Lightning Round

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Lakeside Lightning - Last post of 2022 (6/21/22)

Mrs. Murphy is retiring - Good Luck

Lakeside Lightning,

Grow through what you go through!

We want to thank everyone for their support this year. Many in education would say it was the most challenging year due to coming off a pandemic and interrupted learning over the past two years. Despite all of the challenges our students and teachers thrived and achieved so much. We met 2 of our 4 School Improvement Goals and increased our proficiency on each benchmark in Math and LAL. Our school was featured on GMA for their Mothers' Day Celebration. Millions of viewers watched as our own Ms. Biaselli received gifts and surprises from GMA. In addition, our school was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the School of Character application for National School of Character. Each day, our teachers and students worked collaboratively to bring back events such as the Semi, Step Up and even field trips. Our staff was recognized for the hard work with a very special Staff Appreciation Week by our PTO. These accomplishments are just a few highlights but there was so much more.

We are so proud of our Lakeside students. We wish the class of 2026 the best of luck as they begin their High School Career. We look forward to the new 6th grade class as they will enter a school that is once again back to the way things started in 1999... with teams! That's right each grade will have 4 teams and the students will be placed in those teams with the same teachers. There will be increased activities and opportunities due to the teams. In addition, our class sizes will be reduced and there will be more attention to the students. The future is bright!

Next year, Mrs. Gaunt will be the new Principal. We want to wish Dr. Cook much success as he moves to the RM Bacon to be the Principal of the Bears! On behalf of the entire staff at LMS, we wish you the best over summer break!

Congratulations to our new Principal, Mrs. Gaunt!

School Improvement Goals

Benchmarks

According to the end of the year Link It Benchmark C, we have improved in almost area of Math and Language Arts. If you would like to see the entire breakdown, please click HERE.

School Improvement Plan - Click here for dashboard. Click here for Quick View of Goals

Goal one - ELA - Goal Met!

Goal two - Math - Goal not Met

Goal three - Student Removals - Goal Met!

Goal four - Climate and Culture survey - Goal not Met

Step Up - Congratulations to the 8th grade students!

Stepping up

Thank you to Mayor Lisa Orndorf for her message

Olivia playing the Star Spangled Banner

LMS Alum and current Syracuse star LaQuint Allen

Dr. Cook, Yadi and Mrs. Gaunt

Pictures from around the school

Gaudio's 8th grade GT students

Former LMS student Keron Harris Jr. is going places

AVID Dinner

Zerra's stars

STEM crew

Stem crew

Stem project

End of the year activities

Slavati's STEM crew

MAA dinner

Mrs. Holmes and Ms. L

Messy fun

Semi

Science dissection

Mia helping at Project HOPE

Ms. Gaunt at Semi

Twinning is winning

Zerra's math stars

Student projects

Ms. DeRosa's kids

Ms. DeRosa selfie time

Last days of school

Mrs. Murphy is going to be missed

Twinning is winning

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Published by Spike Cook, Principal, Millville

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Lakeside Lightning Round - June 6 - 10, 2022

LMS donated (through Cradles to Crayons) to Project HOPE

Lakeside Lightning,

Grow through what you go through!

We had a very exciting week. Our 6th graders, who never got a chance to compete in Olympic Day, were able to have a fun filled day with the same events as the elementary competition. The students and staff had an amazing day.

On Friday, June 3, at the High Notes Festival in Hershey, PA our Symphonic Band, Schola Cantorum, and 8th grade members of band and choir competed in adjudication. Symphonic Band received a rating of Superior, Schola Cantorum and Chorale both received ratings of Excellent. After the competition, the students got a chanced to have fun at Hersey Park!

This week the students will be taking their Final Exams in each of the year long courses. Our End of the Year AVID dinner will be on Wednesday. This will be a great event for our students and parents!

On Friday, June 10, we will be hosting our first Semi Formal 8th Grade Dance in two years! This exciting event is only open to those students who are in good academic standing and have earned enough points.

Rodeo Champion

Mercina Myers qualified to go to the National Rodeo Championship in June. We are so proud of Mercina and her ability to compete in a very challenging event!

Mercina Myers

Roping Champ!

Congratulations Mercina!

Flight Champions

The Millville Hornets recently won their Soccer Flight! We have many LMS students on the team and wanted to congratulate them on their accomplishments!

Millville Hornets

News

The final days are coming up for 8th grade Semi ticket purchases. No tickets will be sold at the door. Make sure you have enough points and are not on the restricted list in order to purchase your ticket. Final day for purchase will be Monday, June 6th

Every 8th grader who has purchased a yearbook will receive it at the 8th grade BBQ June 15th. There will be a limited amount available for the purchase price of $30 at the BBQ too. 😊 (All other yearbooks will be distributed to 6th and 7th graders during homeroom on 20th of June.)

LMS partners with Cradles to Crayons and donated to Project HOPE

Thank you to Mr. Parvin for securing a partnership with Cradles to Crayons for a generous donation to Project HOPE. We donated 75 outfit packs, 46 diaper boxes and 75 Hygiene packs to the Project HOPE (which took place on Saturday, June 4, 2022). This partnership was started by Mia Angelo who talked about her ideas with Dr. Cook about how our school could help support this worthy cause! Thank you Mia for inspiring everyone!!!