🌞Free Summer Meals for Children starting this Wednesday! The AUSD Nutrition Services Department is proud to offer all children 18 and under free breakfast and lunch when school is out for the summer. Sites will be open from 6/11-7/17, Monday-Friday. We will be closed on 6/19 and 7/4. Children may receive 1 breakfast and 1 lunch per day. All meals must be consumed on site. Visit our website at www.antiochschools.net/page/summermeals for meal service times, locations, and menus. We look forward to serving your children this summer! Sites and dates are subject to change. Please note there will be no meal service for Turner Elementary School on Friday, June 13th. Please refer to schedule for alternate sites.
K-8th graders are on a minimum day schedule today and tomorrow, 6/9 & 6/10. Dismissal times are K-11:40, 1st-3rd 11:50, 4th-5th 12:10 and 6th-8th 12:40. Elementary students must be picked up at their dismissal times. They cannot wait for middle school students. Office closes today at 1:00 so staff can attend the 8th-grade promotion.
Reminder that 6th-8th grades are on a minimum day schedule this week, June 2-6. Their dismissal time is 12:40. Middle school students must leave at their dismissal times. They cannot wait around for elementary students to get out. Elementary students have their normal dismissal times.
8th grade promotion tickets are now available for pick-up in the office. Each student will receive 8 tickets. Parents/guardians must come in to sign for the tickets. We still have a few 8th-grade yard signs that haven't been picked up too.
Open House is Thursday, May 29th from 5-7. The schedule for the event is: classroom visits 5-6:30, OPS Band/Orchestra performance in the quad 6:30-7:00, and community/craft vendors in the MPR and Straw Hat Pizza truck 5-7. Friday, May 30th, is a minimum day for K-8th grades. Dismissal times are: K 11:40, 1st-3rd 11:50, 4th-5th 12:10, 6th-8th 12:40. Elementary students must be picked up at their dismissal times. They cannot wait for middle school students to be dismissed.
Reminder that there is no school Friday, 5/23 and Monday, 5/26. Enjoy your 4 day weekend and Happy Memorial Day!! Open House is 5/29 from 5:00-7:00. 5/30 is a minimum day for K-8th grades. June 2nd-6th are minimum days for 6th-8th grades. June 9th & 10th are minimum days for K-8th.
The PTO Penny Wars fundraiser had begun. Pennies and dollars earn points for your grade level. Silver coins deduct points from other grade levels. The grade level with the most points at the end of the week will win an ice cream party. Grade level collecting tubes will be in the quad before school. No school 5/23 & 5/26.
VIP & ME UNDER THE SEA
Elementary school dance. TK–5th grade students only and their VIPs (an adult must attend)
Fri., May 16, 5:00–7:00 PM
$5 per student (Adults are FREE)
Tickets on sale May 12–15 after school
Check the website for more information. VIP & Me Under the Sea- Elementary School Dance | Orchard Park PTO
Don't forget about the PTO Chuck-E-Cheese dine out fundraiser tonight 5/8.
Please speak with your child about not following TikTok challenges. The new challenge involves putting lead into the computers. This is vandalism that will destroy the computer and could start a fire. Thank you for your support.
The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Meeting is on Tuesday 4/29/2025 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Dallas Ranch Middle School Library.
Agenda:
• Review of LCAP Educational Partner Feedback
• Budget Overview for Parents
• LCAP Budget Alignment Feedback
Please join us! Childcare and refreshments will be available.
April 15-PTO meeting 5:00 PM Cafeteria
April 16-Coffee with the Community -7:45 am front of office
April 17-Red Robin Dine-Out fundraiser (don't forget to mention the fundraiser so OPS can get credit)
No School Friday, April 18th and Monday, April 21st
Please see the attached flyer for more information on the Coffee with the Community pop-up tomorrow, 4/16, at 7:45 am in front of the office with our Lincoln Center Coordinator, Alexis Garcia.
Tomorrow is the big day of our Fun Run. Families may come watch their student run. Please enter through the office. Run times are: TK-K 9:45- 10:30, 1st-2nd 10:30- 11:15, 3rd-5th 11:15- 12:00, 6th-8th Color Run 1:45- 2:30. Wear clothes to run in. 6th-8th wear something you don't mind having color thrown on.
We ordered yard signs for our 8th graders. These are our gift to the 8th graders. One sign per student. Parents/Guardians can pick one up at any time.
Please see the attached flyers on our Boosters fun run fundraiser nightly challenge. In addition to the nightly challenge, students who get one new pledge tonight get to join Mrs. Gaudy in a hat spirit day tomorrow!!
Please view the attachments regarding our annual fun run fundraiser starting next week.
This is the last day to claim any items in lost and found before they are donated. Spring Break is 3/24-3/31. Today's minimum day dismissal times are: K-11:40, 1st-3rd: 11:50, 4th-5th: 12:10, 6th-8th 12:40. Younger students cannot wait for older students to be dismissed. They must be picked up at their dismissal time.
Please check lost and found. Anything left after 3/21 will be donated.
3/18: PTO meeting 5:00 Cafeteria
3/19: 8th-grade panoramic picture 8:00am and TK-5 spring pictures
3/21: K-8 Min. Day
3/24-3/31: Spring Break
3/14 PTO Family Movie Night 5:00-7:00 PM in the cafeteria
3/14 Last day to turn in 8th grade yearbook dedication page payment and order form
3/16 Last day for Read-a-Thon
3/19 Elementary Spring Pictures and 8th grade panoramic picture
3/21 K-8 Min. Day
3/24-3/31 Spring Break
We are canceling running club today due to the forecasted rain and wind