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Laupahoehoe Train Museum opens Resilience Hub and Community Meal
Registration for the learning hub is from Sep 21- 25 at LTM or call 962-6300.
The Laupahoehoe Train Museum (LTM) opens the Laupahoehoe Resilience Hub at the site of the museum. Using monies awarded to the County of Hawaii via the CARES Act, the goal of the initiative is to provide COVID-19 emergency response programming to support
• community resilience and wellness programming,
• digital access and internet connectivity &
• food assistance while supporting the local community.
The operations schedule for the learning hub will be Monday – Friday with two time slots: 8:15AM to 11:30AM, and 12:00 – 3:15PM. The program runs from Sep 28 until Dec 18. The hub will provide computers and WIFI access for students in grades 3rd through 12th.
The hub provides internet access to complete school assignments. We also provide a variety of enrichment activities to supplement their virtual learning and allow students to socially interact while maintaining social distancing.
This initiative is not a school, but rather a space for keiki to have access to connectivity in order to complete their virtual learning. Hub personnel will be available to help keiki connect their device to the internet, but are not responsible for ensuring your keiki complete their assignments.
To provide a COVID safe environment, we are limiting the number of students within the center. All students must wear masks while in the center. Parents will be required to sign a liability release and must be available for student drop off and pick up.
The site has a very limited number of spots and only offer the morning or afternoon slots. Drop ins will be accepted as space permits, but priority will be for students attending on a daily basis.
Application may be submitted to the Laupahoehoe Train Museum and keiki will be admitted on an as available basis. Our procedures and times may change based on community need and virus conditions.
Community Meal – LTM is also providing a community meal on Wednesdays from 4:30PM - 6:00PM or until pau. Meals will be provided from Sep 23 until Dec 16. We will provide 3-person dinners prepared by a local restaurant and local produce take home bag. Meals will be available as a curbside pickup from the Laupahoehoe Civic Center (next to the post office). For safety and to avoid traffic, we request that you approach the pickup site from the mauka direction and not from the post office side.
For more information, please contact LTM at 962-6300.
FAQ - Transition To Distance Learning
This video will answer FAQs that middle and high school students and parents may have about LCPCS’ transition to distance learning.
Weekly Blog from Kumu Kaulana - September 22, 2020
Aloha Parents,
There are 2 weeks left in this first quarter of a school year that LCPCS has never experienced. If you haven't done so already, now would be the time to spend 20 - 30 mins this week to review the following:
LCPCS-issued device and charger.
LCPCS email.
Distance Learning platform: Seesaw or Google Class.
These 3 areas should provide you a status check on your child's participation in their classes.
At the middle and high school level, mid-quarter progress reports were mailed a couple of weeks ago. It is at this time that your child may be receiving an electronic-nudge from me to check in with their teacher for assignment completion for grading. The quarter ends next week Friday, October 2nd.
"Ho`okanaka" is the motto of King Kamehameha II, translated as "to be a man" and more expansively to
"be someone... not anybody or nobody, be a kanaka." (Chun, Malcolm. Ka Wana Series: Pono, The Way of Living.)
Aloha Seasider Families,
News about COVID-19 is not encouraging. Beach access will be restricted for the next two weeks. As of Monday, there are 181 active cases on the Big Island. LCPCS is encouraging all our families to practice the utmost caution with regards to social distancing, PPE, and gatherings.
What is encouraging has been the commitment of our students and their families to our distance learning program. We have been thrilled with the turnout we have had during our device pickup days. Participation is way up over what we experienced in the spring. And perhaps most significant, families who may be having difficulties, whether with connectivity, or device use, or using the platforms are reaching out to our teachers for clarification and support. Thank you for your perseverance.
Our Cafeteria and Office Staff are working hard to prepare and deliver breakfast and lunch to all our enrolled students daily from 11:30 - 12:00 at the front of the school. Please come and pick up nutritious meals for your children.
As of yesterday LCPCS has created a safe space where those families struggling with connectivity issues can come to campus and utilize school WiFi at all hours of the day. Students and parents are welcome to sit on the benches while working. If they prefer, families could also choose to remain in their vehicles by parking across the driveway along the railing.
This is planned to be the first step in providing access opportunities for our students. By the end of the week, we hope to make available a Learning Hub where students can not only access our internet, but have staff support available to help them work through difficulties they may be having with the online platforms. We have also ordered over two dozen MiFi cellular devices that we will be able to distribute to our families who absolutely cannot access the internet from home. I have received a few requests already. Please reach out to the office for more information about MiFi devices.
As I said, we are thrilled with your commitment to utilizing the distance learning platform. Unlike in the spring, the lessons, activities, and assignment you are doing now count, both for promotion and attendance. None of what is happening now is optional, nor can it be accomplished through substituting activities that parents prefer, so please, keep up the good work and continue to reach out for support if you are having difficulties.
Keep reading your emails, listen to OneCall notices, and follow social media posts. If you haven’t been getting emails from LCPCS, or if your contact information has changed, please call our office to update our records.
Mahalo and stay safe.
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The Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) announced that there will be a second round of Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program (P-EBT) benefits allocated to children who qualify for free or reduced-price school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the summer, during the first round of P-EBT, DHS provided more than 93,500 eligible students with $33,437,250 in food assistance support.
This week, the federal government approved issuance of a second round of P-EBT for kindergarten to 12th grade students enrolled in schools operating a distance learning model.
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LCPCS Grab-And-Go Meals
On August 31, 2020, Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School will be implementing the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) as approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs, to provide free, pre-packaged Breakfast and Lunch grab-and-go meals for students during the Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School Virtual Learning program.
These meals are available to all students currently enrolled at LCPCS for the 2020-2021 school year.
Parents or Caregivers must be accompanied by the students receiving the meals, per USDA guidelines. If students are not with parent, parent must have school issued documentation (School Summary Report) or School ID to prove students are currently enrolled.
There will be no personal interaction between LCPCS employees and the community. All meals will be placed in containers. Meals will be distributed at the front of the school, outside the main lobby and handed to the driver or passengers in vehicle. Please use the turnaround to drive up and receive meal. Do not exit your vehicle.
For special diet accommodations, send an email to rochelle.evangelista@lcpcs.org.
Service Hours
8/31/20
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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For food safety, meals must be consumed by 2 p.m.
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Monday-Friday
Excluding Holidays
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Updates will be posted via OneCall, email, text, and website www.lcpcs.org
FOR STUDENTS WITH DIETARY RESTRICTIONS & DISABILITIES, PLEASE CONTACT ROCHELLE EVANGELISTA FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION & INSTRUCTIONS ON PRE-ORDERING MEALS.
ROCHELLE.EVANGELISTA@LCPCS.ORG
This memo is to familiarize you with the entering campus procedure when we start welcoming back our students on August 17, 2020 (Blue Team), August 18, 2020, (Gold Team):
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