Reminder to our Lanphier Parents and Guardians that our Open House will be held this evening from 6:00-7:15 p.m. in the Large Commons. Please use the Commons Ramp off of 11th Street to enter the Large Commons. Parking is available in the EPA parking lot across the street. We look forward to seeing everyone this evening!
Bring your best smile! Picture day is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20th!
Students will be called down by announcement to get their school pictures taken. Order forms were sent home on Wednesday last week. Don’t worry if you don’t have an order form, pictures can be ordered after proofs come in.
Senior Pictures will also be taken on September 20th.
Lanphier Volleyball has started their season! Be sure to catch a match. The All City Volleyball Tournament is Sept. 19-22 at Springfield High School.
Bump, Set, Spike It! Come on out to the LHS Volleyball game tonight and watch the Lady Lions dominate the court!
Come out and support your Lady Lions Volleyball Team as they take on the teams from the City of Springfield! All games will be played at Springfield High School. We want to hear you ROAR!
For the first time since 2019, Lanphier Seniors will be able to go on college, trade, and tech school visits
during the school days with Mr. Metzke!
Seniors need to be passing ALL classes and have
good attendance in order to attend.
To sign up for the trips, Seniors need to go to
"Visiting College Campuses" icon on Mr. Metzke's Main Canvas Page.
ALL trips, no matter the date, must be signed up for by Friday, September 23, 2022 by 3:32 p.m.
Mr. Metzke will come to your 1st hour the following
week with your permission slip. If you have questions,
please email Mr. Metzke.
District 186 families!
Any pre -k , kindergarten, 6th grade, 9th grade, 12th grade and new students to District 186 - please turn in your child's proof of physical and immunization information as soon as possible.
If your child’s physical and immunizations have not yet been turned in or scheduled, your child will be excluded from school on September 6, 2022.
Because of the demand for appointments and immunization in our community, the Board of Education is allowing school nurses to accept documentation of your child’s scheduled physical and immunizations so that they may remain in school. This documentation of an appointment must be brought to the school on Sept. 6 in order for a student to remain.
Appointments must be scheduled between now and October 14, 2022. After October 15 all students who do not have proper documentation of completed immunizations and physicals will be excluded from school.
If you have any questions, please contact your child’s school.
Please turn in your physical and immunization forms ASAP! It is very important to make sure your student's records are up to date with your school. Students without their information turned in will be excluded from school starting September 6th.
Own a piece of LHS history! Only 500 available. First come, first served! We will see you on September 10th!
Mark your calendars for the 4th annual Central Illinois HBCU and State College Fair!
October 18th, 4-7 pm at Union Baptist Church, 1405 E. Monroe St.
Questions - spfldhbcustatefair@gmail.com
Join Mrs. Corcoran in the LHS Library for an informational meeting about the Abe 2023 Book Club on Friday, September 2nd during your lunch shift. Check out the book club website for more info: https://sites.google.com/sps186.org/abe2023lhs/home
Just a reminder all Lanphier Football games will take place at Spartan Field. Please keep in mind the policies before you go. Have a great time at the games, and GO LIONS!
The Student Government Association would like to announce this year’s 2022 Homecoming Spirit Week Themes:
Monday - Labor Day: No School
Tuesday - Hawaiian Day
Wednesday - Class Color Day
9th Grade: Orange
10th Grade: Purple
11th Grade: Red
12th Grade: Blue
Thursday — Throwback Thursday
Friday — Orange and Black Day
Students must still stay within the dress code during the spirit week.
(No hats, face paint, etc.
LHS will be selling historic Gardner Gym bricks on Saturday, September 10th from 11 am - 2 pm. Only 500 bricks will be sold. Cost is $15.00 a brick, only cash is accepted.
Attention:
Any student interested in participating in Boys Basketball this year is invited to an informational meeting on Tuesday, August 30, at 3:30 in the large commons. If you are participating in a fall sport, you are excused from this meeting.
Greetings Lanphier Family!
Today the Administrative Team reviewed our school-wide expectations as they are outlined in the Springfield School District 186 student and family handbook. Lanphier PRIDE expectations will be enforced beginning tomorrow, Thursday, August 25, 2022. We look forward to partnering with you to ensure every student respects themselves, the school community, school property, and the property of others.
As a reminder, The STUDENT DRESS CODE is as follows: "Dress and grooming shall neither present a risk to the health, safety or general welfare of students or others in the school nor interfere with or disrupt the educational environment or process.
School appropriate clothing is to be worn. Oversized, extremely baggy clothing or improperly-fitted clothing is not allowed. Pants, shorts or skirts must be worn at the waist — sagging is prohibited.
Clothing with holes above the knee, ragged hems or cut-off hemlines, or made of transparent or fishnet fabric, or clothing that exposes the chest, abdomen, genital area or buttocks, undergarments or the legs above mid-thigh, shall not be worn in the buildings.
Dress and grooming shall not be contrary to curriculum goals and/or educational objectives or advertise, promote or picture alcoholic beverages, tobacco, illegal drugs or illegal or violent behavior.
Hats, caps, bandanas, hoods of any type, sweatbands, sunglasses, pajama pants, slippers, or shoes with wheels attached to the bottom shall not be worn in the buildings".
Please review the dress code with your child. Warnings have been issued and we are counting on you to ensure that your child remains in class ready and prepared to learn.
Thank you and we will see your students tomorrow!
The Keep Kids in School Coalition will be offering FREE physicals and immunizations for District 186 students Saturday, August 27th at Springfield Clinic Wabash- 2200 Wabash Ave. from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m..
No insurance required. Must be an enrolled District 186 student to participate.
Standard school vaccines only available while supplies last.No appointment needed.
The clinic will only serve District 186 students who are entering Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, 6th and 9th grade and those who are new to Illinois must provide a current physical exam and immunization record. All 12th grade students must provide proof of having received a dose of the meningococcal vaccine on or after their 16th birthday. The legal parent or guardian must accompany their child.
No sports physicals will be offered.
We will start the 2022-23 computer roll-out TOMORROW, Tuesday, 8/23/22. Students will be called down via the PA announcements to the North Gym alphabetically and by class, beginning with Seniors. We prefer that students bring their previously issued computer bags with them, but we do have bags that can be assigned as needed.
Lanphier’s Cross Country and Track Teams took time out of their Sunday morning to pass out water to the runners during the Abe’s Amble 5K and 10k at the Illinois State Fair.
Thanks so much to the Springfield Police Department for helping our students have a safe path this morning! Remember, if you are dropping your student off in the morning please remember to use Converse Street, so our busses have room to safely drop students off.
