OLHMS Weekly 11/28/23

Did you know that the Second Trimester of the 2023/2024 school year is now underway?

The return to school after the Thanksgiving Holiday break brought with the beginning of our Trimester 2! Report cards for Trimester 1 will be available on Family Access on December 1st by 5:00pm.

Do you know how grateful we are OLHMS hosted one of the most impressive demonstrations of honor and respect for our Veterans?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving and being grateful, we are so proud of our school community for acknowledging and celebrating our local heroes! We had the pleasure of hosting 80 Veterans for our Tribute. Our entire school community, District 123 and local community leaders supported this extremely impactful event. If you have not seen the Special Edition newsletter, check it out here!

Did you know our PTSA is looking for a new President?

If you are interested in supporting our school in a different capacity please reach out to our PTSA! Also, our meetings will now take place at 6:00pm monthly and there is still plenty of time to join! Maybe you do not have the time to donate, but your contributions can still be made through your membership!

Mustang Families,

We hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving break! It has been such a pleasure to our scholars bring back the life to our building! Thank you for all of the participating families donating food to the Pilgrim Faith before the holiday break! Also, a huge thank you to everyone donating candy to send some sugar to our troops along with our scholars for packing it up before break! We had multiple events before the break and we appreciate all of our the support from our school community!

We have begun the second trimester! Trimester 1 grades will be available in Family Access by December 1st at 5:00pm.

Temperatures: We have walked right into the winter temperatures returning to school! Please remind our scholars to dress appropriately for the weather! We do not want our scholars missing too many days of school due to change in weather and possible illness!

Circle Drive and 99th Street: During drop off and dismissal, please do not pass cars in the circle drive and do not ask your students to run across 99th street to be picked up. We want to make sure all of our students and families are kept safe. We have had a couple close calls! Please be patient and courteous!

Feed Six: We are excited for this event on December 9th! More information below on how you can participate or help someone else take part by donating!

Lost and Found: Items left in the lost and found prior to the Thanksgiving break will be donated! Please make sure to have your scholars look for items they may have lost during the first trimester.

Early Dismissals: In the event that a student needs to be picked up early from school, please communicate with the main office as advisory teachers may not see our scholar based on their daily schedule.

Our Community: Please be respectful of our neighbors around our school during arrival and dismissal. It is also important to remind our scholars about staying off community members property while waiting for a bus or walking home.

Report Card Guidance: The first trimester has ended, here are some additional support links for standards based grades.

• Standards Based Family Report Card Guide
• Standards Based Reporting – Expanded Meaning Matrix
• Download Skyward Family Access Rubrics

Working Lunch: We are very excited about our start to the year! As we move forward in our year, we will maintain high expectations for our scholars! We have implemented a plan for scholars to finish work during lunch. Working lunch will be used to support work completion and behavioral reflection. Students assigned to working lunch will be given a bagged lunch if they did not bring one.

Graduation Expectations

Our 8th grade scholars and parents have been given the information in this Parent Letter. These expectations have been discussed with scholars and families throughout the beginning of the year and sent home. As the year progresses additional information will be provided for our graduates!

• • OLHMS PTSA

    • Membership is $6.00 per student and $10.00 per adult

    • PTSA Meeting- December 4, 2023 at 6:00pm

    • PTSA Facebook

  • All parents/ guardians/ staff & students are highly encouraged to join the PTSA and attend meetings. This is an incredible opportunity, partnership and fun way to support our scholar’s experience at the middle school!

12/4/23: Music Booster Meeting @ 4:30PM and PTSA Meeting @ 6:00pm

12/6/23: D123 Late Start

12/9/23: Feed Six (Sponsorship Flyer) (Pledge Sheet)

12/12/23: Band 5th Grade Demonstration Concert 6:30pm

12/21/23: Winter Chorus Concert 7:00pm

2023-24 School District Calendar

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