Weekly Update October 31th.

What a fun week on campus as our ASB has put on "Spirit Dress Up Week," allowing for our students to show their creativity while having a bit of fun.

Check the table of contents each week to make sure you are not missing anything.

Students, this Friday Night's Football is FREE WITH ID! See info below and see you there!

Student attendance has been a point of concern recently. If you are getting those 6pm calls or see "A," "T," or "T-30," your student has negative attendance. Positive attendance is the #1 indicator of student success. If you are where you are supposed to be, you WILL do better in class and negative behavior drops exponentially. Be where you are supposed to be!

Seniors, review the senior section below! You have deadlines approaching all the time and it is easy to get confused. Use the "Senior Section - Class of 2025 Info" section in this update to keep up to date.

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

• October 31st - Senior portraits deadline for yearbook (see info below)
• November 12th - District Presentation of Strategic Plan (4:30 - 6:00pm in Library - parents invited)
• November 18th @5:30-6:30 - LnHS Community Forum (more info towards bottom of this update)

Have a wonderful weekend, Eagles!

Sincerely,

Your Principal, Zach Mercier

Last week we guaranteed at least a share of the league title... Friday Night we play for SOLE POSSESSION of the title!

Students, we’ve got a fantastic opportunity for you! Come out to support our Lancaster Eagles THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, November 1st at 7:00pm, as they face off against the Antelope Valley Lopes! All students with a valid school ID can get in FREE if you arrive before 6:30 PM!

Be there early to join us in celebrating you, our students, and our incredible seniors before the game kicks off. This is your chance to cheer on our seniors, support our team, and enjoy the game – all for free!

Bring your Eagle pride, show your school spirit, and let's make it a night to remember! Cheer our Eagles on as we lock up Remember, you must have your ID to enter. Remember, it is a BLACK OUT GAME. See you there!

Our game, complete with halftime activities, will be held Friday Night, November 1st at 7pm.

Lancaster strives to create a family, student, friendly athletic environment that match our BE REAL core values. With these values in mind, the following attendance policies have been put into place:

• At the Gate Tickets: Tickets are $10 without ASB and Entry is Free with ASB
• Prohibited Items: Backpacks/Bags/Coolers are NOT ALLOWED at the game
• LnHS Students: Must have ID to enter
• Non-LnHS students: Must have school ID and sit on the visitor side (no ID no entry)
• All other Minors: Minors without a high school ID who are not accompanied by an adult may not attend
• No-Entry List: Students who do not meet the behavioral/attendance requirements are not allowed to attend the game. Positive student discipline and attendance is a priority and must be in place to attend extra-curricular activities.

We will have food for sale and halftime activities (Marching Band, Dance, Cheer, and/or other clubs)

We have tutoring for most subjects daily, including Math, Bio, Chem, Spanish, ESS, English Language, and general tutoring. Each day there will be 8 tutors!

Tutoring will have a check in-check out system so parents, teachers, and coaches may monitor their student's attendance (some teacher's allow extra credit for tutoring). Space is limited each morning, so make sure your student is on time and goes directly to the library for tutoring.

Did you know that your student has LIVE 24 HOUR FREE tutoring available in your student's PowerSchool? Our district has partnered with Princeton Review to provide every student with this amazing service. Your student can be connected with a tutor in any subject any time of the day, for FREE. These are not videos, they are live, vetted, tutors. Think of Uber, but for tutoring! The tutors will even edit papers for your student with less than a 24 hour turn-a-round period.

The easiest way to access this free, live, virtual tutoring, is to:

• Have your student log into their Power School (it helps if you log into google first)
• Look on the left side of the screen and find the "Homework Help" button
• It will prompt you to log into Google with your student account if have not already
• Click on the button for tutoring
• Answer the questions and you will be directed to a liver tutor virtually

You can pick up your Saturday School form from the Activities office or download it below (bring the form, signed by parent, with you to receive Saturday School credit).

The 2025 yearbook is currently on sale for the lowest price of the year! For only $65 + tax, you can get your piece of LNHS history. We're one of the only Yearbooks around that is entirely student made and designed: We design the cover, the layouts, even our own clipart. Everything you see inside was created and conceptualized by the students!

To order, please contact Ms. Mendoza in accounting, go to the LNHS Student Store or order directly from Jostens. If you want to have your yearbook personalized, you need to order it from Jostens.

The price of the book will increase to $75 + tax on October 26, so be sure to order today!

Please email Mr. Griffey at jgriffey@avhsd.org with questions!

The Yearbook is looking for the following photo submissions!

You with your pets: We want to make our annual pet page even better than last year! Please submit a great photo of you with your pet for the page! We know you've got dogs and cats...what other unique animals do you have crawling around the house? (Photos of just pets will not be run.)

Your summer vacations/accomplishments: Please send us what you did this summer, especially if you won an e-sports tournament, a weightlifting championship (we know these things happened!) or anything else! We want to highlight summer accomplishments and vacations!

Senior Baby Pictures: We are calling for Senior baby pictures. Please make sure to email the yearbook email address directly to avoid your baby picture getting lost in the shuffle. Please send as high of a resolution photo as possible.

Email photo submissions to: lnhs-yearbook@avhsd.org

Every Tuesday, our ASB produces its "EagleVision" broadcast. This is a great place to find out what is happening across our campus. These videos will be featured on our weekly update after being shown to our students each Tuesday.

Also, weekly we provide a "Temperature Check" or "Temp Check," as we call it. These are weekly challenges for our students.

Join our Social Media to follow Athletics and Activities!

Instagram - @lancaster.hs

Facebook - @lancasterhs

Each month, you fill find the Team 399 Robotics Newsletter in this section. This month, we are highlighting what we accomplished as summer break wrapped up and how we’re gearing up for the new school year!

Each month, our PBIS team celebrates our students how have changed their path to move the needle in a positive direction. This is made possible because of our amazing Student Support Team.

We're thrilled to share the latest updates from the Anonymous Eagles, your dedicated team of cybersecurity experts-in-training at the Lancaster High School ICT Pathway.

This quarter has been a whirlwind of activity, filled with exciting competitions, valuable learning experiences, and a strong commitment to raising cybersecurity awareness within our community.

Join us as we dive into the details of our achievements, insights, and future endeavors. Let's continue to soar together in the world of cybersecurity!

For this week’s Artists of the Week, we are featuring several Art 1 students from my class and their recent charcoal drawings in which they were working on the use of chiaroscuro and tenebrism, both of these terms and their application help create a sense of drama and help specific items in an artwork pop out.

Here are the Werriam-Webster’s definitions for those interested:

Chiaroscuro: the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of art.

Tenebrism: a style of painting especially associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source.

For this assignment, students played with the use of both chiaroscuro and tenebrism in images of their choosing. Some students decided to go with a traditional image, such as a still life, some decided to add some more creative expression, and some decided to get in the holiday spirit and create images that were more focused on a Halloween theme.

You can see the artworks in the Art display case upstairs between 234 and 236. You can also see the artworks in the following link:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bu2tE9ona_nNuI62PL-nkm-fMAlfv88BwADsj8T79Is/edit?usp=sharing

Come out and support our exceptional athletes as they compete in our Prime Time Soccer event.

Our Eagles are at QHHS on Tuesday, October 29th at 4:30 and will be AT HOME on Monday, November 4th at 5:00pm.

Many students showed their creativity today with fun costumes!

Attention seniors! O'Connor Photography is now booking Senior Portraits through Halloween for Lancaster High School students. Remember: You won't be depicted in the yearbook without a formal portrait. Please use the QR code in the flyer below or call 661.940.5657 to book today!

Josten's is the home for all your Class of 2025 Senior Needs! CLICK HERE to purchase your senior items. DEADLINES ARE APPROACHING and will get here faster than you can imagine, so do not hesitate.

• Yearbook
• Cap/Gown
• Class of 2025 Swag
• Class Ring
• Letterman's Jacket
• Senior Graduation Packages

It's that time of year again: Senior Recognition Ads! Make sure to honor your senior's accomplishments with their own page in the yearbook! Email Mr. Griffey at jgriffey@avhsd.org if you have questions! Deadline is 1/31. Check out the instructions below!

Each month, three of our Eagles are selected for Students of the Month. Their pictures will be hung in our front office to celebrate them!

Emma Tanner - Be REAL Student of the Month (a student who has excelled academically or models our core values of REAL)

Issaiah McCorvey - Student of the Month (a student who has excelled athletically in performance or leadership)

Donovan Johnson - Move the Needle Student of the Month (a student who has got involved in a positive way on campus)

Check out our workshop dates below.

To schedule a virtual appointment with a counselor please visit designated link below.

(Counselors are designated by last name. Please see alpha next to names to find your counselor)

Robert Parks (A-Ak & M&E Academy) https://rdparks.youcanbook.me/

Monica Lomeli (Al-Ce) http://mlomeli.youcanbook.me

Kenneth Dakwa (Ch-Ga) https://kdakwa.youcanbook.me

Raelene Lewis (Ge-Ke) https://rrlewis.youcanbook.me

LaTanya Jones (Ki-Mo) https://lajones.youcanbook.me/

Debbie Penny (Mu-Ri) https://debbiepenny.youcanbook.me

Christina Candelaria (Ro-Ti) https://ccandelaria.youcanbook.me/

Melissa Vattioni (To-Z) https://mvattioni.youcanbook.me

*Please note that there is always a Counselor of the Day who is able to meet in person with a student and/or parent if their assigned counselor is not available.

Come out and learn about our school-wide and district goals and then give input for our future goals.

Here are two family and student resources

• Weekly Bulletin that has been posted by the School Counseling Dept. to Google Homerooms
• NOPE Website for Parents/ Staff/ Faculty And Students

As always, safety and security is a top priority across the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It is with this in mind that we will not be able to allow students and/or parents/guardians to place food orders for delivery to our schools during the school day.

This practice not only causes a disruption to the school environment but also poses a potential security threat. As such, beginning immediately school staff will not accept any food deliveries, nor will delivery personnel be allowed onto our campuses. If your student does not bring a meal or snack, there are no-cost healthy options available in the cafeteria every day.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and your cooperation in keeping our school safe and secure. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mr. Santoyo at asantoyo@avhsd.org

Here are the daily bell schedules for this week. Flex Days this year are EVERY Tuesday.