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Kindergarten Registration & Screening 2019
2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR
Children who will be five years of age prior to September 1, 2019, should attend this screening. Kindergarten registration and screening will be at John F. Kennedy Elementary School on Monday, May 6th and Tuesday, May 7th. Please call the J.F.K. office at 655-0411 to make an appointment. All appointments are 90 minutes. Please be sure you are on time for your appointment and you must bring your child, child’s birth certificate, (or I-94 if your child was born in a country that doesn’t issue birth certificates), updated immunization record and his/her Social Security number and proof of residency to the appointment and register your child while he/she is being screened. Thank you.
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Kindergarten Registration & Screening 2019-2020 School Year
Children who will be five years of age prior to September 1, 2019, should attend this screening. Kindergarten registration and screening will be at John F. Kennedy Elementary School on Monday, May 6th and Tuesday, May 7th. Please call the J.F.K. office at 655-0411 to make an appointment. All appointments are 90 minutes. Please be sure you are on time for your appointment and you must bring your child, child’s birth certificate, (or I-94 if your child was born in a country that doesn’t issue birth certificates), updated immunization record and his/her Social Security number and proof of residency to the appointment and register your child while he/she is being screened. Thank you.
Kindergarten Orientation Night
Winooski School District invites you to Kindergarten Orientation Night
Presented by Carrie Macedonia M.Ed
Wednesday, March 27th
4:00pm-5:30pm
In the Library
Learn about kindergarten at JFK School
Hear how you can prepare your child for kindergarten starting now
Meet the staff who will be supporting your family
Tour kindergarten classrooms
Contact Carrie for more information at cmacedonia@wsdvt.org
Featured Students – Young Writers Project
Young Writers Project
Read our amazing student poems presented by Vermont’s Young Writers Project.
Bekkah Lambert
Winooski
She was art
She lay beautifully,
her long blonde hair
cascading down her back
in a way like no other,
and that long silk robe
covering more flesh than not.
She was art.
But not the type of art
you see in museums,
where you say, “Wow,” and move on.
No, she was the art
that made you feel something,
like that odd sensation in your chest
that makes you think
you’re going to explode.
So your breath hitches
and your face heats up
and your palms start to sweat –
until your mind goes blank,
like it’s the end of the world.
She was art.
But I’m sure that was only to me.
Hussein Amuri
Winooski
Weak
Sure, you are weak.
You can’t shoot,
can’t speak,
can’t do anything right.
But hey, just in realizing that,
you can prove that you are the opposite
of what you say you are.
They say there is a beginning
to everything,
and to become stronger,
you first need to know what you want.
You first need to know your weakness.
Know the thing that stops you from being
who you truly believe you can be.
This might sound cheesy,
but hey, listen –
those we admire so much
and wish to be like…
were once just like us.
They were once in our shoes
before they became the people we know.
Take Michael Jordan, for example,
one of the best players
to ever play the game of basketball.
He wasn’t always the best on the court.
In fact, he was weak.
But after accepting that he was weak,
Mr. Jordan then worked to become
who we now call the “G.O.A.T.”
He turned his weakness into his strength,
turned the table upside down
with only one thing –
his knowledge that he was weak.
So stop saying that you are weak,
because that is your ticket to success.
It’s like the great Fuegoleon once said:
“Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of.
However, staying weak is.”
Young Writers Project – Burlington Free Press
Young Writers Project – Burlington Free Press
Content provided by the Young Writers Project.
Winooski Basketball Coach Tom Prim Reaches 100 Career Wins
Alex Abrami, Burlington Free Press
This article is presented by the Burlington Free Press, to view it on their website, click here.
Photo: BRIAN JENKINS/for the Free Press
It took Tom Prim a quarter-century to get a head-coaching gig. Waiting a couple extra games to reach 100 career wins shouldn’t have been a problem.
“I thought I would get stuck on 99,” Prim said.
Yet after five attempts at the milestone, Prim could finally exhale.
The Winooski Spartans provided a mild high school girls basketball upset on the road Wednesday night, besting Division II’s Milton for a 40-34 decision, giving Prim his sought-after victory.
“Milton is supposed to be the better team and we controlled the game, but I didn’t really expect it to happen tonight,” said Prim in a phone interview.
Joining the century club had its tense moments and near-misses. The biggest? The overtime home defeat to Peoples on Jan. 4, an affair the Spartans had all but wrapped up until a game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.
But that made Wednesday’s victory a little sweeter for Prim. Just like his career, Prim’s Spartans had their patience pay off.
“it means a lot, it means more because of where I’m coaching,” Prim said. “I’m not at a school that wins 20 games a year. If I was, it wouldn’t be a big deal. The girls definitely had to work for it.”
Coaching at the high school level since 1996, Prim was hired to lead the Winooski program in 2011. In Prim’s nine years, the Spartans have five winning seasons, captured the 2013 D-III title, their first in program history, and also reached the Final Four at Barre Aud in 2017.
“The title is more important, that was the highlight of my career,” Prim said. “Nobody expects you to win at Winooski and then when you do, it’s a great feeling.”
When he retires at the close of this season, Prim will have coached hoops for 35 years.
Contact Alex Abrami at 660-1848 or aabrami@freepressmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @aabrami5.
Becoming An American: The Road to Citizenship
7th and 8th grade students on Team Journey launched this semester’s Expeditionary Learning (EL) project on September 11, heading into the Statehouse for a naturalization ceremony. The team identified an authentic problem in their community - how hard it can be to...
WSD Educators Nominated for National LifeChanger of the Year Award
September 16th, – Winooski, VT – JFK Elementary School behavior coach Amanda Babcock and guidance counselor Sarah Murphy have been nominated for the 2019-2020 national LifeChanger of the Year award. Babcock was nominated by her colleague, Savanna Bechard, for her...
Lead Testing Next Week
As part of a new law, all schools are required to test for lead in drinking water and fix any issues when lead is found above an established action level. The intent of the law is to protect students and staff from lead poisoning, which is a serious but preventable...
Friday, September 13, 2019
Dear Families, It has been a fantastic first full week of school at JFK. Classes are dumping HEARTS every Tuesday and Thursday, and the school is getting closer and closer to an All School Celebration! Monday, September 16th, is picture day. All students were given...
Justice Palmer, Class of 2017
What are you doing now? I go to the University of Vermont full time and work at the UVM medical center. I’m a Patient Access Specialist, which means I help 10 clinics throughout the network, doing various things for doctors and nurses. I am studying Public Health -...
Cathy Bray
What do you do at WSD? I wear a lot of hats - I’m the school receptionist, I also do security, run the copy center, and I’m administrative assistant to the school’s Business Manager, Rebecca Goulet. How long have you worked for the district? It’s my 12th year. I’ve...
Friday, September 6, 2019
Dear Families, Students have been earning HEARTS left and right! We have had two mornings when classes added their HEARTS to the HEART Monitor. We add HEARTS on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 8:15am. If you are ever in the building during that time, please come and...
Friday, August 30, 2019
Dear Families, We have had a wonderful start to the school year. These first three days of school, teachers began their work on their First Six Weeks of school. These first six weeks, as a school, we focus on teaching students the expectations of the school in...
ReArch Company Hired to Manage Construction Process
ReArch Company will provide pre-construction services including cost estimating, constructability review, phasing logistics and project scheduling during the multi-phase, 18-month construction project. “We are happy to work with ReArch because they are approaching the work in a new, innovative, and exciting way,” says Mike Decarreau, WSD Board Chair.
Alumni Highlight: Rainbow Chen
As my summer comes to an end, I wanted to reflect on one of the most exciting and life-changing summers of my life. Last Friday, I finished my 11-week internship in Senator Bernie Sanders' office as a Legislative Intern and all I can say is that I'm truly...
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