WUHS Social Action Club: Race and Rally Against Racism

Members of the WUHS Social Action Club collaborated with the Montpelier High School throughout the year to help coordinate and sponsor an event: The Rally and Race Against Racism. In its 5th year, this state-wide annual anti-racist event, organized by youth from several Vermont high schools took place on Sunday, May 7th. The public rally, curated with a spectacular list of notable speakers, live music, and performances was attended by youth from around the state as well as members of the general public. Profits from the 2023 Race Against Racism will be donated to two, Vermont, non-profit organizations: Vermont Releaf Collective and Building Fearless Futures.

In addition to helping with the event, Woodstock was also proud to feature one of our very own at the event. Eighth-grader Tegan Miller, a talented musician, singer and songwriter, performed a song that she wrote during the Rally segment of the event. She is a gifted young person!!

AP Environmental Science spring field trips

AP Environmental Science has had a few spring field trips to explore things that most people take for granted, wastewater treatment and electricity. First in April we visited the Woodstock Wastewater Treatment Plant that is located near East End Park. We learned that there is a lot of science to wastewater treatment including the use of microbes, chemical disinfection and water quality monitoring.

For our second spring field trip, we toured the McNeil Biomass power plant in Burlington and the Winooski One hydropower generating station on May 18th. Students learned about how electricity is generated and about how these two renewable stations try to minimize their environmental impact.

Congratulations to the cast of Twelfth Night

A heartfelt congratulations to the cast of Twelfth Night for outstanding performances! "Seniors, we will miss you! And thank you to our audiences for two fun-filled nights."

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Spring plant sale in the WUHSMS greenhouse

The Spring Plant Sale will run from May 1st-31st. It will be open from 9 am-2 pm on school days. On the first day of the sale (Monday, the 1st), the sale will be open until 6 pm for WCSU staff!!

The sale is located in the Large Greenhouse (behind/riverside of the WUHS/MS building).

All proceeds directly benefit the Woodstock Union Agriculture Department. Your support helps to ensure that our greenhouse and gardens are thriving spaces where we can continue to teach and learn about agriculture, stewardship, sustainability, and systems thinking through experiential learning.

We will also be holding a plant pot collection drive! Bring your used plant pots and we will either wash, sanitize, and reuse them or sort them by plastic type and recycle them with a company that specializes in horticulture pots! If you bring in plastic pots, you can take home one free 4-inch potted plant! As always, bring cardboard boxes if you have them for transporting your plants to you car.

This year, we are focusing on selling native, perennial plants — specifically, ones that benefit pollinators — and vegetables/herbs. We will still have many of the fan favorites. See the CRAFT website for the list of plants (subject to change). We will also be selling bird houses, No Mow May signs, and seeds.

Earth Beat hosts Earth Week workshops, Heather Wolfe '99 visits

As part of Earth Beat activities, students engaged in plant-forward cooking classes with Heather Wolfe (class of ‘99 and author of Sustainable Kitchen), as an important and delicious way to care for both personal and planetary health.

Thanks to a grant from the Woodstock Endowment Association that was received in 2020, Earth Beat successfully hosted over a dozen interactive workshops for the entire school to engage in hands-on environmentally based workshops in honor of Earth Week. Student leaders paired with staff to lead workshops to make reusable beeswax wraps, construct reusable bags out of t-shirts, make soap, cultivate micro-greens, learn about bee conservation, green up the school campus, write letters to the White House, create art, explore vegan cooking and more! A huge shout out to Earth Beat members and the staff who devoted their lunch and ARE times two days in a row to engage students in hopeful activities.