LMS Family Update

Greetings Lockerman Families,

Thank you for all of your support in making our start to the school year a successful one! It has been so great welcoming back our students, and officially welcoming our new 6th graders. They are all already into the swing of things. If you are on Facebook, be sure to follow us to see snips from class throughout the year. There is already amazing learning taking place!

Please see below for important information and updates. As always, please reach out if we can be of assistance. We look forward to working together this year!

Jeannine Necessary

LMS Principal

9/16 Picture Day

9/30 Student Information Update Forms due (check your email)

10/1 8th Grade Ag Day Field Trip

10/7 6pm Board of Ed Meeting

10/10 No School for Students

10/13 6pm PTA Meeting (LMS Cafeteria)

10/15 6pm Content Night at LMS - all families invited

10/17 Schools/Offices Closed - MSEA Convention

If your child is a car rider, please do not line up with the buses. Because we have two waves for drop off and pick up, this impedes traffic flow and could create a safety issue. In the morning, car riders should enter on Caroline Street and be dropped off at the crosswalk in the front of the school. Students should not cross between buses. Instead, they will gather at the town park entrance and wait to cross at the crosswalk.

Picture day is September 16th!

You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture Day ID: EVTKP966Z. Order before midnight on Picture Day to get FREE shipping!

Your child can also bring their completed flyer with cash or check on Picture Day. Orders after Picture Day must be placed online only on mylifetouch.com.

Most of our clubs are kicking off in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more information!

After school rehearsals for band start this week:

Wednesdays - Drumline

Thursdays - Full Marching Band

Practice ends at 3:45pm

National Junior Honor Society

1st Meeting: 9/17 until 3:45, officers will stay until 4:15

Library Club

Interest Meeting 9/24

School News

Interest Meeting 10/1 after school until 3:30

To keep you informed and involved, we’re continuing to use Rooms, our two-way communication tool that helps you stay connected with your child’s teachers and school staff.

And this year, Rooms has improved some of their features:

• SMS Text Notifications
  You’ll now receive text message notifications whenever a new message or announcement is sent in Rooms. Each text includes a direct link to view the content in your mobile browser or in the app.
  
  → Click here to learn how to set your notification preferences.

• One Messaging Inbox
  Our school app has been updated to give you one, single place to see all of your messages across all children. From this inbox, you can read, reply, or start new messages. This feature is available through the CCPS App, available in the App Store and Google Play.
  
  

• Upgraded Messaging Features
  Our messaging experience now lets you react to messages with emojis, respond in threads, send photos and videos, mute group messages, and more!

Check out this overview of the new experience, or watch this short video (video in Spanish or click on Haitian Creole) to learn more about what’s new for this year.

We’re here to help make communication simpler, more consistent, and easier to manage this year! Please let us know if you have any questions.

We are pleased to be partnering with Mid Shore Mediation again this year. Their Peace Team offers peer mediation on an as needed basis. Staff may make referrals to the team as conflicts arise, or students can self-refer. Please return the attached opt out form if you prefer your child not access these services.

Join us October 13th at 6pm in the LMS Cafeteria

Set the tone now for a successful school year. An absence here and there adds up. Now is the time to build good school attendance habits.

Please email absence notes to Mrs. Nesselroad at nesselroad.jennifer@ccpsstaff.org

Choptank Health joins us in welcoming your family to the 2025-2026 school year, with a reminder to set your students up for a healthy, successful year by ensuring they are enrolled in our School-Based Health Center.

School-Based Health Centers function like a typical doctor’s office, with medical providers assessing and diagnosing illness, writing prescriptions, performing lab tests—including for strep, influenza, and

Covid—and physicals including routine well visits and sports physicals. Dental services include screenings, cleanings, sealants, fluoride treatment, and emergency visits.

Appointments can be made by calling your student’s health center at 667-238-8050. It’s never too late to help your child enjoy a healthy school year by enrolling them in School-Based Health.

Use these links to enroll your student in School-Based Health, with more information also at

www.choptankhealth.org/schoolbased.www.choptankhealth.org/schoolbased.

English Enrollment Form

Spanish Enrollment Form

We partner with the Cook Center for parent education and support. Check out their September calendar below. Visit parentguidance.org/mhs-catalog/ for more information.

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Should you send an email to a staff member and not receive a reply within a reasonable amount of time (no more than 48 hours), please call the office.

Click the buttons below to access CCPS resources/information

Jeannine Necessary, Principal

Andrea Hill, Assistant Principal

Rondell Sorrell, Assistant Principal

Kara Henry, Middle School Transition Specialist

Rae Watkins, Community Schools Coordinator

Shannon Thompson, 6th Grade Counselor

James Freeman, 7th Grade Counselor

David Gibbons, 8th Grade Counselor

Website: https://www.lockermanms.org/
Location: 410 Lockerman Street, Denton, MD, USA
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