LHS Weekly Update
March 4 - 9
Good Evening, Leonardtown Raiders!
Wednesday, March 6
Army presentation (9:00 a.m.)
Rising Freshmen Night, Auditorium @ 6:00pm
Saturday, March 9
- SAT, F Section @ 6:30am
- Softball scrimmage v/s Manchester Valley, Away V @ 9:00am, JV @ 10:30am
- V Girls Lacrosse Scrimmage v/s Bishop Ireton, Away @ 2:00pm
Rising Freshmen Orientation Night
Trip to Europe
Seniors
Attention Class of 2019- graduation announcements have shipped. They will be distributed Thursday, March 7th during lunch in the auditorium.
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.
LHS Mulch Sale
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.
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
From the Counselor's Office...
Counselors Corner
Naviance is SMCPS new Career and College Platform for high school students. Counselors have gone into all 9th -11th grade classrooms to explore college and career interests. Please ask your students what they learned and what careers came up on their career profiles. Please use the following link to view the presentation, it's never to early to talk to your student about the future.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZZoCmkZtPoDGwOzYt8g2h3xgEMMZ4zbQfhvLbUSGSrY/edit?usp=sharing
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.
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 - Vocabulary Review Strategy
If your student needs to study vocabulary words for ANY class, “What It Is/What It’s Not” is a great strategy to use! This applies to specific terminology used in class (ie, “point”, “line”, “line segment” in geometry) or general vocabulary, such as Membean words. An example is done below, using more a term from geometry and a term from environmental science. In the “what it is” column, they should be able to say examples of what the word is or what it’s like - encourage them to be creative! In “what it’s not”, they should be thinking of opposites.
Term: parallel line segments What It Is: Never crossing Equidistant Rows of corn in a field What It’s Not A cross Weaving in and out of each other Streets intersecting in a city
Term: cirrostratus clouds What It Is: Up high in the sky Thinned out Covers a lot of the sky Like a canopy over a bed What It’s Not Low to the ground Big, puffy clouds Like a marshmallow
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.
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!
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.
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.