September Newsletter

Mark Your Calendar

Sept 5 NO SCHOOL-LABOR DAY

Sept. 21 6:30 p.m. Homecoming Parade &

Rally Around the Lion/ Bonfire

Sept. 22 9:30 a.m. Homecoming Assembly

Sept. 24 8:30 p.m. Homecoming Dance

Sept. 25 Hall of Honor

Oct. 3 7:30 p.m. Fall Choral Concert

Oct. 5 6:30 p.m. Fall Orchestra Concert

Oct. 6 6:30 p.m. Band Pre-Festival

NUMBERS TO KNOW

Counselors:

A-E Crystal Kautz: 330-4899

F-K Kim Wright: 330-4744

L-R Lori Stussie: 330-4607

S-Z Natalie Konkel Schmidt: 330-4993

Attendance: 330-4968

Nurse: 330-2704

Registrar: 330-1408

Note: Your Lion Homecoming Parade route and time has changed for 2016.

The 2016 Lawrence High School Homecoming parade will be Wednesday, September 21, at

6:30 pm. The parade will start at the corner of 21st and Stewart Streets (indicated by the

‘star’ on the map above) and proceed east on 21st Street to the LHS campus. Following the

parade in the south parking lot (indicated by the ‘circle’ on the map above, the celebration

will continue with Rally Around the Lion and the Bonfire.

ACT test dates at LHS:

DATE: Registration Deadline

Sept. 10, 2016 Aug. 5, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016 Sept.. 16, 2016

Dec. 10, 2016 Nov. 4, 2016

Feb. 11, 2017 Jan. 13, 2017

April 8, 2017 Mar. 3, 2017

June 10, 2017 May 5, 2017

Students need to go to www.actstudent.org

to register. Any students on free or reduced

lunch can get a fee waiver form from their

counselor.

Mark Your Calendar Now!!

October 12, 2016

College & Career Center

2910 Haskell Avenue

Lawrence, KS

5:45-6:30 pm: Panel discussion on services for students with

disabilities. Workshop sponsored by the Transition Council of

Douglas and Jefferson Counties. For more information contact

Lorna Larson at 785-330-2467 or llarson@usd497.org

6:30-8:00 pm: College & Career Fair with over 100 representa-

tives from universities, community colleges, technical schools,

and The Armed Forces.

Student Illness, Absence, Appointment or Leaving Early

If your student is ill or not going to be at school, please call

ATTENDANCE 785-330-4968 . If your child has

an appointment or needs to leave early, we ask that parents/guardians call no later than two hours prior to the time you want them to leave, whenever possible.

Moved? Changed your Number?

If you have changes to your information, please inform Mrs. Bradfield at 785-330-4907. Changes include: ad-dress, phone numbers, work information, marital sta-tus, doctor’s phone number, emergency contact, email address, etc. Please help us keep information current to help keep you informed.

Don’t Forget Your Student

Activity Pass!

A current, paid activity ticket will admit any LHS student, grade 9-12 to a regular season home sporting event where ad-mission in charged. Student Activity Tickets are $25 for the 2015-2016 school year.

Please Note:

Activity Tickets are required for every athlete.

A billed Activity Ticket is not a paid ac-tivity ticket.

An Activity Ticket must be presented to a ticket taker for free admission to an event where admission is charged—this includes athletes that are not suited up or are on the sidelines.

Activity tickets are valid only for games hosted by LHS—this includes games at our facilities, hosted by another school.

Activity Tickets (and sports fees) may be paid in the LHS Finance Office Mon-day—Friday 8am to 4pm.

From the Athletic Office:

Up-to-the-minute official sports schedules are always available at www.sunflowerleague.org . Schedules are update daily between 8:00am and 3:00pm M-F

Follow us! @LawHS_Athletics and hear about upcoming dates, deadlines, cancellations, and events.

And the music played on……….

This past summer, 8 male singers were selected for the Kansas Choral Director’s All-State Men’s Choir, and 7 female singers were selected for the All-State Women’s Choir. They re-hearsed with other selected singers from all over the state of Kansas for two days, performing a program on July 8 at Grace Cathedral in Topeka. Students representing LHS included: Katie Ahern, Gwentessa Alfie, Elias Beeson, Jackson Berland, Daisy Blitch, Amanda Hilmes, Meagan Hunt, Gavin Jones, Brayden Liakos, Michael McFadden, Samuel Phillips, Kara Smith, Cameron Stussie, Caitlin Trevino and Simon Wenger.

LHS also had three students selected for the National Association for Music Education All-National Honor Choir. To be eligible, students had to be a member of their state All-State Choir from the previous year and then submit a video audition. Chosen to sing in Grapevine, Texas this November were Bryce Dunn, Gavin Jones, and Cameron Stussie.

LHS is proud to announce that its Debate and Forensics squad had an excellent showing at this summer’s National Speech and Debate Tournament in Salt Lake City. Stefan Petrovic (class of 2016) finished in the top 30 in the nation in International Extemporaneous Speaking. Natalie Cote’ (class of 2017) finished in the top 60 in Informative Speaking. Bridget Smith (class of 2017) was chosen to be a member of the East Kansas World’s Debate Team, and they finished #17 in the nation. Vera Petrovic (class of 2019) also competed, but did not advance to the elimination rounds. It was a great summer to be a Chesty Lion!

Destination Imagination

Attention 3rd through 12th graders! Do you enjoy working in a group to solve problems? How about thinking creatively and critically? If so, Destination Imagination is the program for you! The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners (3-7 per team) to have fun, take risks, and focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts, and service learning. Participants learn patience, flex-ibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process by designing a solution to a team challenge.

Have you ever wanted to go to Japan?Here is your chance! Lawrence Sister Cities and the Friends of Hiratsuka are sponsoring an opportunity to go to Hiratsuka, Japan; our sister city. The trip dates are June 29 – July 9, 2017. Interest-ed students need to come to room 104 to get an application packet from Mrs. Rov-enstine. Need based scholarships are available. The packet is due back to Mrs. Rovenstine by October 20, 2016. Act now!

News from Health Desk………

Students on prescription medications need to have a permission form com-

pleted by the parent and the prescription bottle locked in the medicine cabinet at

school. It is not necessary to have asthma inhalers in the health office. Stu-

dents may keep their inhalers with them since they may need it during passing

periods, gym classes, etc. Epi Pens, diabetic supplies and other emergency meds

can be with students, but information just need to reviewed with the nurse so

staff can be aware.

Controlled medication (ADD meds, pain meds) must be brought to the health of-

fice. Students are never allowed to carry any controlled medication with them.

Please call the nurse, Carol Casteel RN, 330-2704.

Please send snacks with your student if they aren’t going to eat

breakfast at home or school. We DO NOT have vending ma-

chines at LHS and teachers and nurse do not have a supply of

snacks.

LHS Parking Permits: The fee for a parking permit is $10. All student vehicles parked in school parking lots must be registered and display an LHS permit. Alt-hough this pass will allow you to park in Student designated are-as, a Student Parking Per-mit does not allow parking des-ignated for visitors or LHS Facul-ty. When the student lots are full students must park on the street.

There is a $25 fine issued to stu-dents that park on campus but do not have a valid permit dis-played.

Please visit the LHS Finance Of-fice to purchase a Student Park-ing Permit.

Students will not be required to have a permit for the first days of school, so they may have the opportunity to purchase a permit