Barton School Community Club and 8th Grade is holding a Trunk or Treat on Halloween. Reach out to Danielle if you'd like to have a trunk!
LRUHS Business & Operations Committee meetings to discuss budgets for 2025-2026: 10/23 6:00pm; 11/4 5:00pm; 11/13 6:00pm; 12/2 5:00pm. All meetings take place at Lake Region.
The Vermont Agency of Education announced in a recent press release the next phase of the 2024 Listen and Learn Tour and invites the public to participate in community conversations to inform how the Agency delivers services and supports to Vermont’s education system.
These public engagement sessions will help the Agency develop its strategic plan and ensure that its work is supporting the educational priorities of communities across Vermont. Following a series of data reports and regional planning sessions with more than 250 education leaders, the Agency is eager to expand these conversations to include educators, parents, students, and community members across the state. The Agency encourages broad participation and welcomes input from all Vermonters, including students, families, and community partners - students are integral to these conversations and are encouraged to attend.
Middle School Basketball is now open to 6th grade!
Register now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCx-hi0ufEJJvJK9XBq1ykeu51E_1kPeVWHnPo5n_QSJpE7g/viewform
Good afternoon,
Last week we reached out to you to let you know that we will be using a new grading and reporting system this year in our EMS schools called "SmartScore." Now that you've had some time to review the information we provided and register for your parent/guardian account in SmartScore, we wanted to follow up with some additional resources to help you navigate the SmartScore system.
Two walkthrough videos are available at the link below. These videos show you how to interpret the scores you'll see on your student's learning snapshot, how to look at feedback from each of your student's courses, and how to view specific feedback on individual assignments. In addition, the informational handouts we sent previously are available on this webpage as well.
https://www.ocsu.org/page/grading-reporting-resources
As always, please reach out if you have any questions or if you need additional help. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and support as we transition to this new tool.
Erica Harryman, OCSU Director of Instruction
Kyle Chadburn, OCSU Access & Opportunities Coordinator
This year the Lake Region Union High School Girls Soccer program is partnering with the American Cancer Society to raise over $2,500 to support our community-members in Vermont battling cancer. The money they raise will be going to support the Hope Lodge in Burlington. Established in 1983, Hope Lodge is a program that provides a free home away from home for cancer patients and their caregivers, and currently maintains 17 guest rooms located near cancer centers in Vermont.
They are asking that every member of our community donate $1 next week to their campaign. Barton will have a collection jar in the office if anyone in the community wishes to stop and make a donation in person or donations can be made online: https://secure.acsevents.org/site/STR?fr_id=109161&pg=team&team_id=2765051
According to the National Cancer Institute, roughly two million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and 40% of Vermonters will develop cancer in their lifetime. Let's work together to help make this battle a little easier for our neighbors.
Thanks for your consideration,
-Mary Farnsworth and LRUHS Girls Soccer Program
We want to extend a HUGE thank you to the Orleans Fire Department and Justin Peart for visiting Barton Graded on October 8th during Fire Prevention month to review fire prevention strategies, what to do if you experience a fire in your home and how the department helps the community! They also had the opportunity to learn about the fire truck and see the inside. In November, our middle school students will be visiting the Orleans Ambulance Bay and Fire Department.
For more information about fire safety, visit: https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/home-fire-safety
Butler's Bus Service—OCSU Drivers Needed/New Sign on Bonus
Coach Stephanie Merchant will be holding open gym for all middle school students on Mondays from 5-6:30 beginning October 21st. All students must have a permission slip on file to participate. Participation is a privilege and could be impacted by student behaviors.
First graders have been busy!
Good afternoon,
In an effort to improve our schools' communication with students and their caregivers, the EMS district schools have adopted a new grading and reporting system called SmartScore. This system has many helpful tools and features that will hopefully make feedback more clear, accurate, and helpful for students. We hope that it will also make students' growth and progress easier for families to see and understand as well. Please review the attached document that provides an overview of the new system and provides you with login information so you can sign in and see how your student is doing. Teachers are working on putting student work into the new system right now, so please be patient as the transition takes place and we get everything up and running.
Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions you might have. Thank you for your support of our schools!
Erica Harryman
Director of Instruction
Kyle Chadburn
Access & Opportunities Coordinator
Basketball registration is OPEN! All 7th & 8th grade students wishing to play on our OCSU middle school basketball teams must register to play. Please use this registration link to sign up: https://forms.gle/j6rnyajkBkCpvj5KA
We are thrilled to present our Tigers of the Month who were recognized last week in front of their peers at a whole school assembly for showing consistent CUBS behaviors (Caring, Understanding, Brave and Safe) during the month of September. At the assembly, we also celebrated students with birthdays in August and September and debuted our school song, an adaptation of Eye of the Tiger, sung by several of our middle school students. We look forward to our next assembly at the end of this month.
OCSU Employment Opportunities: OCSU is currently looking for a staff accountant, Spanish teacher, Health Office Staff and others. Check out the full listing here: https://orleanscentralvt.sites.thrillshare.com/page/employment-opportunities
What better way to support your local small business that to visit a vendor fair on National Small Business Saturday? If you are a vendor who would like to table at our event, please reach out to Sierra Martin at smartin@ocsu.org or call Barton Graded 525-3636.
🍪Cookie Dough Fundraiser🍪 Orders due Oct 2
Profits from this fundraiser support our student activity funds. These funds pay for field trips, special events, guest speakers, performances, PBIS celebrations and other student activities.
See information regarding the upcoming LRUEMSD board meeting.
Join us for our first Barton School Community Club meeting of the 2024-2025 school year!
