School news
Come support Woodstock student artists!
The Art Department would like to congratulate several WUHS artists for having their work represented at the AVA Gallery in the upcoming 16th Annual High School Exhibition, with works of art created by regional high school students nominated for participation by their art teachers. The exhibition will be featured in the AVA’s galleries from January 19 - February 10, 2024.
A festive award celebration will occur during the opening reception on Friday, January 19, 5-7PM, awards presentation at 6 PM.
For sixteen years now, AVA has been contacting regional Vermont and New Hampshire public, private, and vocational high schools, encouraging the art faculty to nominate works by students who show exceptional promise in various creative disciplines. The show and the ceremony are open to the public—the artwork is always INSPIRING and AWESOME!
The students whose artwork represents our school include: Delia Morgan, Kamron Yuengling, Skye Cully, Lindsay Bacon, Joe Tsouknakis, Charlotte Nunan, Kuba Marzec, Allie Tarleton, Rue Stahl, and Kiara Nestler.
Tori McNamara receives Congressional nominations for the US Air Force Academy
Tori McNamara has received three Congressional nominations for the US Air Force Academy (from Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch and Becca Balint). She recently attended a reception at the VT State House to honor the students who received nominations to attend US Service Academies. Before the ceremony, there was a roundtable discussion where the nominees discussed what motivated them.
Congratulations, Tori!
Ottauquechee Chapter of the National Honor Society
Eighteen new members were inducted into the Ottauquechee Chapter of the National Honor Society. These juniors and seniors have been selected for their commitment to the four pillars of NHS: Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character. They will serve as peers tutors and complete 30 hours of community service annually to make their community a better place.
Please congratulate: Reid Allegretti, Izzy Cellini, Owen Courcey, Lucy Drebitko, Graham Fox, Olivia Grasso, Levi Halley, Aidan Keough-Villa, Lily Macri, Luca Morris, Myra McNaughton, Caedon Perrault, Aubrey Seman, Joey Sluka, Jane Stout, Elizabeth Tindall, James Underwood, and Quinn Uva.
Spanish Students Visit Orozco Mural at Dartmouth
On Thursday, November 30th, the combined classes of Maestra Megysi’s Advanced Topics In Spanish and Maestra O’Connell’s Spanish II traveled to Dartmouth to enjoy a private tour of the famous mural painted by Jose Clemente Orozco.
Upon arrival at the Baker-Eddy Library at Dartmouth College, students were immediately assigned a tour guide with extensive knowledge and a great passion for introducing visitors to this phenomenal work of art.
It’s an astounding effort on the part of Orozco, these mural panels, which are a pictorial representation of myths, history, social justice as well as the making of the modern world, just to name a few of the themes. The two guides were skilled in helping students arrive at their own interpretations of the different panels of the mural. The tour guides then took these interpretations and added to them what others thought Orozco was aiming to depict in his work.
As a concluding statement, the work calls into question the definition of “American,” and how we in the United States sometimes narrowly define who is an “American,” and just where “America '' is, geographically speaking. It was clearly evident from the level of engagement on the part of the students that the excursion had a great deal of meaning for them.
9th Grade Food Justice Project
The 9th graders have recently been learning about the complexity of food insecurity in the US and its direct influence on personal and community wellness. On November 28th and 29th, students took a trip to the White River Co-Op to grocery shop and purchase a week's worth of food on the 3SquaresVT budget ($72.75).
Students then donated their groceries and received a tour of The Upper Valley Haven. On the day students were not grocery shopping, they were making Soup and baking bread to donate to the Thompson Senior Center. In all, we donated 380 pounds of food to the shelter, made 25 quarts of butternut squash soup, and roughly 50 loaves of bread!