The Mustang Minutes
Keeping Families Connected, One Stride at a Time.
Dear OLHMS Families,
As we enter Week 4, we’re reminded that there truly is No Place Like OLHMS! 🌟 Thank you to our families for your continued partnership and support. Our arrival and dismissal routines have been running smoothly, helping us create a safe, organized, and welcoming start and end to each day. Your cooperation makes a difference!
Our scholars have also been showing incredible effort and focus during their ELA MAP assessments this week. We are so proud of the perseverance and dedication they’ve demonstrated! Math MAP testing will take place Wednesday through Friday, so please encourage your child to get a good night’s sleep and start the day with a healthy breakfast.
And what better way to celebrate our OLHMS community than by coming together? We’re excited to welcome families to our Open House on September 17 from 6:30–8:00 PM! Come meet our staff, explore classrooms, and experience what makes OLHMS a place like no other.
We can’t wait to see you!
Best,
Madalyn Laureto
Principal
During the month of September, OLHMS will conduct a scheduled lockdown drill in partnership with the Oak Lawn Police Department. The purpose of this drill is to help students and staff practice our safety procedures in a calm, age-appropriate manner. This drill will include the following three phases:
Phase 1: Preparing and Beginning the Drill
Five minutes before the drill begins, a preparatory announcement will be made. Teachers will use this time to remind students that the activity is only a drill, review lockdown procedures, and answer questions.
After five minutes, an announcement will be made to begin the drill. Teachers and students will remain in their locked classrooms, turn off the lights, and move to their designated area of cover.
Phase 2: School Walk-Through
During an actual emergency, law enforcement officers may move through the school and assist staff and students as needed. For this drill, members of the school administration team and the School Resource Officer will walk through the hallways to confirm that established safety procedures are being followed.
Phase 3: Ending and Reviewing the Drill
An announcement will be made when the drill has ended. Teachers will then take a few minutes to review the drill with their students, answer questions, and provide reassurance before the regular school day resumes.
If you have questions about the drill, please contact the school office at 708-499-6400.
If you prefer that your child not participate, please notify me in writing. We will work with your family to make appropriate arrangements and provide alternative safety instruction.
Kind regards,
Madalyn Laureto, Principal
Bus Transportation
- We are working closely with our Bus Company Partners- communicating daily. When the school is made aware of delays, auto calls are made to individual routes.
- Bus transportation adjustments are being made by First Student, please check Family Access for updated information/ adjustments.
- Typically, buses will leave the school parking lot at approximately 3:30 pm.
- Our school bus supervisors are checking rosters and ridership numbers for the PM routes to ensure students are riding assigned routes in Family Access. Students will be removed from buses they are not rostered in on Family Access.
- Requests for 2025/2026 school year adjustments should be made via email to Mrs. Grabarek, jgrabarek@d123.org.
- Please note that there are 2 - 4:30pm and 2 - 5:00pm activity buses that run daily dropping scholars off at D123 elementary schools
