bobcat Bulletin 9/27/19

School News:

Ms. Hopper and Mrs. Puffer's 5/6 classes had an amazing opportunity to participate in a livestream presentation by a WWF conservation biologist in the Northern Great Plains.  Kristy Bly, who happens to be RaeAnne Lacroix's sister, works with black-footed ferrets who are an endangered species.  Students learned more about the black-footed ferrets, why they are endangered, and what we can do to save them.  

Notes from the Health Office

•  Ticks and Lyme Disease

Please check out the beautiful new food service website: food.huusd.org
You can see menus, pay for lunches on the efunds website, apply for free and reduced lunch all in the same place.  Use these links (underlined and blue) to get there.


A reminder: Open House is next Thursday October 3, for preK-6th grades at MES.  Please join us for the Spaghetti dinner between 5:00-6:00 and fill your bellies before you visit the classrooms :)  The suggested donation is $6 per person or $25 per family.  It is a fundraiser for our 6th grade trip at the end of the year.

PTO

Mark your Calendars! October 4th is our first COFFEE CONNECTION of the year! Coffee connection is a time for adults to grab a FREE cup of coffee and a danish and chat with others prior to starting your day. We will start serving coffee around 715 AM and will be around until 8 AM. Bring your mug and see you there!

Community News

For Students and families:

Come be a part of the holiday magic of Vermont’s longest running Nutcracker performance with Albany Berkshire Ballet. Student Dancer Auditions will be held:

Burlington, VT - September 29, 2019
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts – Flynn Space

10:00 am Ages 4-5
10:30 am Ages 6-8
11:30 am Ages 9-11
1:00 pm Ages 12 and up

Audition fee of $20

Shows will help kick off the holiday season Thanksgiving weekend November 30 & December 1, 2019. Children are generally in one show. For more information contact Lori Preiss at abbvermontnutcracker@gmail.com.

The super popular ice hockey program CHICKS WITH STIX is back this winter!!  Lots of fun for 7-12 year old girls wanting to learn and play ice hockey.  Mondays at Stowe Arena 5-6pm November through February for only $120! Please see the Registration Form in the Green Letter attachments.  Call or email with questions - Clea 802-324-2724, bareau@hotmail.com.

The Mad River Valley and Waterbury Rotary Clubs and Harwood Union’s Interact Club are collaborating to produce this event, which will be held at noon on Saturday, October 19th at Harwood Union High School. We’re hoping to sign up 100 community members to volunteer for two hours to package 20,000 rice-based meals. The meals will be distributed to school feeding programs, most likely in Africa, via our partner, Rise Against Hunger. If you would like to volunteer go to www.mrvrotary.org.

School Board

Subject:  HUUSD Board Meeting Recap 9/25

Dear members of our six town community,

First - upcoming events:

• Community engagement and conversation around PreK-12 redesign. We invite you to join us for a presentation about the change models being considered and then share your thoughts in small group conversations led by school board members.  Please contact Torrey at tcsmith@huusd.org if you would like to use the childcare available at the events.
• Tuesday, October 1st, 7-9pm at Harwood Union
• Monday, October 7th, 7-9pm at Crossett Brook
• Please also visit https://huusd.org/prek-12-bond-plan to complete a brief survey on how the board should approach its decision on our PreK - 12 plan

At our last meeting on September 25, 2019, the Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) Board heard a presentation on possible change models for the district’s PreK - 12 configuration.

The board took action on the four (3) items below (listed in order of the time in the meeting when the vote occurred):

1. Adopted: A motion to direct administration to add modeling option D(c) in time for the first community meeting on October 1

2. Approved: HUUSD board protocols 

3. Approved the following items as part of the consent agenda:  Approved: Minutes of 9/11/19; Accepted: Vouchers 1065, 1066, and 1067 equaling $640,842.63; Approved: Out of state field trips; Approved: Bid for Harwood Auditorium HVAC Replacement from VHV in the amount of $284,923.10 funded from the Maintenance Reserve Fund; Accepted: Final Vision Process Report

Our next meeting is Wednesday, October 16th at 6:00 pm in the Harwood Union School library. 

Please visit https://huusd.org/huusd-board to confirm time and place of meetings. You’ll also find all board and committee agendas, packets and minutes, and the link to board meeting videos. The direct link to watch this and other recent meetings is: https://mrvtv.com/category/school-board-meetings/. An archive of older meetings can be found here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Harwood+Unified+Union+School+Board&sort=-date 

Thank you for your continued support and engagement.

Respectfully,

The HUUSD Board