School news
Members of (QSA) attend the Pride Parade in Burlington, VT
Members of our high school and middle school Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) had a fantastic time at the Pride Parade in Burlington, VT
Members of our high school and middle school Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) had a fantastic time at the Pride Parade in Burlington, VT last Sunday, September 10th. The students and their club advisors proudly joined the march, promoting unity and acceptance. Kudos to our QSA members for representing our school community with pride!
Fall sport practices starting up
Fall 2022 - Cross Country Team
We are excited for the start of high school fall sports preseason, beginning for most our teams next week! If you plan to participate in a fall sport and have not yet registered, please do so ASAP.
Please make sure you have an up-to-date physical exam on file. You can upload on your familyid registration page or you can send directly to school nurse, Rachel Eggum, rachel.eggum@mtnviews.org.
Some schedules are still in the process of being created and will be updated to this spreadsheet as they become finalized over the next couple of weeks.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
We Are Woodstock!!!
Jack Boymer
Athletic Director
Yoh Theatre's season preview, opening meeting, and rehearsals
The cast of the 2023 spring musical, Percy Jackson.
Yoh Theatre will begin its 2023-2024 season with an Opening Meeting, Potluck and Preview Performance on Sunday, August 27, with pre-season rehearsals beginning on Monday, August 28. This preview performance is open to the public and starts at 6:00 p.m. Come see a select group of Yoh Theater Players perform a preview of scenes and songs from our upcoming season.
For students interested in learning about Yoh Theatre, we will have an Opening Meeting and Potluck prior to the start of the preview from 4:00-6:00 p.m. We will have a slide show, information about our program, and about an upcoming performance trip to Edinburgh, Scotland! Bring finger foods and we will eat together before the preview at 6:00pm.
If you attend the opening meeting and potluck, you will receive a complimentary ticket for the preview performance. Sign up for the meeting, potluck and show on our website.
First show and pre-season: Rehearsals for our first show of the year will begin on Monday, August 28, with pre-season rehearsals before school begins. To sign up for our first show, visit our website.
Yoh Theatre is open to everyone, grades 7-12.
Heather Wolfe still cooking
Heather Wolfe, dietician and nutritionist at Dartmouth Hitchcock and author of the cookbook Sustainable Kitchen, returned this week to the school kitchen where she took her first cooking class and decided her career path. Heather joined this year’s middle school cooking class to share her passion for healthy, sustainable living, and some recipes from her book.
Students made hummus with her and were able to sample homemade kale chips, energy balls, aquafaba meringue cookies, and watermelon basil water. No leftovers! Here you see two photos of Heather in the WUHSMS teaching kitchen - one from 1997 (making homemade pasta) and the other with this year's ms class! (More connections - some people will remember Heather’s mother, Karen Hawkes who taught French at Woodstock for many years. Heather is married to Woodstock social studies teacher Nick Wolfe.)
Holocaust survivor presents to ninth graders
On Tuesday, June 13th, the 9th grade team capped off an interdisciplinary unit about the Holocaust with a virtual presentation by Ms. Fay Malkin. Ms. Malkin is a Holocaust survivor and activist with connections in the local community. She shared her incredible story with the ninth graders, telling them about the two years she spent in hiding with her family in a hayloft in Sokal, Poland (now Ukraine). Ms. Malkin's incredible story helped to underscore the depravity of the Holocaust and the resiliency of those who survived it.
Ms. Malkin was joined on the Zoom call by her daughter, Debbi Schonberger-Pierce, who shared her own perception of how the Holocaust impacts generations of people, as survivors and their descendents search for normalcy in the wake of genocide.
Students were moved by the presentation, and when asked why survivor stories matter, Sophia Rosenbach shared that it is essential to learn from survivors so that we do not repeat mistakes of the past. Ms. Malkin also conveyed one more piece of advice to her young audience: "talk to your grandparents." After all, she said, everyone has a story worth sharing, and we should learn from each other while we still can.