We collaborate closely with our partners over at the Colchester Police Department and we have been tracking a concerning rise in the number of drivers failing to stop for our school buses with activated red lights. This is frustrating, but it is also incredibly dangerous. So, we got to work! In addition to increasing the police presence on our bus routes, we invite you to enjoy (and share!) this humorous yet informative video, created to draw attention to this critical issue

As part of the district's Your Vote Matters series, join Superintendent of Schools Amy Minor as she provides an overview of spending in Colchester and how the goals of the FY'25 budget fit into the complexities of the state's new funding formula. You can vote early by going to the Town Clerks Office during business hours or you can plan to vote on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 5 at CHS between 7am -7pm. #wearecolchester #yourvotematters

Join CHS Senior and Student School Board Representative, Phoebe Richardson, as she engages in insightful conversations with fellow students, reflecting on the profound impact her Colchester experiences have had on her educational journey. In the upcoming second episode of our "Your Vote Matters" series, Superintendent Amy Minor will shed light on the FY'25 budget and the unique complexities of the state's educational funding system. Also, keep an eye on your mailboxes! The 2024 CSD Annual Report to the Community is on its way to all Colchester residences. Please vote early at the Colchester Town Office or at CHS on Town Meeting Day: Tuesday, March 5 from 7am - 7pm. #ColchesterEducation #WeAreColchester #YourVoteMatters

Welcome to the Colchester School District! We are proud to celebrate the diversity of our community. This video highlights all the languages our students, families, and employees use to communicate at home and school! #wearecolchester #allarewelcome

In this last video in CSD's Your Vote Matters series, Superintendent Amy Minor recaps the proposed FY'24 budget and tax impacts, encourages community members to come to the Annual Town Meeting on the eve before voting day, and highlights the option to vote early if residents are unable to vote on Tuesday, March 7.

CSD Superintendent of Schools, Amy Minor, has been awarded the high distinction of 2022 Vermont Superintendent of the Year. Hear what our staff and students have to say about Ms. Minor's leadership.

Colchester School District has school counselors in all of our buildings and like many of our faculty and staff, they have a tremendous impact on helping students achieve school success. Whether is one-on-one support during a crisis, facilitating small groups on specific topics, providing classroom instruction, recommending scholarship opportunities, or helping plan for a career after graduation, our school counselors do it all.

March was a busy month - Chain of Kindness, National Panda Day (Yay, Pearson the Panda!), lots of great learning and fun times! We hope you enjoy these snapshots from this meaningful month at Porters Point School.

We've been having fun with snow outside and inside at Porters Point School! Enjoy this movie featuring photos of recess and our most recent PBIS all-school celebration - an indoor "snowball fight" with friends. Fun things happen when PPS students follow our school expectations - Be Safe, Be Healthy, Be Respectful, and Be Ready to Learn.

October has been full of adventures for PPS Pandas! From our hat day celebration at the beginning of the month to our last beautiful days of sunshine and learning today, we have grown as individual learners and as a school community. Enjoy seeing photos from this month before we flip the calendar to November.

PPS students are off to a great start in this first full month of school. Enjoy this video featuring photos from the first day to the last day of September 2021.

PPS students did a week-long artist residency with Circus Smirkus in June 2021. Check out our practice sessions as we learned how to juggle and do gravity-defying balancing tricks with Nettie, our circus arts teacher.

Thank you to PPS School Staff!

In this final video from our Your Vote Matters Series, Superintendent Amy Minor recaps the budget details for FY'22, explains how administrators are working to grow two areas in the district, and goes over what to expect on the ballot. Residents can vote early by mail or in person on Tuesday, March 2 at Colchester High School. No matter how you do it, please vote because your vote matters!

Are you curious what a day in the life of a high school student looks like during a pandemic? Then you don't want to miss the second video in our Your Vote Matters series from Colchester High School Senior and Student School Board Member, Julia Correll. Follow along with her as she enters the school and completes her daily health screening, goes to both in-person and virtual classes, and chats with students and teachers about their experiences.

Take a look inside a few of our schools with Superintendent Amy Minor as she shares the first video in our Your Vote Matters series. She highlights what's making the current year unique and how it has impacted the proposed budget for next year. The FY22 school budget will be voted on in about a month. You can vote early with a mailed ballot or you can vote in person on Tuesday, March 2 at CHS. No matter how you do it, your vote matters!

Celebrating the First Half of the Year at PPS!

This video features the great learning our Kindergarten students are doing at the beginning of this school year students in Mr. Allbee's room were learning how to write letters of the alphabet, Ms. Moore and Mrs. Belaski's students were learning how to spot rhyming words, and Ms. Donnelly's student scientists were observing trees outside and diagramming what they saw.

Our 2020-21 school year is off to a great start at Porters Point School! Enjoy these snapshots of our first days together - new routines, new learning, new friendships and, as always, lots of fun.

PPS teachers and staff said good-bye to our PPS Pandas in style this year with a "Second Grade Send-Off" and a PPS Car Parade. We will miss all of you over the summer and look forward to being together with you again soon!

This school year is undoubtedly different but our community's love for our educators and support staff is stronger than ever. We asked our families if they would like to say anything to our faculty and staff...and oh boy did they! #teacherappreciation #thankyou #staffappreciation #wemissyou #wearecolchester

4/20/20 Family News Update

We are thinking about you during this time that school is closed. Keep doing your best learning and we hope we can come back together at school soon!

Take a walk through our hallways with CHS Senior, Mitch Gadapee, as he interviews students of all ages to find out why they think Colchester is such a great community to learn, explore, and find your passion. Mitch is the student representative on the school board and we cannot thank him enough for taking the time to conceptualize, film, and edit this video. Bravo! #StudentPerspective #WeAreColchester #YourVoteMatters #TownMeetingDayVT #OurTownOurKids

Superintendent Amy Minor shares more information about the FY'21 budget and encourages voters to cast their ballots early at the Town Hall or to vote on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 3rd from 7-7 at Colchester High School.

Superintendent Amy Minor takes you into our schools to explain the driving factors of the FY'21 school budget, which is up for vote in just two weeks. #YourVoteMatters #TownMeetingDayVT2020 #WeAreColchester

The Colchester Sun recently came to UMS and PPS to ask our students for some tips on how to cook a turkey. The answers were everything we hoped they'd be!

Each year, the Colchester High School Cares Club collects food donations to make Thanksgiving baskets for fellow students and their families who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford a Thanksgiving meal. If you have any extra non-perishables in your pantry, we encourage you to bring them into any Colchester school and drop them into the designated bin in the lobby before November 22nd. If you ever doubted how much one box of stuffing or rice could help a fellow Colchester student and their family, take a look at this quick video. Thanks for donating!

We are thrilled to have our students, both young and old, back in our hallways for the 2019-2020 school year. They always keep us inspired and entertained. Welcome back Colchester students!

Enjoy highlights of our Project-Based Learning units and the culminating event - our Celebration of Learning - at Porters Point School in June 2019.

#ppsvt #magisto

Tag along with CHS senior, Sophia Brigante, as she stops into the five schools that make up Colchester School District. See our schools through the eyes and ears of our students and find out why CSD is so special. (Spoiler alert: it's the people!)

Here is the last video in the Your Vote Matters 2019 video series. Along with explaining the final component to next years budget, it summarizes all the information provided over the last few weeks. And as always, it showcases video and photos of the incredible students and staff that make up our district. We're less than a week away! Mark your calendars to vote on Tuesday, March 5th at Colchester High School.

You don't want to miss this episode of Your Vote Matters. Tag along with CHS senior, Sophia Brigante, as she stops into the five schools that make up Colchester School District. See our schools through the eyes and ears of our students and find out why CSD is so special. (Spoiler alert: it's the people!)

Join Colchester Superintendent Amy Minor as she puts on a hairnet and apron in one of our school kitchens. Then take a look into one of our English Language Learner classrooms with students who are new to America. In this week's Your Vote Matters video we're counting down to Town Meeting Day - when Colchester residents will have an opportunity to vote on the school budget that will benefit both of these programs. Get informed and get out to vote! Town Meeting Day Vote: Tuesday, March 5 from 7am to 7pm at CHS.

Colchester School Superintendent Amy Minor is back with her Your Vote Matters video series. Go inside the classroom with her as she explains what's included in next year's budget. We encourage our community to rally together to get informed and get out to vote! The school budget will be up for public vote on Tuesday, March 5th at Colchester High School. We hope to see you there, but for now, here's the first episode of Your Vote Matters 2019.

#magisto #WorldReadAloudDay2019 #ppsvt

Students in all three K-5 schools in Colchester participated in activities to learn how to code during the December 2018 Hour of Code week, December 3 through 7. There are 256 coding languages and students learned the basics of at least two of them. Coding activities gave our students an authentic application for directional vocabulary, number sense and counting, collaboration, and creativity. Students also used coding applications as a way to demonstrate their reading comprehension and learning in several different content areas.

Pac-Man at PPS: Mrs. Minor vs. Grade 1

All three of Colchester's elementary schools were recognized at the annual Vermont PBIS Leadership Forum. Our data shows that implementing PBIS has had a positive impact on academic and behavioral outcomes for our students. Way to go Porters Point, Union Memorial, and Malletts Bay! Watch the video to learn more and see PBIS in action.

Highlights of our Mighty Makers Celebration of Learning for 2018 - the culminating event of our two-week project-based learning units for each grade level.

Chick It Out! Our Grade 1 chicks hatched this week. Our hallways were filled with the sounds of cheeping and peeping as students studied the life cycle of chickens and compared baby chicks to adult birds.

UMS' mascot, "Champ," enjoyed his visit to PPS this past week. He went everywhere and learned what it means to have "Panda Pride." We can't wait to hear about all the things Pearson, the PPS mascot, learned about UMS during his visit, too! Thanks, UMS Champs, for sharing Champ with us!

Who better to tell the story of Colchester School District than the students themselves! This week's Your Vote Matters episode is straight from the amazing students who make up our five wonderful schools. Conceptualized, filmed, and edited entirely by CHS senior, Robbie Davis. #proud #lakers #townmeetingday #wearecolchester

Here's the final video in this year's Your Vote Matters series. We visit UMS, MBS, and CHS to see what opportunities students are taking advantage of. Please remember to vote this coming Tuesday, March 6th at Colchester High School from 7am - 7pm.

Here's the second edition of Your Vote Matters with Superintendent Amy Minor. With student enrollment holding steady, class sizes at Colchester Middle School are large. Find out what the FY19 budget has in store to help with growth at the middle school.

Minor. With student enrollment holding steady, class sizes at Colchester

Teachers from PPS, UMS, and MBS all participated in an inservice day learning about the Next Generation Science Standards engineering design cycle. They learned how to teach engineering design while also experiencing it first hand. Everyone was given an assignment to use scientific principles to develop a structure that would keep water cold on a hot playground. Check out this Magisto movie of the creative prototypes they came up with in this engineering design challenge.

Hundreds of Colchester students participated in National Walk to School Day. Not only did the kids receive great support and patience from commuters as they cautiously drove through our school zones but the police department and athletes from Colchester's own Saint Michael's College joined in to cheer them on!

Highlights from our Open House on October 28, 2017. Students enjoyed showing off their work to their families, families enjoyed meeting PPS teachers. Thank you all for showing up to support your child's learning at Porters Point School!

Following the PPS School Expectations pays off with an all-school "snowball fight" on Friday, February 9th. Keep up the good work, Pandas - always safe, respectful, and ready to learn!

Kindergarten, Grade 1 & Grade 2 students work together to code for our PPS robots, Dot and Dash, in Mrs. Bochanski's Robotics Group.

Our Wild West Book Fair and PTO Family Fun Night were a big hit last week! Enjoy these photos of our PPS cowpokes picking out books, panning for gold, and roping a wild horse on Thursday, November 9.

Porters Point School will be participating in Trick or Treat for Unicef  this year. Watch this short video to learn more. Boxes will be sent home on Monday, October 30th and need to be returned to school by Friday, November 3rd. Thank you!

Our first days of school were happy and busy at Porters Point. Enjoy this Magisto movie featuring photos and video clips from every classroom and every activity. It’s going to be a great year! #ppsvt #csdvt #firstdaysofschool

We're gearing up for the return of our students on Wednesday, August 30th! Take a peek at what we were up to at our Opening Ceremony Inservice. #wearecolchester

As the school year comes to a close, our principals share what they are most proud of.

Students take family and friends on learning tours of their Project-Based Learning work for our Mighty Makers PBL Open House on June 14, 2017.

Dozens of students have caught the running bug at Porters Point School!

After reading one of this year's Red Clover books, K-2 students at PPS used a research method to answer the question, "If you see a whale, how would you know it is a blue whale?" The information they gathered to answer the question was then used by a group of second graders to write and perform their original script!

Students all around the district want to thank our teachers and staff for the incredible work they do all year long. They made this video to share why they appreciate the staff here at CSD!

Watch PPS students learn the art of TAIKO drumming as part of the Artist-in-Residency program.

Meet an amazing group of Colchester kindergarteners who set out to buy a goat as an act of kindness.

Check out this amazing video created entirely by Colchester students! Seniors Jaclyn Cline and Courtney Dessormeau traveled all over town asking kids what they love most about going to school in Colchester and then compiled the answers into one fantastic video. You'll love their responses and probably see someone you know!

As we make the final push to the polls, we have one last video to share with you from our Your Vote Matters series. We've titled this video "Be the Difference" because we believe at the end of the day, it could come down to just a handful of ballots. As timing would have it, Superintendent Minor gets to share some exciting news with you in this video. (Spoiler alert: the tax increase is going to be lower than we originally anticipated!)

Besides all of the necessary operational costs of running a school district with over two thousand students, what type of educational opportunities does the school budget provide our students? Why is the education system so different now than it was 20 years ago? Watch Superintendent Amy Minor's next video to find out.

Here's the new episode from our Your Vote Matters series! This week's topic is enrollment. Is it really declining? What would that mean for class sizes and teachers? Find that out and more by watching this 3-minute video hosted by Superintendent Amy Minor. Plus, there's a special treat at the end for music lovers!

Have you met the new superintendent yet? Every week we'll be producing short videos (less than 3 minutes!) hosted by Superintendent Amy Minor. She'll cover a variety of topics surrounding the budget and the impact it has on our students and taxpayers. Our overarching goal of this series is to communicate how important local votes are to our community and subsequently increase voter turnout. Have a question you want answered? Let us know!

The renovation of the Performing Arts Center for Colchester Schools is complete! We invite you watch the video to take a tour of the upgrades and hear students and faculty express their appreciation to the Colchester community for supporting this project.