LAPS Newsletter

Monday, March 17 - Friday, March 21 (no school for students and staff)

Monday, March 17

2025 All Schools Student Art Show

Thursday, February 20 - Wednesday, March 12

Step Up Gallery, Mesa Public Library

Friday, March 14

Band MPA Preview Concert

Monday, March 10

Choir MPA Preview Concert

Tuesday, March 11

Music Performance Assessments

Wednesday, March 12 - Thursday, March 13

Thursday, March 13 and Friday, March 14 (no school for elementary students)

School Board Meeting

Tuesday, March 11

School Boardroom

School Board Work Session

Thursday, March 27

Los Alamos High School

Click here for more information about the School Board meetings.

Tuesday, March 25

2024-2025 School Calendar

2025-2026 School Calendar

Multicultural Calendar of Events

For other events and activities, check out the school site calendars on the LAPS website.

UNM's College of Engineering hosted 47 students from Los Alamos Middle School last week. Students learned about the engineering design process through CAD activities and saw the production process of students building electric Formula 1 type race cars. UNM sent solar card kits back to Los Alamos for Mrs. Breneman's and Dr. Collom's students to build themselves.

LAPS was well represented at the National History Day competition last Friday.

Piñon Elementary 6th grader Presley Hopwood won 2nd place in the Junior Individual Website category and will be competing in the State competition on April 11.

Winners from Los Alamos Middle School who also qualified for the state competition include:

8th Grade:

Kyra Woodall : 1st place and Outstanding Exhibit Award

Elijah Farley: State Qualifier Documentary

7th Grade:

Isaac Light & Evan Cunningham: 1st place Documentary

Brandon Keller: State Qualifier Paper

Representing Los Alamos High School, Helena Welch was awarded 1st Place Paper, and Gordy Phillips 1st Place Poster. They also qualified for state.

The Los Alamos Middle School Team A took 2nd place at the New Mexico Science Bowl Regionals.

All three teams from LAMS made it to the afternoon double elimination rounds and one of them made it to the final round.

Eleven AP Psychology students from Los Alamos High School competed in the New Mexico Brain Bee. Congratulations to senior Allie Holland who earned 3rd place. She is planning to study nursing in the fall.

Both the middle school and high school orchestras performed last week prior to their MPAs (music performance assessments).

Both Chamisa Elementary and Piñon Elementary hosted Family Math Nights last week.

In connection with Barranca's PTO Read-a-Thon, the Barranca PTO had two local author/illustrators talk to the Barranca students. Barranca 5th grade teacher, Shane Hunt, is a comic book author and illustrator for Birds Eye View Comics. Mr. Hunt's comic is Ugly the Duck Warrior.

Joining Mr. Hunt was Ms.Tracy Bailey. Ms. Bailey is the author and illustrator of the comic The Catena Cafe. Ms.Bailey has worked with Vertigo Comics and has collaborated with Scott Christian Sava on his film "Animal Crackers" on Netflix. Ms. Bailey lives in Los Alamos.

Photo courtesy of Joyce Haven

Registration for students planning to attend LAPS during the 2025-2026 school year is now open. This includes new and returning students, kindergarten and preschool.

Over 1100 students have completed the registration process. Don't wait until the last minute!

Go to www.laschools.net/registration for more information and to register using either a computer or smartphone.

The Returning student registration form will be available through the parent PowerSchool portal at https://laps.powerschool.com/public

All students planning to attend any LAPS site must complete the registration process. Students in grades 6th-11th who completed course selection are also required to complete the returning student registration form, as this is in addition to course selection. Please make sure to select the 2025-2026 school year when registering.

Students planning to participate on a sports team at the middle school or high school must also complete the athletics registration process. Physicals must be completed after April 1.

For questions, please contact Rosa Schmitz at r.schmitz@laschools.net or (505) 663-2201.

Sleep Awareness Week is March 9 - 15. There is more info here: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/teens-and-sleep.

Breakfast and Lunch Menus

Los Alamos Public Schools is excited to participate in this year’s Literacy NM Summer Program. This program will provide small group specialized reading and writing instruction for students who have completed grades K-8. This program will take the place of the traditional summer school or camp that the district has provided in recent years.

All LAPS students who would like to improve their reading and writing skills are invited to enroll on the state portal- NM Summer Reading Program Website (www.literacy.nm.gov). Currently, families can express interest on the website, the official student registration will go live in March. LAPS will not be conducting a separate registration for the summer program.

Student hours will be 8:30-12:30 pm daily, June 5-July 3.

There will be no sessions on Thursday, June 19 in observance of the Juneteenth holiday.

The curriculum for the Literacy NM Summer program is Magnetic Reading.

The district will provide a bus to and from White Rock. This bus will pick up and drop off at Chamisa Elementary.

The YMCA offers an after camp program, which will also be housed at Barranca Mesa Elementary. After the morning session, students participating in the literacy program will be escorted to the YMCA camp. More information about the YMCA program can be found here https://laymca.org/summer.

There's still time to show a teacher a little extra love through the LAPS Foundation's Shower with Love campaign. It's easy! Go to https://showerlove25.givesmart.com, select a teacher, and donate any amount toward their wish list item. The Foundation will purchase the item once the donation amount is fulfilled. It’s a simple but effective way to show our teachers how much they are appreciated. In addition to supporting teachers, your donations directly impact students and provide them with extra learning opportunities they wouldn’t have without community support.

Let’s shower them with love again this year!

Saturday School is open to all Los Alamos Middle School and Los Alamos High School students as an opportunity to catch up on late work, complete missed assignments, take make-up tests and receive help with homework.Click here for more information.

The next session will be March 29. To register, email lahssaturdayschool@laschools.net with the student's name and date requested.

Los Alamos Public Schools Celebrates Native American Culture In Classrooms And At New Mexico State Capitol

LAHS EcoClub Seeking Old Clothes For Thrift Drive

Los Alamos Boys Wrestling Competes At State

LAPS Foundation: Impact A Classroom Today

Los Alamos Public Schools is hiring for several positions around the district, including teachers, educational assistants and coaches. We are also looking for a high school principal.

There are also job postings in our Business Services, Transportation, Facilities and Technology departments. And we are hiring Student Interns.

Click here to learn more.

The Los Alamos Public Schools neither endorses nor sponsors the organization or activity promoted in this document. The distribution of this material is provided on an equal basis as a community service.

Los Alamos Middle School

Baseball

Tuesday, March 11 vs. Santa Fe Indian School @ Senior Field, 3 pm and 5 pm

Thursday, March 13 vs. Albuquerque Academy Middle School

@ Albuquerque Academy, 3 pm and 5 pm

Softball

Tuesday, March 11 vs. Santa Fe Indian School @ Bun Ryan Softball Field, 3 pm and 5 pm

Thursday, March 13 vs. Albuquerque Academy Middle School @ Bun Ryan Softball Field,

3 pm and 5 pm

Thursday, March 27 vs. Santo Domingo Middle School @ Bun Ryan Softball Field 3 pm and 5 pm

Track & Field

Wednesday, March 26 vs. Rio Rancho @ Cleveland High School, 4 pm

Los Alamos High School

JV Baseball

Monday, March 10 vs. Capital High School @ Senior Field, 3 pm and 5 pm

Monday, March 24 vs. Santa Fe Indian School @ Santa Fe Indian School, 3 pm and 5 pm

Wednesday, March 26 vs. Santa Fe High School @ Senior Field, 3 pm and 5 pm

Varsity Baseball

Tuesday, March 11 vs. Robertson High School @ Robertson High School, 4 pm

Thursday, March 13 vs. Sandia Prep High School @ Sandia Prep High School, 4 pm

Thursday, March 20, Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, Artesia Invitational @ Artesia High School

Wednesday, March 26 vs. Santa Fe High School @ Bomber Field, 3 pm and 5 pm

JV Softball

Monday, March 10 vs. Capital High School @ Lovato Field, Overlook Softball Fields, 3 pm and 5 pm

Tuesday, March 25 vs. Santa Fe High School @ Overlook Softball Fields, 3:30 pm and 5 pm

Varsity Softball

Wednesday, March 19 - Saturday, March 22, APS Tournament

Tuesday, March 25 vs. Santa Fe High School @ Overlook Softball Fields, 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm

Thursday, March 27 vs. Capital High School @ Capital High School, 4 pm and 6 pm

Tennis

Tuesday, March 11 vs. Rio Rancho High School @ Mesa Tennis Courts

Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15, Santa Fe High School Quad

Tuesday, March 25 vs. Taos High School @ Taos High School

Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, Espanola Quad

Track & Field

Saturday, March 15, Rio Rancho Rust Buster @ Rio Rancho High School

Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, Chandler Invite in Chandler, AZ

Thursday, March 27, Bernalillo Relays @ Bernalillo High School

eSports

Splatoon 3 and Street Fighter 6 play at 4pm on Tuesdays. Super Smash Bros Unlimited plays at

4 pm on Wednesdays. Rocket League, Madden, MarioKart 8, and Hearthstone all play at 4 pm on Thursdays.

March 24 - April 4, Playoffs

March 28 - March 30, NMSU Invitational

April 10 - April 12, State Competition

Each day/week we show a different group on our stream, which can be viewed here: https://www.twitch.tv/secretcityesports/videos

Check out RankOne for schedules.

Spring Choir Workshop

Thursday, March 13 (Elementary choir students)

Regional Science Fair

Saturday, March 22

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