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Dear Loyal Heights Students, Parents, Staff, and Community Members, I hope all is well with each one of you and your loved ones during these trying times.

Save the Date - May 8th This Black Tie and Sweatpants extravaganza is poised to be the (virtual) event of the year! The team is working hard to bring you all your auction favorites in a safe, virtual setting. Mark those calendars, and get ready to PAAAARTY (in your home). Auction week is May 2-8; it will culminate on 5/8 with a LIVE virtual happy-hour from 6-7pm and a LIVE auction program from 7-8:15. More details to come soon!

If you missed the Teams sessions of our Incoming Families Tours, you can view links to a video and presentation found on our New Families page.

We have expanded our remote recess offerings for all grades! All staff facilitators reported that this was a positive experience for them and the students in attendance. One issue we are working to support is getting the links below from this parent email onto school devices.

Videos created for the LH population and community are now in one place.

Get all the updates here! This post will be updated with all the current news links. School Tours and Monthly Virtual Videos now available.

Updated Information on District Tech Resource Centers. 11/4/2020 The location serving Loyal Heights area is John Marshall. If you need a school staff person help for pick up or drop offs at John Marshall, please contact Kathy Katzen at kkatzen@seattleschools.org.

Links from Specialists Curriculum Night Videos

The district has prepared the following information about the Source, Schoology and Student Passwords that I hope you will find useful. Translated Start of School Source and Schoology parent/guardian account set up steps have been provided to Communications for the Start of School Toolkit. Scroll to the bottom of this message for translated videos to share with your ELL families. Reminder, students do not set up Source or Schoology accounts:

The district website has numerous pages and links on technology support. Upon review, the Student Portal Technology Supports for Families contains a majority of the information on one page.

Loyal Heights is looking for 100% participation in this survey. We are at about 1/3. Please spread the word! SPS is requiring that every building create a school-based effort to find out about the needs of its community by September 25th. The goal is to use the information gathered at a school level

Updated District food programs including a map of food pick-up sites. If your LH family is in need, please contact Ms. Katzen at kkatzen@seattleschools.org

This week and next, we celebrate our Fifth Graders as they move on to Middle School. This has been an interesting year, to say the least, but we still have some fun things planned to help our Fifth Graders know how special they are.

Just because we can’t get together for music classes doesn’t mean we can’t be musical. The best way to promote music at home is, first of all, to sing.

Here it is! A wonderful collection of entries from K to 5. ENJOY!

Now that learning is online, many teachers are providing content through Schoology. Did you know that parents can use Schoology too?

A short video from staff to our community.

Find answers to frequently asked fall 2020 planning questions.

This is an evening where all local elementary band students, as well as area middle and high schools share a night of music. The stands were packed with families with standing room only.

The Global Reading Challenge winners are...

Mr. Michael Berkenwald has been appointed as the acting principal of Loyal Heights Elementary for the remainder of the school year. He joins us from John Hay Elementary, where he has served as the assistant principal since 2015.