OPS November/December Newsletter
Dates to Remember
11/2-11/16 Holiday Catalog Fundraiser
11/14 PTO meeting 6:00-8:00 PM cafeteria
11/15 Title 1 Meeting 4:00 PM on Teams https://tinyurl.com/ccfz6ns2
Dine Out Habit Burger fundraiser 12:00-8:00 PM
11/17 Flannel Spirit Day
$1 popsicle sales after school
OPS Skate night at Paradise Skate Rink in Antioch 5:00-7:00 PM
11/20-11/24 No School
12/8 PTO Craft Fair (more info to come)
12/12 and 12/14 Band/Orchestra concerts
12/15 Ugly Sweater Spirit Day
12/20 Minimum Day
12/21-1/9 No School
Running Club
Attendance Reminder
November/December Attendance Challenge
Lost and Found
Parking Lot Drop Off and Pick Up Reminders
2. If you would like to park and walk up to meet your child after school, please use a parking space.
3. If you would like to park and wait with your child before school, please use a parking space.
4. The curb area along the loop is for drop off and pick up. This is not a parking area. You cannot leave your car unattended here.
5. Neither lane in the loop is a place to park, especially the passing lane. Please do not park and block everyone behind you.
6. Please pull up to keep the flow of traffic moving.
7. Do not double park and allow your child to run across the parking lot to get to class or call your child to run across the parking lot to get to your car or park across the street and have your child run across traffic. These are both safety issues.
8. If a staff member asks you to pull up or move your car, please do so. They are doing this for either the safety of the students or to keep the flow of traffic moving.
9. Please do not speed through the parking lot for the safety of our students, staff, and families.
10. School drop off and pick up times are busy at any school. Expect the process to be a little time consuming.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Morning and After School Routine Reminders for Students and Families
Morning Routine:
- Students should not arrive at school before 7:50 AM. Since formal supervision does not begin until 7:50 AM, any elementary student who must arrive earlier is to wait in the main courtyard area only on the yellow line. Students are not to be on the playground before 7:50 AM.
- All elementary students arriving between 7:50 and 8:00 AM should go directly to the playground.
- Middle school students who arrive before 7:50 should wait at the picnic table area outside the cafeteria.
- All bikes, scooters, skateboards are to be walked at all times on campus.
- Breakfast is served in the cafeteria daily from 7:30-8:00.
After School Pick-Up Routine:
Formal supervision ends 15 minutes after the dismissal bell rings. Please be on-time to pick up your student because staff has meetings and other duties to attend after school lets out.
· Kindergarten: Top of the Loop in front of the Kindergarten Classroom
· 1-3 Grades: Loading zone adjacent to Primary Loop/Main Office
· 4-8 Grades: Loading zone adjacent to Multi use room/Library
Elementary and Middle School siblings should meet at the lunch tables outside the cafeteria and be picked up at the older siblings pick up area. Elementary and middle school students are not to wait outside siblings classrooms.
For the safety of students and staff, all AUSD campuses are closed campuses. Therefore, parents/guardians will need to say their morning goodbyes at the gate and/or wait at the gate for pick-ups. Anyone without a visitors pass, will be asked to leave campus. We thank you in advance for complying with our safety policy.
Join PTO
PTO is a great way to support the school and/or get involved. The next meeting is October 17th at 6:00pm in the cafeteria.
OPS Student/Parent Handbook
district Policy on Self-Defense and Fighting
SELF-DEFENSE AND FIGHTING
From time to time, students may have disagreements (verbal confrontations) which result in physical altercations. Any student involved in an exchange of blows WILL BE SUSPENDED FOR FIGHTING, regardless of who/what precipitated the exchange of blows. When blows are exchanged, this is a fight. Self-defense is the act of pushing away, holding off the aggressor, or otherwise avoiding the physical altercation. Please understand that if you encourage your child to “hit back” and he/she does, he/she WILL BE SUSPENDED. Hitting back is not self-defense, it is fighting. Encourage your student to resolve conflicts peacefully, find an adult to help, or talk to an adult at the school for assistance.
