Panther Press

January 20: Early Release

January 25: Lifetime Activities

January 27: Friday Morning Meeting-Clark's Class Hosting

February 1: Lifetime Activities

February 8 : FINAL Lifetime Activities

February 8: PTO Meeting at 6:30 in Lothrop Library (virtual option available)

February 10 : Friday Morning Meeting-Desabrais Valentines Day

February 20-24:Winter Break

Spring Dates

March 3: PTO Lip Sync Battle

March 15: Family Conferences

March 21: Family Conferences

May 6: PTO Golf Tournament

Mr. Duggan's 4th-grade class participated in the “Mystery Location” (“Mystery Skype”) this morning with another class in a mystery location. Learners used technology and print resources to try to determine where the mystery class was located. After using an atlas, doing research, and asking key questions, students figured out that their mystery class was from Orchard Park, NY!

Put your winter gear on and meet us at Maclure Library at 7:20 am to walk to school. We will the parking lot at 7:30 am. Rain Date: Friday, February 3rd.

The PTO will be sponsoring a lip sync battle on March 3rd. Students will be required to prepare a 90 second act. A sign-up form will be available soon for students to fill out so songs can be screened for approval.

The PTO will be holding a golf tournament to raise funds for the school. They are looking for businesses and families to sponsor holes on the course. If you are interested in sponsoring or finding sponsors, please contact lothroppto@rnesu.org.

While not a Lothrop sponsored event, Margaret Daily and Jennifer Tinnsman will be organizing interested Lothrop kiddos into a climbing team at the Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center beginning soon. I have included the flier below. This is for grades K-6. Margaret and Jennifer are former parents of Lothrop alumni! Here is their contact info:

Margaret Daly 802-282-6079/meadaly66@comcast.net

Jennifer Tinsman’s 802-558-8061/jmcyr@hotmail.com

**Meeting/ first practice on Friday Jan 13 at 5 PM at Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center in Rutland.

More information about each program and registration links can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/extension/youth/announcements

January 21 - Come to our first teen science cafe of 2023 and learn all about AgroTek Innovation! This café will introduce you to different ways that technology is applied in agricultural settings to create new products or improve our environment as a teaser to get you interested in 4-H’s summer AgroTek Academy at UVM. You will also hear from past participants on their experience at last year's Academy.

January 24 - Come to this virtual teen science cafe to learn about Precision Agriculture & Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation from Scott Merrill. Scott Merrill is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, a Gund Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment and the Managing Director of the Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) laboratory. As a quantitative systems ecologist his research spans a wide range of both natural ecosystems and social-ecological systems. Current work includes developing tools for precision agriculture, flood hazard mitigation, food security, animal health and climate change.

February 1 - Get your Science Olympiad team ready to compete! UVM will be hosting the Vermont Science Olympiad on Saturday, April 1, 2023, and we are looking for high school teams to join us for this exciting day of science competition!

February 2 - Have you ever wanted to learn how to program your own game? Well, here's your chance! In this 4-H World Changers: Learn to Code series, you will learn to program a collecting game using p5.js, a JavaScript library created especially for artists and designers. We will meet virtually each Thursday from February 2 - March 9, 7:00-8:00 pm.

February 11 - Have you ever wondered how rockets work, and what goes into designing them? Come to this teen science cafe hosted by Jeff Gibson, Deputy Chief Engineer at Benchmark Space Systems. At this cafe, Jeff will walk through basic principles and
show you how to design your own functional model rocket from scratch!

February 18 - Discover Engineering is a FREE annual event for youth in grades 5-12 who want to learn about engineering, build skills and network with engineering students, faculty and professionals.

More information about each program and registration links can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/extension/youth/announcements

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 2023:

• Brandon

• Goshen-1 year remaining of a 3 year term

• Leicester

• Pittsford – 2 years remaining of a 3 year term.

• At-Large – 2 Seats (Candidates can be from any of the OVUUSD towns: Brandon; Goshen; Leicester; Pittsford Sudbury; and Whiting)

The Barstow Unified Union School District has the following opening for the Office of School Board of Director* for the coming election in March 2023:

• At-Large (Candidates can be from either BUUSD town.)

*All 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 30, 2023. 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.

The PTO is selling Lothrop Spirit Wear. While it is too late to receive the orders before break, they are still collecting orders and will place a bulk order with Winning Image as soon as they have enough individual orders. Click here to make your online order today!

These are the water bottles that students “borrow” from the health office. If some have found their way to your home, please send them back to school.

Thank you.

Family Vacation/Non-Truant Letter

RNESU District Calendar 2022-2023