Dear Las Lomitas Families,

I hope you have all been able to recharge and reconnect with family and friends this summer break. The Camou Family spent several days in Colorado just west of the Rocky Mountain National Park where we enjoyed hiking, golfing, and a variety of lake activities. It was a wonderful break from the regular pace and a greatly appreciated opportunity to be completely present with my family. 

At Las Lomitas Elementary, we will be doubling down on the social/emotional well-being of students, staff, and families as we find new ways to be in-person and continue to stoke the warmth of community that began in the latter part of the 2021-2022 school year. We will also continue to provide a robust and developmentally appropriate academic program to engage and inspire students in learning. We also welcome our new Transitional Kindergarten students as the youngest group of learners on our campus!

Along the way, we will balance our initiatives by adhering to the evolving public health guidelines and make safety adjustments as necessary. For now, the San Mateo County Office of Education has directed us to move forward with little to no public health constraints on the learning environment and will continue forward with the optional masking for students and staff outdoors and recommended for indoors. We may need to require masks for large indoor congregations when ventilation may be an issue. 

Please see below for important information as we transition to the 2022-2023 school year.

Have a wonderful rest of your summer! We are excitedly looking forward to kicking off the school year and welcoming your wonderful children!

All the best,

Alain Camou

Principal

Careful consideration was given to placement including input from teachers, staff, families, and students’ learning styles. Classrooms have been balanced academically and socially and are structured to provide equitable class sizes at each grade level.

Thank you for encouraging your children to understand it’s impossible to place all students with a preferred best friend or teacher. Our staff works tirelessly to make school a positive experience for all students. It can take a few weeks for a child to acclimate to a new grade, peer group, and teacher; we are all here to support your children through this transition. I share this process to help you understand we may not have been able to honor all placement requests though I can assure you we have done our best to consider every student’s needs, balance every classroom, and provide programmatic stability to deliver a quality educational program.

Notification about class assignments will be sent via email and snail mail this week. Please note that if your child is not current with all immunizations, their placement information will be withheld. Families have been notified multiple times, so if you have not heard anything then you are good to go!

• Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten: 8:15 am – 1:30 pm, Monday – Friday
• Note: Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten classes will have a modified schedule for the first eight days of school. The schedule will be 8:15 am - 11:40 am from August 24 - September 2, 2022.

• Grades 1 – 3: 8:15 am – 2:20 pm, (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) and 8:15 am – 1:30 pm, Wednesday.

Please reach out to Mr. Camou @acamou@llesd.org if you’d like to join our School Site Council (SSC). We are looking for two-three parents to join SSC to provide input and oversight to our Single Plan for Student Achievement. We will meet with Las Lomitas Elementary School staff representatives five-six times throughout the year. 

Las Lomitas School will be providing breakfast and lunch free of charge to all families. The LunchMaster is our new food service provider for the 2022-2023 school year. The LunchMaster is an outside vendor and they have high standards for your child's meals. This means they serve antibiotic & hormone-free meat/poultry, daily fresh fruit & veggie choices, 80% of the produce is grown locally, all bread and tortillas are whole grain, no food is ever fired, and daily vegetarian & gluten-free meal options are offered.

Sign up through TheLunchMaster to participate:

1. Download The LunchMaster app where you can access the parent portal   
2. Register Using the School Code  laslomitas 



For questions on how the app works, please contact The LunchMaster at (650) 596-8008 or email lmadmin@thelunchmaster.com.

Welcome, all new families to Las Lomitas Elementary! Please join us for an important virtual orientation meeting on Monday, August 22, at 6:00 pm. Click here to access the Zoom link.

We hope you can make it to Meet the Teacher on Tuesday, August 23, at 9:00 am. The event will give your children the opportunity to meet their teacher and see their friends. Meet the Teacher gives parents the chance to put a face to a teacher’s name and to chat informally about the upcoming school year. By having your child attend this event, we can reduce anxiety about starting school and contribute to their positive outlook and sense of belonging and well-being.  

Bus schedules can be picked up in the Front Office at Meet the Teacher or anytime thereafter.

The first day of school is Wednesday, August 24, 2022. Please join us for a PTA General Meeting in Cano Hall at 8:45 am. 

Parent Information Night (PIN):

Please join us for PIN on Thursday, September 1 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm. The schedule for each grade level is below:

• Grades 2 & 3: 6:30-7:15 pm
• Grades K & 1: 7:15-8:00 pm

PIN will be in-person this year!

Please join me in welcoming our new staff!  Some are brand new to our school, some are starting a new role at our school, and some are joining us from La Entrada. 

• Raquel Brito-Cebrian, Transitional Kindergarten Aide
• Caitlin Davis, Librarian
• Kristy Fordham, Visual and Performing Arts 
• Ruben Friaz-Lopez, Bus Driver
• Roxanna Godinez, Bi-lingual Paraprofessional
• Melissa Gonzalez, Transitional Kindergarten Aide
• Nicole Lycett, Transitional Kindergarten Teacher
• Maria Marchi, Transitional Kindergarten Teacher
• Kellie Morris, Grade 2 Teacher
• Angela Ping, Design Through Technology E-Lab
• Neeta Prakash, Speech-Language Pathologist
• Becky Reddy, Transitional Kindergarten Teacher
• Rocio Sanchez, Special Education Paraprofessional
• Nemo Swift, Speech-Language Pathologist
• Leah Torres, Special Education Paraprofessional

All Transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 rooms will have a class set of iPads. In Grades 2 and 3 we will have a class set of Chromebooks. 

Construction on our modernization project has been underway all summer on our campus. Below is more detailed and important information regarding the safety and security of our campus as we undergo construction during the school year.

The Las Lomitas Elementary School District is undergoing major modernizations at the Las Lomitas Elementary School and La Entrada Middle School campuses.  These facility upgrades include structural, architectural, and technological improvements to most of the buildings on both campuses, and will extend through the 2022-2023 School Year and into the Fall of 2023.  The work is phased such that only a portion of each campus will be under construction while the rest of the campus remains open for instruction.

XL Construction, the general contractor managing the modernization work, has erected signage and fencing around the perimeter of the impacted construction areas and has directed its workers and trade partners to minimize impacts to school operations:

• School will remain fully operational during construction
• Deliveries and mobilizations are scheduled not to occur during drop-off and pick-up
• All work is limited to the hours of 8:00 am - 5:00 pm by local ordinance, with the exception of urgent conditions requiring emergency work
• Perimeter fencing is covered by a mesh screen preventing interaction between workers and students/staff

FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL STUDENTS, FAMILIES, STAFF, AND NEIGHBORS:

• Please do not enter the construction areas for any reason at any time.
• Please do not interfere with construction activities – stay well clear of trucks, equipment, and materials at all times.
• Please obey all signs, fences, flagging, danger tape, etc.
• Please immediately notify the School Main Office at (650) 854-5900. If you see any hazardous conditions at any time

More details about the construction work can be found on the School District Website here:

Facility Project Updates

I encourage all parents to subscribe to The Lion’s Roar at the PTA website to receive our weekly newsletter in order to stay connected to the school.

STAY CONNECTED! Click on the link for more information from the PTA on how to connect and volunteer.

Thank you to LL PTA and LLEF for everything you do to support our schools! Please consider joining these student-centered organizations if you have not already done so.

Las Lomitas PTA:  https://laslomitaspta.org/

LLEF:   https://www.llef.org/about