ADL Announcements

• Thursday, April 2-3: 8th Grade VTCAP Testing Science
• Monday-Thursday, April 6-9th: VTCAP Testing 6-8th grade English & Mathematics
• Thursday, April 9: PAWS Meeting- In Person 6:30 pm- 7:30 pm
• Monday, April 20th-Friday, April 24th: Spring Break No School
• May 7th-10th: ADL Spring Musical, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm 5/7 & 5/8. 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm 5/9 & 5/10
• Monday, May 25: Memorial Day No School

We will be administering the Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program (VTCAP) once again this spring. Our testing dates at ADL are as follows:

Grade 8 Science: Thursday, April 2 & Friday, April 3 (2 days)

8th grade students will take the science assessment during their regularly scheduled core class times on these two days.

Grades 6-8 English & Mathematics: Monday, April 6 -Thursday, April 9 (4 days)

We will run a different school-wide schedule this week. All students will be testing at the same time across grade levels. Testing will begin at 8:50 AM each day during this week. We appreciate your support in ensuring our Chargers are present and on time for testing each day!

If your Chromebook is at home, please bring it back to school fully charged.

There will be an adjusted schedule during these days.

Did you know ADL received $990 from Hannaford Helps Schools last year? We used some of these funds to support our Jr. Iron Chef team this year. And you may have heard, our team won the biggest prize!

We’re happy to share our school is automatically reenrolled in the Hannaford Helps Schools program! The 2026 program will run from April 5 through May 30. During this time, our community can support our school by shopping for specially marked items. For every 4 participating products purchased, shoppers earn 3 School Dollars. At checkout, customers receive a School Dollar printout that they can redeem online and direct funds to our school.

Using Hannaford To Go? With Hannaford To Go, School Dollars are not provided at pickup. Instead, about a week into May and again a week into June, Hannaford will email you a unique code reflecting the total School Dollars you earned in the previous month from qualifying purchases.

To redeem School Dollars, simply enter the unique printout code and store number on the Hannaford Helps Schools website or app, then select our school. Each School Dollar printout also includes a QR code linking directly to the website, making it quick and easy to redeem School Dollars.

Each of the top 200 schools to raise the most money by redeeming School Dollars will receive an additional $1,000 bonus check. By coming together as a community, we can raise even more funds for our school. Thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support!

On April 11, youth ages 11-17 are invited to a visitor day at our Teen Naturalist Program to see if they may want to join our Fall 2026-Spring 2027 program, one Saturday a month, September-May.

Teens can register now to join.There is still space and scholarships available for our teen programs.

Adventure Game Theater: A live action role play 8 day overnight for ages 12 and up. Become a hero, meet magical creatures, face dark powers, and fight for your life with foam swords and magic.

Inner Journeys a transformative 2 week overnight for ages 14 and up.

Share deeply with a small group of peers, learn mindfulness meditation and yoga, practice shamanic journey and breathwork and wilderness solo and play games in the woods and lots of other wild fun!

ReTribe retreats also include a variety of activities to choose from including improvisational theater, creative writing, dancing, dream interpretation, wilderness skills, handcraft arts, cooking, and more.