🌊 Did you know that sandpipers are known for their agile moves and teamwork? Like these incredible birds, our school community will unite to support and uplift one another. Get ready to embrace the spirit of sandpipers and soar to new heights this year! 🦚✨ #TeamworkMakesDreamsWork #SandpipersUnite #SchoolCommunity
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Pack 2 School: students receive supplies, personal care items, community info, student services, and haircuts.
Free Youth Summer Pickleball Camp!
We are not affiliated with this group but are happy to pass on the information for this awesome summer opportunity for our kids.
The American Heart Association has a community walk event coming up on Saturday, June 3rd. See the attached letter and flyer for more details.
I hope you’re all enjoying this beautiful weekend and a Happy Mother’s Day to all!
This is just a friendly reminder that we begin our state testing tomorrow. Your student/s have worked very hard this year challenging their brains and working towards their individual goals. We want them to find satisfaction in their hard work with scores that reflect all of their efforts. Please help them by making sure they get a good nights’s rest, bring their Chromebooks charged, water bottles full and arrive on time. FOOPS has graciously provided testing snacks so a special thank you goes out to them! Our test schedule will take place over the next two weeks from about 8am-10am (ending on May 26th) Our afternoons are designed to be less mentally demanding and include enrichment learning opportunities to give their brains a break. Our Wednesdays for the next two weeks will be used for makeups due to absences but will also be used for students who would like longer to complete their test. If you have doctor’s appointment or other appointments to schedule, afternoons are best and appreciated, if at all possible. We know this is not always doable but it certainly helps us out here at school.
Anyway, summer is just around the corner and we have a lot of great field trips coming up, along with our final Piper Day activities, assembly, a talent show, field day and our staff vs. 5th grade basketball game. We are SO proud of our students and we appreciate your support as we work hard to play hard in this final month. I’ll be sending a newsletter home soon with all of these upcoming dates for this final stretch.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
(360) 665-4815
sheena.burke@oceanbeachschools.org
5th Grade Outdoor Camp is off to a fabulous start and the weather couldn't be more perfect!
The fabulous FOOPS group (Friends of Ocean Park School) has done it again and organized a wonderful online auction. They use to proceeds to support our school and our students in many ways. The auction will end on May 1st. Don't miss out!
https://www.32auctions.com/ope2023
Important reminders from OPE for this week and next.
Monday is a regular school day 8-2:30
Tuesday-Friday is early release for conferences at 11:30. Dylan’s Community Center is also closed these days.
Next week, April 3rd-7th is spring break and there is no school.
We are back to school on Monday, April 10th.
There is a 2 hour delay this morning, Wednesday, March 1st due to icy and unsafe road conditions in Long Beach. OPE doors will open at 9:50 and school will begin at 10am.
Our students enjoyed participating in some fun Piper Day activities this afternoon which included a tea party, frisbee fun, board games, melted crayon art and even a group to share in their love of avocados. These are only a few of the options that our staff and students enjoyed. We gazed at some unexpected snow, tested out our safety procedures with a lockdown drill and now we are ready to stroll right into March.
2 hour delay today, Monday, February 27th for all OBSD.
All OBSD schools will be closed today.
Sandpiper Families: please join us on the evening of March 2nd 5-6:30pm as we kick off our month of reading fun at OPE.
Ocean Park Elementary WILL be sending students home this morning.
Our buses will arrive at the school at 10am to begin organizing then to send home. If you are able to come get your student at the school, that would be extra helpful. You can access the front pull-through until buses arrive.
Our phones are down but you may use REMIND or email: opoffice@oceanbeachschools.org for any communication.
Ocean Park Elementary ONLY - School is closed for today. Ocean Park Elementary is without power. If you can come pickup your student(s) at the school, please do so. We will work on getting students home on buses at approximately 10AM. If you have further questions, please call the district office at 360-642-3739.
I’ve included our January Newsletter, another copy of the District Academic Calendar for easy reference as we swing into 2023, and our January lunch menu (also found under “dining” on our district website)
Happy New Year!
We are back-to-school tomorrow, Tuesday, January 3rd. Our doors open at 7:50 and school starts at 8am. See you then
December Newsletters, lunch menu, and ASB dress-up days
Our Turkey Trot was a huge success. Our students raised $4,984 which gets divided into each grade level’s account. The money follows them through the years for things like field trips, 8th grade graduation and their senior trips.
Our top fundraisers for each grade level were Makenzie Williams, Summer Zinsli and Kennedi Kemmer who collectively raised over $1,000. These students each won a $15 gift card to a local store provided by FOOPS, as well as a tasty, holiday themed cookie and the opportunity to turn Mrs. Burke into an messy, human ice cream sundae at December’s Assembly. Honorable Mentions for fundraising also go to Riley Hermanns, and Lucas and Bridget Binion for their outstanding contributions.
During the event, we did random giveaways where ALL students won a fun Turkey themed prize. As a school, our students walked a total of 339 miles during the event which included a walking course that zig-zagged throughout our building and then spaces such as the the playground and the gym where students could pick up the pace and run some laps. Our top trotters for the day were Alexis Marin, Noah Meza, Flynn Orr, Jax Jansma, and Leland Campbell. These student’s enjoyed some extra prizes as well.
A special thank you to all of the FOOPS members who work so hard to support our students and events. They always make sure that we have everything we need. If you are interested in joining their group, please see their Facebook page. Membership is low and they are always needing more parent/community volunteers in order to keep their mission alive and well. Their next meeting is Monday, December 5th.
We also had great volunteers during the event. Thank you to: Harshil Thiry, Emily Darr, Maria Wilson, Michelle Binion, Kristi Basarab, Rachel Samuelson, Jennifer Knox and, our school board member, John Holtermann.
This event wouldn’t have been a success without all of the volunteers and the community support. Thank you for supporting our students and our school.
Reminders: OPE Turkey Trot is tomorrow with a half-day release at 11:30. No school Thursday or Friday. Thanks in advance to our fabulous volunteers that will be helping us to pull off tomorrow’s event.
From all of us at OPE, We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving Break.
