Lightning Round: Lakeside Lightning Round - January 31

Lakeside Lightning

Grow through what you go through!

As you know, our school is implementing early dismissal starting January 31, 2022. The purpose of this initiative is to assist with the staff absences as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. Students will no longer be housed in the auditorium when their teacher's are absent because we will have more opportunity to provide coverages with our own teachers. With this being said, Dr. Cook would like to remind the students that no matter who is covering their classroom, students are to be respectful.

Lunches will be provided on the way out of the building for walkers and car riders, and those who are riding the bus will received their lunches upon exiting the bus.

Classes will generally be 30 minutes and we will continue to have our Advisory period.

Lakeside Middle School and Holly Heights earn Honorable Mention in School of Character Applications

The results are in from the School of Character applications that were submitted in the fall of 2021. Lakeside Middle School and Holly Heights both have been designated with an Honorable Mention and scored 2.8 to lead the district. This is very exciting news! We want to thank the team (Ms.Shelton, Mrs. Lokuta, Ms. Votta, Ms. Carroll, Ms. Belmonte and Mrs. Langlois) for their hard work and determination with the application process.

Our "You've Been Struck" initiative was identified as one of our strengths. Ms Eppright and the RISE program have been taking a leadership role with this initiative and they are also to be commended. We need to keep striking each other!

Our student reset room was touted as an SEL initiative for those students struggling with classroom learning objectives. As you know, we are currently seeking a new PBSIS para and are looking forward to re-opening this room very soon.

Finally, the School of Character committee was impressed with the Lakeside Lightning Round. We continue to be the only school that sends out a weekly, interactive blog highlighting the accomplishments of the school for our community. We need to continue to tell our story!!!! Continue to send Dr. Cook those stories and pictures to combat the "perception" of our learning environment. Not to mention we are so close to getting 200,000 unique visitors!!!

How about that? We know this has been a tough year but our staff and students continue to take each challenge and grow though it! Next year we will look to improve our score!!!

5 Lakeside Students make Olympic Conference Honors Band

We had 5 LMS students make Olympic Conference Honors Band this year! They include Olivia Headley, Danielle Olinda, Grant Tostevin, Elijah Flores, and Je'Nae Lawson.

Je'Nae, Danielle and Grant

Olivia and Elijah

School Improvement Meeting (1/24/22)

We continue to meet with parents, teachers and community members regarding our School Improvement process. This month we had 12 people attend. Everyone who attended continued to give kudos to the staff at LMS for their tireless effort to work with the challenges of a pandemic and an epidemic social and emotional needs.

Here are the notes from the meetings this year. Please consider joining us on 2/14/22 at 6:00 PM in DMC.

Pictures from around the school