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From the HEad of School
KC Metro Conference Championship
Dear AL Community,
Congratulations to our athletes and coaches for the brilliant results at the KC Metro Conference Championship! (Photos by AL parent Marco Wirz) Despite the short season, everyone gave it their all. The results speak for themselves. Special thanks to athletic director Mamadou Dieng, head coach Brenda Kumm, assistant coach Dan Bird, specialty coaches Abdoulaye Sy, Denise Hill and Ida Lee. Merci beaucoup to all the high school mentors.
As we enter the last week of the 20-21 school year, please make sure to finish strong! We look forward to seeing you for summer school starting June 16 as an opportunity to support all students in a fun atmosphere. If you plan to attend summer school please make sure to complete your registration in the Tyler system here: https://sdm.sisk12.com/MOAL360x3/login before May 26th.
Have a great weekend!
Elimane Mbengue
Head of School
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From the Oak and Cherry Principal
Welcome New Students and Parents!
We will have a virtual Parent Orientation Night on June 7, 6 pm for Cherry families and 7 pm for Oak families. These events will be live on Zoom and the link will be provided at a later date.
Please plan to join us online to be introduced to key people at each building and to hear more about the following topics: Covid and health/safety, kindergarten readiness, first days of school, arrival and dismissal, and transportation.
We will save time at the end to respond to questions. We will include a link in the newsletter next week for parents to submit questions in advance.
In addition, for new families who have never had the opportunity to tour the school, we will be sending out a sign-up genius to reserve a time slot to come see the buildings. Those visits will take place June 8-14. Those visits will not be formal tours, but they will give parents and kids the chance to take a look around and see a kindergarten classroom before summer school starts.
Thank you so much. We look forward to meeting our new parents and to welcoming our new kindergarten students to the building in person on June 16 when summer school starts.
High school orientation will take place at the beginning of August. Communication with more specific information will be sent this summer.
Cordially,
Jean-Claude Diatta Heather Royce
Oak Principal Cherry Principal
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calendar
Upcoming Events
Last Day of School for students
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June 16
First Day of Summer School
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Access the 2020-21 school calendar by clicking here.
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INFO SHARING
No Charge for Meals 20/21 School Year
The AL Business Office has recently learned that as part of the Federal Covid Relief Package, we are able to provide free meals to all students, regardless of financial status, from October 2020 - June 2021. What does this mean?
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No one will be charged for meals eaten October 1- June 30.
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All meals eaten for the rest of this school year and session I of summer school will be tracked but nothing will be charged.
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Meals eaten between November 1 - May 13 will be credited back to your child's account. We are still working on the best way to do this so credits will take place in the coming weeks.
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Any balance from previous years will be carried over to next school year.
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Any payments made for summer lunch this year will be carried over to next school year.
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If you have a balance due (negative balance) carried over from previous years we encourage you to continue paying that. The lunch payment button will continue to be on the AL website for this purpose. -
If you did make a payment this year, do not have a balance due, and would like a refund, please contact Marcia Berry as soon as possible before the end of May, otherwise everything will carry over to next year.
Thanks for your understanding.
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INFO SHARING
8th Grade Graduation Party to celebrate!
Hi 8th grade parents! This is Dan, I'm an AL parent to 8th grader Maja (as well as alumnus Tristan, AL '18). As we near the end of our Academie Lafayette journey, we're having an 8th Grade Graduation Party to celebrate! We have some safety precautions with Covid, but it will still be a fun and memorable celebration of all of your amazing kids, I'm sure.
Who: Families of current 8th graders (who ever attended AL)
When: Friday, 28 May, 5-10pm (rain or shine)
Where: Swope Park Bandstand
Bring: All food and drink for your family, folding chairs, yard games, and smiles :)
Details: The Swope Park Bandstand is on Pavilion Rd in Swope Park (enter at Meyer Blvd), near Starlight and AL's league XC course. Please note Google maps shows it as "Swope Park Shelter #3", but kcparks.com calls it "Swope Park Bandstand", and lists another shelter as #3. It has 20 tables seating 200, and sheltered capacity of 400. There is electricity, lights, a water spigot, playground, and portapotties. Just to reiterate... because of covid, NO food/drink will be provided. This is picnic style, please bring all food and drink for your family. Currently masks are required at Swope when not eating or drinking, and families should plan to social distance. Contributions welcome! Even $10/family will help make a fun party even more fun. We already have enough for the shelter rental and music by DJ Darron Story (father of Josh, AL '21, and Zach, AL '18... thanks again, Darron!). If possible, we'd love to add a photobooth and more! The go fund me link is below:
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Amazing AL Advocates
View the Advocacy in Action communication here. This one marks the end of the 2021 legislative session and wraps up our Funding Equity campaign. You have been incredibly supportive of our kids and their education. Without you, we wouldn't have gotten this far!
Collectively, our outreach to our legislators was outstanding! Through our Phone 2 Action tool, we had 1,688 legislator connections and that doesn't include all the advocacy done outside of the tool, which we know was even greater.
Thank you!
CHRISTY MORENO
Bilingual Director of Advocacy
Missouri Charter Public School Association
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INFO SHARING
Fall uniform closet requests
You have 1 more week to put your Fall uniform closet requests into the parent volunteers before school is out! (summer school dress code is casual/play clothes).
If you have anything clean and not ripped or stained to donate please send it with your child to be dropped in the Oak or Armour school offices. I am a parent volunteer and organize the Oak closet so if you have any particular needs (Cherry or Oak) I'm happy to look for you, sizes K-5. sallyk1975@gmail.com816-699-3109. For 6th grade and up uniform needs, please contact Diane Rizzo who handles Armour. 816-729-7087 diane.rizzo@yahoo.comPlease be as specific as possible as to what you're wanting (size, color) and we will try to pack you a bag. If your child is at Oak on Thursdays let me know and I will deliver it to your child directly. Otherwise it will be left at the entrance of Oak with your name on it to be picked up during school hours before May 28th. Please also encourage your kids to look through the lost and found area which is near the office or in the uniform closet. Stay tuned for more info on lost and found access for Oak parents the last week of school. Here to help! Warmly, Sally King and Diane Rizzo
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INFO SHARING
Donations for the 9th grade end of year service project
Armour is currently seeking donations for the 9th grade end of year service project. We are collecting essential items for students to create packs to distribute to the homeless in our community. Please consider donating the following items through May 27th.
Items Needed: Water bottles Single dollar bills Masks Sanitary wipes Granola bars & other individually packaged non-perishable snacks Zip lock bags
Miniature toiletries - deodorant, hand sanitizer, facial wipes, mouthwash Feminine hygiene product
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INFO SHARING
Yearbook Information & Contest
Thank you to all of the parents that have been sending in pictures. If you have not gotten around to it yet, it's not too late! Email your cute snaps to communication@academielafayette.org.
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Each classroom will get a page with a class picture and pictures sent in from home as well as the current student list. No Lifetouch pictures will be used, so please make sure to send in some pictures to make your class page look awesome!
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Got pictures of your child not related to class? Send them in anyway! Please indicate your child's grade and teacher.
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Print Tekk Printing and Mailing, an AL parent business, will be printing out our yearbooks this year. We are excited about this new partnership!
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Ordering is open from today until Sunday, May 23rd. Click here to order your yearbook. Each yearbook costs $15.
Cover page design contest! Calling all AL artists to design the cover page of this year's yearbook! The 8th grade class will vote to select a final design. Rules: -
The design must include "2020-2021" and "Académie Lafayette" somewhere on the page (with the accent on the e, please).
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The dimensions must be 8.5 x 11.0 in. (regular piece of printing paper) or 2550 x 3300 pixels if creating a digital file.
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The design must be legible vertically.
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Limit 2 designs per student.
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INFO SHARING
Greetings Académie Lafayette Parents,
Upper Room is happy to announce that we will be providing after-school care for Académie Lafayette's two summer school sessions: June 16 - July 2, 2021 and July 7 - July 23, 2021.
The program will run from the end of the school day until 6:00pm Monday through Friday. Activities will include music, art, PE and games. Due to this being a separate program from our school year after-school program, all families will need to complete an application, pay a $25 registration fee through PayPal, and complete and submit the automatic payment form even if you have completed an application earlier in the school year. Fees will be a flat rate of $60 per week for the first child and $45 per week for each sibling. Click here for additional information about the Summer After-school Program. Click here to register.
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INFO SHARING
In order to improve school communication, we have enabled the text feature of our SchoolReach technology. Every family should have received a text as shown here this week. You must respond Y to the text message in order to opt-in and receive further communication. If you did not receive a text, please make sure your contact information is correct in your Tyler parent portal. If it is, please email itdepartment@academielafayette.org.
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INFO SHARING
 We are excited to offer Yubbler's school supplies program which will help the school and make it a breeze for parents to get school supplies for next year. Yubbler will donate 50% of the profits back to the school.
What you need to do: * Find the supply list for your child's grade on our website. * Click on the purchase button ("Add Full List") then enter your shipping and billing information. * You can customize your cart in checkout by removing or adding items. * You're done! Supplies are shipped "Next Day" to your home. One click and you're done. It's that simple! There is no deadline to purchase supplies. Please email orders@yubbler.com for any questions or concerns regarding your order.
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INFO SHARING
Children's Mercy Testing for Children
Children's Mercy COVID-19 Testing available for symptomatic children. For more information on scheduling and criteria please click here.
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INFO SHARING
Communication
- To help answer your questions, we have created our distance learning page. If, at any time, you have a question, concern or information to share, please do not hesitate to reach out to your child's teachers, counselors, principals or Mr. Mbengue.
- Looking to build your community? Get going today by joining our private Facebook group here. You will need to answer the security questions.
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Oak Street Campus
6903 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-361-7735
Armour Campus,
201 E. Armour Blvd,
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-800-8771
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Cherry Street Campus
3421 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64109
816-888-7400
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