GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Wednesday, December
5, 2018 – N-day
School Mission – Boundless
STEM: Learning & Leading
L&N Student Mission –
#Own it!
School Ops:
·
Gryphons, you can still purchase a
yearbook for $70 until February 22nd! Order yours ASAP at jostensyearbooks.com
to save $10 on your 2018-19 memories (and make sure to follow @STEMYB on
twitter)!
·
Next
week SGA is sponsoring Winter WonderWeek to bring the semester to a fun
conclusion! Here are the themes for each
day – start planning now to join the fun!
o Monday, 12/10 –
Holiday Hat Day (and Reindeer games at Early Release!)
o Tuesday – Family Photo
Day – don matching outfits for the goofy family holiday photo with your
friends!
o Wednesday – Holiday Character
Day – come as your favorite holiday character.
Junior class is sponsoring a showing of “Elf” at 6:30 in the Commons for
everyone
o Thursday – Ugly Sweater
Day
o Friday – Flannel Day –
notice there are no pajama days listed. Let’s
keep even the cozy fleece and other PJ’s at home, please!
·
Freshman and Sophomores, if you need help catching up
on some school work, drop by the STEM space any Wednesday morning at 8:15 to
meet with students in the National Honors Society who can help you out! We'll
have students representing each subject, even classes like Latin and AP Human
Geography!
·
Order your “ugly
sweater” sweatshirt from the Junior Class (Class of 2020) for $20. Order yours at lunch any day this week!
·
Congratulations to these L&N Art students whose
work was selected to represent the L&N STEM Academy in the annual Knox
County Council PTA Reflections contest: Photography: Delaney Martin,
Cameron Ramsey, Chloe Weaver (Runners-up: Circe
Whitson, Mason Wright); Visual Art: Rachel Barrick, Kirsten
Carter Nathan Dale (Runners-up: Jennifer Butler, Hannah Guess,
Sydney Juhl, Amiya Batts, Willa McDonough) and Dance Choreography: Kate
Jolly. Art by these students and the runners-up may be submitted at the
state level, and will be announced in January.
·
Don’t forget to bring your old blankets or towels for the
animal shelter drive this week!
·
The annual AP/Honors
Art Show will be opening this First Friday at Java Old City, 109
S. Central Street, on December 7. The show will be
up through New Year's Day.
· The L&N Key
Club has partnered with Beaumont Magnet Academy to help provide some of their
students with essential items such as coats, scarves, and gloves. Please sign
up to help our neighbors. We would appreciate any donations to benefit
Beaumont! If you have donations, please bring them to the library. The deadline
to bring these items in is December 9th. The signup genius link is:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4FA5AD28A1F49-angel If you have any questions, feel free to email
Turner at s757275@student.knoxschools.org.
Community & Guidance Ops:
·
A representative from Roane State
Community College will be in Guidance on Monday,
December 10 at 12:15pm.
Quote of the day from Alan Kay:
The best way to predict the future is to
invent it.
Practice L&N Habits every day: Professionalism, Critical
Thinking, Collaboration, Innovation, Inquiry, & Design
L&N STEM Academy – TN’s First Apple School of Distinction, 4
time - US News & World Report medalist – 4 years (2015-18),
4 time - Newsweek’s Top 500 American High Schools 2015 – 18, 5
time TN Reward School (2014 – 18)
TN STEM Designated School, AdvancED STEM
Certified School
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