 Watch our amazing student/staff created video linked below: (thanks Film Director Gordon) HUMS Spirit Week Video 2020 
Be Connected
Be Curious
Be Caring
Be HUMS!
IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES
Locker Clean-Out/Return Items Day June 4th 8:00 - 5:00
(Please contact dpierson@huusd.org if this date/time does not work)
Last Day of School - June 9th
HUMS 8th Grade Celebration Drive Through- June 16th - 6:30 at Harwood Union (more information coming soon)
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| Our HUMS Hardcopy Newspaper 8rd edition is almost ready for your review. A plethora (word of the day) of interesting inforamtion coming soon. Here is the Link to the newspaper: HUMS Hard Copy Link June 1, 2020 Thanks to all the hard work from our newspaper staff! |
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What is happening with our Chromebooks/other school devices for the summer?
Dear HUUSD families,
Moving into summer, most students are looking forward to less screen time than they have experienced for the past two months. We appreciate, however, the role computers, iPads and other devices have played in keeping us connected for learning and social purposes throughout this time.
While recently loosened restrictions have allowed us more direct contact with each other and the outside world, there is much that remains unknown in regards to the future. We believe technology will play a continued role in supporting connection and access to information. As such, HUUSD has decided to leave laptops and iPads lent out with students for the summer.
The only exception to this is for students graduating from HUHS, or planning to move out of the district; these devices need to be returned to your child’s school by June 15th. Logistics on how to return these devices will be communicated directly by each school.
Please keep in mind that use of HUUSD devices is not monitored by school staff over the summer. As previously indicated, the devices do not have features like internet screening or time limits; responsibility for monitoring use rests with parents/ guardians. We do reserve the right to disable any HUUSD device for misuse. Additionally, we have limited IT staff working during the summer, and therefore, limited tech support. Summer tech support requests will be handled through our online tech support request form, and we will do our best to meet your needs in a timely manner.
It is possible for us to disable Chromebooks (but not iPads) for the summer; this will make it so that the device cannot be used until we enable the device again in the Fall. If you would like the device disabled, please complete this form. If we do not hear from you, we will assume you want the device left functional, as it is now.
Regardless if the device is disabled or not, summer care for the device is critical. We are counting on these devices to support student learning in the fall, regardless of if we are remote or in person. Please continue to care for these devices and their chargers, storing them in a safe place when not in use. Our HUUSD Responsible Use Expectations do remain in place over the summer. As such, the following uses of technology are forbidden: being wasteful, negligent, or harmful to equipment, cheating, plagiarism, violating copyright, visiting websites inappropriate for school, using another student’s account or folders, impersonating others, unauthorized
downloading or software installation, cyberbullying and/ or other threatening behavior.
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School Board Information
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Link to the form here:
HUUSD Breakfast/Lunch Form
The HUUSD Food & Nutrition will have its last delivery on Friday, June 12th.
Please fill the form below if you believe your child will need meals during the summer.
Meals will be prepared by the Barre School District Food Service and distributed by volunteers at the Congregational Church in Waterbury.
Students in need from all our schools will be able to get free meals in this location, not only Waterbury residents.
Meals will be offered in a curbside delivery style. The delivery schedule will be similar to what we have now, 3 days a week (M/W/F). Time is yet to be determined.
More logistics information will be provided by June 12th.
Please fill this form ASAP
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Important Community Resource
Mad River Valley Community Fund short term assistance link: The MRVCF created a short form application in response to a variety of Covid- 19 concerns and challenges we face as a community. In an effort to bridge the gap between layoffs and receipt of unemployment benefits we have created an expedited financial support process. Please click on the following link and select submit when finished entering your information. Rebecca Baruzzi, the program coordinator, will be in contact with you regarding your application.Link: https://forms.gle/QA27oXMFDeRsMFZN9
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| We receive daily updates from the VT Department of Health, which are linked to our district working response plan, found on the HUUSD website.
Community Announcements
Please note that the opportunities/events listed below are not specifically endorsed or screened by school staff. As always, families should use their own standards and review processes to determine appropriate activities.
Farmers to Families Food Box Program The Vermont Foodbank is thrilled to announce the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. We will be partnering with The Abbey Group, the State Emergency Operations Center, and the Vermont National Guard to distribute boxes packed with fresh, nutritious food to people in need from May 15th through the end of June, with the possibility to continue beyond that.
The Abbey Group will provide boxes of chicken, produce, and dairy products for the distributions held by the Vermont National Guard throughout the state. They will provide enough food at each distribution to serve 1000 households. For the first several distributions, they will also provide non-perishable food boxes from FEMA. Distributions are currently scheduled through the rest of May in Berlin, Peru, Middlebury, Thetford, Morristown, Burlington, Brattleboro, Swanton, and Lyndonville.
We need your help promoting locally! Please click here to see the full schedule and help us spread the word to anyone who could use this assistance. We would prefer that you direct people to that link for the most up to date distribution details as this is a new program and details are emerging as we speak. This will ensure that everyone has access to the most accurate information possible.
TDI@Home 2020— now an on-line summer camp!Summer camp/academic program for advanced and gifted students entering grades 4-9. Now on-line, to be held M-F for two weeks: June 22-26 and June 29-July 3. Morning and/or afternoon options for one or both weeks; cost is $220 per morning or afternoon session. On-line classes—including Minecraft Circuitry, Myth-Making, Eggstronauts, Young Curators, Applied Programming, Writing and Laughing—nurture students' creativity and their love of learning. Campers have a virtual blast learning alongside other smart kids. Go to http://www.tdivermont.org/
The Bridge Over Troubled Waters Project
Dr. Richard Katzman, a Waterbury community member, Bridgeside Books owner Hiata Defeo, HUUSD Principal Tom Drake and CBMS Librarian Jen Hill are excited to announce the launch of a new program for kids of all ages in the Harwood Unified Union School District. The Bridge Over Troubled Waters Project will begin on June 15th and culminate as 2020 draws to a close with the publication of student writing and art. Young people attending private, public or home school are invited and encouraged to participate.
The theme of the project is “How we act and feel in difficult times.” It is about challenge and resilience, success and failure, courage and despair. Students will have a chance to read a book that relates to this theme in some way, then to create reflections from their reading and their own experience. Prose, poetry and art work are all welcome. Fiction or nonfiction, books from home, from a selection available at or special ordered by Bridgeside Books at no cost to participants (and for them to keep), or borrowed from a library, are all fine.
Bridgeside Books will have available the following selection for the project. If your child is interested in a different book, we can get it for you, usually in less than a week.
For older readers
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson - looking back on childhood
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - novel and graphic about finding your voice
Book Thief by Markus Zusak - in Nazi Germany find comfort in words
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - family and friendship in Afghanistan
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - courage and survival in Alaska
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - hard times in the Dust Bowl
For middle readers
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (young adult version) - true survival plane crash
Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - true story enduring hardships
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba - true enterprising teen
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - survive alone in the wilderness
El Deafo by Cece Bell - graphic memoir living with deafness
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper - growing up a brilliant mind trapped in a body
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling - sarcasm, struggle
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacueline Woodson - a poem memoir of childhood
For younger readers
The Day you Begin by Jacqueline Woodson - power of your voice and friendship
The Dot by Peter Reynolds - discover talent
Tomorrow I'll be Brave by Jessica Hische - fantastic journey with opportunities
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall - courage to take a big important leap
Student submissions will be due by September 1st; details on how to submit will be sent to you in August. HUUSD faculty will review the collection before formatting the efforts of participating writers and artists into a publication which will include the work of elementary, middle and high school students and which we hope to have available for the holidays by November 1st.
If you are interested in participating, even if you do not need a book from us, please click here and fill out this form by June 15th. We plan to have books ready to distribute to everyone by July 1st. Dr. Katzman can be reached at 802.793.3661 or rkatzman@uvm.edu if you have questions, or contact Bridgeside Books at info@bridgesidebooks.com. Details on book distribution will go out to participants the last week of June. |
