​Students presented on regional absolute monarchs of the 17th & 18th centuries with a focus on the tactics absolutes used to consolidate their power. As you can see, we had a visit from the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great from Russia, & Frederick I from Prussia.  

On Friday, representatives from the Student Advisory Council and the Athletic Leadership Council attended the annual CAS Leadership Conference. This is the first in-person Leadership Conference offered since Covid. Students enjoyed a busy day workshops and networking!

​On Friday, December 2nd the Model UN Club visited the United Nations building for a tour. We were able to see where many committees met and learned so much. We also were able to meet diplomat Alex Hardin and talk with him about his role at the UN. It was an awesome day to experience NYC and all it has to offer. 

The LOLHS Chapter of the National Honor Society and the LYSB are having a Toy Drive for local families in need starting Friday, December 2 and ending Friday, December 16. Please choose a berry, or have your child choose a berry, from the Giving Wreath! Please return the unwrapped present specified on the back of the berry to Lucy Trost or Martha Giegel by December 16. 
Your help is very needed and appreciated this holiday season!

One of our district goals this year is to support and promote the TREX challenge to increase the amount of plastic waste collected by 10%.  To reach this goal,  each of our schools has a plastic waste collection box near the entrance of the building.  Many of the materials used to pack gift deliveries, holiday food, and other items can be recycled by Trex.  Please bring your clean plastic in to school and deposit it in the Trex boxes so we can beat last year’s record breaking collection.  For a full list/description of what can and cannot be included, visit https://nextrex.com/view/educate.  I hope you will all join in this collection that not only supports our schools, but helps save the environment for the future generations that we teach.

Yosr Manai, an exchange student from Tunisia,  gave an engaging and informative presentation about her country in Ms. Kelly's Civics class on Friday. She shared tunisian history, cultural topics and fun facts about her homeland. Yosr will be spending her senior year with us.

By: Lucas DaSilva
This week in the Spanish Honor Society we had an amazing special guest come into the class and teach us about his career in our school. Mr. Norton came in and gave us a very insightful presentation on what he does for students in our school. His job at Lyme Old Lyme High School is helping students from other countries learn how to speak english. From his presentation we learned how difficult it is to learn another language and adjust to a different society when coming from another country and how Mr. Norton plays a large role in helping students feel more comfortable in their new school. Mr. Norton also helped us understand how difficult it is to fully understand and speak english and explained to us that for someone who didn’t learn the language subconsciously it can be a very long process. Overall the presentation was wonderful and Mr. Norton did a great job at explaining his career and how he helps out at our school.

​On Friday the Community Service Club delivered food collected from our food drive to the LYSB. Your donations and Mr. Goss’s Cub Scouts helped us overflow 5 large tables! This all would not have been possible without the leadership and organization of Jamie Bucior. Thank you all so much for getting into the giving spirit and helping out our neighbors in need! 

On Wednesday, a mix of Student Advisory Council and NHS students walked over to the middle school to share thoughts and have conversations about social media. High School students paired up and were assigned to paired up homerooms. This was a follow up to the presentation by Scott Driscoll last month.

​High School 101 students Delany Anthony, Tyler Cann, Julia Clark, James Dahlke, Jade Lawton, Maya LeQuire, Rowen Meisner, Jackson Pannier, Marleigh Piacenza, Lance Sanford, Charlotte Spiegel, Sydney St. Pierre, Meredith Thompson, Margaret Thuma, Eve Videll, Gabriel Waldo, Oliver Wyman, Stella Young, and Carl Zapatka along with senior Maddie McCulloch created bookmarks for the Old Lyme Recycling Committee. The theme was RE and the students selected from either RE-think, RE-duce, RE-fuse, RE-cycle, RE-use. The students researched their theme and created the bookmarks for the committee’s informational meeting at the Phoebe Noyes Library.