Parents and Guardians,
I hope you and your student were able to take some time off last week for Spring Break. I always look forward to this break and know that it comes at a good time for our students and staff.
However, 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 are really important for students. 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 17th 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 but the building will be closed to the public.
As we shared prior to Spring Break, SAT School Day for current LHS 11th graders has been postponed until Wednesday, March 24th. This is also that day that our current 9th graders will take the PSAT test. On Tuesday, March 23rd, we will post classroom assignments in the Commons for 9th and 11th graders. Current 10th and 12th grade students will follow their normal school day schedule during testing on the 24th.
Below you will see a new "2021 LHS Senior Events" section with a link to dates and information about all senior events. This link will be helpful to parents and seniors and will be updated frequently with any new changes.
You can also find information below about all events going on at LHS. Please take a few minutes to review them.
Sincerely,
Chris Mayfield
Principal
Lovejoy High School
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Please click HERE for the most up-to-date information regarding all 2021 Senior Activities.
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The LISD Covid Cases dashboard includes active cases of both on-campus students/staff and virtual students/staff. If a student /staff member is participating virtually and/or has NOT come to campus for any class or activity, the dashboard will include the case, but the campus will NOT notify parents or staff.
The COVID Case Dashboard is accessible from the main district website, each campus website and accessed here.
For our complete 2020-2021 website with the Planning Guide and COVID procedures, click here. |
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Parents,
Please note that any student or student with a family member waiting on results of a COVID test, due to being symptomatic, must remain at home.
If your student is not feeling well, please keep them at home and allow them to attend school virtually. This also includes not participating in any on-campus athletic practices or other events. Please see pages 25 and 26 in the LISD Planning Guide 2020-21
UIL requires that a student who has been diagnosed with COVID - 19 must receive a clearance from a physician prior to participation in athletics.
COVID Return to Athletics Form can be found HERE. For questions regarding this Athletic Form, please contact Susan Smiley, our Head Athletic Trainer at susan_smiley@lovejoyisd.net.
If your child is exposed to a positive lab confirmed COVID case or experiences symptoms, please email the school nurse at amy_dresser@lovejoyisd.net.
Symptomatic students should not be at school. If they become symptomatic at school, they must check in with the nurse before leaving campus.
Stay safe and healthy,
Amy Dresser RN
School Nurse
Lovejoy High School
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LHS Student Holiday
Wednesday, March 17th
Student holiday for LHS students only. Lovejoy High School will be
closed for staff professional development.
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STEM Festival T-shirt Design Contest Entry Deadline
Friday, March 19th
We are accepting design entries for the STEM Fest 2021 t-shirt. Entries are due Friday, March 19th at 5:00pm.
Please be sure to read complete rules and submission guidelines HERE.
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SAT and PSAT Testing Day
Wednesday, March 24th
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Dual Credit Informational Webinar
Thursday, March 25th
The counseling office will be hosting an informational dual credit webinar
for rising senior parents and students to help guide you through the dual
credit process. Meeting information is as follows:
Date: Thursday, March 25th
Time: 6:30 pm
Please click the link below to join the webinar.
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LISD Holiday
Friday, April 2nd - Monday, April 5th
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Virtual STEM Festival
Saturday, April 10th
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AP Testing Dates
Monday, May 3rd - Friday, May 14th
This year Lovejoy High School will be administering Advanced Placement exams between May 3rd and May 14th. Exams will be the traditional paper and pencil exams and will follow the exam schedule that can be found HERE. All students will be required to take their AP exams in this testing window.
Although CollegeBoard had provided schools with some flexibility to the format (digital exams are available), Lovejoy High School opted not to use those options. They are only offered on certain dates and this would have resulted in a conflicts for students. The windows for these exams were either the same dates as LHS Final Exams for 9th-12th graders, or a window that occurred after the academic school year had ended.
Challenges in the digital platform our students experienced last year also played a factor in this decision. Additionally, we considered the inability to revise answers in the current digital exams as a reason to utilize the paper and pencil platform.
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Campus and District Information |
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The window for gifted and talented referals opened March 1st and closes at 5:00 pm April 1st. The referral form is located in the PowerSchool Parent Portal.
Testing is currently scheduled for Saturdays, April 17th and April 24th.
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Legacy Bricks are now on sale through April 8, 2021. A legacy brick is the perfect way to honor your Senior. Orders made before April 8, will be in place by graduation. More information can be found on the Foundation website: https://bit.ly/3a41q6J
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SAT Prep Registration
District-Led SAT Prep is open for registration. Classes start March 23! For more information or to register, visit the district's test prep and tutoring site. Registration is limited to 10 participants.
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VOE (Verification of Enrollment)
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Community News
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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Monday night the varsity girls soccer team beat Princeton 7-1. Goals were scored by Cambry Patrick (hat trick), Paige Young, Taylor Person, and Tatum Chester (2). Assists were by Taylor Person (2), Hannah Dunlap, Natalia Duran De La Vega (2), and Emmy Wood. Next game up is on Wednesday vs. Sherman at LHS at 6 PM.
Wednesday Night the varsity girls soccer team beat Sherman 5-0. Goals were scored by Katie Welch, Cambry Patrick, Taylor Person, Hannah Dunlap, and Abby Wood. Assists were by Tatum Chester, Hannah Dunlap, Cambry Patrick, and Paige Young. This was the girls 11th clean sheet this season, the most clean sheets the program has kept since 2012.
Thursday night the varsity girls soccer team lost to McKinney North 3-0.
Friday morning the girls varsity team beat Denison 7-1 to secure playoffs for the third year in a row. Goals were scored by Taylor Person (4), Cambry Patrick (2), and Hannah Dunlap. Assists by Cambry Patrick (2), Taylor Person (2), Callan Snider, and Hannah Dunlap. Big shout out to Abby Wood, Emmy Wood, Jordan Watson, and Katie Welch for stepping up to play in goal.
The girls play Denison again on Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM before Senior Night for the boys team. Come on out and support both teams in their last home game of the district season.
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The junior varsity team also won big Monday night 14-0. Goals were scored by Kailey McDonald, Morgan Paharik (2), Hannah Daehnert (2), Eleanor Koehn (2), Ainsley Johnson, Jordyn Caro, Aubrey Goff, Natalie Burns (2), Alexa Paharik, and Conley Miller. Assists were by Hannah Daehnert, Alexa Paharik (2), Eleanor Koehn (3), Gianna Lutcza, Aubrey Goff, Samatha Belatur (3), Natalie Burns, Conley Miller, and Kailey McDonald.
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LHS Majestics Dance Team
The LHS Majestics Dance Team attended the Crowd Pleasers DFW Showcase dance competition hosted at The Delta Hotel (Allen). 6 team routines, 8 solos, and 8 hours later...the girls won many top awards, representing Lovejoy with high honors!
Team Awards
Silver Sweepstakes Award – scored 90+ from all judges on every routine
*Overall Most Outstanding Academic Achievement - Team GPA of 4.3 Highest GPA HIGH SCHOOL: Lovejoy Majestics with a GPA of 4.03
1st runner up - Team Jazz
1st runner up - Team Hip Hop
Outstanding Choreography Award in Jazz and Hip Hop
Outstanding Technique Award in Jazz and Hip Hop
Outstanding Execution in Jazz
Outstanding Performance Quality in Jazz and Hip Hop
1st runner up for Grand Champion Team (in the select large team category)
Officer Awards
Silver Sweepstakes Award – scored 90+ from all judges on every routine
*1st place - Officer Lyrical
1st runner up - Officer Jazz
Outstanding Choreography Award in Lyrical and Jazz
Outstanding Technique Award in Lyrical
Outstanding Execution in Lyrical
1st runner up for Grand Champion Officer Group (in the select large team category)
Imperials (Elite Team)
Silver Sweepstakes Award – scored 90+ from all judges on every routine
Outstanding Choreography, Technique, and Performance Quality
*1st Place - Elite Jazz
Senior HipHop (Elite Team)
Silver Sweepstakes Award – scored 90+ from all judges on every routine
Outstanding Choreography, Technique, and Performance Quality
1st runner up - Elite Hip Hop
Please help us in congratulating these outstanding girls on a successful contest season!
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LHS Chamber Orchestra earned Sweepstakes in both Concert and Sight-Reading at the Region 25 UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation.
Since January, the students have had class approximately 14 times with the many holidays and unexpected snow week. We are very pleased to share this orchestra earned Sweepstakes for their Concert and in the Sight-Reading Room. Mrs. Vanhook and Mrs. Winkler are very proud of their students and appreciative of their families as they prepared music and excelled despite the many obstacles of the recents weeks and challenges of the school year. The students rose to the occasion and showcased their abilities this week. The performances were absolutely outstanding.
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Lovejoy Color Guard
The Lovejoy ISD Guard competed in the North Texas Color Guard Competition at Alvarado HS. All 4 guard programs represented our campuses very well. We are proud of their weekly accomplishments and growth. Congratulations to the LHS Varsity Guard for their move to semi-finals in the virtual WGI nationals competition. Good luck to these students as they continue to compete and advance.
Willow Springs- 1st place in their class
Lovejoy JV - 2nd place in their class
Lovejoy Varsity - 1st place in their class
Lovejoy Varsity also competed in a WGI virtual competition and moved to Semi-Finals!
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Computer Science Team
Over the weekend Lovejoy competed in Hewlett Packard’s “Code Wars” computer programming competition. This year’s event was a virtual competition where they distributed a packet of problems to all of the teams and student had three hours to complete as many problems as possible. The harder the problem, the more points the problem is worth. This year Lovejoy entered three teams and our top Advanced Team took third place at the Houston site/contest. The team consisted of Mark Wen, Kevin Xu and Nathan Fowler. There were over 300 teams entered in the competition in Houston alone. The event was held simultaneously in multiple cities across the country. The top Novice team came in 24th place out of approximately 200 teams. The novice team consisted of Hannah Mao, Samatha Belaturand and Cameron Coleman.
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Academic Calendars for 2020-2021
To access the 2020-2021 Academic Calendar, please click here.
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