About Us
Our Middle School
While LMS was established in the mid 1980’s, the current school building opened in 2003. We carry an enrollment of around 700 students in grades 5-8. We have a 500 seat auditorium, cafeteria and large gymnasium that are often used for the community needs outside of school hours. The school grounds include tennis courts, basketball court, softball and baseball fields and a recently renovated track.
Core Values
The Lynnfield Middle School community builds all of its formal and informal programs and opportunities on our established three core values: Kindness, Effort, and Citizenship
We believe that a successful middle school is one in which the academic curriculum challenges, and the social emotional environment nurtures young adolescents. It enables students to experience freedom within clearly defined boundaries in order to develop decision-making skills. It provides for the development of individual initiative and encourages the building of an inclusive community. The successful middle school has the primary purpose of promoting a climate of learning and caring that will instill, with faculty assistance, the students' desire to learn and to thrive within a social organization.
Teaming
The concept of instructional teams in the Lynnfield Middle School is slightly different at each grade level. In grade five, students are assigned to a team of two teachers who divide the daily schedule to meet the curricular needs of each student. One team teacher will instruct English and Social Studies and the other team teacher will instruct math and science. In grade 5, wellness, STEM, media, art, personalized music, and band and/or chorus enrich the curriculum
The sixth, seventh and eighth grade team arrangements continue the close association of teachers and students. Students move among a team of four teachers for their academic instruction in English, math, science, social studies, and support. In grade 6, the curriculum is enriched by wellness, French or Spanish, media, STEM, art, and band and/or chorus. In grade 7, wellness, French or Spanish, media, STEM and art enrich the curriculum. In grade 8, the curriculum is enriched by wellness, French or Spanish, music, media, art and STEM.
Names associated with the American space exploratory program were chosen as identifiers of the teams because of the excitement, learning, challenge and futuristic possibilities that the space program embodies and which are characteristic of the school.
Learning Support: Personnel and Programs
The period of early adolescence is a time of rapid growth and change, as young people begin the physical and social transition from childhood to adulthood. In their social development, young adolescents begin to separate from the views of their parents, test their developing sense of autonomy, establish close peer relationships, and reach out beyond the family to connect with a larger social sphere. These changes come at different times and at different rates, thus creating the obvious diversity of the early adolescent age group
Although some youngsters can experience great turmoil and stress during adolescence, a larger percentage progress toward maturity with only intermittent periods of distress. Extensive and wide-ranging physical, social, and emotional changes are taking place within early adolescents. One of the tasks of the school is to help youngsters integrate these changes into their lives in ways that are productive and satisfying.
Administrators, school psychologists, school adjustment counselors, special education teachers, and paraprofessionals support classroom teachers in providing students with the programs that meet their needs. Extracurricular programs such as drama, yearbook, math team, LMS Press, The Pioneer Singers, jazz band in addition to other activities offered through Community Schools or Recreation Department complement the academic program and extend it to meet student interests outside the classroom.
The Lynnfield Middle School faculty collaborates to reinforce basic skills, allows space and time for students to explore diverse academic and enrichment courses, provides effective adult role models, and supports the personal development of early adolescents during this critical period of their schooling.