🤖✨ Get ready, LCSD! STEM NIGHT is TONIGHT! From robots and drones to science experiments, coding, math magic 🧪📐 and even stop motion animation — we've got something for every curious mind!
🎉 Open to ALL K-12 students + families
🕕 May 1, 2025 from 6–8 PM
📍 Lockport High School (Enter through Door #3)
Can't wait to see you there— it's going to be STEM-sational! 🧠⚡
May is Community Action Month! STEM Night on May 1 is a great way for our community to come together and empower our students with knowledge, resources, and opportunities for growth. It’s also the perfect lead-up to our LCSD Unity Fest on May 30th, where we will continue to celebrate the strength and spirit of our community, promoting unity, diversity, and empowerment for all.
Mark your calendars:
STEM Night: May 1, 2025 from 6:00-8:00 PM at Lockport High School
Unity Fest: May 30, 2025 from 4:00-8:00 PM behind Lockport High School
Together, we’re building a future of innovation, inclusivity, and community empowerment!
Join us for Whole Child Wellness Night at Emmet Belknap Intermediate School on Thursday, May 15!
This is a FREE community event for students, families, caregivers, staff, and community members. Over 30 local organizations will be on site to share wellness resources and information that support the whole child—mind, body, and heart.
Featuring:
✔ Catholic Charities
✔ Feedmore WNY
✔ Kenan Center
✔ Lockport Family YMCA/Camp Kenan
✔ Niagara County Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services
...and many more!
Interested in having a resource table? Contact: esmorol@lockportschools.net
Let’s come together to support our students and families! 💛🦁
Before spring recess, Project CKC (Clothing Kills Cancer) appeared on Daytime Buffalo to share their powerful mission—and shine a spotlight on a new partnership with Making Memories.
We’re proud to share that Brayden Powell, a student from Aaron Mossell JHS, was featured on the segment as a Project CKC Brand Ambassador Brayden who brings fresh ideas for T-shirt designs and used his voice to amplify the mission of this incredible nonprofit. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=CT1lCPtb0sc.
Project CKC is dedicated to supporting cancer patients and their families by easing financial stress related to medical bills and prescription costs. Their work is a reminder that compassion and community can make a difference.
Ben Brindise, Author and Spoken Word Poet, recently gave a workshop at Aaron Mossell Junior High, where students learned about, created and performed spoken word poems. Thank you to Arts for Learning WNY and Just Buffalo Literacy Center for giving our students this opportunity!
At Anna Merritt, they're turning fun into funds! The fearless 2nd grade team is raising money for their End-of-Year Celebration—and they're willing to get inked for it (temporary tattoos, of course 😉). Donations were received and tattoos were handed out - the more that was given, the more tattoos the teachers and staff got!
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd to raise awareness about taking care of our planet. We’re excited to celebrate Earth Day and do our part to help the environment! 🌍 🌎 🌏
🦁💙 Embrace our differences and support each other.
Every student brings something unique to our classrooms—different strengths, perspectives, and ways of learning. That’s what makes our schools strong.
When we take the time to understand and uplift one another, we create a community where everyone belongs and everyone can succeed.
#WeAreLions #NeurodiversityAwareness
LHS students had an egg-citing surprise before spring recess!
Hidden around the school were special eggs—and those lucky enough to find one could turn it in at the main office for a prize. Just a fun and festive way to keep everyone engaged and energized before the break!
Anna Merritt had some spring time fun before Spring Recess!
Second Graders at Anna Merritt practiced their egg-cellent word building skills! Mrs. Rudz's class went on an Easter egg hunt to find consonants and vowel teams. Students collaborated to create words and recorded them.
Mrs. Maloney’s and Mrs. Noah’s reading groups at Anna Merritt participated in a “write the room” Easter egg hunt. Students had to look for high frequency words hidden in eggs around the room and match the word to a picture on their papers. The students had an eggcellent time!!
Aaron Mossel JHS students in Mr. Schmidt's Social Studies class visited the AMJH library for a Lewis & Clark Escape Room experience. Students used notes and what they learned to solve 5 clues related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
After learning about Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and French artists, LHS French 4 and 5 students visited the AKG Art Museum to see the works of art studied, which are part of the permanent collection of the AKG. Students enjoyed a guided tour, seeing the art in person, and also learning about current exhibits.
Emmet Belknap students completed the first Fuel Up challenge of the year: reset yourself with dairy. Participating classrooms got to create their own healthy yogurt tube snacks using 3 simple ingredients (yogurt, fruit, & honey). A special thanks to Aramark for their generosity providing all the supplies & visit FuelUpChallenge.com to join the health and wellness program.
Small actions can make a big difference.
Whether it’s offering a quiet space, rethinking how we give instructions, or simply showing patience—these everyday choices help create a school where every student, including those who are neurodivergent, can thrive. 💙💛
Let’s keep celebrating the unique ways our students learn, grow, and succeed—because inclusion isn’t one big gesture, it’s a series of small, intentional ones. #NeurodiversityAwareness
#ThrowbackThursday vibes!
Mr. Hall, LHS STEM teacher, rocked his vintage DeWitt Clinton sweatshirt for a true Lockport City School District throwback. Mrs. Bitka (also pictured) was his Kindergarten teacher years ago. For those who may not know, DeWitt Clinton used to be an elementary school in our district years ago! Once a Lion, always a Lion. 🦁💙💛
STEM Night: A Journey Through Innovation is coming to LCSD! On May 1 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, get ready for a night of hands-on experiments, digital safety tips, robotics, and more!
When: May 1, 2025, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Where: Lockport High School
✨Keynote Speaker: Investigator Michael Hamilton on Cyberbullying Awareness
✨Hands-On STEM Demos: Robotics, animation, coding & more!
✨Grab a bite while you explore!
Don’t forget: Arrive by 6:00 PM sharp for the opening event to enter for a chance to win a Drone or Sphero Mini Robot!
Students and staff at Aaron Mossell JHS enjoyed Spring Spirit Week this week! Strangely, in the first photo, Mr. Young found another Mr. Young in his own class on Wednesday, dress like your teacher day!
Congratulations to Mrs. Currie's class on winning the first ever Emmet Belknap's Physical Education March Madness Bracket Challenge. They successfully chose Florida to win the Men's NCAA Basketball Championship and their bracket scored a school high 148 points, earning them an extra PE class!
Mrs. Ingraham and Miss Flick’s students at Emmet. Belknap have been reading the book Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. A few students made communication boards to experience a day in the life of Melody, the main character in the book who has cerebral palsy.
Congratulations to Aaron Mossell JHS's PageTurners and Coach Lisa Cleveland for placing 3rd in a fierce competition at finals this week! Their winning plaque is proudly hanging in the building entrance. Go Lions!
