LHS Weekly Update
March 18-23
Good Evening, Leonardtown Raiders!
Tuesday, March 19
- JV Baseball Scrimmage v/s Patuxent, Away @ 4:00pm
- Air Force Recruiter will be in the Career Center @ 10:00am
Wednesday, March 20
- SCA General Assembly, Auditorium @ 12:05pm
- NROTC presentation for juniors will be in the Career Center @ 10:00am
Thursday, March 21
- Tennis v/s Southern, Home @ 4:00pm
- JV Baseball v/s Patuxent, Away @ 4:30pm
- V Baseball v/s C.H. Flowers, Home @ 4:30pm
- Girls Lacrosse v/s St. Charles, Away, JV @ 4:30pm, V @ 6:00pm
Friday, March 22
- Tennis v/s Thomas Stone, Home @ 4:00pm
- JV Baseball & Softball v/s La Plata, home @ 4:30pm
- V Baseball & Softball v/s La Plata, away @ 4:30pm
- Boys Lacrosse v/s St. Charles, Home, JV @ 4:30pm, V @ 6:00pm
- Spring Musical, Auditorium @ 7:00pm
Grade Z Coming Soon
LHS will be piloting a new mark in our gradebooks during the fourth quarter. The grade mark “Z” will appear on the Home Access Center (HAC) for assignments and assessments. Teachers shall use Z grades as necessary for placeholders for missing assignments or assessments. The Z grades will calculate into a student’s grade as a zero immediately and until the student has earned a grade for the assignment or assessment. This will provide students and parents with an accurate reflection of their overall grade throughout the marking period.
Spring Musical!
It's Time to Shine!
Attention Seniors
AP Testing
- A letter regarding AP Testing was sent home with students.
- This year we are using FamilyID to sign-up.
- To view the letter, see attachments at the bottom of the newsletter.
Juniors
- Leonardtown High School will be administering the SAT to all 11th grade students this spring during the normal school day.
- The SAT will take place on Wednesday, March 27th during periods 1-5 at Leonardtown High School.
- There is no cost to students for this amazing opportunity and all 11th grade students are encouraged to participate.
- To review SAT reminders please click here.
- If you have questions about this specific SAT testing opportunity, please contact Mr. Graham Coombs - Assistant Principal.
Trip to Europe
College and Career Center
- There are scholarships available right now for all grade levels, if you would like access to these please email Mrs. Hazlegrove at tlhazlegrove@smcps.org
- The ASVAB will be given on April 5th, please see Mrs. Hazlegrove to sign up. This exam will be open to students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
- The CSM placement test will be given on April 8th. Seniors who will be attending CSM, please see Mrs. Hazlegrove to determine if you need to take the placement test.
From the Counselor's Office...
Registration Procedures SY 2020
SY 2020 Registration at LHS for rising 10th - 12th graders will occur in March 18th - 29th, once we register your student, you can view the course requests on HAC. Here is a link to view our procedures
We will be begin on Monday, 3/18 with current 9th graders. All 9th graders were given course request papers on Friday 3/15, please review them with your students over the weekend.
Throughout the year, Guidance will send announcements and updates via Remind. To join Remind for a specific grade level, text the following bolded message to 81010:
Class of 2019 (current Seniors)- @lhs2019g
Class of 2020 (current Juniors)- @lhs2020g
Class of 2021 (current Sophomores)- @lhs2021g
Class of 2022 (current Freshman- @lhs2022g
Literacy Coach- Ms. Bridges
Literacy Coach Corner - Metacognition and Reading
Metacognition encourages students to think about their own thinking and embrace the process. If your student is having difficulty reading a challenging text, here are some metacognitive prompts you can ask them to help them overcome their obstacles:
Identify where the difficulty occurs (“I don’t understand this paragraph”)
Identify what the difficulty is (“I don’t get what it means when the author says this…”).
Restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words.
Look back through the text (“Maybe if I reread the chapter before this, it’ll make sense”).
Look forward in the text for information that can help. (“I don’t understand this section about groundwater, but the next section is about underground wells, so maybe that will help”)
Adapted from www.readingrockets.org - a great resource for reading strategies.
Fast Food Policy
Reminder- LHS strongly encourage students to either bring a lunch to school or to purchase one from our cafeteria. We prefer parents not bring lunches to students during the school day. Also, it is not appropriate to have a birthday celebration during the school day. Group pizza, balloons, cakes, for example, should be provided to celebrate or recognize a student after the school day. Our office is a very busy place and is simply not staffed to accommodate parents routinely requesting deliveries to students. If you choose to bring food to your student during one lunch there is a possibility that it will not be delivered.
Academy Application Window and Key Dates
- March 6, 2019 Academy Application Opens Online
- April 19, 2019 Academy Application Closes
- May 24, 2019 Academy Decisions Emailed
Lock Up Your Opioids
A student of our school's Global and International Studies Academy is currently running a campaign called Lock Up Your Opioids. It aims to raise awareness about the issue of drug diversion in St. Mary’s County, with a focus on prescription drugs and opioids. The campaign’s goal is to spur simple, effective action to combat the issue by collecting pledges to properly secure medication.
Help the campaign reach its goal of 1,000 or more pledges by March 24th!
Visit the following website to learn more and make the pledge!
From the Key Club
From the Nurse's Office
If your student needs to bring medication to school, please click here to review the Medication Policy that must be followed. For over the counter medications, click here.