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Barnes & Noble Bookfair December 11

Barnes & Noble Bookfair December 11

Support the 2011 VCS Bookfair December 11 at Barnes & Noble and December 11-16 online at bn.com/bookfairs. Use this ID# at checkout: 10569150. Proceeds benefit student trips to Belize and Sundance.

Turtle Tracks Newsletter 10-25-11

Please click here to read this week’s edition of Turtle Tracks. Also, in the last Senior Leadership Program meeting, the seniors asked their groups to come up with words that embodied what they value about VCS.  The lists were compiled and turned into this Wordle.  The size of a word reflects how frequently students listed […]

Admissions Open House Sunday, November 6

Vermont Commons School welcomes interested prospective students and their parents on Sunday, November 6th at 1:00 p.m. for an admissions open house at our campus in South Burlington.

Turtle Tracks Newsletter 10-18-11

Please click here to read this week’s edition of Turtle Tracks! Thank you for reading, Liz

Bike Drive for Bike Recycle Vermont

In the Bike Recycle Research and Service, different groups have been working on projects to help Bike Recycle Vermont, a program that gives bikes to low income Vermonters and refugees. One group held a bike drive. Last week ten bikes were brought in, and all of them will be going to Bike Recycle Vermont (BRVT). […]

Caring for Trees with Branch out Burlington

The “Greening Up Our Cities with Trees” Research and Service class has been busy caring for trees in the local Branch Out Burlington! (also known as BOB!) tree nursery. At least once a week, we walk right behind the school, through the UVM Horticultural Farm, to the Burlington Community Tree Nursery. We are preparing trees […]

Turtle Tracks Newsletter 10-11-11

Please click here to read this week’s edition of Turtle Tracks. Thank you for reading! Liz

Phineas Schlossberg Commended in National Merit Scholarship Program

Phineas Schlossberg, a student at Vermont Commons School, was named a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Scholarship. Community. Global Responsibility.

Students emerge from their time at Vermont Commons School intrinsically motivated to seek out their role for improving the world, with the skills and competencies to do so.