The varsity girls basketball team hosted the Lady Bearcats of Orrick on Monday. The Lady Cardinals defeated Orrick 52-1.
Senior Kinley Wilkins led the scoring with 11 points. Junior Evie Caresia added 10 points. Freshman Leah Baldwin was the leading rebounder with 6.
The Lady Cardinals improve to 8-2 on the season and travel to the NCMC Holiday Hoops on Wednesday to play Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter.
Students in Mrs. Johnson's English II and Adv. Eng. II classes compete in an escape room as their final challenge in the Lord of the Flies Team Challenge. Each class split into teams before beginning the book and competed in challenges as teams while reading in order to experienc
Winter Break begins this week! Wishing all our Cardinals a Happy Holiday season and a Happy New Year! We will see students back on Wednesday, January 4th.
Winter Break is coming! We look forward to our Cardinals spending time with their families and celebrating the Holidays!
Our Winter Concert series wraps up this week! Please plan to join us!
HS Wrestling Update
The Lawson girls traveled to Excelsior Springs for their open scramble last Friday. This was a great opportunity for some of our wrestlers to compete against Nationally ranked wrestlers. This tournament does not keep a team score, seeing that they put athletes in pools ranked by ability.
Lawson JV also competed at Excelsior Springs this Saturday. We were able to get some great matches in and learn a lot. Though this is a JV tournament, there were some large schools that brought good JV teams.
Up next, both of our Varsity Teams will travel to Sedalia for the Battle of the Katy Trail this coming Friday, 12/16, and Saturday12/17. Start Time Friday is @ 11:00 am and Saturday @ 9:00 am.
Girls Results: Kyra Briant- 2nd (2-1) Jordyn Smith- 4th (1-3) Brianna Brimingham- 3rd (1-2) Josie Briant- 2nd - (2-1) Aliyah Jesse- 4th (1-3) Annalise Killinger- 4th (0-3) Sam Dreesen- 3rd (3-2)
JV Boys Results: Robert Cox- 2nd (1-1) Clayson Robb- 1st (5-0) Garrett Novak- 2nd (2-1) Brodie Covey- 1st (3-0) Nolan Fergeson- 4th (2-1) Max Baldwin- 2nd (3-1) Payton Vosika- 1st (4-0) Braxton Bye- 5th (1-4) Austin Kerner- 5th (0-4) Zalin Bennett- 4th (0-3)
2026 Freshman Parents are being asked to help with the upcoming Overtime on Friday, December 16.
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Attention LMS students and parents! Winter Spirit Week dress up days are announced! Things will start to get festive starting Monday!
Please plan to join us TONIGHT for the 6th Grade Music Program, "A Dickens of a Christmas." They have been busy practicing and rehearsing. Performance time is 7pm in the Sellers Performing Arts Center. All are welcome!
Reminder to all our Cardinal families that we will be observing Winter Break coming up!
Our HS/MS Choir and Southwest Singers did an amazing job tonight singing carols. #ChristmasInThePark. #WeAreLawson
The LHS Cardinal Book Committee sponsored a Merry Movie Event to collect warm weather items for those in need in the Lawson Community. Students enjoyed The Polar Express movie and a hot cocoa bar. Over 30 items were donated! #WeAreLawson
In Mrs. Nutter's 5th grade science class the students are investigating how shadow lengths changed based on the position of the sun. They used a flashlight, ruler, Lego man and a protractor to gather data and graphed their results.
Don't forget about the Christmas lighting event sponsored by the @Lawson Chamber of Commerce and the KC Chiefs meet and greet this Saturday, December 3. Mark your calendars!
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Happy National Substitute Educators Day!! We sure are thankful for our AMAZING substitutes! You fill such an important role in our district! Thank you to all our substitute teachers past and present - we appreciate you! #WeAreLawson
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Our 31st Annual Senior Citizen Thanksgiving Dinner was a huge success! Thank you to our sponsor, the Lawson Board of Education and to all the groups that made it possible - LHS National Honor Society and OPAA food services for serving our seniors, Durham Bus Services for providing transportation, Southwest Singers for the amazing entertainment, and the LMS Computers class for the beautiful placemats. Thank you to all our citizens that could join us!
SNEAK PEEK! Alice in Wonderland cast had their first dress rehearsal! Don't miss their performances this weekend - Friday and Saturday showtime is 7pm and this Sunday showtime is 4pm. Tickets at the door are $5 - adults, $3 students.
