For the first time, your 6th grade student will use the PowerSchool Portal to select their classes. Later today, we will send an important email with your 6th grade student’s credentials to access the PowerSchool Portal. (If you do not see this email in your inbox by Friday morning, please check your junk or spam email boxes). Keep these credentials in a safe place and treat them confidentially. Beginning tomorrow at 3PM, you can access the portal by going to lnc.powerschool.com and entering your 6th grade student’s confidential ID (user name) and password. If you have an existing LNC PowerSchool parent account for which you know your credentials, you can also access the PowerSchool Portal that way. 

As a rising 7th grade student, your child will have additional elective opportunities, including semester-long classes in French, Spanish, physical movement, drama, chorus and art. Like this year, a key consideration is whether your student chooses band as one of their electives. Band is a yearlong elective, resulting in only two additional semester-long or four additional quarter-long electives needed. If your student is not currently taking band but is interested in doing so, please contact Mr. Scaringelli at dscaringelli@lncharter.org. Please also note that if you want your child to have the option to take either French I or Spanish I in 8th grade, they must take the semester-long version of that course in 7th grade.

It is very important to choose elective alternates that are different from your top choices. We do our best to schedule the student’s top preferences, however if we cannot, we want to avoid scheduling an elective that they absolutely do not want, and their alternate choices help to avoid that. Once your student has made their final selections, they should take a screen shot and keep it for their records.

Finally, this is usually when we ask you to confirm your emergency contact information. We have decided to postpone that exercise until late summer. That said, if any of your contact information has changed, please use our Student Information Update form to tell us. It is especially important that we always have accurate email addresses, mobile phone numbers and mailing addresses on file for your student’s parents or guardians. If your student will not be returning to LNC next school year, please email MS Registrar Jennifer Wolfe at jwolfe@lncharter.org to let her know.

Please reach out to Ms. Wolfe at jwolfe@lncharter.org if you experience issues with the PowerSchool Portal. You may reach out to your counselor, Ms. Bish at jbish@lncharter.org or me at cgraham@lncharter.org if you have questions related to selecting courses.