Welcome to Friends of Lincoln Community School!
2025 Fundraising Campaign: Please Help us Raise $25,000
Friends of LCS supports enrichment activities that take learning beyond the classroom and expose students to new ideas, perspectives, and skills. Some of these activities help to root our children in our community, others help them to embrace challenges and learn perseverance, all provide opportunities above and beyond those typically available at a small community school. Programs we are supporting this year include"
Lincoln Mentoring Program: Lincoln Mentors matches interested students in kindergarten through sixth grade with a community member. Students who want more – more support, more interest, more undivided attention, get it as these relationships grow in school and in the community.
Rikert Nordic Center and Middlebury Snow Bowl: Skiing consistently encourages students to challenge themselves in a difficult sport and persevere as they learn new skills. For some students it provides an opportunity to develop friendships and shine in a way that may be difficult in an academic setting.
Culture Study: A wonderful LCS tradition, this is a month long immersion in all aspects of a new culture culminating in an all-school community festival.
Music/Literacy Enrichment: Every year Friends of LCS brings a well known musician or author to engage with LCS students. Students and families are still talking about the week they spent last year with Natalie Warnock.
ECHO Center: A trip to the science and nature museum on Burlington’s waterfront integrated with the year long focus on the STEM curriculum.
Winter Wellness Program: This new program will provide students with an opportunity to explore something new like yoga, ice skating or martial arts, while staying stay active and building community during the long winter months.
Our goal is to raise $25,000
Please support our wonderful community school. Checks can be mailed to Friends of LCS, PO Box 361, Bristol, VT 05443 or just click the donate button below!
Featured Project
Lincoln Mentors
Lincoln Mentors is rooted both in the Lincoln Community School and in the community of Lincoln. The program carefully matches students in kindergarten through sixth grade with a community member. As a community school, LCS has to work to continue to keep its walls permeable so that it can continue to be enriched by the expertise, engagement and volunteerism of community members. When students feel like they matter, that someone cares about them, that someone is committed to seeing them every single week, they do better – socially and academically. Mentors care about how their mentees are doing in school: they ask them about their studies, they go on field trips with them, they attend presentations at school showcasing their learning. Having this attention and this connection reflects positively in how a student feels about their schooling.
Featured Project
Rikert Nordic Center & Snowbowl Ski Lessons
Thanks to your generosity LCS students have been going to Rikert's Nordic Ski Center for years. New this year, grades 3-6 participated in a school ski program at the Middlebury Snow bowl. Students returned from these trips feeling energized by the challenge of skiing. For many this is a new opportunity and a boost to self confidence by engaging and succeeding at something unfamiliar. For older students, seeing one another in a new activity can forge different connections and shift perspectives on how they see one another and some students get to shine and be leaders in ways they may not in an academic setting.
Featured Project
The Creative Spark after school program at LCS worked with the Very Merry Theater production program to bring Peter Pan to the Lincoln Community. 45 students in grade K-9 participated including former LCS students. All students engaged in something bigger than themselves and soon realized they needed to depend on each other to achieve a quality performance. This is the very essence of team building. New relationships and connections were formed with students across all age groups. A broad range of the community, from preschool to seniors, turned out and packed the house for two performances.