28 September 2018

Le Journal

From the Head of School

Conseil d'Ecole Overview

Dear AL families,

Since 2012, I have put in place a Conseil d'Ecole to serve as an advisory committee to the Head of School. The CE is an opportunity to encourage shared decision-making, to get cross-constituency feedback, and to promote collaboration and partnership between the administration, the faculty and the parents. Representatives from each school building meet throughout the year to help improve the management of the school. They are chosen by teachers, room parents and by the head of school. They typically serve one-year term.

ADVISORY ROLE:
  • School yearly calendar,
  • Extracurricular activities,
  • School lunch,
  • School uniform,
  • School environment,
  • Student wellbeing and safety
  • School Improvement.
PARENT ELECT BOARD MEMBER:
  • Screen parent elect board candidates
  • Coordinate the parent elect board member election
COMPOSITION
The School Council is made up of the following 19 members:
 
I - Central Administration
  • Head of School
  • Business Manager
  • Transportation and Facility Manager
II - Building Instructional leaders
  • Oak Building Principal
  • Armour Building Principal
  • Cherry Building Principal
  • Director of Curriculum and Students Services
III -  Six Teacher Representatives
  • 2 Cherry Building Representatives
  • 2 Oak Building Representatives
  • 2 Armour Building Representatives
IV - Six Parent Representatives
  • PTO President
  • Cherry Representative
  • Oak Representative
  • Armour Representatives
  • Member at Large
  • Member at Large
If you are a room parent and would like to represent the parents in your building, please contact your building principal.

Sincerely,
 
Elimane Mbengue
Head of School

From the Cherry Principal

Worth a Thousand Words

Dear Families,

This picture is worth a thousand words or a thousand reasons why we love Académie Lafayette. We recently contacted a new family on the waitlist to let them know we have a space in kindergarten for their child. The parents only speak Swahili, and we were having trouble communicating with them. We asked if any staff members could help. M. Nyabenda, our new teacher from Burundi, let us know that he speaks Swahili and could talk to them. Here he is on the phone with a new A.L. family- imagine their surprise. I doubt this could happen at many other schools. What a gift to have staff members from so many different francophone countries!

Bon weekend!
 
Madame Royce
Cherry Principal

In This Edition:

calendar

Upcoming Events


October 8
6:30 pm, Armour campus


October 25
 NO SCHOOL
Parent Teacher Conferences
8 am - 4 pm
October 15
NO SCHOOL



October 26
NO SCHOOL
October 24
NO SCHOOL
Parent Teacher Conferences
11 am - 7 pm

October 30
High School Fair 
7th and 8th graders
5:30-7:30 pm, Armour campus

Access the 2018-19 school calendars by clicking here. 


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Trash bag pick up will take place this Saturday, September 29th, from 8:30-noon at the Armour campus. Please make sure to pick up your trash bags at this time.  


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There has been a lot of confusion about when students can wear their Raffle shirts. I realize that this was not communicated well, so I want provide some clear guidelines and an update on sales.

1. We are going to open up t-shirt ticket sales until October 5th. If your student has sold 20 or more tickets, they will get a shirt. If they have not sold 20 tickets yet, they have a second chance at earning a raffle shirt! You can get more tickets from the front desk at each campus.

2. Beginning October 9th, students may wear the new raffle shirts on Tuesdays through the end of the year. Other AL branded shirts are not included in this privilege. 

3. Monday, October 1st is the deadline for the $15 for 15! If you have sold 35 tickets by Monday and turn them in, you will win a $15 gift card to either Starbucks, Cinemark or Yogurtini. This is a hard deadline!

Reminder that the top selling student at each campus gets to throw a pie at Mme. Royce, Mme. Houfaidi or Mr. Mbengue, so make sure you get those tickets sold!

So far we have raised almost $45,000 for Académie Lafayette, but we still have a way to go and three weeks to get there!

Christopher W. Neher 
Development Director

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Sell Your $10,000 Raffle Tickets Nowraffle

Preston Lee and Evan Lee at Banana Republic on the Plaza selling raffle tickets. This is their favorite fundraiser!
The first deadline for raffle prizes has come and gone and we're on track for another great year. If you have decided to not participate, please bring your tickets back to the front desk of your campus. It will help us so we can redistribute them to other students to sell.

Thanks for supporting AL!

Click here to purchase your $10,000 raffle tickets online now! 

Volunteers are needed to help count money, deliver prizes, and stuff raffle packets. Click  here to sign up! 

We have updated the signup genius with more options for ticket sales! Remember, you are only allowed to sign up for three time slots! The weekend weather is looking good to make some sales! Click here to sign up!

Need more tickets? More are available at the front desk of each campus! 

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Hello Parents,

Académie Lafayette will soon have a food pantry located at the Oak Campus. Our food pantry will provide food and snacks to our families that are food insecure or to our families that need extra food because of a financial crisis. Lara Troutner, Oak social worker and the PTSO are working together to provide this service to our AL children and families. 

AL families here is what you can do!
*We need food donations to stock our food pantry and gently used duffel bags or recyclable grocery bags (Trader Joe's) for bringing the extra food home.

Here is a list of donations that would be helpful for our pantry. The only requirement is that the food has not passed the expiration date.
  • Breads - sandwhich bread or rolls supermarket_family.jpg
  • Boxes of cereal
  • Mac and Cheese mix
  • Peanut butter
  • Jelly
  • Canned soups or vegetables 
  • Granola bars
  • Cheez-Its
  • Nilla Wafers 
  • Oatmeal (instant or regular)
  • Wheat Thins
  • Popcorn
  • Tortilla Chips
  • Dried fruit 
  • Fruit cups
  • Applesauce
  • Graham crackers
  • Gold fish crackers
  • Fruit roll-ups
  • Cookies
  • Crackers
  • Pancake Mix - add water 
  • Syrup
You can drop off your donations at the Oak campus inside the conference room in the new wing. Your student can also drop donations off for you. 

Thank you for donating food items and helping AL serve all of our families in need. This will not be possible without your generosity. If you have any questions please contact Lara Troutner, LCSW,  ltroutner@academielafayette.org

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Dear Oak families, 

After just a month and a half of school, we already have lots of items filling the racks of our new Lost & Found. The Lost & Found is located just inside the secure entrance; if your student has misplaced a sweater, jacket, water bottle, umbrella, pants, house keys, or other miscellaneous items, please swing by and see if any of these items belong to you.  

Please write your child's name on the tags. As items are found around campus, we look at the tags to see if a name is written inside, if there is a name, we deliver the item to the child; if there is no name, it ends up on this rack, waiting to be claimed by its owner.  Anything left on this rack after Parent/Teacher conferences will be donated to the uniform closet or to Goodwill.  

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SPIRIT WEAR
FLASH - FREE DELIVERY!
Temps are dropping and last year's sweatshirt may be too small!  
A stadium blanket or a thermal travel mug may keep you warmer on the soccer sidelines!  
Take advantage of a FREE DELIVERY TO CAMPUS offer on all IN-STOCK Spiritwear!  

ORDER BY END OF DAY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH and orders will be picked up at the warehouse on Tuesday morning and delivered to each campus. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE at check out put your child's last name (if different than yours), their campus and their homeroom teacher.  

The next Spirit Wear ordering period will be late October for mid-November delivery, just in time for Generations Day!  

Questions?  Contact Becky Smith  smith.rebeccabogen@gmail.com

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The Be Good To People Foundation came to Kansas City all the way from California on Friday, Sept. 28 to surprise ambush Mme Beth Walker, the Cherry social worker, during the Character Assemblies. She received a VIP Royals package for the night for the entire family, transportation in a Royals theme school bus and a visit to the Rally House store for new Royals gear. Surprise guests included her husband, son, news organizations, a representative from the Ronald McDonald House, family, friends, co-workers and students. 
"Madame Beth is great to have on our team. She is wonderful with kids and so helpful to parents and staff," said Cherry Principal Heather Royce. "Whether it is comforting a crying kindergarten student or finding resources for a parent who is struggling, she really knows her stuff." Click here to view the video presented to Mme Beth. 

A portion of the write up for the recognition is below:

Beth Walker, known as Mme Beth by the hordes of school children and their parents who
turn to her for the support, guidance, and unconditional love she gives each and every day, has devoted more than 25 years to serving others with grace and goodness.

In keeping with our vision of changing the world through the Be Good to People Foundation by promoting and celebrating those who commit their lives, professionally, socially, and personally to being and doing good, we have selected Beth Walker, school social worker at Academie Lafayette, as our Good-Doer deserving an ambush of kindness.

She has been recommended and supported for this ambush of kindness by her husband,Dave and son Jaxon, her former co-workers from Operation Breakthrough and current colleagues from Académie Lafayette, and her families she helps daily.

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The AL Cheer Team put their spirit to work for the first time this year, cheering on the walkers at the JDRF Walk starting line. Allez AL!

Tulie Dastrup, Vonai Thompson, Scarlette Lewandowski, Lilly Vottero, Emily Buck, Jessica Wallace, Hunter Smith's cousin, Hunter Smith, Claire Kauffmanschmidt, Billy Wells


The cheerleaders are holding the starting ribbon as the walkers started the walk.















AL sixth graders walked and cheered for a      cure for Type One Diabetes last Saturday.        Hunter's Crew has raised over $5100 for JDRF so far. 

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Show Me KC Schools provided a tour to Early Childhood Educators of the Cherry St. Campus. On the tour were two gentlemen, Devin Wilson and Marquan Willams. They attended AL when it was in the temple as kids. They both still understood French very well. They both were so excited to see their Alma mater represented so well. "This school is so diverse," Williams said. "I think it might even be more diverse than when I went here."  Wilson and Marquan are Lead Male fellows at the Literacy Lab. 

Thank you to AL parent Leslie Kohlmeyer for sharing. 



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Meet the BandBand

AL 7th graders open for the first recognition assembly of the school year. Kai on drums, Eli on electric guitar, Alex on acoustic guitar and Suzanne on vocals.  Click here  or below to see the performance.

LA BAND MARK II

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Dear parents,

We have heard your feedback and have created a new, official Facebook group just for you! This group is monitored by three AL staff members and we hope that it will help you get the information and community building that you need and deserve. This group is private and by request only. All members will be screened prior to entering the group so that we have a safe community. We hope that you will join us in this new collaboration! Click here to access the group. 

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Storiesstories

What is your AL story? Has attending AL made a difference in your child's life? In YOUR life? Did your family make a special effort to attend AL (such as move to the KCPS district so that you could apply?) Has it given your child the language skills to help someone in need? Does attending a free public school (i.e. not paying tuition) give your family the extra financial cushion to do something that you feel is important -- like start a not for profit? Has the foundation laid at AL given your older child an edge in high school or beyond? (Like Tom DeZutter who scored a perfect 36 on the English ACT.) Please share your AL story with us! Send them to Robyn King at rking@academielafayette.org. Put STORIES in the subject line. Thank you!

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