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Turtle Tracks Newsletter 11-8-11

Turtle Tracks Newsletter 11-8-11

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

Students Wow Branch Out Burlington!

The ‘Greening Our Cities with Trees’ Research & Service class has been busy this month! The students continue to wow Branch Out Burlington! with their incredible weeding and mulching at the nursery – the director of the organization has never seen the nursery look so good! We also had a chance to work with trees […]

Sibling Shadow Day – December 1st

Thursday, December 1st is our annual Sibling Shadow Day at Vermont Commons.  Brothers and sisters of current students, grades five and “up” are invited to spend the day at VCS attending classes.  To register, please contact Sarah Soule, Director of Admissions at ssoule@vermontcommons.org

Exciting Things are Happening in Research & Service this Semester!

In addition to teaching English to new immigrants from Nepal each Friday, the Changing Face of Vermont Research & Service class has been working with English Language Learners at the Sustainability Academy, a public elementary school in Burlington. Working together with these students who have all immigrated recently to Vermont, the VCS class is collaborating […]

Turtle Tracks Newsletter 11-1-11

Please click here to read this week’s edition of Turtle Tracks. Happy November! Liz

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.

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.