What an amazing season for Lancer Softball!

✔️NJSIAA Group 4 Section 1 Champions

✔️NJSIAA Group 4 Overall Champions

This is the team's sixth Sectional Title in program history and its first since 2016, while the Group 4 Overall Title is the first in the LHS softball program's history. Congratulations to the players and coaches!

"When so many questioned whether we would have athletics in the year of COVID, our softball program found a way to not only compete, but compete and win at the highest level until the final minute of the school year," noted LHS athletic director, Rich Porfido.

Livingston High School (LHS) senior Michelle Lichtstein was recently one of 26 Essex County students to be recognized by the New Jersey School Boards Association-Essex County as part of its “Unsung Heroes Student Recognition Program. The awards recognize students “who make outstanding contributions to their schools and communities, but who may be overlooked under traditional student recognition guidelines. Honorees may have overcome academic or personal challenges, modeled good citizenship, or shown a spirit or quiet strength that inspires others.”

LHS 11th grade Humanities classes were approaching their unit on the Modern American Identity when "Coming of Age: Teens on a Year that Changed Everything" was published in the New York Times through its Learning Network. The Times asked the question, “What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?” and received more than 5,500 responses in words and images.

This inspired LHS teachers to introduce the unit by having students reflect on their own identities and how their experiences during the pandemic affected the way they saw themselves in the world. As a class, they read the article, viewed the artwork, and discussed the effectiveness of each composition and medium used to tell the teenagers’ stories. Students used class time to brainstorm their ideas in groups. Each student received feedback to push their visions and compositions forward. Then students worked outside of class to complete their artwork in whatever medium worked best to tell their story. In English and History, they had time to organize their thoughts and compose an explanatory statement beside their work.

They created a slideshow of their insightful, personal and moving compositions, which we are sharing here with the authors’ names removed.

We are very proud of the students for their work and hope you enjoy it, too.

Through all of the challenges of making music during a pandemic, Heritage Middle School's 8th Grade Chorus was able to put together this awesome virtual performance with the help of Erik Donough. Enjoy!

Heritage Middle School's 7th Grade Band has put together a virtual performance video of one of the pieces they have been working on this year. Click the link to listen to them perform Majestica!

The work of several LHS artists will be on display at INSPIRED MINDS 2021, a juried exhibit of the art of Essex County high school students at South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) in South Orange, NJ through August 15, 2021. View the gallery and support our artists!