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McNair Campus Edition

(8th - 11th Grade)

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Campus News

Picture Day

Smile, Camera, Action! Bring your smile for Student picture day Thursday, Aug 26, 2021

Download the flyer with details about ordering pictures | Click Here

Campus News

Picture Day

Smile, Camera, Action! Bring your smile for Student picture day Thursday, Aug 26, 2021

Download the flyer with details about ordering pictures | Click Here

Peanut-free School

We are a peanut-free school, a number of our students and staff have severe peanut allergies. Please be mindful, pack peanut-free lunches and snacks. Merci!

Virtual Back-to-School Night

Videos will be emailed for the evening on Thursday, August 26th.

COVID UPDATES

Academic Contingency Plan

This document aims to clarify the contingency plan for the two following cases:

● Your individual child needs to quarantine because of COVID

● Your child’s class needs to quarantine because of COVID

Link here

Routine COVID Testing

Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) will provide biweekly testing to staff at all campuses. Last year, this program was extended only to the lower school campus.

LCMC Children’s Hospital has resumed their drive-thru molecular testing for staff, students, and families. Please call their hotline 504-837-7760 to speak with a nurse and make an appointment.

Louisiana Department of Health Partnership with Omega Diagnostics

We are happy to announce that Lycee has partnered with Omega Diagnostics to provide FREE weekly COVID testing for staff and students. For more information, please select the link to the flyer.

Academics

ACADEMIC NEWSLETTER | Click Here

NEXT ACADEMIC CAFE: LFNO, A UNIQUE FRENCH-AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN NORTH AMERICA

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 AT 4:30 PM ON ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83128990458

This session will provide an overview of Academics at LFNO and the main implications of being both a Louisianan charter school and a school accredited by the French Ministry of Education. More details about this café here

Communications

Emergency Communications:

The best thing parents can do is make sure their information is up to date during registration.

Download the App to get push notifications | Click Here

Requests to update information:

Any updates for guardians, authorized pickups, emergency contacts, or removing people - this form needs to be filled out and emailed to an Office manager and admissions. | Click Here

Lower Campus office manager - Jana Blakes - jblakes@lfno.org

Johnson office manager - Farrell Matthew - fmatthews@lfno.org

McNair office manager - Katie Bolin - kbolin@lfno.org

Admissions - admissions@lfno.org

PikMyKid:

Make sure your contact information and authorized pickups are also correct in PikMyKid for dismissal.

Video Tutorial

Parent App User Guide

Signing up for Être:

Board & Committee News:

Board & Committee Google Calendar | Click Here

For Reference:

Resto! August 2021

Breakfast Menu | Click Here

Lunch Menu | Click Here

2021 2022 COVID-19 School Year Procedures & Operational Guidelines | Click Here

McNair Campus Directory | Click Here

2021 2022 Lower School Handbook | Click Here

2021 2022 Johnson Campus Handbook | Click Here

2021 2022 McNair Campus Handbook | Click Here

Extended Day Programs

Tutoring Program Announcement

We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our partnership with Tulane Department of French and Center for Public Service. Thanks to this partnership, we will be able to offer a tutoring program for qualifying students in grades 1-5. Tulane service learners will be leading the tutoring sessions, supervised by a Lycée staff member.

Tutoring will take place from 4:20-5:20 pm at Patton for students in grades 1 and 2 and at Johnson for students in grades 3, 4, and 5.

Tutoring groups will be limited to 8 students

Students are selected according to the following criteria:

Tier 1:Students who qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Tier2: Students who participated in summer school + have a teacher’s recommendation based on academic performance.

Once students have been selected, parents will be contacted directly to gauge interest and availability.

Fall Athletics Update

Fall athletics update: Cross country begins TOMORROW, Tuesday, August 24th! All Johnson and McNair parents will receive an email later this week with fall athletics updates, and information about cross country!