The Scoop: Thank You, Oak Harbor!

As of today, our levy is passing with more than 𝟔2% approval! While we await final certification, this marks what could be the highest approval rating for a school levy in nearly two decades for Oak Harbor Public Schools!

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 for supporting:

⭐️ School nurses, mental health counselors, and school safety enhancements

⭐️ Special education, paraeducators, academic counselors, and smaller class sizes

⭐️ Student programs like athletics, intramurals, visual and performing arts

⭐️ Classroom technology, Chromebooks, and curriculum software

Your partnership reminds us that together, we can accomplish extraordinary things and is proof of what we can achieve when we share a common focus.

On Saturday, January 18th, a record-breaking 18 Oak Harbor High School (OHHS) drama students competed in 32 events of the International Thespian Excellence Awards ("Thespys"). The record-breaking results were recently shared with students and staff.

Olympic View Elementary celebrated Luna's 6th Heart Day anniversary. Luna was born with a heart condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) which means the left side of her heart was small. She had one open heart surgery at 6 days old and then a heat transplant at 8 months old. Now at 6 years old she is living life to the fullest - running and playing with her friends and making everyone's day brighter with her beautiful smile! All thanks to her organ donor!

Oak Harbor Intermediate School's iReady testing scores demonstrated both reading and math in high performance and high growth quadrants this year!

OHI's PTA helped get the party "poppin'" for the school's iReady Testing celebration! Congratulations Panthers!

Ms. Laiza's students at Hand-in-Hand Early Learning Center explored a sensory bin filled with rice, hearts, and other small objects. They also created valentines.

Over the past four weeks, students in Ms. Penley's fourth-grade class at Broad View Elementary worked on a project to design a castle. They studied the reasons why castles were built during the Middle Ages and learned about their structures. Each student designed and constructed a model of a castle and presented their research using Google Slides to the class. Way to go, Explorers!

Olympic View Elementary first graders are wrapping up their Kelso’s Choices unit with a fun and creative craft! Kelso’s Choice is Olympic View Elementary’s program that empowers students to solve small problems on their own and build positive peer relationships. We love seeing our young problem-solvers in action!