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From The oak Principal
Safety is Our Primary Concern
Dear Oak parents,
We are so pleased to have opened the new secure entrance. We have tried to direct traffic towards our drop off around the circle, however, despite our many attempts to have parents use our drop-off circle, we are still experiencing dangerous situations on a daily basis.
Here is one of the emails I recently received expressing concern for our students:
"I live in Waldo and work at UMKC and drive north on Oak Street past your school between 8-8:30 am each morning. I have become increasingly concerned for the safety of your students because of the dangerous driving habits of some of your parents. They stop in the middle of Oak to let their kids out, fail to stop at stop signs and turn rapidly onto Oak in front of oncoming cars or kids crossing the street, and quite often speed through the crosswalks when kids are about to enter the street. It happened again this morning when a woman deliberately went through the crosswalk as three children were about to cross Oak Street. She had to have seen them or at least my car, which was stopped for the kids to cross but ran through the crosswalk anyway. I beg you to remind your parents of your policies regarding drop off and pick up and perhaps even assign a crossing guard before a child gets run over."
We are begging you to take a few extra moments to drop off your students in a safe manner. No one should be stopping on Oak to drop off students. We would much rather be on the news for our great school not for a tragedy. If anyone is available to be that much needed crossing guard for 20 minutes per day, we would very much appreciate it. Please contact our front office if you could consider this even part-time.
Thank you,
Leslie Houfaidi
Oak Principal
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calendar Upcoming Events
Access the 2017-18 School Calendars by clicking
here.
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Board Meeting Notice
The AL Board of Directors will hold their monthly meeting on Monday, February 12, at 6:30 pm in the Oak campus music room.
Click here to read the agenda.
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Calling all AL girls! It's dance time! No matter if your dancing shoes are high tops or high heels, get ready to dance your face off,
Friday, February 16, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
. The night will be filled with dancing, raffles, treats, and a photo wall for party pics.
Tickets can be purchased on the AL PTSO website through PayPal. We will take money at the door, but prepaying is much easier. Tickets are $25 per couple and $5 per additional daughter.
Volunteers still needed as well as a clean-up crew from 9:15 - 10:00 pm.
Grab a date and join us! If you'd like to volunteer email Kelly Garr,
bk_garr@yahoo.com.
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Our first meeting for next year's France
trip (2019) will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6-7 pm in the Oak Auditorium. This meeting will include trip information, early bird registration info, and time to ask questions. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Robin Vaughn
France Trip Coordinator
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Volunteers are the motivators to help any Book Fair become a success. We hope that you share with us your skills to help students discover the power of reading.
If you have some time to help us conduct our next book fair, please click here to sign-up where you would like to help out.
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We are excited about expanding the intern program to 11 interns in the fall of 2018! We are counting on families in our school community to welcome an intern in their home.
For the last eight years it's been my privilege to coordinate the intern program. I've studied abroad in France and lived with a host family, and this program is very close to my heart. I believe in what we do.
Interns are university students from French speaking countries who are pursuing a career in education and apply to spend a year working in the classrooms of our youngest students. I review intern candidates' resumes, review references, interview them in depth and make sure they are a good fit for our school. They also fill out a lengthy questionnaire about the host family experience that helps me match them with families.
 Host families open their homes and welcome an intern for a semester or for a year. They provide a private bedroom and meals when you are together as a family. The school provides a generous monthly stipend to the intern and a monthly city bus pass. One special perk of hosting an intern is that your children will extra practice with their French at home!
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We are now asking for all parents who have an incoming Kindergarten
sibling next year to apply for your children. As you already have a
SchoolMint account, this process will take you less than one minute! We are asking that you do this as soon as possible.
While there is time and the application window does not close until
March 2, it is very difficult for us to be clear with new families on entry rates if we have no idea how many siblings we have. To be fair and transparent with all new families we like to be able to tell them how many seats we have available and how many seats will be taken by siblings.
Please help us and apply for your Kindergartener now. Thank you for all that you do and we can't wait to see your little ones here next year!
If you have questions please call Diane Balagna at
816-888-7400
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The
STEAM night fair K-3 will take place together this year on
March 28 at the Cherry
 Campus. The Art Fair has been combined with STEAM night since Art is the "A" in STEAM. Mme. Vaughn is looking for parent volunteers to help her label art, mount art, help put up the art in the hallways, or run a couple of activity tables during the
STEAM fair.
If you are interested please email Mme Robin Vaughn, K-3 Art Teacher,
rvaughn@academielafayette.org. Available time slots include 8-10 am, afternoons, or after school at 4 pm. Just let me know which days or times and I will try to put some volunteer groups together. I look forward to working with you!
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In our on-going discussion about diversity, here is the second half of the list of things we do for recruitment.
- We attend more than 60 recruitment and community events per year.
- We host more than 20 recruitment and community events per year.
- We improved our marketing material highlighting services that low-income families find helpful when looking for a school.
- We host community tours twice a week and give open access to our school for prospective families.
- We provide free school supplies for families who qualify for free and reduced lunch and free uniforms to all.
- We have moved our application and enrollment process from paper forms to a completely online system (also available in Spanish) that's accessible with almost every mobile device.
- At any given time AL has over 60 community service projects going on. Serving our city is a way for folks across the KC metro to learn about our school.
Community service is a very large point of pride for our community. Serving the city is a goal for the IB students and is a passion for almost all of our parents.
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Order any
in-stock spirit wear item by Sunday, February 18, and it will be delivered
free to school for pick up at the 2/21 PTSO meeting at Oak or classrooms the following day.
Blowout clearance of mugs, bags, tees, and various items at the PTSO meeting. Go to
alspirit.com to place your order. Be sure to include the campus, teacher, and child's name if different than yours at checkout.
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Sports
Registration is now open
for the 2018 Académie Lafayette Track & Field (T&F) for 2nd-  8th Graders!
We are coming off of a stellar year heading into our 6th T&F season. Our Middle School (MS) Boys' and Girls' Teams were undefeated in regular season meets and brought home City Championships in a very competitive IL-KC Metro League. We will offer three divisions: MS (6th-8th) Track Team, 4th-5th Grade Program and 2nd-3rd Grade Development Program.
Click here to fill out the registration form.
AL Website: Important dates and more detailed information about the season including our real-time calendar via Google, updated handbooks, required forms will be posted on the
Track and Field page of the AL Website NEXT WEEK (Under Students then Athletics).
Immediately important dates can be found now on the Track and Field page of the AL website.
 Facebook:
Please ask to join our Team page. This is an excellent way to share pictures, results and team information quickly.
Special Notes:
Middle school will train for competition in the following events: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m, relays, 100m hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put and discus.
We need gaps filled in sprints, hurdles, and throwing! In addition, we took big strides in improving the DIVERSITY of our MS team but STRONGLY desire more! Let's do this!
For more information contact:
Brenda Kumm, Head Coach, Track & Field/Cross Country
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al spotlight
This week, Ms. McDowell's 7th grade English classes performed scenes from The  Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. After reading and discussing the book, students self-selected excerpts that they felt demonstrated the major themes of the text. In class, students engaged in discussions around the themes of social division, cliques/gangs, mob mentality, healthy relationships, and family dynamics. After just two weeks of preparation, these scenes were performed on stage in front of an audience of parents, teachers, and peers. Bravo, seventh grade students!
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6903 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-361-7735 |
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3421 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64109
816-888-7400 |
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