The Olive Branch 4.10.26

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Principal Message

Placement Input - Deadline April 17th

Senior Walk - Save the Date

Important Dates

Dear Families,

Next week we will be having our Owl Way Food Drive! A brown paper bag will be sent home with your student for your family to fill if you would like to donate items to the Wheeling Township Food Pantry. Additional details were recently shared in the PTA Twig.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Erin, Julia, and the OMS Staff

At OMS, the student placement process for the upcoming school year is taken seriously. Each spring, our staff engages in a collaborative process to create healthy learning groups. We work together to ensure balance in a wide variety of areas, including:

heterogeneously grouped students or students of varying abilities
students with special needs or concerns
social/behavioral patterns of students
gender
number of students assigned per room
learning styles of the students
peer relationships
classroom structure
instructional styles of the receiving teacher
documented physical aggressive behavior or bullying towards others.

We ask that you trust our staff in this process as we consider the needs of all 630 students.

However, if there is information that would not otherwise be known by your child's teacher or team, you will find an OPTIONAL form that you may fill out below. PLEASE DO NOT NAME SPECIFIC TEACHERS OR INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS ON THIS FORM, AS WE DO NOT HONOR SPECIFIC REQUESTS. We appreciate your understanding and support.

We believe that students learn, grow, and mature; therefore, information submitted in previous years is not considered.

Final Date for submissions: Friday, April 17th.

OPTIONAL Class Placement Parent Input 26-27

Save the Date and Spread the Word!

Please SAVE THE DATE of Tuesday, May 19th, 2026! OMS looks forward to welcoming back the OMS 5th grade class of 2019! More information will be shared soon.