SJA News - January 29, 2025

CAMPUS NEWS

Poetry Out Loud Finalists

The school's Poetry Out Loud finalists (clockwise from upper left), Taryn Trombley '25, Addison Chandler '25, Marcus Burns '26, and Hanna Lengyel '27, performed in Chapel this week, and their recitations can be viewed here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, January 30

Semester Two Meet the Teachers, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 6 - Friday, February 7

Winter Carnival. Times can be viewed on the school calendar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Senior Ads and Yearbook Sales

The deadline for Senior Ads has been extended to February 17. A letter will be emailed to senior families later today with updates and options for creating ads. The letter can also be viewed here.

Yearbooks can also be purchased now. The cost is $60. For senior families, please remember that your student will receive a book as part of the fee they pay in the spring for their cap and gown and prom tickets.

Use this link to purchase yearbooks.

AROUND CAMPUS

Ms. Darling's Fashion Students are working on design ideas for the annual Fashion Show, scheduled for April 17.

Students in Mrs. McKenzie's Creative Writing and Advanced Creative Writing classes perform a read-through during their annual Young Playwrights Festival workshop on campus. The students write the plays that their peers then read, and the top plays will be read by professional actors later this semester in Burlington.

Students in Mr. Bugbee's Introduction to Construction Trades class are installing log siding on their shed project.

Mr. Holden and a group of students went climbing at MetroRock in Essex Junction on Sunday.

Mrs. McGarvin's students from the Human Services classes visited the new Community College of Vermont (CCV) campus at Fairbanks Museum to learn about the beneficial pathways CCV offers high school students. Those pathways include Dual Enrollment, Fast Forward, and Early College. This spring, all students enrolled in the Human and Professional Services class will be earning college credits through CCV's Fast Forward program.  

Students prepared signs to hang around campus in preparation for this week's Lunar New Year. Other events include Chapel talks on Thursday and Friday and a special dinner on Friday night to celebrate the Year of the Snake.

The third time was a charm; for the first time in program history, SJA won at the CVCC cheer competition in Rutland. Beating the reigning state champs of 10 years by 1 point. They compete weekend at the NVAC in South Burlington. (Photo credit: Jenn Greenwood.)

Photos from Sunday's DI Indoor Track and Field Championships can be viewed here. Both the boys' and girls' teams finished as runners-up.

Photos from last week's Varsity Basketball game vs. Rutland can be viewed here. Photos from the JV game can be viewed here.