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January 2015
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
Dear Lunsford Families,
Happy New Year! Welcome back to an important time of
the school year. I know our students have resolved to work
hard and focus on their goals! Our staff is rejuvenated and
ready to help our students to continue to achieve at high
levels!
Regular updates have been provided to you in regarding
our application for the designation of a “National School to
Watch.” I am happy to announce that after a rigorous
application process and an extensive site visit, our school
has received this distinction! As a National School to
Watch we have provided evidence that we are a school
with organizational structures that ensures academic
excellence, responds to adolescents needs appropriately,
and ensures an equitable environment where individual
needs are met. This was a collective effort amongst our
staff, students, parents, and community partners. Our
school will be recognized at an upcoming school board
meeting and we will celebrate this designation school wide
in the Spring.
There are a number of important dates in January of which
you should be aware. A parent coffee is scheduled for 1/16
on the topic –“ 21st Century Student: Self Advocacy &
Controlling Your Own Destiny.” We will welcome Neil
McNerney for this second of four planned coffees on our
21st Century Student Initiative. Our monthly General PTA
meeting will be held January 20th at 7:00pm. Finally,
please note that High School exams will be scheduled
towards the end of the 1st semester. You may contact your
student’s teacher with specific questions. Our 2nd quarter
ends January 23rd with report cards distributed February
4th.
Our transition to next school year also will be gearing up
throughout January. Please check your email for updates
on opportunities to learn more about your student’s
experience in our school. As always, please contact me
with any questions or concerns. Stay warm!
School Information
School Hours: 8:40 a.m. to 3:28 p.m.
Office Hours: 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Main Office Phone Line: 703.722.2660
Absentee Line: 703.722.2662
Fax Number: 703.327.2420
6th Grade House: 703.722.2666
7th Grade House: 703.722.2667
8th Grade House: 703.722.2668
Principal:
Assistant Principals:
Neil Slevin
Jennifer Brooks
Kathryn Garvey
6th Grade Dean:
7th Grade Dean:
8th Grade Dean:
Tony Salgado
Valerie Cashman
Fitzroy Frew
6th Grade Counselor:
7th Grade Counselor:
8th Grade Counselor:
ELL/College and Career Prep:
Jennifer Calderone
Ashley Harper
Kelly Kenworthy
Sue Simpson
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#jmlpride #lcps15
Sincerely,
Mr. Neil Slevin
Principal, J. Michael Lunsford Middle School
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
IMPORTANT PROCEDURES
Visitors: All visitors must show a valid photo ID to enter the school. This ID must
be displayed to our office staff using the security camera system located on the wall by
the front door and again in the main office. Once allowed into the school, please report
to the main office. All visitors must sign in and wear a Visitor’s Pass at all times
throughout the building.
Absences: Parents/guardians must call the
attendance line at 703.722.2662 to report any absence or tardy. Please be sur e to leave the following infor mation: student’s name, spell the last name,
student’s grade, your name, reason for absence, and phone number to reach you during the day.
Homework requests: If your child has been absent thr ee or mor e days, you may r equest homewor k on the
third day by calling their respective house office
before 9:00 am. You may pick up their homework in the main office that day at 3:30 pm.
Early dismissal: Students should take a note signed by their par ent/guar dian to their house office befor e the
school day begins indicating the reason for and time of dismissal. Students must sign out in the house office before
meeting their parents in the main office. Parents are required to show a valid photo ID and must pick up/sign out
their child in the main office.
Buses: All students are assigned to a bus. Lunsford Middle School is a no-walk, no-bike school due to o
n-going construction. Students must take a bus or be driven to school until further notice. For questions
related to buses, please call Transportation at 571-252-1700. If your child needs a different bus home after school,
they must bring a note signed by their parent/guardian to their respective house office before the start of the school
day. The note must include the bus they plan to ride home on and your contact
information.
Address/Phone Number Changes: IMPORTANT…
Please be sure to update your contact information
immediately when there are changes. This ensures you will receive important ConnectEd messages from the school
and county as well as enable us to be able to contact you promptly in an emergency situation. For address changes,
you will need to provide proof of
residency. Change of address forms are available in the main office. Please note, the primary contact will be
notified.
Breakfast is Served!
Each morning from 8:15-8:30 in the cafeteria.
Entrée Cost: $2.10/A-La-Carte items from $.75 to $1.50
Middle School Weekly Breakfast Menu—2014-2015
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Choose one entrée:
Pancakes *
Breakfast Chicken Sandwich
Toaster Pastries
Cereal
Bagel with Cream Cheese
Benefit Bars
WG Donut/WG Breakfast
Bun
Apple or Cherry Frudel
Choose Two:
Fruit Juice
Assorted Fruit
Choice of Milk
Choose one entrée:
Sausage, Egg & Cheese
Sandwich +
Pepperoni Bosco Stick +
Toaster Pastries
Cereal
Bagel with Cream Cheese
Benefit Bars
WG Donut/WG Breakfast Bun
Apple or Cherry Frudel
Choose Two:
Fruit Juice
Assorted Fruit
Choice of Milk
Choose one entrée:
Cinnamon Roll *
Breakfast Chicken Sandwich
Toaster Pastries
Cereal
Bagel with Cream Cheese
Benefit Bars
WG Donut/WG Breakfast Bun
Apple or Cherry Frudel
Choose Two:
Fruit Juice
Assorted Fruit
Choice of Milk
Choose one entrée:
Ham, Egg & Cheese
Sandwich
Pepperoni Bosco Stick +
Toaster Pastries
Cereal
Bagel with Cream Cheese
Benefit Bars
WG Donut/WG Breakfast Bun
Apple or Cherry Frudel
Choose Two:
Fruit Juice
Assorted Fruit
Choice of Milk
Choose one entrée:
Mini Cinnis *
Breakfast Chicken Sandwich
Toaster Pastries
Cereal
Bagel with Cream Cheese
Benefit Bars
WG Donut/WG Breakfast
Bun
Apple or Cherry Frudel
Choose Two:
Fruit Juice
Assorted Fruit
Choice of Milk
*Meatless - #Beef - +Pork
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
‘Link in’ to our Counselors Corner
You may now find important information from our
counselors’, including past editions, on our website by
clicking here.
To view the complete January edition of the library
newsletter, please click here.
Please be sure to read these carefully to stay up-to-date.
Here are some Library highlights:
 JML will be a Common Sense Digital Citizenship
Certified School (Curriculum details)
 Kristin Levine, author of Lions of Little Rock
will be visiting JML on February 9th last block
For the January edition of the Counselors Corner, please
click here.
Important Upcoming Dates:
January 16th, 9 am: Guest speaker Neil McNerney: The
21st Century Student: Responsibility
Thank you Ms. Couse, Ms. Reed & Ms. Morsy!
January 23rd, 9 am: Getting Ready for High SchoolRising 9th grade parents should plan to attend
IXL
The Math department will be
using a website called IXL in our classrooms this year. IXL is a
comprehensive math practice site with an unlimited number
of math practice questions covering
hundreds of skills — all of which are aligned to Virginia State
Standards. One of the best things about IXL is that your child
can access it from home, so you have a chance to see your
child's progress! Your child will also have opportunities to use
IXL during the school day as well as before and after school.
Please check your child’s math teacher’s website for assignment details. The IXL standards will be linked next to each unit
of study. The math teachers will be holding an open-lab every
Wednesday in case your child would like to practice after school .Thank you to the Lunsford PTA for supporting this
program.
January 30th, 9 am: Rising 7th and 8th Grade Course
Selections
A Note from Our Parent Liaison
If your family would like to request assistance , simply
contact me here at Lunsford at
Khristie.Greiner@lcps.org.
Please contact me if you do not have a computer at
home. If you find yourself in need of outside resources
and/or assistance, please contact me. We strive to make
sure that all students have the necessary resources to
achieve their best.
A Note From Music Dept
Click here for 6/7
grade updates.
Click here for 8th
grade updates.
Spectrum
News
Congratulations to Band 8 and select
Band 7 students during your audition for the Virginia
All-District 16 Band!
Yearbooks!
Order JML yearbooks online at www.yearbookordercenter.com. Enter order number 13759 or school name
Lunsford. Packages range in price from $30 to $37. Yearbooks will be delivered in June.
The Yearbook staff is looking for pictures of JML students playing sports, as babies, or just having fun outside of school. If you have a photo you’d like to submit, please send it to the Yearbook staff through
eShare by going to www.hjeshare.com (School Code: JML) or downloading the Apple app to your
iPhone, iPod, or iPad.
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
Parent Volunteers Needed!
The JML Science Olympiad Club will be holding a
Building Events competition on January 22, 2015 from
3:30-5:30 pm in the cafeteria.
We are currently in search of parent volunteers who
might be able to help set up, judge, or monitor the
events.
Please contact Ms. Renaghan at dara.renaghan@lcps.org
or
Ms. Nichols at Jennifer.nichols@lcps.org
for more information.
Thank you for your support!
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
JML
MOVIE
PROJECT
After this year’s bullying assemblies we started asking kids “what do you think would
be a really effective presentation for JML students?” All of the students we asked gave
feedback telling us that if real life JML students and staff could be a part of the
program, if they could share their actual stories of being bullied, or even of bullying
others, it would help them to ‘get it’. So the JML Movie Project was born! We are so
excited to announce that we have partnered with a local TV/Film studio, BlackLab Film
+TV, who happens to be owned by one of our JML parents. He has enthusiastically
agreed to help us create an amazing movie, starring JML students and staff, which will
be used in future bullying prevention curriculum at JML.
The purpose of this film will be to allow our students to show real-life at JML, to
express real feelings and to share real stories. The best part of this project is that it
will be student produced, student written, student acted and student directed.
Students will participate in creating the music for the movie, the set design, the
marketing/advertising materials; we will even have the students name the movie as
we get closer to the final product. By involving our students in every step of this
process, we hope they will feel invested in JML and working together to limit bullying
in our building. We have incredibly talented kids here,
and this is a fantastic way for any of them to showcase
their gifts!
#jmlmovieproject
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
NEWS FROM THE
Congratulations Green TEAM!
LIONS ROAR for RECYCLING!
Congratulations to the JML PTA Green Team who
applied for and received a $1000 grant from Keep
Virginia Beautiful. The grant money will be used to
increase recycling at the school.
You can learn more about the grant by going to the
Keep Virginia Beautiful Website at this link:
http://
keepvirginiabeautiful.org/2014/09/19/11902/.
The campaign has had a great start!
Go Lions!
MSAAC
See the Minority Student Achievement Advisory
Committee website.
MSAAC next meeting:
WHEN: Januar y 21 @ 7pm
WHERE: LCPS Administr ative Building, School
Board Meeting Room
LEAP
See the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents (LEAP)
website.
LEAP’s next meeting:
WHEN: Januar y 14 @ 7pm
WHERE: LCPS Administr ative Building: School
Board Meeting Room
WHAT: Superintendent’s presentation of proposed budget
with Q&A.
Amazon School Rewards Program
Do you ever shop at Amazon.com? If so,
you can now help support JML
PTA every time you shop at
Amazon.com. JML PTA benefits
whenever you click through to
Amazon.com from our School Rewards
link before you shop.
Click on our Amazon Gift Card Link to
purchase an Amazon Gift Card or click on
the Amazon Purchase Link every time you
shop on Amazon.com so that JML PTA will
benefit from your purchase! You can also
bookmark the URL and use it to go directly
to Amazon.com.
Please share our School Rewards link with
family, friends, and colleagues! E-mail
them either of our special links above and
ask them to use them every time they shop
Amazon so their purchases will help, too!
Please note that we only benefit from your
purchase if you purchase through our
school links!
SEAC
See the Special Education Advisory Committee website.
SEAC’s next meeting:
WHEN: Januar y 7 @ 7pm
WHERE: LCPS Administr ative Building
TOPIC: Parent special education support panel
www.facebook.com/loudounseac
Link Your Grocery Cards Here:
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
PBIS Community Recognition
At J. Michael Lunsford Middle School, we like to recognize student achievement within our community! Our goal
is to acknowledge student achievements such as (but not limited to): community service, citizenship, athletic
awards, volunteer services, and arts performances. To nominate your student, please visit J. Michael Lunsford's
website (www.lcps.org/lunsford), and click on Student Recognition under Headlines on the main page.
By providing the information for your nomination, you are giving your consent for your student’s name and
recognition to be listed in our Lunsford newsletter at our discretion. Please contact Megan Brown
(megan.brown@lcps.org) or Sue Simpson (sue.simpson@lcps.org) if you have any questions.
Lunsford Lions ROAR through PBIS
Respect, Ownership, Achievement, Responsibility
Students of the Month
The following students are to be congratulated for demonstrating
Achievement and recognized as the Students of the Month.
6th Grade
Marie H.
Joey S.
Madeline D. Tejarsh S.
Grace S.
Nidal B.
7th Grade
Alison H. Christian N.
Heba S. Anish K.
Emily P. Ben C.
8th Grade
Ashleigh W. Omkar K.
Shravani R. Matthew R.
Colleen N. Nicolas A.
Premier Community Business Partners of the Month
JML is fortunate to have so many wonderful Community Business Partners. We would like to take an opportunity to recognize
and thank the following January Premier Community Business Partners of the Month. Thank you for supporting JML!
GLOW ORTHODONTICS
www.glowortho.com
43130 Amberwood Plaza
Suite 225
South Riding, VA 20152
P: (703) 665-0222
WELLNESS CONNECTION
www.wellnessconnectionllc.com
24600 Millstream Drive
Suite 340
Stone Ridge, VA 20105
P: (703) 327-0335
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420
Upcoming Events at JML
January 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
3
Winter Break
4
5
6
Classes
Resume
11
12
7
8
SEAC
Meeting at
Admin Building
7 pm
13
14
15
YBTC
Spelling Bee
Information
Meeting at JML
Rising 9th
7 pm
Grade Course
Selection
LEAP Meeting
Night at
at Admin
Freedom
Building 7 pm
7 pm
18
19
HOLIDAY
NO
SCHOOL
25
26
Moveable
Student
Holiday
20
21
22
9
10
16
17
Parent Coffee
at Lunsford
9 am
23
24
PTA General
MSAAC
Science
Rising
Meeting
Meeting at
Olympiad
Freshman
7 pm
Admin Building Competition at Lunsford
7 pm
3:30-5:30 pm Parent Coffee
9 am
27
28
29
30
31
Freshman
Curriculum
Night
at Freedom
7 pm
To register for events or if due to a disability, you require
assistance or an interpreter, contact Katy Garvey at 703-722-2660 at least FIVE working days before the event.
26020 Ticonderoga Rd, Chantilly, VA 20152
Phone: 703-722-2660
www.lcps.org/lunsford
Fax: 703-327-2420