Fine Arts Night

Greetings family and friends of MVSU Performing & Visual Arts Students!

We hope this message finds you well. Preparations are well underway for our first annual Fine Arts Night celebration, held at the Woodstock Union High School & Middle School on Thursday, April 3rd. We are excited to be inviting artists, actors, and musicians from all of the Mountain Views Supervisory Union. With over 650 students participating, it is sure to be an exciting event! The purpose of this letter is to provide you with logistical information regarding both the daytime rehearsals and nighttime event.

DAYTIME REHEARSAL - Musicians only

All music students will report to their school. Students not on the WUHSMS campus will then travel via school bus and return after lunch at WUHSMS. Students should bring a bag lunch for the day. 

Rehearsals will begin at 9:10 am in the WUHSMS large gym and end at 11 am. Following rehearsals all students will eat together. Students will leave WUHSMS at 11:30 pm.

EVENING EVENT

Art Galleries - Open 5:30 pm - 8 pm with works visible throughout the school

Performance - 6:30 pm

Call time for the performance will be 6:15 pm sharp. Musicians will report to the gym (each school will have a designated area) to drop off personal belongings and to get any materials needed for the performance. Concert dress will be the Fine Arts t-shirt they will create during the morning rehearsal.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

We would love to have light refreshments as part of this immersive experience (a la a gallery opening). We are also looking for assistance with setting up and tearing down. If you are willing and able please indicate your capacity to do so by completing this Volunteer Form.

ARRIVAL & PARKING

We expect this event to be well attended. Please consider additional time for parking in your travel plans.

Art galleries will be open for all to enjoy beginning at 5:30 pm. 

High school music students will be in the lobby of the main entrance directing musicians to their respective locations upon arrival. Families can help facilitate the flow of traffic by reporting to the large gym and finding a seat to enjoy the concert. 

We hope this information proves to be helpful as we make our final preparations for Thursday, April 3rd. Please feel free to contact your fine arts educator with any additional questions you may have. We look forward to seeing you soon!

All our best,

MVSU Fine Arts Educators

Library News!

In this week's From the Library Newsletter, learn about the next Young Adult Diverse Books Book Club's next book titled All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, discover the Middle School Book Club book titled When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman and get ready for the next Faculty/Staff Book Club by reading The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Please click here for more information and photos.

Please remember to return your overdue books, renew the books you need more time to read and pick out your new winter reads!

8th grade investigates WWII

The 8th grade American Studies class is currently studying WWII from the point of view of different factions and nationalities, looking at both heroes and villains. WWII was a major transformative event in world history and it helped launch the United States into its role as one of the world’s military superpowers. Here students are organizing images from the National WWII Museum into chronological order.

As a resource to help them identify and explain some of the images, they were able to refer to the 7 interpretive panels of the traveling WWII exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute that is temporarily set up in our library. 

New Private Music Lesson Program @ WUHSMS

We are excited to let you know about an exciting new opportunity at WUHSMS, private music lessons! This program offers music instruction from highly skilled professional musicians within the school day. Additionally, through the generous support of a private donor, we are offering these lessons to any interested student, regardless of financial situation. To find out more information about this program and to sign up please go to the Private Lesson Program page on our new and developing WUHSMS Music website.

Please feel free to contact Mr. Pauly at joshua.pauly@mtnviews.org with any questions you may have. 

LIBRARY NEWS - Ken Cadow, Author of Gather, visits WUHSMS

On Friday, December 6, Ken Cadow, author of Gather, visited WUHSMS thanks to Vermont Humanities! In addition to being a National Book Award Finalist last year, Gather is the Vermont Reads books for 2024 and hundreds of our students have read it. Ken Cadow's author talk was for most the culminating activity of their study of Ian's life in Vermont with his dog named Gather. The themes in this coming of age story really resonated with our students and they had the opportunity to ask their questions of the author. Nine student panelists sat on stage with the author and they asked questions students in grades 9-12 wrote in their English classes.

To read more about the event and see photos, please click here for the From the Library newsletter.

Nine student panelists sat on stage with the author and they asked questions students in grades 9-12 wrote in their English classes.

Two students meet Baxter the therapy dog