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PTO News
Volunteer needed! We’d like to bring Orchard Gear (clothes with Orchard logo) back and need a volunteer to work with the vendor and to organize orders. If this is something you’re willing to help with, please email Kristin at orchardschoolvt@gmail.com
PTO-Sponsored Events to look forward to: International Night and the Cookie Extravaganza are coming soon! Check the Core in the weeks to come for more information.
Konstella: Join today to connect with your child's friends, to sign up for classroom events, and more! Konstella is an app and website with a school directory by classroom (students are added by their caregiver, so it is not necessarily a full class list). It is also used throughout the year as a place for people to sign up to volunteer for classroom events, and it can accept payments for field trips and other donations.
Save the Date: The next PTO meeting is November 9th at 6:30 pm in the art room. All are welcome!
Box Tops is an easy way to earn money for Orchard School! Popular brands like Annies, Cascadian Farms, and General Mills participate in the program (note the pink “Boxtops” logo on top of these boxes). Download the Box Tops for Education app here.
Use referral code VI7J42XS when you sign up and you’ll get 20 Bonus Box Tops.
Stay up to date: Follow the Orchard PTO on Facebook or reach out with any questions at orchardschoolvt@gmail.com
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News from Our Medical Team
Take action to make your medicine cabinet safer.
Saturday is National Drug Takeback Day.
Properly dispose of unneeded or expired prescription medications at many safe disposal sites.
For more information, visit the Vermont Department of Health.
Be well,
Kara Cassani &
Sarah Pineda, School Nurses
Principal Job Description
Leaving Costumes at Home
We occasionally get questions this time of year about allowing students to wear costumes to school on Halloween. Though teachers make their own decisions for class festivities, we ask students to keep their costumes at home. Here are some points to consider:
- Students come to Orchard from many cultures that do not celebrate the day.
- Students also come to Orchard from different economic means, sometimes creating unhealthy competitions frequently unfair for many children.
- We've had gory costumes coming to school, just not appropriate.
- The costumes would get wet, muddy and/or wrecked for trick-or-treating.
- Finally, the costumes were too much of a distraction for learning—what schools are really about!
A few schools may still include costume parades but the vast majority have come to the same conclusion as us, thank you for understanding.
