The Teacher of the Year Committee is pleased to announce that Kelly Stein has been named the Vernon Public Schools 2025–2026 Teacher of the Year!
Kelly is a patient, flexible, innovative, and empathetic teacher whose passion for music is evident in everything she does. She believes that music is for everyone and has developed resources to support her diverse group of students across all five elementary schools. Kelly has an exceptional ability to motivate and inspire students to do their best, even when faced with challenges. She is constantly learning, creating new ways to engage students, and designing lessons that are both challenging and supportive so all students can reach their full potential.
In addition, Kelly works tirelessly to ensure the band program is accessible to all students by maintaining the school’s inventory of instruments so financial circumstances never become a barrier to participation. Her dedication, positivity, and commitment to equity make her an outstanding educator and an excellent representative of our district.
Please join us in congratulating Kelly on this well-deserved honor!
Kelly is a patient, flexible, innovative, and empathetic teacher whose passion for music is evident in everything she does. She believes that music is for everyone and has developed resources to support her diverse group of students across all five elementary schools. Kelly has an exceptional ability to motivate and inspire students to do their best, even when faced with challenges. She is constantly learning, creating new ways to engage students, and designing lessons that are both challenging and supportive so all students can reach their full potential.
In addition, Kelly works tirelessly to ensure the band program is accessible to all students by maintaining the school’s inventory of instruments so financial circumstances never become a barrier to participation. Her dedication, positivity, and commitment to equity make her an outstanding educator and an excellent representative of our district.
Please join us in congratulating Kelly on this well-deserved honor!
Please join us for the All Town Elementary Band Concert conducted by our Teacher Of The Year, Mrs. Stein!
We want to give a huge shout out to Mrs. Vanty in our ECHN Family Resource Center at Maple Street! She does so much for our students and our school! She's secured funds for field trips, food, and events for our students and their families. This week our students were treated to a puppet show about bullying. The show was put on by Up In Arms, a puppet theater group out of NY.
This morning the RHS Wrestling Team came to encourage our students to do their best! Thank you to the team and their coach Mr. Gardiner!
Our Pie In The Face fundraiser is back! It is that time of year again! The staff at MSS have signed up to get pied in the face to raise money for 5th grade end of year events! Each person has a virtual collection jug and a real jug at school. The staff members with the most money raised will get pied in the face.
Donations help pay for:
Boston Field Trip
Signing Day Sweatshirts/Hats
End of Year Celebrations
A huge congratulations to all of our 4th and 5th grade chorus members for their amazing all town concert last Wednesday! Under the direction of Mrs. Perrett-Manly, Ms. Smallidge, Mrs. March, Mrs. Preyer, and Mr. Dunia all 5 elementary school choruses came together for the concert! Almost 300 hundred students sang beautifully together to show that music connects us all. Our students sounded wonderful and it was a testament to all of their (and their music teachers') hard work! WELL DONE!!!
Our teachers have had an amazing Teacher Appreciation Week! Today we were gifted goodie bags from Spare Time in Vernon! Our PTO fed us from Panera and gifted us 2 new picnic tables!!! Our staff is so grateful for the outpouring of appreciation this week!
We've had a great start to our Teacher Appreciation Week! Our teachers were treated to an amazing breakfast yesterday provided by our wonderful PTO! Today they were treated to Jerry's Donuts and Jeff's Kettle Corn provided by Mr. Egan! Thank you to all of our teachers and staff for the amazing things you do every day!
A huge thank you to the RHS Marching Band for welcoming our students today! The band was here to encourage our 3rd-5th graders to do their best on the SBA testing! The band also features some Maple Street Alumni! It was a great start to the day!!!
Our Family Fitness Night is back!
A huge thank you to all of our presenters for this year's Career Day! Everyone had a wonderful day and learned a lot about so many different jobs. A special thanks to our own Mrs. Rhoades for putting it all together!
April Vacation is next week!
Join us in wearing red tomorrow for World Autism Awareness Day!
No school this Friday
Join us for a fundraiser at BJ's in Manchester!
Early release days are tomorrow and Friday for conferences. Students are released at 12:45.
Join us for a night of Hockey!
Join us for a Cyber Safety event at VCMS!
No school this Friday
Lost and Found items box 1 of 2. If you see something in these pictures that belongs to your student, please reach out to our school nurse Mrs. Perez at 860-870-6177. She will make sure the item gets returned to your student. All unclaimed items will be donated on Friday 3/6 after school.
