Parents and Guardians,
I hope you and your student had a great Spring Break. Whether you left town or stayed around here last week, I hope you were able to spend some quality time with your student.
With the end of Spring Break comes the reality that we are entering the last grading period of the school year. The next 11 weeks will be full of concerts, performances, banquets, AP Exams, EOC Exams, Final Exams and the seemingly million other events that the end of a school year brings. Please continue partnering with teachers, counselors, and principals as we want your child to finish strong in this last quarter.
As a reminder, this Wednesday, March 16th is the last LHS Professional Development day of the school year. All other campuses in the district will have a normal school day for students and staff, but it will be a student holiday for LHS students. Administrative staff will be answering phones and available at the front desk if you need anything from the campus on that day.
Below you will find more information about events going on at LHS. You will also find a new graphic that shows attendance rates at each of the LISD campuses for a one-week period. We know attendance is essential for student success and being at school gives them the most opportunities to learn. It is also true that our district funding is tied to student attendance and therefore essential for us to continue providing students with the best education we can. I wanted to include the graphic to help you know how we were doing as a campus, and also to help us earn bragging rights as we compete against our other campuses for the best attendance rate.
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Chris Mayfield
Principal
Lovejoy High School
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TEA COVID-19 Public Health Guidance:
Parents must ensure they do not send a child to school on campus if the child has COVID-19 symptoms or is test-confirmed with COVID-19, until the conditions for re-entry are met.
Please monitor your child for the following symptoms BEFORE sending them to school.
· Feeling feverish or temperature greater than or equal to 100.0 degrees
· Loss of taste or smell
· Cough
· Difficulty breathing
· Shortness of breath
· Headache
· Chills
· Sore throat
· Shaking or exaggerated shivering
· Significant muscle pain or ache
· Diarrhea/Abdominal pain
· Nausea/Vomiting
· Fatigue
· Congestion or runny nose or sneezing
If your student is not feeling well, please keep them at home and email your child’s assistant principal. Please also keep them home, contact the nurse, and their assistant principal if your student receives a lab positive COVID test.
Tyler Wicke - [email protected] - Assistant Principal for students whose last name begins with the letters A-La.
Austin Coachman - [email protected] - Assistant Principal for students whose last name begins with the letters Le-Z.
If there is a positive case of COVID in your child's classroom, we will send an email to let you know. Lovejoy ISD will maintain our current COVID-19 dashboard by each campus on the website. Numbers will be updated at the end of each day. We are also required to notify the Health Department and the TEA of positive cases in our schools.
Lovejoy ISD's 2021-2022 Health and Safety Measures, COVID-19 Daily Parent Checklist, Things Parents Should Know and FAQs can be found HERE.
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Spring 2021-2022 Semester Calendar of Events
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Student Holiday - Wednesday, March 16th
Lovejoy High School students will have a student holiday on Wednesday, March 16th while teachers & staff have professional development. The student holiday is for the High School campus only.
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SAT School Day for Juniors- Wednesday, March 23rd
Lovejoy ISD has designated March 23rd as a school wide testing day for all 11th grade students to take the SAT college entrance exam at no cost and no registration required. Juniors should arrive by 8:30 am and bring two no. 2 pencils and a calculator. Standard testing time is approximately 3.5 hours. Juniors will have lunch following the SAT exam and then resume their regular afternoon class schedule.
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Junior/Senior Prom - Saturday, April 2nd
Juniors, seniors and their parents will receive separate communication with additional details for this event.
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English I & II STAAR Exams April 5th & April 7th
The English I STAAR exam will take on Tuesday, April 5th and the English II STAAR exam will take place on Thursday, April 7th.
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AP Exams
No changes can be made to AP exam orders after March 15th. Unused or canceled exams will be charged a $40 fee rather the full cost of the exam.
2022-2023 Course Request Forms Due March 18th
Course request forms for the 2022-2023 school year are due no later than Friday, March 18th. Counselors will be in the library this week during all lunch periods if students have questions.
SAT Test Day for LHS Juniors - March 23rd
Lovejoy ISD has designated March 23rd as a schoolwide testing day for all 11th grade students to take the SAT college entrance exam at no cost and no registration required.
Online Courses or Credit by Exam
Please remember students cannot take online courses or credit by exam without prior approval. Please see your counselor for more information.
FAFSA for Seniors
In accordance with Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.0256, beginning with students enrolled in 12th grade during the 2021-2022 school year, each student must do one of the following as a requirement for graduation.
· Submit a signed opt-out form to your campus counselor.
The FAFSA is available for current seniors and families beginning October 1, 2021. The priority deadline for most Texas institutions of higher education is January 15, 2022. Please check with the financial aid office of the institutions for which an application for admission is submitted.
Upon completion of the FAFSA, students may be eligible for scholarships, grants, work-study, or student loans. In addition to determining eligibility for federal Pell grants, the FAFSA/TASFA is required by many colleges/universities in order to accept a scholarship.
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Campus and District Information |
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Federal Report Card
The Texas Education Agency 2020-2021 Federal Report Card for Texas Public Schools is now available and posted on the district website here.
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VOE (Verification of Enrollment)
If your student needs a VOE for driver's permit or license, please send requests to [email protected] and pick up at the front desk. |
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Please see the link below for information on LHS senior projects, news from our schools, programs, booster clubs, student organizations, Foundation for Lovejoy Schools, community, and more!
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TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Men's Tailgate and Cornhole Tournament- Thursday, March 31, 2022. Click here to purchase: https://bit.ly/3sNqZCv
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Tickets go on Sale March 14, 2022
Early bird ticket- $135
Early bird VIP ticket- $225
Watch your inbox for more information!
We are accepting donations for our Silent Auction. All proceeds from the auction go directly back into the classroom to enhance education. If you're interested in making a donation you can visit our website or email [email protected]
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Lovejoy Legacy Bricks are now on sale! A legacy brick is the perfect way to honor your Senior. Orders made before March 15, will be in place by graduation. More information can be found on the Foundation website: https://bit.ly/3a41q6J
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Gifted and Talented Referrals and Testing
The referral window for gifted and talented services opens March 1, 2022 for students in grades 1-11. Referrals must be completed in the PowerSchool Parent Portal by 5:00 pm April 1, 2022.
A parent webinar is scheduled for March 2nd at 6:00 pm. The webinar will be recorded and linked to the Gifted and Talented portion of the LISD website.
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Orchestra
For the first time in school history, the Orchestra took a Full Symphonic Orchestra to compete at UIL. The group was given Superior ratings from all judges in Concert and Sightreading and was awarded "Sweepstakes" trophy. Congrats to all students that participated from orchestra and band departments.
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1082C - Award of Excellence |
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Sixty-eight teams competed in 2 divisions on Friday night and Saturday all day for the Texas Region 2 Championship! 170 matches were completed. 16 Awards were given out to each division, plus the next 3 highest skills results to reach the 35 world qualifying teams. Texas Region 2 is the Largest region in the world and had the most World qualifying slots of any region!
1082C won Award of Excellence (div 2) and also made the Semifinals (div 2) - both of which won them a world qualifying spot! They finished quals ranked 2nd.
1082X won Innovate Award (div 2) and also made Semifinals (div 2) - both of which won them a world qualifying spot! They finished quals ranked 4th.
1082E won Amaze Award (div 1) which won them a world qualifying spot! They also made quarterfinals and finished quals ranked 6th.
1082Y made Semifinals (div 2) which won them a world qualifying spot! They finished quals ranked 17th.
1082R made the Round of 16 (div 1) and finished quals ranked 16th.
1082Z made the Round of 16 (div 2) and finished quals ranked 20th.
1082K made the Round of 16 (div 2) and finished quals ranked 21st.
There are some world qualifying slots still pending being awarded due to teams (like 1082C) that earned multiple qualifying slots.
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1082C (left) & 1082X (right) - Semifinalist |
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Boys Basketball
Boys Basketball District 10-5A Awards:
Karson Templin - 10-5A MVP
Jax Thompson - 1st Team All-District
Taiden Conner - 2nd Team All-District
Kidus Getenet - 2nd Team All-District
Pete Peabody - Honorable Mention All-District
Academic All-District:
Juniors: Parker Patel, Kyle Sheehan, Jack Wood
Seniors: Taiden Conner, Marco Gaccione, Pete Peabody, Jax Thompson
Coaching Staff of the Year
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Girls Basketball
Girls Basketball District 10-5A Awards:
Sidney Carr (9th): Newcomer of the Year
Sam Basson (11th): First Team All-District
Victoria LaFon (12th): Honorable Mention All-District
Chloe Schaeffer (11th): Honorable Mention All-District
Academic All-District:
Sam Basson
Brinley Ludlow
Margo Friloux
Shelby Tokarz
Audrey McCaffity
Annalysa Ritchie
Kendall Dodson
Linnea Maddux
Victoria LaFon
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Computer Science
On Saturday, March 5, the LHS Computer Science team competed at Hewlett Packard's annual "Code Wars" programming contest. This 3-hour contest consisted of a 30 problem packet worth various points. Lovejoy entered two teams, one novice and one advanced, and with over 130 teams competing, the Advanced team won 5th place. The list of team members are as follows:
Advanced team (5th place): Kevin Xu, Hannah Mao, and Nathan Fowler
Novice team: Katelyn Helfand, Hunter Stark, and David Wang
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Academic Calendars for 2021-2022
To access the 2021-22 Academic Calendar, please click here.
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