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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Character Kick Off Day moved

Due to inclement weather, the Character Kick Off activities originally scheduled for tomorrow are being moved to Monday, 10/31/11.  Students should arrive to school prepared to go outside on Monday for all of the Character Kick Off activities.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences at LIS

Today, letters went home with all of the students regarding the fall LIS parent/teacher conferences.  In this letter, you will find information related to dates, times, and scheduling for conferences.  This year, we will utilize the LTPS.org district website and the LIS homepage to schedule all of our conferences online.  Please refer to the directions found in the letter sent home today for details.  If any parent has a question or concern related to conferences, please do not hesitate contacting the school.  Looking forward to seeing all of our parent/guardians next month.

Emergency Drills

This is just a follow up note from correspondence sent home to all of our parents earlier in the school year related to emergency drills.  As all of you know, state laws about school emergency drills changed last year.  We now have one (1) fire a drill a month and one (1) emergency drill a  month.  The emergency drills consist of evacuations from the building and stay on campus or evacuations from the building and leave the campus.  When LIS leaves the campus, we will walk to Rider University as part of our emergency plan.  LIS and Rider already have a standing emergency plan in place if this is ever needed. The other emergency drill situations are lockdown drills.  When LIS locks down, all of the students and staff practice keeping safe in the building and practice plans for the various situations that could happen.  Our goal is always to ensure the safety of our students and staff members in the event of an emergency, no matter what comes our way.  We take the time to explain to our students the need for being prepared and the importance of following directions during our drills.  It is helpful when parents/guardians follow up that message at home to reinforce being prepared for these drills.  At LIS, we have sucessfully completed two months of drills, the October lock down drill went great last week and we now are planning for future drills.  Thank you again for all of your supports!!!!!