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December 19 - Early Release Day

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

December 23-January 1 - Winter Break

Students studied the Industrial Revolution in Social Studies and demonstrated their knowledge by creating videos. Each student wrote a script with at least two characters, one character needed to be a historical figure, and it was set during the Industrial Revolution. Students created puppets and recorded their script using a green screen and then uploaded their video clips into WeVideo to edit their final project. They did an amazing job working through each step of this project!

Students have been engaging in coding activities during the month of December in the library.

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.

Email: sfarrington@rnesu.org

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

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