in favor of (awful) plastic knives, fork, and spoons. We are keeping a close watch on both the compost and the refuse to see how well we are all following the rules and not throw away any of these metal items. (There is a study underway to do an actual count of the silverware after a month or so. Stay tuned!!)

So along with the new silverware, clean compost, and some dozen wonderful students who are volunteering to help the youngest students into the swing of things, things are going so well, that we have another new feature in the dining room. Thanks to the PTO and the encouragement of staff -- including Terrie Salvador, Maureen Jones, and others -- we have a bright, shiny, new Yacker Tracker (and I swear that’s the name) in place to help monitor the noise during lunch. Of course we are collecting before- and after-implementation data on this, as well – which we will fill you in on.

A true story: The kindergarten children are much quieter (so far) than they were prior to the composting, silverware, and Yacker Tracker, because they are mesmerized by watching the green and yellow (and, infrequently,) red light of this noise-sensitive instrument!!

You’ve just gotta’ see this whole operation!! Will we actually meet the 40,000-pound goal? We’ll see. Ted