Arts

Students from the early grades each drew a face, and then all these drawings were connected together to make the above 20'x12' wall hanging! Mr Gatz's art class (below) experiments with paint.

Student Artwork

Student Art 2008

Putney Central School Community Garden

The PCS garden was started around 1997 by Leon Cooper. The PHACT committee took over the garden project. One of the goals of the garden program was to enhance health and nutrition education. [caption id="attachment_436" align="alignright" width="192" caption="Three Sisters Scarlet Runner"][/caption] In 2005 the garden project was awarded two grants: the first grant, through VEHI (the Vermont Education Health Initiative), allowed the school to pay a garden coordinator for the ’05 gardening season. The coordinator helped teachers to integrate the garden into their classroom, maintained thegarden over the summer and coordinated community garden activities. Rebecca Golden was hired as the Garden Coordinator ...

PCS launches Positive Behavior Supports Program

This year the teachers and staff took their first steps in developing a more positive academic and behavioral environment for everyone at Putney Central School. As a staff and student body, we have devoted much time to the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Program, which we began to implement on the first day of the 2009-2010 school year. Part of this process included developing and teaching specific behavioral expectations to our students.

We expect all of our students to show Putney PRIDE: “P” for Participation, “R” for Respect & Responsibility, “I” for Integrity & Independence, “D” for Dedication and “E” for Effort & Excellence.

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International Studies Program

International Studies

Introduction

In 1997 and 1998, two teachers from Putney Central School (Gerry Gatz and Kathleen Bartlett) visited China and Japan through UVM’s Asian Studies Outreach Program. That experienced changed their perspective on the world — and on teaching.

Working alongside and through the school’s PTO, an International Studies program that, since 1999,has conducted all-school investigations of the arts, religions, culture, language, and customs of areas of the world far away from rural Vermont. The following represents a brief record of international studies at PCS. [Read more...]