Oak Ridge JH/HS Weekly Brief

Week 30 is complete! Mid 4th quarter is quickly approaching and the end is getting near! We are all locked in for testing and finishing the 24-25 school year strong! This was a very productive week for our school and students are really pushing themselves! Our teachers are continuing to push students and teach to the best of their abilities! I am proud of our progress and know that our growth will continue in every aspect!

Thank you all and as I tell the students each day:

"Make good choices, wear your seatbelts, and tell your parents you love them!"

Clayton Collier
Principal, Oak Ridge Junior High/High School

Email: ccollier@oakridge.k12.mo.us
Website: https://www.oakridger6schools.com/
Location: 4198 State Highway E, Oak Ridge, MO, USA
Phone: (573) 266-3218

The seniors (with a little bit of help from Mr. Collier) hung pictures of Oak Ridge teachers as kids around the school! Everyone had a blast seeing these photos!

Parents and Students, as weather changes please review the dress code guidelines below to ensure you are in compliance and do not have to be sent home or the nurse to change. Thank you!

Oak Ridge is a community with a long standing tradition of taking care of one another. I am no different and sometimes I need help too. You will notice every week I will need help with certain things around the school and I am looking for leaders that want to help make a positive impact on Oak Ridge Schools!

1. Kindness. Please speak with your student(s) about being kind and what it means to be respectful of others and any differences you may have with someone else. We want to encourage our students to treat everyone with respect including themselves.
2. Bathroom Issues. Students, if you see people vandalizing school property in the bathrooms or horse playing in the bathrooms please let a teacher or Mr. Collier know immediately. Parents please speak with your child about bathroom behavior.
3. Cell phone policy. The cell phone policy has not changed and we had very minimal issues last year! Great job students and teachers.
4. Parking Lot Before School. I need everyone to come inside the school when you arrive on campus. A lot can happen in a parking lot and to mitigate risks we need students to park their car and immediately enter the school through the main entrance.
5. ICU Missing Assignment Program. This year we will be implementing ICU. ICU stands for "Intensive Care Unit". Students with missing work that has been missing for more than 3 days will be placed on the ICU list. Coach Ward will be checking in with students on the ICU list and pulling students from elective courses if necessary. If a student remains on the list for more than 5 days administration may assign afterschool or before school tutoring.

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Parents if you are paying meal accounts or any other fees for students at both buildings please write separate checks/cash. Student deposits will be made to student accounts on Fridays, unless we are out of school. Then it will be done on the last day of attendance for the week. Please be understanding if this process is slightly delayed some weeks. The building secretaries work diligently to get deposits in, but sometimes this process gets delayed due to outside circumstances. Thank you for your understanding.

Free and reduced meal applications are completed online through the students enrollment portal using the Teacher Ease Login Link Below.

Teacher Ease Link

4/17/25 - Mid Quarter 4th

4/18/25 - No School

4/21/25 - No School for Students / Staff PD Day

Buchheit is proud to partner with Coast of Maine Organic Products, Inc. to give back to local, non-profit organizations!

Lisa Hille, store manager of our Perryville location, and Jess Fronabarger, a teacher at Oak Ridge R-6, are shown here with soil for the school's raised garden beds.

Mrs. Chelsea and Mrs. Maryssa's preschool class joined Mrs. Fronabarger's Nature Unbound class in planting some of the raised beds here on campus. Students planted cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, pepper, basil and nasturtium.

Area 15 FFA Banquet several Oak Ridge members won awards.

President-Taylor

Phalicity is the new treasurer

• If you take medications please make sure they are kept in the nurse's office. No students should be carrying medications on them at anytime at school!

Dear families,

We’re going to France, Germany and the Alps in Summer 2026, and you’re invited!

We’re excited to tell you more about the trip we’re planning with EF Tours, our educational travel partner. Please be sure to register for this info session to be considered for this opportunity: https://rsvp.eftours.com/av8m9wc

When students travel, they expand their knowledge of the world around them, discover more about themselves, and grow more confident. These skills are critical for creating the global citizens of tomorrow, and we would love to have your student join us on this adventure.

In this info session, we’ll talk about:

• How this opportunity will benefit your student
• What we’ll see and do on our trip
• Everything that’s included in this experience
• How your child can earn academic credit
• How we’re keeping this safe and affordable
• How to enroll on this trip (before it fills up!) during EF’s risk-free enrollment period

There are limited spots on this trip, so we would love to have you attend this meeting to learn more about this exciting opportunity!

Thanks,

Erin Gholson

HS Social Studies

Please note this is a non-school sponsored trip