Conall Halvey - National Leadership Forum
Leland & Gray 11th grade student leader and West River Valley Thrives Advisory Board Member, Conall Halvey, attended the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America National Leadership Forum from February 4-7, 2019. He was among 12 youth and 19 adults representing 10 coalitions, social service agencies, school representatives, and healthcare agencies from around the state. 36 states, U.S. territories, several countries, and over 3,000 people were in attendance at this annual event, the largest of its kind focusing on substance use education and prevention issues.
On February 6, the Vermont delegation attended the annual Capitol Hill Day, where substance use education and prevention coalitions from across the nation met with their respective Senators and Congresspersons. Conall made presentations to Congressman Peter Welch, Senator Patrick Leahy, and the staff of Senator Bernie Sanders. You may watch the full video of Conall's presentation to Senator Leahy on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pht-ToGph1k) or on the home page of West River Valley Thrives at wrvthrives.com.
Vermont's Congressional Delegation listens and understands the issues, challenges, and successes of the work of the prevention coalitions, community groups, social service agencies, and many other partners in our state. Not only that, they strongly support the funding that helps make the local work these organizations do in our communities in substance use education and prevention possible! They were also invited to our state to see first-hand the work that is being done, the successes that have been achieved, and the challenges we continue to face. It takes a whole community approach to make and keep our youth, community members, and towns healthy! Thank you, Conall, for your contributions, enthusiasm, insights, thoughtfulness, and dedication to supporting your peers and dedicating yourself to all you do for your family, friends, school, and community!
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Spain Trip 2019:
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During the February break, 14 L & G high school students and two teachers will travel to Spain as part of our ongoing cultural exchange with El Instituto Los Cahorros, a high school in Monachil, Spain. The students, Jacob Ameden, Olympia Burke, Sarah Andersen, Jillian Carona, Michael Carona , Erin Cutts, Lily Dutton, Abbie Hazelton, Bay Holmes, Alison Stockwell, Fox Pickering, Veronica Stevens, Michaela Stillwagon, and Siyanda Jacobs will travel with L&G teachers, Tammy Claussen and Jeryl Julian Cissé for 13 days. They will visit Barcelona, Madrid, Segovia, Granada and Códoba, as well as stay with families from the high school in Monachil. This is the fifth trip from L&G, led by Spanish teacher Ms. Cissé, where the students get to know the country through first-hand experiences touring historical sites, museums, hiking the hillsides, eating the local foods, and the highlight of the trip...attending school and interacting with the students. This is an alternating year trip, with the Spanish students visiting Vermont and staying with L&G families on the alternate year. Last year, we hosted 9 students and two teachers.
The students are also selling month-long calendar raffles for all of January! With fantastic prizes for each day of the month, you have 31 chances to win! And a winner one day with have the ticket entered back in to the raffle, so you may win multiple times! Calendars are $10 for one or 3 for $20.
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New L&G Apparel
Hello Rebel Nation!
Below is the link to our 2nd L&G Apparel Store. We have provided some popular items for this time of year!
The store will be open for orders until February 11th, 2019!
Please support L&G Athletics and the Booster Club!
https://lelandandgrayhs2019.itemorder.com/
Deadline: Monday February 11th, 2019 (11:59pm CST)
Leland and Gray Theatre Class
The Leland and Gray Theatre class wrapped up its final projects this past week, while reflecting on how much they learned and bonded through out the experience. This semester our class focused on acting, dramaturgy, set and costume design, directing, ensemble building, Theatre of the Oppressed and playwriting. Furthermore, we learned how to trust ourselves and others, how to respect and find empathy by standing in other's shoes, and to find empowerment through our own voices.
"I love how we bonded together, and how plays bring out something deep within us."
"I learned how to be in touch with my acting."
"What I liked most about the class was the team building activities and group work."
"I liked how I could be myself in this class."
"I loved being able to take theatre as an actual class. I learned much more about memorizing lines and about acting. I made lots of new friends and got to explore acting constantly"
"I loved all the hands on activities we did in class. I also learned actual playwriting. I'm going to miss this class."
"I learned that there are a lot of items that contribute to a play and that conflict is very important. I liked how close the people in this class got."
"I liked the creative freedom that was given to us."
"I learned how to express myself and how to write a play."
"I learned how to act better."
"I learned how to write plays from reading other plays. It was a really fun experience."
"I learned that you can use theatre in every day life, not just on stage."
"I learned that theatre is important and used every day. I liked this class, it was so fun."