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From the Head of School
Dear AL community,
They say third time's a charm, and the saying held true for us at Académie Lafayette this week. The weather was beautiful on Wednesday for the Armour building ribbon cutting and field dedication ceremony.
For many years we have tried to grow our school, but always fell short because of a major obstacle: finding a building. Our vision was to have a K-12 school offering the International Baccalaureate program. Today, we are one step closer, and still working on increasing our diversity and the number of quality seats offered to Kansas City children.
We could not have made this possible without the help of our generous supporters and partners who invested in Académie Lafayette over the last 20 years.
We were also joined by special guests Neil Smith, Carl Peterson, and Betty Brown (president of the 3rd and Long Foundation) for the dedication of the Derrick Thomas Memorial Field. Derrick Thomas was a big supporter of education and I expect our students will do great athletic achievements on his memorial field.
Thank you to all that came out to the ceremony or watched live on our school's Facebook page.
Have a great weekend!
Elimane Mbengue
Head of School
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Click
here for more photos & for videos of the events from our FB page click here: Part
1
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Click
here for the Fox 4 News story.
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calendar Upcoming Events
Evening in Paris
The Mulberry Room,
6:30 pm
School in Session
(Snow Day Make Up)
April 27
AL Day at the K
Kauffman Stadium,
6:15 pm-10:15 pm
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Armour and Oak
Spring Pictures
(in uniform)
April 22
Conseil d'Ecole
Oak, 6-7:30 pm
April 29-May 3
Oak Map Testing
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April 18
Cherry 1st grade Concert
Cherry Auditorium, 6 pm
April 26
6th Grade Spring Fling Dance, Armour, 6-9 pm
May 1
Special PTSO mtg.
Armour, 6-8 pm
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Access the 2018-19 school calendars by clicking
here.
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INFO SHARING
 Evening in Paris is tomorrow night at The Mulberry Room
Registration for online bidding is now open
and you can still bid for silent auction items
even if you do not attend the event!
Online Bidding opens at 9 am Saturday 4/13.
Important Links
Important times for tomorrow evening!
5:30 Doors Open to VIP
6:30 Doors Open to General Admission
8:30
Silent Auction closes and
Live Auction Begins
Last call at 11:30
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INFO SHARING
Academie Lafayette-Armour Spring Pictures
Picture Day is: Monday, Apr 15
Picture Day ID: KM018534Q0
Academie Lafayette - Oak
Spring Pictures
Picture Day is: Monday, Apr 15
Picture Day ID: KM018374Q0
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INFO SHARING
 Calling all civic-minded-roll-up-your-sleeves-let's-get-this-done kind of people--AcadémieLafayette's Parent Teacher Organization (
PTO) needs you!
The
PTO
elections process will take place in the months of April and May. We are putting out the call of motivated volunteers. Our new structure will call for four parents from each campus to represent all three campuses on the
PTO board.
You will need to submit a short half page bio with the campus you wish to represent and reason for running to Leslie Kohlmeyer at
ezl101@hotmail.com by April 15. These will be posted on the PTO website with links distributed in the newsletter.
We will then hold a special meeting to allow for all candidates to speak and answer questions. Immediately following we will distribute an electronic ballot for voting. Voting will take place over a one-week period and then results will be calculated.
If there are fewer candidates than there are open seats there will be no need for a vote. All who run will be given the seat. Please stay tuned for the voting meeting date.
Areas of need for
PTO:
- Accounting professional for possible role as treasurer
- Organizational wizard for possible role as events coordinator
- Communications or Design Professional for possible role of Communications VP
- Volunteer coordination
- Leadership minded individuals
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INFO SHARING
This year's Fund A Need focus is technology and specifically more Chromebook carts.
5th grade teacher Franck Brichet has this to say about this year's Fund A Need:
"Another chrome book cart would be amazing! As of today, 5th grade has 105 students with 6 teachers, and we share one cart of 20 chrome books for all of us. Having access to computers a couple of hours each week is nice, but if we could have it more it would be even better! Technology is very useful in every aspect of life, and in the classroom it is no different. We could put it to good use for project research, math, French, social studies, etc. Having another cart available would be extremely helpful!!"
So get ready for EIP and to make the goal of adding more Chromebook carts a reality!
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INFO SHARING
Only 50 tickets left in our block, grab your tickets now!
It is not too late if you still want to join us, but you need to hurry.
Only 50 tickets left in the block reserved for Academie Lafayette!
We have tickets options for 1 ticket - $15 each or group of 4 tickets - $55 per set
Click here to order your tickets now.
For those that have already purchased tickets -
you should have received your digital tickets in your email.
Please let me know if you did not receive them.
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INFO SHARING
Jory's team was entered in the 1a pool of the Tier II National Championships putting them in the second most competitive bracket. His team represented the State of Kansas and played against teams from Nevada, Montana, South Carolina, Georgia, Oregon and Nebraska. All pool play is ranked against states that have a similar level of involvement in order to make the tournament competitive and fun for all. Most of the teams representing their states were all-star
 teams picked from the best players of all teams in the state. Jory's team is the best Bantam AA U14 team picked from kids in the KC Metro Area (both Kansas and Missouri). Jory has played 58 games this year with this team scoring 22 goals and helping with 32 assists.
Unfortunately, Jory's team lost 2-1 in the third period of the finals against a tough Georgia team. Jory scored 2 goals and had 3 assists in five games of the tournament including a very important goal in the semi-finals to tie the game which sparked his team to eventually win and move onto the final game. All the games were played on the University of Notre Dame Compton Family Ice Center - Main Bowl, where the Notre Dame NCAA Division 1 Men and Woman's Ice Hockey teams play their games.
Jory's parents and the AL family are very proud of him for following and excelling at his passion.
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research medical center, brookside campus, is a proud sponsor of academie lafayette 
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Oak Street Campus
6903 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-361-7735
Armour Campus,
201 E. Ar
mour 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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