Oakdale Heights Elementary School

A special message from OCESD Board of Trustee Member K. Sandra Barnes:

Tabitha VanGunda and Rachelle Linden were presented with the Ross-Harmon Educator of the Year Monday evening! Congratulations to you both!

Another incredible position has opened up at the OCESD District Office! Full-time, full-year, health benefits, retirement (PERS) and you can learn the Business Attendance Clerk position on the job! Apply today! https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1750430

Hay there! Did you hear? The Paradise Grazing Festival is next weekend! Get ready for a day of fun for the whole family, hosted by the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC)! Meet your Host: The BCFSC is a nonprofit, community-based organization providing wildfire safety services to Butte County since 1998! When: Saturday, March 25, 2023, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Where: The Terry Ashe Recreation Center at 6626 Skyway, Paradise, CA Why: Come celebrate some amazing grazing from nature’s firefighters. Learn about how goats can help protect our communities from wildfires by clearing flammable vegetation to create a more fire-safe landscape. Learn about using grazing for wildfire safety, and then stay for food, vendor booths, live music, tie dye crafts, goat activities, and more! We’re bringing the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) goats, just like last year. Goat Experiences: Petting zoo, goat yoga, goat photobooth, story time with goats, and a dog herding demonstration! Find out more online: Watch the video recap of last year’s first ever Paradise Grazing Festival: https://youtu.be/g9ueao2-HSU Event webpage: https://buttefiresafe.net/paradisegrazingfestival/ RSVP or share on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3nsfIr202 Learn more about the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC): https://linktr.ee/buttefiresafe

Kindergarten registration is open for next school year. Below is the information on the new TK age limits. If you know of someone who has children this age, please direct them to the district webpage to start enrolling. In 2023–24, children are eligible for TK if they turn 5 between September 2 and April 2*, Here is the link to the enrollment portal. https://www.ocesd.org/page/enrollment

Every year the district conducts a School Climate Survey for staff and parents. This information goes to the LCAP team, who uses it to determine what is working, what is not working, and where we should be best spending our money to ensure student success. Below is the link to the survey. Please take 15 minutes to fill out the survey. The more parents that we have fill it out, the better picture we have of student, and family needs. As extra motivation, the classes who have 75% or more of their parents complete the survey, will earn a prize. Thank you for your help with this, it is very important. https://www.pbisassessment.org/Anon/GoSx00zzX000

Incredible job opportunity open right now in Oroville! The Accounts Technician position is full time, full year with benefits working at the OCESD District Office. Apply Today! https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1710820

We are currently monitoring the storm that is scheduled to hit our area tonight and this week. As of right now, all OCESD schools are scheduled to be open. Should we need to close any OCESD schools due to flooding or power outages, we will notify families as soon as possible.

Free student meals are being served over Christmas break at the Oroville YMCA. Click here for the details: https://www.ocesd.net/article/938372

Updated Address: Free Student Meals will be served at the Oroville Municipal Building at 1200 Meyers street, not at the YMCA building on Robinson Street.

Looking to start a rewarding new career? OCESD is holding a job fair today (Nov 10) until 2:30 at the District Office: 2795 Yard Street, Oroville. Come meet the team and get some free swag!

Please use the link below to vote for Parent Site Council reps. If you need a paper copy, please contact the school office. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SHIqDmiibC3fnTK7JPeVJqBp5LF26nASJkWPG9ffjVk/edit

Superintendent Holtom and staff wish everyone a happy and safe Halloween!

Parents and Guardians: The deadline for Alternative Income Forms has been extended to Nov 30, 2022. It is very important that you complete this form as it determines funding for your student's school. Click here for full details: https://www.ocesd.net/article/855240

OCESD is excited to announce that we adopting a new form of school-to-home communication at all OCESD schools called ParentSquare. We will be sending home more information in the coming months and hope to begin using it January 2023!

Picture day is October 4th, and make ups will be October 19th.

Substitutes needed in all positions. Apply on Edjoin.org

Congratulations everyone on a great first day of school! -Superintendent Holtom

School Starts Tomorrow for all OCESD Schools: Oakdale Heights Elementary, Ophir Elementary, Stanford Avenue Elementary, Wyandotte Academy, Ishi Hills Middle School and The Studios @ Central. We cannot wait to see each of you!

Good evening Oakdale families. We are excited to get this new year started, and all the staff have been working hard to prepare for the first day of school. School starts Tuesday, August 16th. The Cafeteria will open at 7:45 for breakfast. Students will be allowed to go out to recess and visit their classrooms, on the first day of school starting at 8:00. If you have logged into the parent portal, and updated student information, you are able to see who your child's teacher is. This is the easiest way to find out what class your child is in. Class lists will be posted on the windows of the office, starting at 5:00 Tomorrow evening. Back to school night is August 24th, from 5:00-6:00. In an effort to reduce traffic in the upper parking lot, and to make pick up easier for families, Students in first and second grade, classrooms 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, will pick up their students in the lower parking lot. A staff member will be in the parking lot with a radio, and will call for your child to be sent out the gate to you. You will not need to get out of your car. We have ordered rear view mirror hangers that you will put your students name on, to help make it run as smoothly as possible. You will receive those as soon as we receive them. If you have a student in one of these classes, and an older sibling, the older sibling will also be picked up in this parking lot. If you have a student in Kindergarten, These students will be released at 12:21 each day. If they are signed up for the after school program, they will go directly to the program. Teachers will keep a few students for a full day, each day, so they can conduct initial assessments on them. If your student has an IEP in place, please see the teacher for details regarding their situation. Tomorrow, Monday, August 15th, the office will open from 1:00 - 3:30 due to mandatory district meetings in the morning. More information will be sent out soon, Make sure to sign up for your students Class DoJo account, because that is the program we use most for communication. Have a good evening, and we look forward to seeing you all Tuesday morning.