Community Calendar 2015-16
Community Calendar 2015-16
May 29, 2015
Please Note: Calendar content begins in August. Some events on this calendar are subject to change. Encounter Weeks and breaks (including Thanksgiving, Winter, February, April, etc.) are finalized.
2015-16 Core Calendar
April 7, 2015
As we look ahead to the coming school year, we would like to keep everyone informed regarding Vermont Commons’ activities. To that end, here is the current core calendar for the 2015-16 school year: —————– August 21, 2015: New Family Orientation August 17-21, 2015: Faculty meetings August 25, 2015: First day of school September 7, […]
Common Text Day! Friday, 10/10/14
October 8, 2014
Dear Vermont Commons Community, This coming Friday, October 10th is our VCS Common Text Day 2014. We are excited to spend the day focusing on the themes of our chosen text, I Am Malala. We will begin the day with a brief video from the New York Times that discusses Malala’s life, after which, students […]
The Opiate Effect
December 9, 2013
On December 18th, VCS will be screening The Opiate Effect, as a part of the ongoing VCS Documentary Film Series. A short description of the film reads: Will Gates died from a heroin overdose in 2009. His father, Skip needed a way to deal with this tragedy. As a math teacher, he took early retirement […]
VCS Students to Perform Twelfth Night
March 25, 2013
Join us at Contois Auditorium at Burlington’s City Hall on Church Street at 7:00 p.m. on April 5th and 6th to see this talented group of students perform William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night!
VCS teams up with SUDEF
March 25, 2013
Click here to watch a video created by 10th-grade Social Studies students as part of their service partnership with the Sudan Development Foundation to address the problem of Global Infectious Diseases.
Evening of Student Readings
March 18, 2013
We invite you to attend the Second Evening of Student Readings on April 9, 2013 at 6 pm hosted by the Language Arts department. This evening is a time-honored tradition at VCS, in which students from all grades share the poetry, short stories, and personal essays that they have written over the course of the […]
It’s All About the People
March 8, 2013
Engaging. Vibrant. Challenging. Stimulating. These are all words that accurately describe the unique programs at Vermont Commons School. They are not just adjectives picked out of thin air to entice the hundreds of people who explore our website, moreover, they are accurate descriptions of what happens in our classrooms, on our playing fields and courts, […]