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December 19 - Early Release Day

December 20 - In-Service for Staff (NO SCHOOL)

December 23-January 1 - Winter Break

January 14 - 4th - 6th Grade Lifetime Activities

January 17 - Early Release Day

January 20 - Martin Luther King Day (NO SCHOOL)

January 28 - 4th - 6th Grade Lifetime Activities

February 4 - 4th - 6th Grade Lifetime Activities

February 7 - Early Release Day

February 17- 21 - February Break

Lots of holiday cheer was had on Thursday, December 20th during our all school morning meeting. We acknowledged the holidays that will occur during our December Break; Winter Solstice (Yule), Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza and New Year's Day. Each class designed a t-shirt and appointed a model for each design in our Festival of Tees! Mrs. Roy led us in song, told us jokes and gave us facts about various holidays. Ms. Adams read us a holiday book, and a parody of The 12 Days Before Break was sang by our very own Lothrop Staff Chorus.

Permission slips for Lifetime Activities were sent home with 4th-6th grade students. Lifetime Activities start in January. All students must have a signed waiver for Rock Climbing, please use the link below to complete this online and send back the permission slips as soon as you can!

If your child is wearing slippers or slides on pajama day, please be sure to send in extra shoes for going outside. Thank you!

Breakfast is available to students prior to the school day. Students may go to the cafeteria upon their arrival to school. Lothrop School qualified this year to participate in the USDA Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program. This program is grant funded and provides free fresh fruits and vegetables to all students in eligible elementary schools as snacks during the school day. Lothrop students are provided with the snacks Monday-Thursday.

Interested in becoming more involved in the school system? Consider becoming a school board member.

The Otter Valley Unified Union School District has the following openings for the Office of School Board of Director for the coming election in March 2025:

• Brandon

• Leicester - 1 year remaining of a 3-year term

• Pittsford

• Pittsford - 2 years remaining of a 3-year term

• Sudbury

• Whiting - 2 years remaining of a 3-year term

• At-Large*

• At-Large* - 2 years remaining of a 3-year term

*At-Large candidates can be from any of the OVUUSD towns: Brandon; Goshen; Leicester; Pittsford Sudbury; and Whiting.

All board seats are three year terms unless otherwise noted.

Petitions are available at the links provided above, at your Town Clerk’s Office, and the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Central Office at 49 Court Drive in Brandon. Requests for petitions can also be made by calling the RNESU Central Office at (802) 247-5757.

Completed petitions, along with a signed Consent of Candidate Form, are due to your Town Clerk by Monday, January 27, 2025. Petitions for town specific seats require signatures of the lesser of 1% of registered voters or 30 signatures. Petitions for at-large seats require the signature of 60 registered voters.

It is the time of year where we begin to think about field trips. If you are planning on chaperoning a field trip or volunteering at Lothrop throughout the year, you are required to complete a background check, fingerprinting, and ID scanning through Raptor, our Supervisory Union security system. Due to the amount of time it takes to complete the full process, we are asking parents/guardians to begin the process now. Appointments for fingerprinting fill up fast and we want to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to attend field trips and take part in volunteering for school events with their students. If you are interested in chaperoning or want to check and see if the background check you completed in the past is still valid, please reach out to Sara Eddy at seddy@rnesu.org or call the office at 802-483-2242.

This past week, Lothrop staff had their own spirit week, and did not communicate to the students. Each day, we had a different theme and if students noticed us dressing a like, we denied any significance to it. It was quite fun!

Email: sfarrington@rnesu.org

Website: https://lothrop.rnesu.org/

Location: US Route 7, Pittsford, VT, 05763
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LothropSchool/