Cornwall School News

• Thurs, 10/22, Teacher conferences

• Fri, 10/23, No School

• Fri, 10/30, School Pictures

• Wed, 11/4, Early Release

It's Vermont and we have all the weather!

• Students are outside at arrival. Please make they are dressed for the weather at drop off.
• If it is drizzling, we are still outside.
• All students need a set of dry clothes in their backpacks.

• Students can eat school breakfast and lunch at no cost every day.
• Families are responsible for packing a snack daily. Please help your student remember. Our extra snack supplies are quite limited (and not very exciting).

Please help us to remind your bus rider:

• stay seated and buckled
• face forward
• talk to the people in the seats next to you
• keep backpacks closed

Elementary students are not allowed to use phones on the bus.

4th graders have been working on the transdisciplinary theme of “How We Organize Ourselves." The central idea of the theme is that democracy is sustainable through active participation; it is an inquiry into systems, structures, and networks. The central idea connects the following lines of inquiry:

• the benefits and challenges in a democracy;

• responsible participation and citizenship;

• people make rules to create responsibilities, protect freedoms, and keep each other safe.

In literacy, students are learning to write opinion pieces. 4th graders will focus on establishing a point of view and then supporting the point of view with facts, details, and also using a well planned introduction and conclusion. And in math, students reviewed the relationship between dimensions and area. They used their base ten number pieces as referents for centimeters and decimeters as they created rectangular arrays, identified and labeled dimensions, and found areas. Students worked through an investigation in which they figured out the dimensions of a sticker advertising a fictitious recreational center. After that, students designed and drew a sticker for the Cornwall Outdoor Recreation Area (CORA).

In one of the playful moments, 4th graders played a class favorite, Poison Dart Frog, which includes problem solving skills, self control, and also acting!!

Happenings:

Town Hall Board meeting in Weybridge- thank you to the people that made it to this meeting, it was a good discussion and turnout! I'd say no new news, more in a holding pattern while the board discusses the budget. Attached is the summary of results we shared at the meeting, we are processing data and will share more with time. Attached are some documents you may find helpful to better understand the conversation, and info at the end.

Harvest Fest- what a great day!! Thank you volunteers, teacher, staff and the kids! We really appreciate the time and effort that goes into setting up stations, sharing your animals and equipment, and making everyone smile!

Cornwall Merch - want to be involved? We are looking for a point person to organize the sale of Cornwall merchandise (t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats), if this is you let us know!

Sign-Ups in Progress:

• Staff Meeting Snacks- signup here
  
• We are looking for volunteers to provide snacks to the hard working staff of Cornwall School during their staff meetings. The first meeting of the month is for all staff, about 20-22 people. The second meeting of the month is for mostly teachers, 15 people. Food/drinks should be dropped off before the end of the school day. Thank you!!!

FOCS Monthly Meetings- 1st Wednesday of the month, 8-9am at the Town Hall

• October meeting minutes attached
• Next meeting WEDNESDAY 11/4/26
• We are currently looking for a FOCS treasurer & secretary if you have any interest please reach out for more info!

FOCS Event List

Wed 9/23/26, 5:30-7:00pm Back to School PotLuck (vacant - we need your help!)

Fri 10/9/26, 12:30-2:30pm Harvest Fest (Molly D.+ vacant), rain date 10/16

Fri 12/11/26, all day Winter Crafts (Elissa E. + vacant)

Sat 2/27/26- town meeting day breakfast (vacant)

Fri March 5/TBD- 5:45pm Movie night (vacant) – Check with Megan

April/May/Summer - Grounds clean up - TBD

May 3-7 Teacher and Staff appreciation week (vacant)

June TBD - 5th Grade Promotion - FOCS

June TBD - All Out Day - (school) - typically last week of school

ACSD Volunteer Sign up:

• Supervised Volunteer (this covers most volunteer scenarios, harvest fest, winter crafts, etc.)
• Unsupervised Volunteer (this would be where you're alone with students- substitute teaching, etc.) - same form as above & email Laurie about fingerprinting.

• long-lasting, single-serve snacks such as pretzels, apple sauce/fruit, cheese sticks, crackers, mini yogurts, etc,
• gently used sneakers, any size
• beach toys, especially buckets and small shovels
• trucks, tractors, cars for sand box