IMPORTANT Information for 8th Grade Families

Dear 8th Grade Parents,

Happy October! We appreciate your continued support, tenacity and adaptability as we navigate this unusual fall together.

This email contains very important information for the month of October so please read it carefully and save it to refer to as needed.

Next week brings two CHANGES to your 8th grade student’s schedule as we gradually begin the transition to hybrid learning (Plan B) which for 8th grade starts October 26. For those of you who also have a student in 5th or 6th grades, it is very important to know that some of this information is specific to 7th and 8th grades only. Please do not assume all of the information contained here applies to your 5th and 6th grade child as well as they are on a different schedule.

What does this mean for my 8th grade student on Monday, October 5?

Your 8th grade student will experience TWO changes on Monday, October 5:

Schedule – Your 8th grade child will follow the hybrid learning schedule. This means the school day will begin at 8:00 AM and end at 2:00 PM. This also means that your child’s class period times lengthen to fill the longer school day. Here is the new “bell schedule” for hybrid learning that your student will begin following next Monday, October 5 and will continue to follow as long as we remain in hybrid learning at LNC. We recommend that you print a copy of this bell schedule for your child and family to refer to. Please discard the remote learning schedule (Plan C) as it no longer applies. Today is the last day your child will follow it with the exception of teacher workdays, which we will notify you of in advance.

Cohorts – Your 8th grade child will begin operating in his or her cohort for electives only. No other classes will begin operating under the cohort format until later this month. For electives, Monday and Tuesday will remain an "A day" and Thursday and Friday will remain a "B day."

What does NOT change is that your child will still be learning entirely from home next week (October 5 & 6 and 8 & 9), NOT on campus. Wednesday, October 7 remains a student seminar with no changes, i.e., your student can follow their teacher’s procedure for scheduling extra support as needed.

In order to practice the cohort format, we will be conducting a test run on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23. In the upcoming weeks we will share important information that you will need as we prepare to move into actual hybrid learning where half of our students are physically at school beginning Monday, October 26. We hope the schedule below will help further explain what our MS families can expect over the course of October.