The Falcon Flyer: January 2024
Coops Corner
Dear Falcon Families,
Happy New Year once again! We hope you’re as excited as we are for the second semester of the school year. As we dive into this chapter together, we have some exciting updates and events to share with you.
Firstly, mark your calendars! We are thrilled to announce that our first Winter Formal will take place on January 27th. This magical evening will be filled with music, dancing, and unforgettable memories. We can’t wait to see our Falcon scholars dressed up and enjoying a night of celebration and camaraderie. I’ll be sure to give more details and ticket information soon, so please watch for upcoming announcements.
In addition to the Winter Formal, we are excited to introduce ACT prep sessions this year. We have partnered with Jon Baylor Prep, a renowned test preparation organization, to provide our scholars with the tools and strategies necessary to excel in the ACT. The ACT is an essential milestone in the college admissions process, and we want to ensure that our scholars are well-prepared and confident on test day. More information about the ACT prep sessions, including schedules and registration details, will be shared in the upcoming weeks. We encourage our junior scholars to take advantage of this valuable opportunity.
We are committed to informing you about important updates and events. In the coming weeks, we will share more detailed information about the Winter Formal, ACT prep sessions, and other exciting events at our school. Stay connected through our school website, social media channels, and newsletter to ensure you get all the important announcements.
Thank you for your continued support and involvement in your scholar’s education. Let’s make this semester a remarkable one for our Falcon scholars. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to let us know. We are here to support you and your scholar every step of the way.
We wish you a fantastic semester and look forward to seeing you on January 8th, the start of quarter three!
Important Dates for January
- January 2nd – 5th
- No School
- January 8th
- Start of Quarter Three
- January 10th
- 8th grade Information Night – 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
- January 15th
- No School – Martin Luther King Day
- January 27th
- Winter Formal – 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Library News
Did you know LPS students have a robust digital collection of reference, magazine, and newspaper articles? Gale is a huge database where you can find the answers to almost any question and explore topics of interest. It’s also an excellent resource for research. To access Gale, click on the link on the LPS Portal and choose the most relevant Gale Database for your needs.
Digital Citizenship Tips
At LPS, we teach students that privacy policies are essential and have real-world implications. Topics for a family discussion might include:
What is a privacy policy? (Tells how an application or service will use your personal information, photos, and videos and may include age requirements for the application or service.)
Why are privacy policies important? (It’s crucial at a young age to decide how much information you want to share with an application or service and what information you want to keep private).
This Common Sense Media site provides additional information for parents concerning privacy and internet safety.
Athletics
Student Data Privacy
LPS cares deeply about protecting students digitally. We go to great lengths to ensure that your child’s digital interactions are safe and appropriate, that the data we collect about them is secure, and that we are guiding them to make good digital decisions. Because these efforts are less visible than our physical security efforts, we have assembled this resource to shine a light on these critical measures that are happening in LPS every day: https://home.lps.org/cs/?page_
First Semester Report Cards Available in ParentVUE
To get families information about their student’s grades sooner, Lincoln Public Schools posts your child’s report card in ParentVue soon after January 11. If you have a ParentVue account, you will not receive a paper copy of your child’s report card unless you contact your child’s school office and request a paper copy. The school will continue to print a report card for families without ParentVUE.
Parents at your child’s school and Lincoln Public Schools increasingly use ParentVUE to access student progress immediately, including report cards. ParentVUE provides greater immediacy to information while reducing the environmental impact of printing.
If you do not currently have a ParentVUE account and would like one, please get in touch with our school office for assistance.
Personal Computing Devices
This time of year often questions whether students can bring/use personal computing devices at school. Where connecting to the LPS network and completing school work is concerned, the answer is “no.” There are several reasons for this, but you should be aware that the LPS Chromebook comes with limits on the websites that can be visited and the applications that can be accessed. You can support teachers’ efforts in managing a consistent learning environment by encouraging your students to use the district-issued Chromebook for all school work.
Counseling Center
SCIP Newsletter
SCIP provides prevention, education, and early intervention services. We recognize that a child’s behavioral health needs must be addressed early on-set rather than waiting until they have progressed to a more critical level and are more challenging to address. For more information about SCIP, contact Kelsey Dady, our SCIP coordinator, at kdady@lps.org
Focus Programs
LPS has a number of Information Nights and Open Houses for our Focus Programs in the coming months.
Yearbook
2023-2024 yearbooks are now on sale for $60. The price increases after term one, so get your book now! Feel free to send us your school-related photos by going to this LINK. The access code to upload pictures is LNW Falcons.
Listen up, SENIOR families! If you want to submit a senior photo for your student, go to the following LINK and upload that photo to the district office. Those photos will then be shared with the yearbook staff to put into the yearbook. The deadline for that photo is October 31st.
SENIOR ads are in full swing. If you would like to dedicate a portion of the yearbook to your graduating senior, please complete the following FORM.
The deadline for senior tributes is Dec. 1st.
