Important Dates & Reminders

March 18, 2022

Family Newsletter

This weekly publication is designed to keep you informed on upcoming events and important reminders.

Important Dates

Friday, March 18: International Day of Happiness

Friday, March 18: High School Student Council Spring Social, 7:00-9:00 PM

Monday, March 21: No school - Professional Development

Tuesday, March 22 & Wednesday, March 23: MCAS 10th grade ELA

Wednesday, March 23: Speaker Series event, 6:00 PM

Thursday, March 24: Partners in Education (PIE) meeting, 9:00 AM

Friday, March 25: MS Student Bingo Pizza Party, 2:45 PM

Friday, April 1: Junior & Senior Financial Literacy Fair

Tuesday, April 5 & Wednesday, April 6: MCAS ELA 5th/6th grade

Friday, April 8: Blue/Green shirt day

Friday, April 15: No School, Good Friday

Monday, April 18 - Friday, April 22: No School, April vacation

Thursday, April 28: In person Parent Curriculum Night, 6:00 PM

Saturday, May 14: Pickleball Frenzy, 1:00 PM

(Tentative) Wednesday, June 22: Last day of school

Announcements & Reminders

Donation Drive for Ukraine

Please Join Learning Prep School's

Compassion in Action Donation Drive for the people of Ukraine.

LPS is partnering with NuDay to provide humanitarian and medical supplies to Ukrainian refugees and raise funds for shipping. Please check out this attached flyer for requested donation items and how you can help.

100% of our donations go directly to Ukrainian refugees.

Deadline is Friday, April 1st.

For questions, please contact Carolyn Rasta at crasta@learningprep.org or 617-965-0764 ext. 2319

In person Parent Curriculum Night!

Please join us on Thursday, April 28th from 6:00-7:45 PM for an opportunity for parents and guardians to hear about your student's classes, tour the school and meet their teachers. Additionally, you can visit the Book Fair, which we are excited to be able to host again! More information to come.

Pickleball Frenzy

The LPS Wellness Committee is excited to announced a Pickleball event on Saturday, 5/14, open to all students, faculty & families. Pickleball is welcoming to all ages and athletic abilities not to mention REALLY fun. The event will be held at LPS. Racquets and balls will be provided.

Date: Saturday, May 14th (rain date 5/21)

Time: 1pm-3pm

RSVP: Gretchen Petersen gpetersen@learningprep.org

We hope to see you there!

International Day of Happiness

This special day is a world celebration put together by Action for Happiness, a non-profit of people from 160 countries.

LPS will be celebrating this special day on Friday, 3/18! Staff are students are encouraged to participate by making someone smile, helping a friend or anything they can do to spread joy.

Action for Happiness believes that there are 10 keys to happier living. Click here to find out more and live your happiest life!

HS Student Council event

March Spring Social will be held on Friday March 18 from 7-9pm. This event will be in the cafeteria with games, dancing, and music! DJ Marianne will be spinning some great beats and it's a great chance to hang out with friends outside of class!

Permission slips due to Abby or Bob by March 15!

Speaker Series event

Language-Based Learning Disabilities 101

Wednesday, 3/23

6:00 - 7:15 PM

Virtual Event via Zoom

By: Jen Kracoff, M.S. CCC-SLP & Emily Hastie, M.S. CCC-SLP

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

10th grade day of service

The 10th graders are going to be participating in a community service volunteer day on Saturday, 3/19 at cradles to crayons. If anyone from any grades would like to donate the following items and we can bring them to cradles to crayons that would be most welcome. Also if any 10th grade families haven’t signed up yet and would like to please contact Roslyn Michelson at rmm29@outlook.com.

MS Student Council Event

After a 2 year hiatus, we are excited to announce our first after school Middle School Student Council event:

Bingo Pizza Party!

Join us for an exciting afternoon on Friday, 3/25 from 2:45 - 4:30 PM and play Bingo with your friends, earn fun prizes, and enjoy some pizza! Be on the look-out for a permission slip that will be sent home during the week of March 14th.

Summer Program

Registration is now open!

Summer Program will run Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 29.

For more information including a curriculum overview, sample schedules and registration info click here.

Get Involved

The Parent Advisory Group (PAG) & the Partners In Education (PIE) are two parent organizations that families can participate. For more information about each group's goals and the meeting dates, click here.

The next meeting is:

PIE: Th, 3/24 at 9:00 AM

Zoom link for all meetings:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83490769413

MCAS Dates

Please see the schedule below for MCAS dates the spring. More info to come.

March 22 & 23 - 10th grade ELA

April 5 & 6 - 5th and 6th grade ELA

April 7 & 8 - 7th and 8th grade ELA

April 26 & 27 - 5th and 8th grade Science

May 10 & 11 - 5th and 6th grade Math

May 12 & 13 - 7th and 8th grade Math

May 17 & 18 - 10th grade Math

June 7 & 8 - Biology - 9th grade and retest

Covid Testing Program & Protocols

There's still time to opt in to the weekly at home rapid testing program. Click here to read the letter and learn how to opt into the program.

The 2021-22Covid Protocols have been updated. You can find them on our website under Current Students/Covid-19 or attached here. You can also see this updated flowchart from the Department of Education on what to do when identified as a close contact or testing positive for Covid.

Grade Level Parents

Grade representatives for the 2021-22 school year:

12th: Debbie Berechman

11th: Stacey Suckerman

10th: Roslyn Michelson

8th: Lori Day

5th-7th:Christina Chatalian

***9th grade families***

We are looking for a volunteer to be a Grade Parent for the 9th grade. If interested in learning more, please contact Amy Davis at adavis@learningprep.org.

Family Directory

Is available via DIRECTORYSPOT. To access:

-Download DirectorySpot from the app store.

-Enter your email address as the username.

-Click RESET PASSWORD

2021-22 Calendar

You can download the 2021-22 School Year Calendar here.

(updated 7/12/21)

Also, check out learningprep.org/calendar for a full list of events.

Parent Facebook Group

To foster connections among our current LPS families we have created a private Facebook group just for you called:

LPS Panther Parents & Families Group.

Click this link to join!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/803852983897093

School Store

Here's a great way to show your Panther Pride!

Check out The School Store today!

High School Yearbook

It is time to pre-order your 2021-22 High School Yearbook! A full color book documenting this extraordinary school year!

Order today on JostensYearbooks.com

Make sure you're not missing an email!

To make sure you're getting all of our emails, try "Whitelisting" our system email address which is:

info+learningprep@schooladminonline.com

Here's how you can do it.

Know someone who would benefit from LPS?

If you know someone who may be looking for a place like LPS, please encourage them to attend one of our weekly, Virtual Information Sessions! Encourage them to reach out to:

Korina Martin, Director of Admissions at kmartin@learningprep.org