I want to take this time to offer you all a happy and safe holiday season. It is extremely obvious to point out that 2020 has not gone as any of us would have hoped. Look at this picture below. It is our annual 8th grade picture taken about this time last year. How the world has changed since that picture was taken. This time last year, not many of us had ever heard of coronavirus, but we sure know now. However, I plan to focus on the positive and I have hope for a great 2021. The news has been dominated by the stories of various vaccines and I look forward to a time, I hope very soon, when we return to the joys of our normal life and we get to welcome the full student body back to LMS. Have a great New Year and we will see you with the next LMS Lowdown on 1/15/2021

Every year, we honor outstanding educators in our building. I know we sent out a video recently announcing the winners, but please let me share some of the photos of the recipients as they were notified.

Lumberton Middle School Teacher of the Year- Carly Walters

Lumberton Middle School Support Staff Member of the Year- Joe Bowes

Lumberton School District Educational Service Professional of the Year- Crystal DeVincenzi

Thanks to all you do and congratulations to everyone who was nominated!

***Thanks to friends, family and Prize Patrol for the pics***

The first picture this week is a look back to some of our Band, Strings and Chorus programs from 2014-15. The second image is Miss Zamichielli's(now Mrs. Garcia) class picture from 1996-97.

As you know, the spike in COVID-19 cases has caused us to move from hybrid instruction to fully remote. As of now, the plan is to return to hybrid instruction on January 19th. Until then, all students will follow their regular school schedule Monday-Friday for classes. I am asking for your help in ensuring your children log in to their classes and complete their assignments. This is far from perfect, but our teachers are delivering quality lessons every day and the students can learn. However, they need to be in class. One thing that I have suggested is to have the students set up alarms on their phones that go off five minutes before classes start as a reminder to log in. Thank you in advance for your help. The teachers, counselors and administrators of LMS are here to help in any way we can. Together, we can make this imperfect situation work in the best interest of our students.

Wednesday December 23rd: Ugly Sweater Day and school dismisses at 12:15

Thursday December 24th-Monday January 4th- School Closed Winter Break