The Académie Lafayette Board of Directors will meet online only at 6:00 pm on Monday, November 14. You can view the meeting live on our YouTube channel. Click here to read the agenda.

Cherry: Parents, please come and look through the lost and found for your belongings. Everything will be donated on Dec. 9. Questions? Contact Mme Sheila, sbaskin@academielafayette.org.

Oak: Parents, please come and look through the lost and found for your child's belongings Monday-Friday, 4 pm to 5 pm, or call the front office 816-361-7735 to arrange a time during school hours. Everything will be donated on Dec. 9.

AL's own Girl Scout Troop 2036 is holding a book drive for the free little library on Armour & Warwick and for our holiday Adopt-A-Family program. Click here to view their video.

Books will be available to the community and will be distributed to families in need. The drive begins on 11/14 and ends on 12/2. Books can be dropped off at all 3 campuses. Thank you all for your support!

BeautifyAL & GreenAL are looking for volunteers on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 1 to 3 pm, to help with collecting trash items, mulching, weeding, prepping orchard trees for winter, and raking leaves/fallen branches at our Oak campus. We suggest bringing water, gloves, and a garden tool of your choice! Meet on the patio outside door D.

Questions? Contact beautifyal@academielafayette.org.

Help raise money for our schools by donating to the Holiday Art Market bake sale! Click here to sign up.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the Cherry campus on Saturday, November 19, from 10 am to 5 pm!

Please join me in congratulating our MS XC Girls and Boys Teams on a successful 2022 season! Their achievements are not only measured in wins but more importantly by their perseverance, sportsmanship, and achieving personal goals! Assistant Coach Monica Erdmann, Coach Hugh Wooden and I are beyond proud of these great kids and are pleased to share these outstanding results.

Both our Girls and Boys Teams remained undefeated for the 7th straight season in our League, both winning the IL KC-Metro City Championships with near-perfect scores of 16, by placing our scoring runners 1-2-3-4-6. A perfect score in XC is 15.

Eli Nash was the 2022 Boys City Champion and was undefeated in league meets. Elliott Williamson was the 2022 Boys City Runner Up followed by Theo Goss 3rd, Tony Baez 4th and Stewart Wilson 6th - all scoring in order. Ella Messner was the 2022 Girls Champion and was undefeated in league meets, smashing the school and course record for 1.70 miles in 10:06.

Taylor Bealmear was the 2022 Girls Runner Up followed by Evelyn Cramer 3rd, Ellery Ridenour 4th, Liv Borgmeyer 6th, all scoring in order. As top 10 finishers, all the above boys and girls are considered All-City as well as Oliver Acorn, Sylvie Erdmann, Adele Kuntz and Cleo Federlein.

We all worked together toward the final big goal- the State Meet! On October 22 at the Missouri MS State XC Championships, the girls won their second straight State Title in Class 1-2 with Ella Messner as the 2022 MO State Class 1-2 Champion in a record time of 11:57 (a new school record for 2 miles). Followed by Taylor Bealmear 3rd, Evelyn Cramer 10th, Ellery Ridenour 13th and Liv Borgmeyer 23rd earning them ALL-STATE Honors (top 25).

The Boys won their first State Title in Class 1-2 led by Elliott Williamson taking 5th place, Theo Goss 8th, Tony Baez 11th, Stewart Wilson 18th, Oliver Acorn 24th and Nicolas Bautista 25th achieving ALL-STATE Honors! They achieved this by packing together as a team knowing they were without their number one runner! The time separating our 1-5 scoring runners for the boys was 1 min, which is outstanding and exactly what they needed to do! Perfect execution!

Earning top spots on our state teams were teammates: Sydney Butters, Adele Kuntz, Sylvie Erdmann, Cleo Federlein, Adry Schieber, Avery Mayes, Avelina Webb, Claudia Wilson, Lennon Kube, Emilee Williams, Paisley Cook, Judah Benz, Ilan Steigman, Nico Baez, Gustavo “Goose” Martinez, Wes Duff, Jack Benz, Ben Bautista Destin McKinney Crawford and Eli Riley!

Given their times the Boys Team would have also won Class 3 State (the larger division above us) AND The Girls Team would have won ALL of the State Classes including Class 4-5, the largest school division! Ella had the fastest girls’ time across the board!

Ella Messner is currently the fastest MS Girl in the State of MO at 2.0 miles and she is ranked the 10th fastest 7th grader at 2.0 miles in the ENTIRE NATION! Taylor Bealmear is 6th on the MO Top Ten for 2.0 miles!

All members of the AL MS XC team achieved a PR (personal record)! At our league meet the boys team had 27/31 PRs and the girls team had 10/22 PRs! Two individuals deserve special recognition for their standout PRs! Paisley Cook cut her mile pace (not time) from 11:14 at the start of the season to 8:05 and Destin McKinney Crawford cut an incredible 4:22 off of his mile pace, running 7:49 pace by the State meet! They became solid XC runners right before our eyes and that is the coolest! It truly isn’t about where you start, it’s about where you finish!

We look forward to next season and welcome all levels to our XC teams. We will help you start from where you are!

Click here for our full team rosters (57 strong) and season race results.

Coach Brenda Hayes-Kumm, M.S.

Click here to order your AL spiritwear.

Uniform-approved sweatshirts and polos, as well as tees (approved for gym for grades 4-12) are available for purchase! Parents, grandparents, and caregivers, get your own spiritwear to show your AL pride!

And, right now there's also a pop-up for Allez Lafayette! hoodies (uniform approved!). These are printed and in stock right now - order yours today at www.alpto.org/spirit.

Questions? Please contact Kerry Schieber, akschieber@gmail.com.

Did you know that important school policy information is available on the AL website? Click here to find the ESSA complaint procedures, school, parent, and family engagement policies, the schoolwide program plan, and more! You may also request paper copies at your campus main office.

Mme Nora Abied offers high schoolers a French dual enrollment course through UMKC. Tenth and eleventh graders now earn three college credits by enrolling in Mme Abied's French Language and Literature class. Mme Abied is a college professor and high school teacher in one! Her graduate work focused on both French literature and education. In addition, she wrote a book titled "Mon Choix, La Loi, La Liberté" which examines immigration and identity in her home country of Belgium. She enjoys teaching at ALIHS because of the diversity of her colleagues and also loves the "family" atmosphere of the school.

The ALIHS staff and students would like to invite 8th graders to visit the high school. Students who sign up will come upstairs to shadow at ALIHS for a couple of hours during the regular school day. Within a week of completing this form, you will receive an email with your assigned shadow day and time as well as information about where to meet. Students will miss several 8th grade classes while shadowing and will be responsible for making up any missed work.

Questions? Contact Liz Seely, LPC, lseely@academielafayette.org.