Week of February 3, 2025

In order to help the office run smoothly, please be sure all transportation changes are called in to the office before 2:30pm to ensure that we are able to notify all teachers and students involved before dismissal. 

Also, this is a reminder that there should be no checkouts after 2:30pm as we are preparing for the end of day dismissal.

Mark Your Calendar:

Tuesday, Feb 4th Please join us for Coffee with the Counselors @8:30am.

Thurs. Feb 13th- School Improvement Team Meeting 3:15-4:15pm (Rm C-15)

Fri. Feb 14th- Parent/Teacher Conference Day No School for Students

Thurs. Feb 20th- Board meeting at 4pm in Rm C-15

PowerSchool Data Breach Updates

Parents, please find listed below some key points from PowerSchool's latest communication regarding the data breach that occurred in December 2024. We will keep you updated as we learn more.

• PowerSchool has engaged Experian, a trusted credit reporting agency, who will be helping us to provide the following services.  
• Identity Protection: PowerSchool will be offering two years of complimentary identity protection services for all students and educators whose information was involved.
• Credit Monitoring: PowerSchool will also be offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring services for all adult students and educators whose information was involved.
• Credit monitoring agencies do not offer credit monitoring services for individuals under the age of 18. If a parent / guardian enrolls an individual under the age of 18 in the offered identity protection services, the individual, upon turning 18, will have the opportunity to enroll in credit monitoring services for the duration of the two-year coverage period.   
• Notices to those impacted will be sent out over the next few weeks.  Please note that as a staff member of LLCA  (from 2013 to the present) you most likely have been impacted.
• The types of information exfiltrated in the incident may have included one or more of the following: the individual’s name, contact information, date of birth, limited medical alert information, Social Security Number (SSN), and other related information. Due to differences in customer requirements, the information exfiltrated for any given individual varied across our customer base.  
• The credit monitoring and identity protection are provided regardless of whether your SSN was captured.
• PowerSchool will publish the notice on its website, circulate the notice to local media, and send the notice to email addresses, where available, of involved individuals. 
• The notice received by each individual will include a description of the categories of personal information that were exfiltrated and the identity protection and credit monitoring services offered (as applicable). We will also provide you a link to the notification if you would like to share with your community. Experian will also provide a call center to answer questions from the community.  
• Details on how to enroll will be included as part of individual notifications. As the offer is specific to this incident, the details contained in the forthcoming enrollment notification will be required to enroll and cannot be obtained directly from Experian. The individual notifications will also include contact information for a call center to assist individuals with enrollment as needed.  

Dear Parents,

If you haven't had a chance to complete the required intent-to-return form, please do so at your earliest convenience.



Required Intent-to-Return Form for the 2025-2026 School Year  

Thank you!

Calendar Items To Note:

Friday, February 14th: Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences: No School for Students

Testing News:

On March 11, all 10th graders will take the Pre-ACT and 11th graders will take the ACT as part of the state testing program. Juniors may use these ACT scores next year on their college applications, so we encourage them to study and prepare for this exam. Free prep resources are available online at https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/test-preparation/free-act-test-prep.html

Raptor Athletics

Basketball Schedule This Week:

2-3-25 TJ Academy @ Home 4:30 PM

VG,VB (School Counselor Recognition)

2-4-25 Asheville Trailblazers Away 6:30

JVB,VB

Basketball Tournament:

We are hosting the entire conference tournament for boys and girls, varsity and JVs, with the semifinals being on February 13th and the finals on the 15th. Both days will have games starting at 10:00 AM. We need help with the concessions and gate and with donations for the food at the hospitality room. There is a link below to signup. 

We need help with the gate and concessions at all the home games and the conference tournament on February 13 and Feb 15th.

Conference Games Sign Up Links:

Conference Food and Hospitality Donation Link

Conference Gate and Concession Sign Up Link

Golfing Tournament:

All you golfers save the date of March 17th for our first St Patrick’s Day Golf tournament at prestigious Bright’s Creek

Outdoor Education from Mrs. Warner

LAST CHANCE FOR CHIMNEY ROCK/LAKE LURE “Stronger Than the Storm” SHIRTS. 

Help us reach our goal of $5,000 - $2,500 to Chimney Rock Village and $2,500 to the town of Lake Lure. Fundraiser ends on Jan 31, so get your order in before then! 

We have the following shirts available: Pink and Grey in SHORT sleeve for $25, and we now have LONG sleeve in grey for $30! Shirts will also be available at our home basketball games. Email ewarner@llcharter.org or eparke@llcharter.org to place your order. 

AIG News for Parents



 Managing Perfectionism with your gifted child

One significant component of Dabrowski's Theory is the concept of overexcitabilities (OEs). Dabrowski observed heightened sensitivity and intensity in the gifted in the following five areas: 

• Psychomotor – surplus of energy, active, talkative, restless.
• Sensual – enhanced refinement and aliveness of sensual experience.
• Intellectual – questioning, discovery, love of ideas, thirst for knowledge, search for truth.
• Imaginational – vividness of imagery, richness of associations, fantasy, dreams, preference for the unusual and unique.
• Emotional – great depth and complexity of emotional life, wide range of feelings, compassion and self-examination.

Perfectionism can ‘look like’  laziness or disinterest when in actuality the need to make the first step ‘perfect' paralyzes students to make the first step. Here are two articles that may help shed some light on perfectionism and the gifted student. 

  Managing Perfectionism and Gifted Students

Thank you, Mrs. Granville

Counseling Corner

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High School Students/Families - College and Career Planning Resources (including summer enrichment programs) - CLICK HERE

It may be cold now, but summer will be here before we know it! There are numerous enrichment programs and opportunities available to help students expand skills and explore interests. Keep a check on THIS NEWSLETTER to find out about some upcoming options. 

Shelton Leadership Challenge - https://sheltonleadership.ncsu.edu/pre-college/shelton-challenge/

Building confidence in the next generation to lead values-driven communities! The Shelton Challenge is a six-day, residential program built on the Shelton Leadership Center’s core values, and is designed to help high school students enhance their capacities to become values-based leaders. This immersive program is designed to transform potential into real-world skills through mentorship, self-reflection, and shared discovery. This program is hosted by NC State University. Current 9th-11th grade students are encouraged to apply. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Testing News for High School Students

On March 11, all 10th graders will take the Pre-ACT and 11th graders will take the ACT as part of the state testing program. Juniors may use these ACT scores next year on their college applications, so we encourage them to study and prepare for this exam. Free prep resources are available online at https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/test-preparation/free-act-test-prep.html

Lake Lure Classical Academy’s

mission is to offer 

a classical, knowledge-based education 

that fosters critical thinking, civic responsibilities, and virtue for all.