Weekly News and Important Dates

Parent/Teacher Conferences Sign-Up:  Last week specific instructions on how to sign up for parent/teacher conferences were sent home with all students.  Teachers are using an electronic sign-up system this year called "Pick A Time".  Please follow the instructions to sign up for a parent/teacher conference with your child's homeroom teacher by October 20.

A Word From PTA:

Adults are invited to join their children to celebrate at the fall party. No non-school age children are allowed to attend per district policy. Please check in at the front office for your green wristband. Parties will be held in the gym. The grade level schedule is as follows:

• 2nd 9:00-9:45am
• 5th 9:50-10:30am
• 3rd 10:45-11:30am
• K 12:30-1:15pm
• 4th 1:25-2:10pm
• 1st 2:15-3:00pm

An online volunteer and donation signup will be sent via email soon!

Race For the Future:

The Lee’s Summit Educational Foundation will host its popular Race for theFuture 5K Run/Walk, scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. Oct. 11 at Lee’s Summit West High School, 2600 S.W. Ward Road. The event is recognized throughout the metro-area as one of the Midwest’s premier run/walk events with more than 1,000 people participating in 2013.

The 18th annual Race for the Future is a fund-raiser for the Lee’s Summit Educational Foundation Inc. and the Carrie Foresee Memorial Scholarship Fund. The 5K race includes hundreds of dollars in prizes. Packet pick-up and late registration will be held from noon to 6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 10 at the R-7 School District’s Stansberry Leadership Center, 301 NE Tudor Road (on the northeast corner of the Lee’s Summit North High School campus). Free T-shirts will go to the first 800 5K entrants.

Important Dates

• 10/9:  Health Fair
• 10/11:  Race for the Future
• 10/13:  Grade Level Pictures
• 10/17:  Early Release Day (Dismiss at 12:50)
• 10/22:  Early Release Day (Dismiss at 12:50)
• 10/22:  Parent/Teacher Conferences 
• 10/23:  Parent/Teacher Conferences
• 10/24:  No School
• 10/31:  Fall Parties