This Friday is our first Club Day of the year. Students will have the opportunity to select their clubs this week. For our students and families who were not at Lakeview last year, our monthly Club Day is a time for students engage with a club of their choosing. We take our normal 50-minute PAW Time/E&I period and make it a 50-minute club session. In the past, students have been able to choose from Architecture/LEGOs, Board Games, Cars, Cartoons, Drawing, Gaming, Gardening, Photography, Sign Language, among many more options.

We offer this monthly Club Day because we know that many of our students can't stay after school for the after-school clubs that we offer, so we want to make sure they have a chance to engage with student interest-based clubs.

Make sure you check out next Friday's newsletter for pictures from our club day!

Ben Baptist

Principal

Mrs. Chaffin’s new group of Astronomy students worked together to build a puzzle, blindfolded. Students quickly realized the importance of effective communication and working as a team!

In the spirit of Halloween and Trick or Treat, students will be allowed to wear their costumes next Tuesday, October 31st. Costumes must be school appropriate (follow dress code), and students are not allowed to wear face paint or masks.

For further guidance on appropriateness, ask these questions:
1. Is my costume supposed to be funny? Is the humor based on making fun of real people, human traits or cultures?
2. Does my costume represent a culture that is not my own?
3. Does my costume reduce cultural differences to jokes or stereotypes?
4. Does my costume packaging include the words "traditional," "ethnic," "colonial, " "cultural," "authentic," or "tribal"?
5. Does my costume perpetuate stereotypes, misinformation, or historical and cultural inaccuracies?
6. Would I be embarrassed or ashamed if someone from the group I'm portraying saw me wearing this?

If you have any concerns about your student's costume, please feel free to contact the Main Office at 614-830-2200.

Congratulations to our students who were identified by our staff already this month for upholding our Lakeview Values, by respecting self, others, school, and learning.

On November 4th, the Pickerington Education Foundation will hold its annual fundraising event to provide grants to Pickerington teachers and their buildings. For the event, each school's PTO creates a tree that is part of a silent auction. Lakeview's tree theme this year is "Ohio State Buckeyes." PTO is collecting donations to add to the tree, including gift cards and games. Please visit the link below if you would like to donate.

A big thank you to our families who have already donated!

The athletic website for both PHSN & LJH is now live. Use the https://pickeringtonpanthers.org/ to watch for announcements! All coaches will be using this website for updates and announcements, so please check here if you have any questions. When you go to https://pickeringtonpanthers.org/ you will need to click on "more" and then Final Forms is under "Athletic Registration".

Please see the flyer and link below for the Boys' Lacrosse program's fundraiser through Der Dutchman. The links to order will not work on the picture, but they will work on the PDF link if you open it.

Please see the flyer below for information on upcoming conditioning and open mats.

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This form will be linked in each Community Corner update, allowing families to offer feedback to the counseling and administrative team regarding social justice, mental health, academic support, friendships/relationships, etc. Counselors and administrators will review the feedback on a weekly basis and send out any updates to concerns/questions in the next Community Corner update.

Office Hours 6:45 am - 3:15 pm

Email: ben_baptist@plsd.us
Website: https://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/Domain/19
Location: 12445 Ault Road, Pickerington, OH, USA
Phone: (614) 830-2200
Facebook: Lakeview_JH_PLSD
Twitter: @lakeview_jh