Harvest Dance

September 18, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Harvest Dance Saturday, October 28, 1-2:30 pm

Please join us in the back field from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 28 for our PTO-Sponsored Harvest Dance. The dance is free to all K-5 students and costumes are optional. No scary masks or violent costumes, please. All children must be accompanied by an adult (no drop offs). Music and allergy-friendly snacks will be provided. Hope to see you there!

For Pre-K Through 5th Grade Families Only.

***All Children Must Be Accompanied By An Adult (no drop offs) * **

Hope to see you there!

First Day of School

August 16, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Wednesday, August 30th is the first day of school. School will be dismissed at the regular Wednesday time of 1:50pm.

Kindergarteners will be released at 11:30am for the first three days of school.

Sustainability Academy Arrival & Dismissal 2023-24

Arrival

Arrival takes place between 7:45-8:08am. Breakfast will be served in the cafeteria during this time. There is no adult supervision before 7:45am. Students who arrive after 8:10am are considered late.

All SA students enter the building through the back doors of the school located by the parking lot and school gardens. We know that families travel to school in a variety of ways – walking, biking, driving and more. Families who drive to school are requested to use the parking lot on North Champlain as a drop off spot. An SA staff member will be in the parking lot ready to help students exit vehicles so that families do not need to park and leave their cars.

Dismissal

Students will be dismissed at 2:50pm everyday except on Wednesdays. Please arrive by 2:50pm to pick up your child. Wednesday dismissal is at 1:50pm. In the event that we are unable to reach you, we will contact your student’s emergency contacts listed in Powerschool. Students will be dismissed from various locations:

Car – All students who get picked up by car will be brought to the parking lot on N. Champlain St. so that we can bring students to cars instead of families having to park.
Walker – Kindergarten students are dismissed from their classrooms. 1st and 2nd grade students are dismissed from the back entrance. 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students are dismissed from the front entrance.
Students attending the Burlington Kids Afterschool program will go directly to afterschool from their classrooms.
Students attending other after school programs (ONE Arts, Sara Holbrook) will connect with staff members at a designated meeting spot.

SA Parking Lot Guidelines:

Have your student(s) ready to go when they are being dropped off.
Stay in your car unless it is to help your student(s) load or unload. Our staff is able to help with this if your family is comfortable with that. Wait in your car when picking up, we will bring your student(s) to you.
Do not pass cars that are stopped in front of you.
Park only in designated parking spots. Do not park along the curb as this creates a traffic jam in our small parking lot.

Book Fair at Phoenix Books

May 4, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Sustainability Academy Book Fair at Phoenix Books

Monday, May 8th thru Sunday, May 14th

Love reading? Love watching your children read? Know others who read? Help SA raise money for student learning! Just go to Phoenix Books in either Burlington or Essex during the week-long Book Fair, make your purchases (excludes gift cards, Book Club membership purchases or renewals, textbooks or specialty titles, consigned products gift), and be sure to let them know at the checkout you want to support SA. Phoenix Books will donate 20% to our school. Send your family, friends and neighbors, too. Their purchases can benefit SA as well!

Can’t make it to the store in person? Have family far away who want to help? Order online at phoenixbooks.biz and enter “For SA” in the Comment field when you check out.

Book Fair: When and Where?

One Week: Monday, May 8th thru Sunday, May 14th, 2023

At Phoenix Books: 191 Bank Street, Burlington, 802-448-3350

2 Carmichael St Suite 2, Essex Junction, VT 05452

or online at phoenixbooks.biz

Happy Reading!

Magnet School Community Survey

April 7, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Magnet School Community Survey (Due Thursday, April 13)

Burlington School District (BSD) is conducting a brief survey to learn how IAA and SA students, families, and staff members feel about their school and to recruit volunteers to join a Magnet School Advisory Group, which will propose unique measures of success for the magnet schools and consider what resources would be helpful to reach those goals. This group is being pulled together in response to important questions that were asked during the budget development process for school year 2023-2024 about how these schools are supported.

Please click here to complete the survey and to volunteer. We hope to hear from everyone! Volunteering to be part of the Advisory Group is not necessary to complete the anonymous survey.

Spring Break April 24 – 28

April 3, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

No school the week of April 24 – 28. SA will be on spring break!

Report Cards Going Home February 24

February 17, 2023 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Report cards for the first trimester will be sent home with students on Friday, February 24.

Please sign the front of the report card envelope and return the envelope to school. The report card and anything else inside the report card envelope is yours to keep.

Report cards will also be available to parents via the PowerSchool Parent Portal. For directions access : https://tinyurl.com/k5reportcardparentportal

Meet the Staff

October 3, 2022 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Get to know our wonderful SA team. Enjoy photos and a short bio of our community.

Here is the link

Early Release Monday, January 18th, 11:30am

January 12, 2022 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

Early Release Monday, January 17th in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. Dismissal will be at 11:30am. Students will be provided with a bag lunch before dismissal.

No Burlington Kids Afterschool Program.

K-8 Open House Google Meet Instructions September 30th

September 30, 2021 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

SA Virtual Open House

Please join us for virtual open house from 5:30-6:30 on Thursday, September 30.

To find links to join each classroom, click here.

BSD Families- Ready to Access Your K-8 Virtual Open House?
Remember- to join a Google Meet conference you must use a GOOGLE account.

If you do not have a Google account and do not wish to create a free one (mail.google.com), please use your student’s BSD Gmail account.

1. Step One- Find the URL and get ready to Enter the Meet

Families will enter the Meet that teachers have shared with them as a URL (either in an email from your student’s teacher or another pre communicated location (Seesaw Family app for example).

What does this link look like?

Example here: (https://meet.google.com/wfx-jnua-kso)

Click on the Link you were provided (not the link above) OR Copy and Paste the link into a Browser

2. Enter the Meet!

Then, you will see a screen where it says “Ready to join? Ask to join”

The family will click ASK TO JOIN.

The teacher will then ADMIT or DENY your entrance to the Meet. If the teacher denies your entrance, it may be that you are too early or does not recognize the email address! If you are denied entry twice you will not be able to join the meet using the method above. The teacher will need to send you a new link or an invitation to join.

3. Attend the Open House in the Google Meet.

4. Leave the Google Meet when prompted.

5. All Meet links also have associated phone numbers with PIN codes for joining the meeting. If preferred , ask your child’s teacher for the Conference Meet phone number and pin code (if not also provided) to call in to the meeting.

Picture Retake Day – November 30th

November 24, 2010 By ddiaz Leave a Comment

A reminder that picture retake day will be held on Tuesday, November 30th. If your student did not have their picture taken or you would like a retake of your child’s existing photo, please be sure to have them in attendance on this day.

For retake have your child bring their photo package.

Order forms can be sent home with your student or you can order online.

Please call the office with any questions.

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Magnet School Community Survey (Due Thursday, April 13)

Please click here to complete the survey and to volunteer. We hope to hear from everyone! Volunteering to be part of the Advisory Group is not necessary to complete the anonymous survey.

SA Virtual Open House

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