• The first day of school for the 2023-2024 school year is Monday, August 7, 2023.
• Meet the Teacher will be Friday, August 4, 2023.
• Classroom assignment letters will be sent home via US Mail in the summer.
• Online Registration via the Infinite Campus Parent Portal is required for all returning students prior to the start of the new school year.

Yearbooks will be for sale through mid-June 2023. Once yearbooks are printed and received, families who purchased a yearbook will be contacted to pick up their 2022-2023 yearbook. We are currently behind on our yearbook timeline, and we greatly appreciate your patience.

Yearbook ordering flyers are available in the front office. The cost will be $25 and only cash payments will be accepted. Online ordering is not available. Orders will be accepted in the front office through June 9, 2023.

LWJES will once again offer a Summer Acceleration program for all currently enrolled students. This year’s program will begin on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, and run until Friday, June 16, 2023.

The program will provide face-to-face learning opportunities to accelerate students’ learning, provide interventions and services for social-emotional support, and offer extracurricular activities.

If you are interested in your child attending the program, please complete the 2023 Summer Acceleration Program Interest Form for each child you would like to attend the program by Friday, April 7, 2023.

For more information about the  program, please see the Summer Acceleration Family Information Letter.

❕❕❕ Spring break this year is scheduled differently from past years. ❕❕❕

Spring break is Monday, March 13, 2023, through Friday, March 17, 2023.

Classes resume Monday, March 20, 2023.

There will be no school for students Friday, April 7, 2023, and Monday, April 10, 2023.

We will have school pictures on Thursday, November 3, 2022. All students will have their picture taken on this day. These pictures will be available for purchase by families (purchases are not required). Please see the information sent home for more information. A portion of picture purchases goes toward the school’s fundraising efforts. The envelopes for purchasing pictures will be sent home early next week. We encourage all students to come to school prepared for pictures on November 3rd!

LWJES will celebrate Nevada Day and Halloween on Thursday, October 27, 2022. There will be no school on Friday, October 28, 2022, in observance of Nevada Day.

Students are invited to wear costumes to school on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Please observe the following:

• We encourage students to come in their costumes, if they choose to wear them, for the day. We will not be able to allow students to change into costumes in the afternoon.
• Costume-related masks may only be worn during the parade.
• Make-up is discouraged for this day. If worn, make-up is not to be touched-up or applied at school. Students who wear make-up to school should use care to keep their make-up neat and avoid getting make-up on school surfaces or their clothes.
• Fake weapons are not allowed.

We will have a Nevada Day/Halloween costume parade on October 27, 2022, at 1:45 p.m. We are welcoming families to join us for this event. We will open the gate at the parking lot/field area (Battista Gate) and the gate by the basketball courts on Bermuda at 1:35 p.m. All visitors are to enter at a gate and then head to an identified fence to spread out to watch the parade. After the parade, we request families depart campus as quickly as possible so gates can be secured. Classes will return to their rooms after the parade and enjoy a Nevada Day/Halloween celebration. Celebrations are reserved for students only.

Please, no school-age children are to attend the event (middle school and high school students). Families who bring non-school-age children, please consider the length of the event and your child’s needs. We expect any younger siblings to demonstrate appropriate school behavior, and we ask parents/guardians to closely supervise younger siblings at all times. Please refrain from allowing younger siblings to play on the playground as this event is focused on our students. We appreciate you picking up students following the usual dismissal routine this day.

Please refer to additional information from your child’s teacher about this celebration. Family members will not be allowed to join the classroom celebrations as they are for students only.

Students will have a party on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Teachers will send specific information separately regarding their classroom party. Classroom parties are reserved for students only.

We ask that students do not wear their costumes to school on Monday, October 31, 2022.

LWJES will host a family picnic during lunch on Friday, October 21, 2022. All students will have lunch on the grass areas this day, and families are welcome to join students for the picnic. There will be one lunch period this day from 11:45 to 12:15 rather than the usual two lunches. Families may choose to bring in lunch for their child or students will be able to take a lunch from the lunch room for the picnic. All students and families are encouraged to bring a blanket or towel to sit on during the picnic.

The entry gate for families to join the event will be through the gate on the main field by the Battista auxiliary parking lot or through the gate on Mardon by the 4-square courts. We will open gates at about 11:35 a.m. All classes will join on grass areas and there will be signs around the for classes. Families with students in different classes can choose to eat together in one spot by a class.

The entire time will be set aside for dining. Students will have a recess at a different time. We request that there is no play or games during the picnic period. All students will stay on the grass area with their classes and families. At the end of the picnic, students will return to their classes by lining up at the dots while families depart through the gates.

Open this FLYER with information and a map for the event.

Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year! For more information, view the newsletter from August 5, 2022.

If you ordered a 2021-2022 yearbook, they will be available for pick up from the front office starting on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Yearbooks that were ordered online will require a signature when picking up the yearbook. We are not selling any yearbooks at this time, although we may have a limited amount of yearbooks available for purchase shortly.

Check out a song that was performed by students in Ms. Dominguez’s, Ms. Fraser’s, and Ms. Petersen’s classes here: https://www.eduvision.tv/l?etRLemt