This week in Lincoln Parish Schools
The Lincoln Parish Journal is providing our local schools with an opportunity to submit nuggets from what’s going on at their respective schools in order to get more information out on their students, faculty and staff. The information below comes directly from those schools. Any school wishing to provide content each week can email at hannalsingh@gmail.com
This normally runs on Friday’s each week, but since the LPJ didn’t publish on Good Friday, we are running last week’s edition today.
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High Schools
Ruston
This week in Bearcat Nation: Tonight (04/18), varsity baseball will take on Sulfur at home for the first round of playoffs!
Tuesday (04/22), the boys’ golf team will compete in the District Tournament at Querbes Park Golf Course.
The teacher of the week is Mrs. Treadway! Mrs. Treadway has been teaching for 13 years, with this being her 12th year at RHS. She teaches Pre-AP English II. Mrs. Treadway also serves as a sponsor for Student Council and Bearcat Buddies. Thank you for all you do Mrs. Treadway!!
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Middle Schools
A.E. Phillips
Best of luck to our Golf team as they compete in the North Louisiana State Competition on Tuesday, April 22nd.
LEAP testing at AEP kicks off Tuesday the 22nd with Algebra I followed by 3rd – 8th testing that begins Thursday the 24th.
Our school-wide 4Paws donation drive was a HUGE success! Winners will be announced after Easter break! 🙂
I.A. Lewis
The Rams at I. A. Lewis have been busy!
Friday, April 11th all students making a 4.0 or nominated by a teacher for outstanding academic performance, were invited to our Celebrity Rams Breakfast for the 3rd Nine Weeks. Ruston High students from Bearcat Motorsports brought their award-winning Eco Cars to the school. Our Rams got the chance to learn all about Bearcat Motorsports and opportunities to study engineering at RHS when they get to be Bearcats!
Student members of For All Ram Kind spent last Friday participating in the Love The Boot program. They cleaned up litter at RES & Hillcrest Elementary.
On Wednesday April 16th For All Ram Kind students hosted an egg hunt for their Ram Pals!
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Elementary Schools
A.E. Phillips
Second Grade Book Publishing Party
This week, our second graders celebrated the end of their informational writing unit with a special Book Publishing Party! Each student picked an animal to research and learned all about its habitat, diet, appearance, life cycle, and babies. They explored a variety of informational books and used the Epic app to gather fun facts and interesting details. After putting all their hard work into writing amazing reports, they didn’t stop there—they also became illustrators! A huge thank you to Mrs. Clary for guiding our young artists in creating beautiful illustrations to go along with their books during art class. Now, we’re proud to say our students are both published authors and illustrators! What a wonderful celebration of their creativity and hard work!
Kindergarten & First Grade Egg Hunts
Our Kindergarten and First Grade classes had some special fun on Thursday! Each grade, with the help of teachers, parents, and ladies from La Tech Phi Mu, had a fun time hunting easter eggs and playing games. We appreciate all of the hard work that went into preparing a super fun Easter party for our littlest Bullpups!
Kindergarten Play
We are looking forward to our Kindergarten plays on Thursday, April 24th. Mrs. McHale’s class will perform at 1:00 followed by Mrs. Wagner’s class at 2:00.
Choudrant
We have had a busy week celebrating Spring. Pre-K and Kindergarten celebrated with an Egg Hunt. First grade held a Hat Parade followed by a program and lunch with parents. We will have a LEAP parade April 25TH at 1:00 for our 3rd-5th grade students. Come cheer on our students. They have worked so hard this year!
Revised Leap test dates: 3rd-5th Graders: April 29-May 1, May 2 May 6-8, May 9, May 12 -*5th grade only.
All Leap tests are computer based this year.
CES will be collecting leap prizes like last year, April 15-30 to reward students’ hard work.
(drinks, candy, small prizes, anything that would be a reward for a 3rd-5th grader)
- April 18 & April 21, No School for Easter break
- April 22-24 K-2nd Grade End of Year Dibels
- April 22-24 Cheer Clinic
- April 25 Cheer Tryouts
- April 25 Leap Parade @ 1:00 pm ** We would love to see everyone cheer on our students.
- April 29 Leap testing begins
- May 2 Mother/Son Stem Night 5:30-7
- May 22 Last Day of school for students (Full day)
Dubach
During the upcoming week, April 22-25 Dubach will finish DIBELS testing and prepare for LEAP testing to begin. Dubach is currently a “B” school (78.7) and would like to maintain, if not improve our “B” status, so each day we have a “B” themed dress day.
Tuesday – We don’t have testing “Blues” – Wear Blue shirts with uniform bottoms
Wednesday – Put it in “Black & White,” We are ready! – Wear Black and White
Thursday – We want to “B” in the 80’s – Dress like the 80s
Friday – We have our “Boots on the Ground” and are prepared to “B” Great – Boots and jeans
We will finalize the week with a Pep Rally from 2-3pm in the gym. Students who received Mastery or Advanced during the 2024 LEAP test will be recognized and rewarded. For improving our school performance score (SPS) from 76.2 -B (2023) to a 78.7-B (2024), the students will also get to tape Principal Young to the wall.
Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center
LPECC cubs enriched their unit on Animals with a visit to the zoo last week. So far, we have learned about mammals and reptiles. We can’t wait to learn all about sea animals and birds. We want to give a special shoutout to the parents and staff from the central office that came with us and helped make our trip a success! We have also been busy helping Dr. Cobb plant and maintain our school garden. This goes along with our healthy eating unit we had earlier this year.
