Dear Bridport and Shoreham Families,
I hope the end of the year is going well for you and that you have the opportunity to enjoy your children this summer as much as we have during the school year.
Thank you for your thoughts and engagement earlier this year as we explored potential options for the 2025-26 grade configuration for students at Shoreham Elementary School and Bridport Central School. Our educators felt heard and supported as they considered how best to accelerate students’ opportunity to grow. The hopes, questions, and concerns caregivers raised helped us to better understand how best to move forward in the short term. Next year, teachers from Shoreham, Bridport, and Weybridge will be working together to create common experiences that help to support success within multigrade classroom configurations.
Through our work together this Spring, we surfaced the likely educational benefits of single grade classrooms to accelerate learning. Our early planning suggested that this single-grade classroom option would be possible if the Bridport PreK program moved to Shoreham Elementary School (which also offers the ability to expand our preK spots) and K-5 students from both towns were educated together at Bridport Central School. We want to begin the process of developing the details of that option this summer to allow families to consider this design for the 2026-2027 school year by October 2025. Once we have clear details, we will again gauge parental support levels within both communities and forward all information to the ACSD Board of Directors for their consideration this Fall.
I have asked Emily Blistein, our Communications and Engagement Director, to facilitate this working group over the summer. Both building principals, and our Directors of Facilities and Finance/Operations will design this potential model alongside parents from both communities. If you are interested in participating as a member of this working group, please reach out directly to Emily by Thursday, June 19, 2025 at eblistein@acsdvt.org or 802-382-1183.
In partnership,
Wendy
Shoreham Park and Recreation Department
We had a great baseball season this year with all 5 teams. Several teams ended the season with the parents vs kids potluck game.
Mighty Mites ended their season last week.
T-ball 1&2 played their parents on Tuesday.
Minors also played their parents, but still have 2 games left.
6/17 at Brandon
6/23 home vs Poultney
I want to give a huge shout out to all of the volunteer coaches and parents that made this year a success!
*Reminder- Show"ham" all wheels car show June 22nd from 9am-3pm. Rain date following Sunday June 29th. We expect to have over 100 entries and have several food options including other local vendors.
Please come and have a look around and vote for your favorite entries also if you could wear your Shoreham athletic shirt that would be amazing as this is a fundraiser for the rec program. Kids can enter dirt bikes or 4 wheelers etc.
