
February 20, 2026
Girls Basketball Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Girls' Basketball team! These girls, led by Coach Dempsey, Coach Bickett, and Coach Harmon, fought hard this season, playing t...

February 13, 2026
Children Online Safety Each week, we hear more and more concerns from both students and parents about children's online activity and safety. The online landscape changes quickl...

February 6, 2026
Roller Skating Our kids are doing a great job with the roller skating unit. Thank you to Mrs. Koncor for putting this together for us every year. A parent skate was held on Thu...

January 30, 2026
Roller Skating Next Week Our much anticipated roller skating unit begins next week in PE. Students make sure you are wearing or bringing socks each day so you are ready to roll...

January 23, 2026
Family Digital Safety More and more we see situations where students are impacted by interactions online, whether with friends or strangers. These situations impact students so...

January 16, 2026
Middle School Readers Theater Mrs. Zrust's middle school classes wind down from a hard week of testing with some Readers Theater fun. Apparently, we have some talented actors i...

January 9, 2026
Welcome back to school, all students and families! We hope that you all enjoyed your winter break and had lots of family time together. We are ready to kick off 2026 and to get ba...

December 19, 2025
Happy Holidays, Ladd School Families As we leave today for our winter break, we want to wish all our Ladd School families the Happiest Holidays and a warm, relaxing winter break!...

December 12, 2025
BVEC Champs Congratulations to Coach Bosi, Coach Wood and our Boys' Basketball Team! They took the BVEC Championship this year at Thursday night's game against Malden! So proud...

December 5, 2025
All in for Ladd Our "All in for Ladd" fundraiser has come to and end with the final incentive. Students who earned $50 or more earned the reward of "Pie-ing" a staff member in ...

November 21, 2025
Author Presentation Our 4th through 8th grade students had a real treat this week. Ladd School alum and published author, Noah Hollinger, came to give a presentation on the his...

November 14, 2025
Veterans Day Program We want to extend a thank you to all the veterans and community members who joined us on Tuesday for our annual Veterans Day Program. We love the opportuni...

November 7, 2025
Decades Our Decades Teams had their monthly meeting this Wednesday. Older students helped younger students research and learn about significant inventions for their decade. Stu...

October 31, 2025
Happy Halloween Thank you to all our families who joined us to celebrate Halloween today! Our students enjoyed a parade around the park, showing off their costumes, followed by...

October 24, 2025
Halloween Halloween is coming up this Friday, October 31st. PTO Halloween room parties will be held in the morning following the parade around War Memorial Park at 9:45. Please...

October 16, 2025
Preschool Family Event Our Ladd Preschool Program held their first family event of the year with a visit to Boggio's Orchard & Produce. Thank you to all of our families for joi...

October 10, 2025
BVEC Music Festival Congratulations to our Ladd Musicians who did an amazing job at auditions last week. In the flute section, Jacklynn Tillotson, Cecelia Taylor, and Arya Fara...

October 3, 2025
Ladd Spirit Day Winners Congratulations, again, to our 6th Grade Class! They are the October Spirit Day winners with 83% of the class participating. This makes two months in ...

September 26, 2025
Illinois Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra Thank you to the Illinois Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra for joining us on Wednesday and teaching our 3rd-5th graders about the wonder...

September 19, 2025
Marvelous Mrs. Harmon We are lucky to have amazing family and community members supporting Ladd School and we are so grateful when we get to have them here in our building help...
