The Académie Lafayette Board of Directors will meet virtually at 6:30 pm on March 7, 2021. You can view the meeting live on our YouTube channel. Click here to read the agenda and previous board meeting minutes.

Please complete enrollment ASAP to not delay your child's start date or to delay your bus request. Please note that bus service has the potential to change from door-to-door in previous years to bus stops in 22-23. To complete enrollment for Fall/Summer 22-23 please create an account if new or if returning login to account in Tyler. The username is your email. You can reset the password if you have forgotten. Complete all the links and forms. You will not be given an option to submit until all forms are completed and all pages checked.

Incoming new sibling students: Complete enrollment by March 21st. Note: Only new students that applied through SchoolAppKC and received a seat offer from the lottery are able to self-enroll. If a student that enrolls has not applied or not received a seat offer they will be added to the waitlist until a seat is available.

Please self-enroll new siblings by entering students name and information by clicking ‘Add Student’ in the ‘Student Information’ section. You will not see your incoming child's name until you have added it to the account.

Complete Required Forms in yellow bar in Tyler:

Returning students: Complete enrollment by March 28th. Only complete online registration. Please do not complete ‘New optional e-forms’ if you are returning.

Not returning students: If your child is not returning for Fall 22-23, please log in to Tyler, click the yellow banner with 'New optional e-forms are available', and fill out the Parent exit form. Do not complete online registration.

Questions? Contact enrollment@academielafayette.org. Click here for tutorial.

Académie Lafayette will be participating once again and all families are invited to join in! We have a small trailer that will be decorated. This is not a school-sanctioned event so plan on walking along the parade route with your kids. The parade is Saturday, March 12 starting at 2:00 pm. The line up order has not been assigned yet. We will get an “all call” out next week with details and next Friday’s newsletter will include all details as well. So start planning your green or AL attire and hope to see you there!

Help support one of Académie Lafayette's Girl Scout troops, 3rd grade Oak troop 2750, at a cookie booth on the Oak campus parking lot.

The troop plans to be on campus from 1 pm to 3 pm on Saturday, March 5th (TOMORROW), weather permitting.

Cookies are $5/box and the troop can accept cash, check, Venmo, or credit card. The troop would love to have the honor of your visit and business.

The AL community continues to collects and donates pop-tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. Ask your campus’ office staff where students or parents can drop off their collected pop-tabs!

THANK YOU to the AL Community from Ronald McDonald House:

In a time of uncertainty you know the feeling. The world has shifted under our feet. The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. We feel lonely and afraid, yet try to find joy and comfort in everyday moments. Both connection to others and support from others are more important than ever. We wish we knew when this would end, looking for some assurance that everything will be okay for the people we love. This is how our families at Ronald McDonald House feel every day. Childhood illness never takes a day off. Thanks to Académie Lafayette students, we have kept our doors open every day since March 2020. During the pandemic, RMHC Kansas City has welcomed more than 2,700 families. Teamwork makes the dream work. 

When a child is diagnosed with serious illness, or has a medical emergency, families face emotional ups and downs and an unknown future. At Ronald McDonald House, we promise a safe, comfortable environment when families travel to Kansas City for their child’s treatment. Far from friends and loved ones, parents need a gentle place full of courage where they can maintain their health and resilience. A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. Ronald McDonald House is reinforced by gazillions of pop-tabs! Pop-tabs teach an important lesson: even little things make a big difference. On behalf of RMH families, we are grateful for Académie Lafayette’s stick-to-it-tive-ness collecting pop-tabs.

Alan Lubert, Community Relations Manager

Bonjour AL Families,

We would like to encourage you to "Take The Pledge" to wait until 8th grade to give your student a smartphone. Research shows that screen time and social media usage both have negative effects on the physical and mental health of children. We understand how challenging this goal is, so why do it alone? Please consider spreading the word amongst parents in your child's social network, so that you don't have to take the pledge alone.

The counselor/social worker team

Save the date! AL PTO is excited to host a new event, the Rendezvous Block Party on April 30. More details on this family-friendly event will be shared soon.

Would your family like to host an intern for the 2022-2023 school year?

Interns are university students from French speaking countries who spend a year working in the classrooms of our youngest students. We review their resumes and references, and we interview them at length to make sure they are a good fit for our school community. They also fill out a questionnaire about the host family experience which helps match them with host families.

Host families open their homes and welcome an intern for a semester or for a year. They provide a private bedroom and meals when you are together as a family. The school provides a generous monthly stipend to the intern and a monthly city bus pass. Hosting an intern is a great way for your children to speak French at home, to discover more about francophone culture, and to have someone to visit when your family goes to France in the future!

If you would like to more information about hosting, please contact Maaria Riaz at 816-888-7400 or mriaz@academielafayette.org.