1. Indoor Yard Sale- Saturday April 6 @ WCS Cafeteria, 8am - 2pm

2. WCS Drama Presents: The Addams Family, April 11, 12, 13 @WCS Auditorium

3. ABS notifications for Attendance and End of Day Changes - Important update, read below

04/06 - Clover Indoor Yard Sale, 8am - 2pm @ WCS Cafeteria

04/08 - NO SCHOOL / Solar Eclipse

04/10 - NO SCHOOL / Eid al-Fitr

04/11 - Families as Partners Meeting, 8:30am - 10:30am @ WCS Community Room

04/11 - WCS Drama Presents: The Addams Family, 7pm @ WCS Auditorium

04/12 - WCS Drama Presents: The Addams Family, 7pm @ WCS Auditorium

04/13 - WCS Drama Presents: The Addams Family, 2pm @ WCS Auditorium

04/15 - CVSD Budget Informational Meeting 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

04/16 - Walk or Roll to School

04/16 - CVSD Revised Budget VOTE

04/18 - Q & A with the Superintendent, 8am @ WCS Community Room

04/22 - 04/26 SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL

Clover House of Williston Central School is bringing back its Annual Indoor Garage Sale- Saturday, April 6th from 8:00am - 2:00pm. It is a giant indoor yard sale - high quality household goods, clothing, accessories, sports equipment, toys, art, electronics and more!

Taking place in the WCS Cafeteria, ALL ARE WELCOME! Please enter in the After School Hours entrance, back of the west entrance parking lot. All proceeds go directly to Clover House Overnight Field Trip.

WE NEED YOUR HELP - If you have any quality, sell-able items to donate to this sale we’d be most appreciative!! We are looking for furniture, household items, athletic equipment, working electronics, artwork, toys, rugs or anything that could be a treasure to someone new! Items can be dropped off Friday, April 5th from 6:30pm-8:30pm at the After School Hours entrance, or at the WCS front office any time before then.

Contact Ted Milks at Tmilks@cvsdvt.org with questions.

Given the unpredictable nature of the eclipse’s impact on our region, Champlain Valley superintendents have chosen to prioritize the safety and well-being of students and staff and mutually agreed to close schools on April 8, 2024.

For more information on Vermont’s planning for the total solar eclipse, please visit vermont.gov/eclipse.

Earlier this year, CVSD purchased solar eclipse glasses for each student and were sent home last week. Be sure to check your student(s) backpack for their pair.

Please send your eclipse glasses in with your student to put in the collection boxes located at ABS and WCS! CSWD has partnered with Astronomers Without Borders to collect solar eclipse glasses to be diverted from the landfill and reused. These glasses will then be redistributed to communities who might not otherwise have a safe way to view the solar eclipse. Our schools are acting as collection sites for our community. The collection boxes will be in the front office/lobby of each school until April 17.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it's every father's nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met.

The CDC has issued a Health Alert to raise awareness of an increase in U.S. and international measles cases. From January 1 to March 28, 2024, the CDC has been notified of 97 confirmed U.S. cases of measles.. This includes seven outbreaks (defined as three or more related cases); 72% of cases are outbreak-associated. In addition, the Canadian province of Quebec has reported 30 cases so far in 2024, primarily in Montreal and surrounding suburbs. Most domestic cases reported in 2024 have been among unvaccinated children ages 12 months and older who were exposed to measles virus while traveling internationally.

How contagious is measles?

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. In fact, 9 out of 10 people exposed to measles will catch it, too, if they are unvaccinated, have not had the disease before or have a problem with their immune system. Even very brief exposure to an infected person in a shared space poses a high risk for unimmunized people.

How long is someone with measles contagious?

People with measles are contagious before they know they are sick. An infected person can spread measles easily to others 4 days before the rash appears, and they are still contagious 4 days after the rash appears.

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Polls will be open on April 16 from 7am-7pm.

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Announcing the Annual Williston Schools Art Show at the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library open now throughout the month of April. Be sure to see this magnificent selection of artwork from students in grades K-8 attending our Williston schools. 90 works of art from two-dimensional intricate drawings and bold paintings to three-dimensional food made out of clay inspired by the artists' culture or lifestyle, this show will have something to delight everyone's artistic taste! For a listing of artists whose work has been selected, click here.

Any time a student is going to be absent, or has a change to their dismissal/end of day plan,

please notify the following:

1. The classroom teacher

2. Front Office: absfrontoffice@cvsdvt.org

3. ABS Team Assistant Celeste Plouffe: cplouffe@cvsdvt.org

4. School Nurse (if due to illness): slove@cvsdvt.org

Reminder: If there is any change to your student's typical end of day plan, please be sure to contact the school BEFORE 1:00PM (or 12:00 pm on Wednesdays). Changes in your student(s) schedule will not be accepted after this time unless it is an emergency.

We are excited to offer your child an opportunity to participate in Spark Enrichment, an after-school applied learning program for students in grades 5-8. Sessions will run for 5 weeks from 2:50 p.m - 4:20 p.m. with our 5th session starting April 18 and ending May 23.

Click for full details and to register

Athletes must be registered online before the first practice.

Softball/Baseball/Ultimate - starts Thursday, April 4th

Unified Sports - starts Thursday, April 11th

Track and Field - starts Monday, April 15th

Visit our WCS Athletics page for details and to register

On March 30, 2024 roughly 75 students from 18 Middle Schools from around the State participated in the 41st Annual Vermont State Mathcounts Competition. The Williston Central School team, composed of Luca D’Agostino (who individually placed 6th in the state), Collin Sicard, Alex Carr and Monte Rosenfeld, was proud to have placed 3rd in the state! We are so proud of these great mathematicians!!

It’s time for Beginner Band musicians to order their WCS Performing Arts shirts! All musicians in grades 4-8 wear this shirt on concert days. (The Beginner Band concert is on Wednesday, June 5)

Please place an order here and send payment directly to Kim Thompson. Shirts need to be ordered and paid for by Friday, April 12, 2024. Financial support may be requested.

If you have access to a shirt from chorus, an older sibling, friend or neighbor, you do not need to order a new shirt.

Questions? Reach out to Kim Thompson

The district was approached by a volunteer with the Vermont Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. They have a campaign called “Be SMART for Kids” which promotes secure firearm storage. Volunteers have distributed 10 cable locks to the front office at each of our schools. See the flyer below for more details.

Vermont Youth Dancers presents The Impossible, A Telling of Cinderella's Story at Mount Mansfield Union High School on April 13 at 1:30 & 6:30 pm, and on April 14 at 1:30 pm. VYD brings this classic tale to life with current music in a full length stage production. Do not miss our signature blend of exciting hip hop and inspiring lyrical choreography, imaginative sets and beautiful costumes. Tickets on sale now! vermontyouthdancers.org

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