Lawton Elementary School - Seattle WA

SPS Website Redesign – your input is wanted

Seattle Public Schools is redesigning their website, particularly how information is organized. They’d like to gather input from families on how to organize content so it is easy to find and access information. Families are invited to a meeting on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm to participate and provide feedback. The [...]

Mabels Labels – Get your stuff home, help Lawton

Each year, the Lawton PTA collects many bags of items from the Lost and Found and donates them to charity. Many of these items could be sent back home if they were labelled. Take advantage of this paperless fundraiser from Mabel’s Labels to help in the recovery of your lost items. A portion of all [...]

ReUsies Fundraiser

NEW this year is a fundraiser to help keep Lawton GREEN. Last year Mrs. Misner’s and Mrs. Ulmer’s 5th grade classes completed an interesting classroom project. They collected plastic bags from Lawton’s lunchroom garbage to see how many disposable bags were used by our students. In one day, they collected 186 bags. In one week, [...]

Letter from Principal Helm

Dear Lawton Students, Families, and Staff,

As the new Principal of Lawton Elementary, I would like to welcome you to the 2010 – 2011 school year! I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the team, and it is an honor and a privilege to serve the Lawton Community.

I have felt truly welcomed, and I’ve enjoyed meeting with members of the staff to begin formulating an understanding of the strengths and challenges of the Lawton Community. I have heard a consistent voice expressing our passion and dedication for high quality instruction, and I am impressed by Lawton’s commitment to arts in education.

MAP testing at Lawton

Lawton Elementary and Seattle Public Schools are taking some important steps this year towards our goal of ensuring an excellent education for every student. Soon your child will take tests called Measures of Academic Progress(tm) (MAP) in math and reading. We give students MAP tests to determine your child’s instructional level; to measure academic growth [...]

Welcome to Lawton’s new principal – Christine Helm

Lawton extends a warm welcome to our new principal, Miss Christine Helm. We are very pleased to have Principal Helm on board and look forward to the coming year under her leadership. The Lawton Community is invited to attend a Meet & Greet with Principal Helm on Tuesday, August 24th from 6-7 PM in the [...]

Kindergarten Slow Start

A correction to the information about Slow Start published in the eNews. The entries should have read: September 8, 2010 SLOW START – Kindergartners only - Students with last names beginning with A – L begin school today and stay home on Thursday 9/9. All students attend on Friday. September 9, 2010 SLOW START – Kindergartners only - Students [...]

Lawton eNews has launched

The PTA newsletter is now being published electronically. Read the July 21st edition here. Families new to Lawton, please email newsletter@lawtonelementary.org to be added to the distribution list. Families needing to change their email addresses can email too. When emailing please include the first and last name(s) of your children. * Don’t miss any Lawton News….. Subscribe [...]

Follow Lawton Elementary PTA on Facebook

If you are a facebook user, you can get updates from our new facebook page Lawton Elementary School PTA . Click here to be directed to the page and click Like on the Lawton Elementary School PTA page.