ADL Announcements

• Upcoming Events
• Family Conferences
• Food Drive October 13-17
• Winter Sports
• 6th Grade Intramural Volleyball
• Coffee House Sign Up
• Picture Retakes 10/29
• Bottle Barn Sign Ups
• No School October 23 and October 24

• Tuesday, October 21: ADL Band Concert at EHS 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
• Wednesday, October 22: Family Conferences- Evening
• Thursday, October 23: No School: Diwali
• Friday, October 24: No School: Family Conferences
• Wednesday, October 29: Picture Retakes
• Thursday, November 6: Coffee House 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
• Friday, November 7: ADL School Dance 6:00 pm-7:30 pm

Dear Families,

Our fall parent-teacher conferences will take place after school on Wednesday, October 22, and during the day on Friday, October 24, 2025.

Parent-teacher conferences are an important opportunity to connect with your child’s teachers, celebrate progress, and discuss how we can work together to support your child’s growth and success. Your participation is important and helps strengthen the partnership between home and school.

This fall, we are using PickaTime for scheduling. Please use this link to sign up for individual appointments with your child’s interdisciplinary team teachers and World Language teachers. If you need help signing up, please refer to this guide.

Additionally, other ALPHA team teachers and our learning specialists will be available to meet with families during conferences. These meetings will follow a more informal, open-house format. You are welcome to visit any of your child’s ALPHA classes before or after your scheduled conferences with their team teachers.

Students should attend conferences with their parents or guardians.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Wood

Principal

Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School

Each year, on the third weekend in October, Vermont non-profit With Love From Vermont hosts a Feed My Starving Children MobilePack at AD Lawton. Since 2012, WLFV and local volunteers have packed and shipped over 1.4 million life-saving meals to starving children overseas and collected tons of non-perishable goods for local families.

This year, ADL and WLFV are partnering to increase the amount of non-perishable goods collected for local food shelves. During the week leading up to the MobilePack event, October 13 – 17, 2025, ADL students are encouraged to donate non-perishable food and household items. There will be boxes in the front hallway to collect the goods.

Winter sports offered at ADL include Cheerleading, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball.

Sign ups will begin on October 20th and close on October 31st. Interested participants must be signed up by October 31st. The sign up link will be on our athletics website on Monday October 20th. It will also be posted in the PE google classroom and daily reminders will be given in PE classes.

Please note that your child requires a physical examination at a minimum of every two years in order to participate in interscholastic athletics. A completed Sports Participation Clearance Form needs to be on file by 11/10 in order for athletes to be eligible for tryouts for any of the winter sports offerings. The completed form (which is linked below) can be emailed to Nurse Jenna jdallamura@ewsd.org or can be faxed to her (802) 215-4115 or a paper copy hand delivered at school.

Sports Participation Clearance Form

Open Gym Times for Basketball

Tuesday 11/4: Girls Open Gym 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Wednesday 11/5: Boys Open Gym: 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Thursday 11/6: Girls Open Gym 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Friday 11/7: Boys Open Gym: 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Basketball Tryout Schedule

Monday 11/10: Girls 3:45pm-5:15pm; Boys 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Tuesday 11/11: Girls 3:45pm-5:15pm; Boys 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Wednesday 11/12: Boys 2:45pm-4:15pm; Girls 4:15pm - 5:45pm

Thursday 11/13: Girls 3:45pm-5:15pm; Boys 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Friday 11/14: Boys 3:45pm-5:15pm; Girls 5:15pm - 6:45pm

**For the practice/tryouts in the later time slot (4:15/5:15), student athletes must leave campus until their scheduled time.

Cheerleading

More details about the beginning of the season schedule will be in the next Thursday announcements on 10/30 (due to no school on 10/23 and 10/24).

Please reach out to the ADL Athletics Director if you have any questions.

Rosalind Hutton

adlathletics@ewsd.org

(802) 857-7811

The interscholastic volleyball team at ADL begins in March. It is a short season that runs until mid April. This year we are offering a 6th grade only intramural volleyball program as an introduction to volleyball and an opportunity to develop skills before the season.

This intramural program will be run by ADL volleyball coach Jen Liguori with the help of athletes from the volleyball teams at EHS. The program will run from Monday October 27th until Friday November 7th.

Program Dates and Times

Monday 10/27-Monday 11/3

3:45-5:00

Tuesday 11/4-Friday 11/7

5:00-6:30

** There is a shift in times so it does not conflict with basketball open gyms.

6th Graders who are interested should sign up using this form

Attention Students:

If you are interested in signing up to perform in the ADL Coffee House next month, please fill out this form!

Picture Retakes will take place from 8:30 am-9:30 am in the cafeteria.

Students will be called down over the intercom by grade.

Students must have their original package and their blue and white delivery envelope in order to get a picture retake.

The Bottle Barn funds support programs for our ADL students. If interested in helping, please choose a month to empty the Bottle Barn. Sign up form found here. and linked below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0B4CA9AB2DA2FD0-56539714-adlbottle#/

Volunteers usually need to go biweekly or weekly depending on donations. Instructions will be emailed to you. Thank you for supporting our kids' school!

Please drop off your clean bottles and cans to donate to ADL special programs!

Bottles and cans should be in bags! PLEASE DO NOT THROW IN LOOSE BOTTLES AND CANS.