Laker Nation let's congratulate Emma Schiffli for beating her own own pole vault record! Way to fly high!
Due to staff illness, Lakeland Primary School will have E-Learning on Thursday, March 14th. Directions and student assignments will be posted in Schoology by 10 am. If students did not bring their school device home, they can still access Schoology through the lakelandlakers.org website Student Links. All other Lakeland Schools will have a regular in-person day! Latchkey will be open regular hours for LIS students.
The LaGrange County United concert band will be playing at 7 pm at the Prairie Heights Auditorium. The band is comprised of students from Prairie Heights, Westview and Lakeland. Westview and Lakeland had collaborated on a summer marching band with great success, so it was time to move the adventure to the stage! Hope you can come out and support this county-wide collaboration!
We just learned that long-time Lakeland School nurse, Margaret Wagner, passed away February 26th. Mrs. Wagner was the school nurse for all 5 buildings at Lakeland. She covered a lot of miles and helped a lot of children. Our condolences go out to her family.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/fortwayne/name/margaret-wagner-obituary?id=54484959
Unfortunately, the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile has to cancel their visit to Lakeland Intermediate School for tomorrow. Their generator has broken and is currently being worked on. We will work to get them rescheduled!
Lakeland 2nd and 3rd graders will be taking IREAD this week. Here's a great article about what the IREAD is: https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/iread-march-2024-window-what-to-know-about-indiana-literacy-test
Lakeland has been working with the Science of Reading for several years now. Our students have a strong background in phonemic awareness and phonics, so we know they have the skills to pass the IREAD! Show them what you know Lakers!
Briana Poe earned a Competency Medallion for Sports and Entertainment Marketing at the DECA state competition in Indianapolis. To earn a medallion students must earn an 85% or better in a role play or test based on their area. Nice work Briana!
Lakeland Vocal Motion had a great day a Churubusco Saturday with a 4th place finish! Savana Carney & Alana Whited were the representatives for the award ceremony.
Congratulations to three of our Educators Rising students that have qualified for Nationals! Seniors Taylor Brown, Maci Holbrook, and Jaden Moore qualified in Children's Literature. In some categories they had to score above 97%! Nationals take place in Washington DC in June. Nice job Lakers!
Thank you Alliance RV for purchasing passes for tonight's games for our Jr/Sr High students! Yesterday 250 passes were distributed to students through the Athletic Office.
Tickets for tonight's games can be purchased through this link: https://public.eventlink.com/tickets?t=70634 There will be a cash option at the door also.
Let's pack the stands Lakers!
The New Life Fellowship will have another grocery distribution on March 11th from 4pm to 5:30 pm. Please see the flyer for more details!
***This event is not sponsored by Lakeland School Corporation. The information is being shared as it could be beneficial to our community!***
The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile will be at Lakeland Intermediate School on March 7th from 9 am to 3 pm. This mobile clinic can serve any area child from birth to age 18. Services are provided through Parkview Physicians Group.
Please call 1-877-774-8632 for more information or to schedule an appointment.
The Laker Boys Varsity basketball team pulled another important win on Monday evening! They beat Wawasee 55-53, and will move on to the 2nd round of Sectionals on Friday evening. Lakeland is hosting the sectional games, so come join us on Friday! Fairfield will take on West Noble on Friday at 6 pm. Lakeland will take on Northwood at 7:30 pm. Follow this link: https://ihsaa.eventlink.com/Tickets?l=Lakeland+Jr%2FSr+High+School+%28Lakeland%29&c=Basketball+%28Boys%29 to purchase your tickets!
Lakeland's Academic team opened their season at Fremont. There were 7 schools and 10 teams at the competition. The Science team of Ethan Marchand, Kylo Sturgis, Noah Tropp & Laney Wilson took 1st and had the highest overall meet score of the night with 20/25 questions correct. The English team of Laney Wilson, Shakhti Ramachandran, Hannah Barrick & Elly Wahl placed 2nd. The Social Studies team placed 3rd, and our second English team fell just short of 3rd place in a tie breaker. Nice job Lakers!
Lakers win! Conference champs!
Did you know Lakeland has added an E-Sports team? Did you know colleges offer scholarships for E-Sports? We're very excited to add this opportunity for our students!
Congratulations to Katie Freeman founder of Freeman Scents! Katie is a member of the Entrepreneurship Academy and today she won the Trine Pitch competition. This is the 3rd year in a row at Lakeland student has walked away with $1000 seed money for their business by wining this competition!
Attention! Due to Lakeland hosting the IHSAA Boys Basketball Sectional, the venue for Cassidi Parham's Senior Project: Little Lady Laker Softball Camp on February 27 & 29th has changed. The camp will be held at LAKELAND PRIMARY SCHOOL. Forms are available in the offices at Lakeland Primary and Lakeland Intermediate schools. Forms are due on February 9th! The camp is open to grades K-5, and the cost is $30. All proceeds benefit the LaGrange County Softball League.
Laker Nation, just a reminder Wednesday, January 31st is NOT a scheduled 2 hour delay day. There seems to be some confusion out there. The next scheduled delay is February 7th.
Hello Laker Nation!
The following Wednesday events have been postponed: Gymnastics @ Elkhart and 6th grade basketball @ Garrett.
Currently, all practices and afterschool events occurring at Lakeland will continue as scheduled.