Monday, October 7th

3:30 Varsity & JV Volleyball @ Boltz (District 1st Round Championships)

Fall Student Led Conferences (SLCs)

2:30pm-5:30pm

Tuesday, October 8th

4:00 Boys Soccer vs. Wellington (@ Lesher)

6:30 Varsity Football @ Timnath (Gold Bracket Championship Game)

Wednesday, October 9th

Picture Retakes

3:15 JV Football vs. Timnath (@ Lesher)(JV Championship Game)

3:30 Varsity Volleyball (2nd Round District Championships)

Thursday, October 10th

3:00 Cross Country District Championships

Friday, October 11th

Nordic Fest

2:30pm-5:30pm

We will transition to interest-based ELOs for Q2 & Q3. Below are links to the course offerings for each grade level. Course offerings are completely teacher driven. Please look these over as a family. Next week your student will take a survey selecting their top four ELOs for each quarter. Please let us know if you have any questions.

6th Grade Q2 & Q3 ELO Course Offerings

7th Grade Q2 & Q3 ELO Course Offerings

8th Grade Q2 & Q3 ELO Course Offerings

Sign Up Links!

Ninja Nation Obstacle Course: https://bit.ly/NFNinja

Basketball 3x3: https://bit.ly/NFBB

Art Experience: https://bit.ly/NFArtExp

Volunteers: https://bit.ly/NFVolunteer24

Boys 2nd overall in district!

Doubles Team 1 = 4th place

Thomas Mack

Liam Tremblay

Doubles Team 2 = 3rd place

Lincoln Phillips

Kyle Northcutt

Doubles Team 3 = 2nd place

Brevin Beauprez

Elliot Martin

Doubles Team 4 = 2nd place

Andrew Metz

Andrew Aschmann

Doubles Team 5 = 2nd place

Devon Garcia

Spencer Atadero

Doubles Team 6 = 2nd place

Landon Smith

Adhrit Angala

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Girls

Doubles Team 2 = 5th place

Esther Johnson

Emilia Mellizo Kroll

Doubles Team 3 = 4th place

Lelah Wind

Belle Goin

Doubles Team 4 = 3rd place

Brynley Brubaker

Laine Malone

Doubles Team 6 = 4th place

Sierra Vander Meeden

Cecelia Broeckling

Our Lesher Rec volleyball team is still undefeated this season, with wins against Wellington and Mountain Sage the past two weeks! They face Lincoln on Saturday. Go Vikings!

The Boys and Girls Club still has capacity for more families to enroll their middle school students in their afterschool program.

Additionally, there is still room on our minibus for them to be transported directly from Lesher to the Boys and Girls Club after school. Our program is open to families from all socioeconomic backgrounds, but focuses on serving those who need us most. As a result, we have plenty of scholarship opportunities, and families should know that cost will not be a barrier if they are interested in our program.

Please do not idle your car when waiting to pick up your child.

Please lock up your bikes and scooters on the bike racks outside!

Students please pay attention when using our crosswalks. Please walk or ride through the parallel white lines.

Thank You!

Here are the Club offerings for the 2024-25 School year. Please reach out to the sponsor for any specific questions.

2024-25 Club Rush Slides

Our PBIS focus for September and October is ATTENDANCE.

The student challenge is not having tardies. The grade level with the least amount of tardies will earn a bonus ELO Outdoor day. So, remind your friends to get to class ON TIME!

The Varsity football team is now 6-0 after beating Webber this week in the first round of the playoffs. Our JV is also undefeated at 5-0-1! We will now face Timnath for the District Championship on Tuesday, October 8th at 6:30pm @ Timnath.

Attendance Notification Update for Chronically Absent Students

Poudre School District and Lesher Middle School will now be notifying families of chronic absenteeism by email when absences have met a certain threshold. These letters are sent monthly; please see the thresholds below that identify the actions taken and at each level.

It is always our goal partner with families, address barriers in attendance, and make a plan for improvement. Students are successful when they attend school regularly.

-Chronically Absent Letter #1

Students with 10% total excused and unexcused absences will receive a notification of the concern

-Chronically Absent Letter #2

Students with 15% total excused and unexcused absences will receive a notification

Required doctor’s note to excuse absences and/or family contact to develop plan if this is a barrier

-Chronically Absent Letter #3

Students with 25% total excused and unexcused absences will receive notification and a request for a parent, student, and school team meeting to discuss academic impact

-Habitually Truant Letter #1

Students with 4 unexcused absences in one month will receive a notification of the concern

-Habitually Truant Letter #2

Students with 10 unexcused absences within one year will need to provide documentation of absences and/or family contact to develop plan

Sept. 16, 2024

Dear PSD community:

At their Aug. 27, 2024, meeting, the Poudre School District Board of Education voted unanimously to refer a mill levy question to the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot. This mill levy, if approved by voters, will provide $49 million per year to improve and extend the useful life of the district’s school buildings and will allow the district to reprioritize more of its general fund for the recruitment and retention of teachers and staff, classroom resources, career and technical education, and neighborhood schools.

To ensure that our community has factual information about this mill levy, the district will host a series of community information sessions in September and October. These are open to the public and anyone who wishes to come learn more about the ballot measure and how it would impact the PSD system and our community are welcome. Each session will share the same information.

Information sessions will take place:

• Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., Rocky Mountain High School Theater, 1300 W. Swallow Road, Fort Collins
• Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 5:30 p.m., Fort Collins High School Theater, 3400 Lambkin Way, Fort Collins
• Thursday, Oct. 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the Future Ready Center inside Foothills mall

The information sessions are being offered for transparency purposes only; these are not campaign events.

Simultaneous interpretation and translation via the district’s Instant Language Assistant (ILA) devices will be available at all sessions. If you would like oral interpretation, please bring wireless headphones that connect to your device to listen to the presentation.

For more information about the mill levy measure, including support and opposition statements, please visit the 2024 Mill Levy webpage on our website: https://www.psdschools.org/community/2024-mill-levy.

Sincerely,

Poudre School District

If you know that your child will be missing school please have them visit their teachers to fill out this form. When completed please return it to the main office. We will make a copy and return it to the student.

Pre-Arranged Absence Form

Please visit PSD's Health Services website for more information and links

Over the past 2 years, Design Club has been busy building a scale model of Lesher in Minecraft! We used Google Earth to measure an outline from above – each block was ½ meter in length. They took pictures of every classroom and made sure every single detail was accounted for – down to the color of the flooring to Mr. Swann on hall duty in the front. They used redstone (it’s a special kind of Minecraft block that is like electricity) to power lights, run water to the water fountains, and play a special tune when you press a button at the front door.

Evie Eslinger, Esther Johnson, and Emilia Mellizo Kroll have been integral as the ‘mayors’ of this online community. They have presented their work at several teacher trainings at the district level!

Last week, this video was presented to 5th graders and they loved seeing their new school!

Ms. Knips

Please Click Here to apply for Free and Reduced status

Here is a link to our academic honesty police. Please take time as a family to read through this information and let us know if you have any questions! Thank you!

Academic Honesty Policy

Lesher students cannot carry any bag larger than a pencil case from class to class. Please keep all bookbags, backpacks, tote bags, purses, and other bags in your locker. We do this for two reasons: 1) Safety, we do not want students concealing prohibited items in large bags; 2) Space, we do not want to overcrowd the hallways with large bags. Thank you for your understanding!

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Location: Lesher Middle School, Stover Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone: 970-472-3800
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