News & Announcements

Dear Creekside Families,

Thank you so much to our amazing PTO and to all who have already supported Creekside PTO’s Disney Raffle!  All proceeds go right back to Creekside, supporting our students and staff at our school.  Did you know the PTO Disney Raffle funds exciting things for all Cubs?

PTO’s Disney raffle allows PTO to cover the cost of busing for all Cubs on their field trips (Lakota is not allowed to charge families for field trip transportation).  It pays for the Field Trip/Field Day T-shirt each Cub receives and the Sweet Treat Truck all Cubs enjoy during Field Day.  Of course, the extent to which PTO is able to make purchases for our Cubs depends on the total amount raised.  Check out the fun graphic below to see more items PTO is committed to buying at different milestones of our Disney Raffle. 

You can buy raffle tickets online for a chance to win one or two $3,000 Disney gift cards by clicking here.  $3,000 goes to the person with the winning ticket, and another $3,000 goes to the family of the student who sold the winning ticket. Our PTO is also sponsoring weekly prizes for the top selling class and a prize for the student who sells the most raffle tickets. All proceeds go toward helping our Cubs and Creekside.  Thanks for supporting our school!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Partnering with you to support our Cubs,

Todd Hartman, Principal                                                

Jessica Skelton, Assistant Principal

In addition to the supplies provided by your school, students in grades K-8 are asked to provide a few additional items before the first day of school. Use TeacherLists, a free resource, to easily find your list and even shop online for the best prices on all your back-to-school supplies, if desired. High school students will continue to receive supply lists from their teachers when school starts.

Each spring, Lakota elementary school administrators and teachers spend a significant amount of time preparing class lists for the upcoming year. The  first priority for class placement in all Lakota elementary schools is to 
create well-balanced classrooms for all students. In order to accomplish this goal, many factors must be taken into consideration. If you have critical information regarding class placement you may fill out this form by the end of school on Thursday, May 22nd for consideration. 

Click READ MORE for more information and to access the form.

On Friday, March 14th join Lakota LEADS and the Lakota community to celebrate Pi Day the best way we know how – with awesome hands-on STEAM activities! Come see what our many exhibitors have in store for you. They are waiting to share their love of math and science with you!

Lots of exhibitors and lots of hands-on fun! Join Lakota LEADS for a full evening of fun at this year's Pi Day happening March 14 from 6:30 - 9 p.m. at Plains Junior School. There will be many STEAM based hands-on activities that will entertain your K-8 students! 

Congratulations to all our Lakota Destination Imagination teams that competed at the state tournament held at Lakota East High School this past Saturday!

This Friday, March 15th join Lakota LEADS and the Lakota community to celebrate Pi Day the best way we know how – with awesome hands-on STEAM activities!

The Regional Destination Imagination (DI) tournament was held on Saturday, March 2nd. Lakota has 13 teams with over 85 students participating in DI this year.

VanGorden's 5th grade gifted group has almost completed their gingerbread village project in which they practiced finding the area, surface area, and volume of structures, all while using precise metric measurements to the nearest tenth of a centimeter!

A valuable resource for planning summer activities and beyond is published each year by the Gifted staff at HCESC.

The application for Early Entrance to Kindergarten and first grade for the 2024-25 school year opens 2/1/24.

Shout out to Lorelai at VanGorden Elementary!

Out of 658 third graders in the state of Ohio who competed in the Noetic Learning Math Contest in November, Lorelai scored FIRST PLACE in the whole state!