WRED OST

10/07/2026

10/05/2026

🎉 We’re Back! The First Day of L’After at WES! 🎉

What a great way to kick off a new year of L’After at Wardsboro Elementary School! 💙

Our first day was filled with smiles, games, creativity, friendship, and plenty of fun! It was wonderful to see students settling in, reconnecting with friends, meeting new faces, and getting comfortable in our L’After community.

At L’After, we believe afterschool should be more than just a place to go after the school day. It’s a place where kids can belong, explore their interests, build relationships, try new things, and have fun! 🌟

A huge thank you to our amazing staff for creating such a welcoming environment and to our families for trusting us with your children.

We’re excited for all the adventures, learning, laughter, and memories ahead! 🚀

Welcome to another great year of L’After! 💙

10/04/2026

Dear L’After Families,

We wanted to share a friendly reminder about items from home and ask for your partnership in helping us create the best possible experience for all of our students.
We understand that there are times when students may be allowed to bring something from home to school for a specific purpose. However, during L’After, we have found that personal items can sometimes become a distraction or lead to frustration among peers. When this happens, it can make it more difficult for students to stay engaged, participate in activities, and enjoy their time together.

For this reason, we are asking that items from home remain safely in students’ backpacks for the entire L’After program, unless a staff member has specifically given permission for an item to be used.

This expectation is not about taking away something that is important to a child. In fact, we recognize that these items can be very special and meaningful to our students. Keeping them safely in backpacks also helps protect them from being lost, broken, or misplaced, which can be especially difficult for children.

Our goal at L’After is to create a welcoming, inclusive environment where students feel comfortable, connected, and ready to participate. We want everyone to have the opportunity to engage with one another, explore their interests, build friendships, and enjoy the activities we have planned.

We know that these expectations are most successful when families and L’After staff work together. We greatly appreciate your support in talking with your child about keeping personal items safely in their backpack while at L’After. If there is ever a particular item or circumstance you feel we should know about, please reach out to us. We are always happy to work together to find a solution that supports your child.

Thank you for being such an important part of our L’After community and for helping us make L’After a positive, safe, and enjoyable place for everyone!

Take Care,
Jamie Dansereau M. Ed.
Director of WRED OST
West River Education District Out-Of-School Time

10/04/2026

Dear Wardsboro L'After Families,

We are excited to have programming begin tomorrow! We look forward to seeing all of our students who are scheduled to attend on Monday.

As we get ready for a great start, we wanted to share a few friendly reminders:

1. Programming Location – Wardsboro Elementary School
L'After will take place at Wardsboro Elementary School. Students will be able to go directly from their last class of the day into L'After, just as they have in the past.

2. Students Will Receive a Meal at L'After
Our amazing Food Services Team will be preparing meals for all of our L'After students. We are very grateful for their continued support of our program!

3. Dismissal Time – 4:45–5:00 PM
Please plan to pick up your child between 4:45 and 5:00 PM. Students and staff will be actively engaged in programming and activities throughout the afternoon, so we ask that families please stick to the designated dismissal window.

4. Pickup Patrol
There is an option in Pickup Patrol to indicate that your child will be attending L'After that day. Even though you have already registered for the program, please make sure you mark L'After in Pickup Patrol each day, as we understand that plans can change.
If your child is scheduled to attend L'After but your plans change and they will be going somewhere else at the end of the school day, simply update Pickup Patrol with their dismissal plan. We have access to Pickup Patrol, and keeping this information up to date helps us plan for a successful afternoon and, most importantly, ensures that every student gets where they are supposed to go.

5. Questions?
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me by email at [email protected].

If you have an emergency, you can also call or text me at 802-380-8905. If you are calling or texting, please include your child's name and the school they attend so I can quickly assist you.

Thank you all for joining us for this session! We are excited to get started and look forward to a fantastic session of L'After with our Wardsboro students.

Take Care,
Jamie Dansereau M. Ed.
Director of WRED OST
West River Education District Out-Of-School Time

09/18/2026

WRED OST Is Growing!

We are excited to formally announce that Wardsboro Elementary School is joining the WRED OST community!

This is an exciting step forward for our Out-of-School Time programming, and we are thrilled to welcome the students, families, and staff of Wardsboro Elementary into our growing WRED OST community.

As our program continues to grow, so does our collective impact. Growth means more opportunities to share ideas, connect with community partners, expand resources, build stronger relationships, and create meaningful experiences for young people. Most importantly, it allows us to reach more students and provide even more opportunities for them to connect, belong, explore, grow, and thrive beyond the school day.

Every new school that becomes part of WRED OST brings new strengths, perspectives, talents, and possibilities. We are excited to learn from the Wardsboro community while also bringing our shared vision for engaging, enriching, and supportive out-of-school experiences to even more students.

The future of WRED OST is bright, and we are just getting started!

Please join us in giving a warm WRED OST welcome to Wardsboro Elementary School! We can't wait to see all of the incredible opportunities that come from growing together.

09/18/2026

BIG NEWS FROM LELAND & GRAY!

We are incredibly proud to announce that 8th grader Clara Lumenello has been selected as a Windham County Representative to the Vermont State Youth Council!

So… what does that mean?

It means Clara will have a seat at the table with young people from across Vermont, bringing the ideas, experiences, concerns, and hopes of Windham County youth directly into statewide
conversations.

The Vermont State Youth Council works to make sure young Vermonters have a voice in the decisions that affect their lives and communities. Council members work on issues including
education, youth voice, equity, mental health, and climate change, and help advise Vermont’s Governor and General Assembly.

Clara, we couldn't be more excited to see you step into this leadership opportunity! Your voice matters, your ideas matter, and now you have an amazing opportunity to help make sure the
voices of young people in Windham County are heard across Vermont.

Congratulations, Clara! We are cheering you on!

09/11/2026

Today, we pause to remember September 11, 2001, and the lives forever changed that day.

We remember the lives lost, the families affected, and the countless acts of courage, kindness, and service that followed.

May we continue to honor their memory by choosing kindness, helping others, and coming together as a community.

We remember. We honor. We carry forward.

09/09/2026

Dear Middle & High School Families,

Your kids asked, and we listened!

We’ve heard from several of our students that they would LOVE the chance to play volleyball through Rebels After The Bell, and we’re excited to see if we can make it happen!

If we have enough students sign up, we will offer Volleyball on Mondays after school until our 4:45 PM dismissal. This will be a great opportunity for students to get active, learn new skills, work together, and most importantly, have fun!

Interested in joining the fun? Register here!
https://form.jotform.com/262214425260144

Registration will be open until Saturday, September 12 at 12:00 PM.

If we have enough students registered, Volleyball will kick off Monday, September 14! If we don’t have enough participants to run the program, we will reach out to families by email.

We’re excited to see if we can turn our students’ idea into a new Rebels After The Bell opportunity. They asked for it, and now we’re ready to see what they can do!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

09/09/2026

Don't Forget No Afterschool Wednesday, September 16, 2026