Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Pops concert will also include student induction into the Tri-M Music Honor Society.
The following is an announcement from the Lynnfield High School Music Department: On Wednesday, May 23 at 7 pm the Lynnfield High School Music Department will present its annual Pops Concert, showcasing both its band and choral programs. Choral groups performing will be under the direction of High School Choral Director Douglas Hodgkins, and instrumental groups will perform under the direction of High School Band Director Thomas Westmoreland. The concert will be held in the High School Auditorium and is free and open to the public. During the concert, students accepted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society will be announced and formally inducted as Tri-M Society members. After the concert, a short special awards ceremony will be held in …
Dine at Prince Pizzeria on Route 1 using attached vouchers and 25% of all food sales will be donated to LHS Girls Softball Booster Club.
Tonight from 5 to 9 p.m., dine at Prince Pizzeria on Route 1 in Saugus and 25% of your food purchases will be donated to the Lynnfield High School Girls Softball Booster Club. There will also be a silent auction. Funds raised will help purchase uniforms and other equipment for the LHS softball program.
Lynnfield Middle School students sang the American and Canadian national anthems Saturday evening before New England Revolution game at Gillette Stadium.
The Lynnfield Middle School Pioneer Singers were at Gillette Stadium on Saturday evening, May 12th, to sing the national anthem before the New England Revolution MLS Soccer game. According to LMS Music Director Stephen Bloom, this occasion marked the fifth time the Pioneer Singers have appeared at Gillette Stadium - and on Saturday night, they sang in front of more than 12,000 people. The Revolution went on to win the game 4-1 over the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Lynnfield resident and mother of five became new Lynnfield Community Schools director earlier this spring.
On May 1st, Michaelann Herook formally became the director of Lynnfield Community Schools (LCS), following this spring's retirement of her predecessor, Susan Leffler. To many in town however, Herook needs no introduction, in light of her twelve previous years of service as assistant director of the LCS program and 32 years as a Lynnfield resident. She is a mother of five, all of whom attended Lynnfield schools, with one currently at the high school and another at the middle school. Before coming to Lynnfield Community Schools, Herook spent 16 years at Federal Express. For those who are unfamiliar with the program, Lynnfield Community Schools offers a broad range of activities in town for people of all ages, from arts and sports to adult …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
In U.S. News and World Report feature ranking high schools across all 50 states, LHS turns up at #39 in Massachusetts and 830 nationwide.
Lynnfield High School was ranked 39th among all Massachusetts high schools in a recent feature from U.S. News and World Report. The magazine ranked top schools in all 50 states, looking at factors like test scores, AP participation and performance, and student to teacher ratio. For what it's worth, U.S. News also gave LHS a national ranking of 830. The magazine also provides a page with various data for the schools it ranks. For more, click here. Readers may also remember a separate feature from Boston Magazine that ran early in 2012 where Lynnfield was ranked 34th in the Boston region, using additional factors that included test scores, per-pupil spending, student-teacher ratios, graduation rates and number of sports teams.
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To the editor; On behalf of the entire community at Lynnfield High School we would like to thank the Lynnfield Police and Fire Departments, as well as members of our own drama club, for a tremendous job staging a mock crash at the high school last Friday. The care and realism with which the drill was enacted helped send a strong message to our students about the consequences of careless or impaired driving. We are fortunate in Lynnfield to have public safety officials willing to go the extra mile to help our students be safe. Thanks also to the Conway Brodeur Funeral Home whose presence gave an even greater degree of realism. Thomas Jefferson, Superintendent of Schools Robert Cleary, Principal Lynnfield High School Kevin Cyr, Assistant …
On Tuesday, students and colleagues congratulated Jane Tremblay on her recent principal of the year honor.
As reported last week in this and other local media outlets, Summer Street School Principal Jane Tremblay was named the 2012 recipient of the Thomas C. Passios award, which goes to the Massachusetts Elementary School Principal of the year. Tremblay and her colleagues traveled together on a rented bus to Hyannis last week, where she accepted the award. As noted in last week's article, Tremblay will travel to Washington D.C. later this year where she will meet the U.S. secretary of education and where she will also be among those in the running for national principal of the year. On Tuesday afternoon, students and colleagues at Summer Street School had a reception in Tremblay's honor. In this photo, a group of students take a moment to pose …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Students, police and fire personnel teamed up to create a convincing reminder that drunk driving can have disastrous consequences.
Editor's Note: The photos that accompany this story show a mock fatal crash scene, complete with generous amounts of fake blood, a corpse or two, smashed up cars and real police, fire and funeral personnel, resulting in images that some might find disturbing. Lynnfield Police and Fire personnel teamed up with the school district and LHS drama club members on Friday morning to deliver a stark lesson about the consequences of drunk driving. With prom season right around the corner, the high school staged its first mock crash in recent memory, and all parties involved worked hard to make sure it was a convincing effort that got its point across. Starting with two ruined vehicles, one of them a pickup truck donated by Firefighter Andrew …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Students in Lynnfield, Concord competed using educational game from Lynnfield-based company JogNog.
Students in Lynnfield and Concord recently got to participate in an academic challenge where they answered thousands of questions from numerous subject areas. And none of them had to leave their own school to do it. In fact, Lynnfield-based company JogNog, which specializes in educational games for students, ran its first Interschool Mastermind Challenge involving Lynnfield Middle School and the two middle school buildings in Concord. The competition ran in March and the LMS students answered 7,321 questions correctly. In the JogNog games, academic questions are combined with elements of video gaming to give the students a fun and interactive learning experience. On Wednesday, JogNog CEO and co-Founder Stephen Smith, a Lynnfield resident, …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Summer Street School principal is state's elementary school principal of the year. Will receive award in Hyannis later Wednesday.
Lynnfield Superintendent of Schools Dr. Thomas W. Jefferson announced this week that Jane Tremblay, principal of the Summer Street School, is this year's recipient of the Thomas C. Passios Award. The annual award is presented by the Massachusetts Elementary School Principals Association (MESPA) to the Massachusetts Elementary School Principal of the Year. Dr. Mitchell Chester, commissioner of education in Massachusetts, will present the award to Tremblay at the annual MESPA conference Wednesday in Hyannis. Later in the year, Tremblay is expected to travel to Washington D.C. to meet the secretary of education and to represent Massachusetts at a gathering of counterparts from across the nation. At that point, she will also be a candidate for…
William Laforme
10:11 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
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