2024-2025 Student School Supply lists are now available on the school website.
Free Meals for 2024-2025! Osage Hills School is happy to announce that all students will be able to eat breakfast and lunch for free during the 2024-2025 school year. In addition, students will again enjoy free fresh fruit & vegetable snacks several times per week, and if staying for our after school SMASH program, they can have a free snack after school. Helping our families during tough times and providing healthy, nutritious meals and snacks throughout the day for our students is a priority at OHS.
Gym Renovation Has Begun! The bond issue project to expand gym space, reconfigure & remodel bathrooms and locker rooms, and replace the gym floor has started and is currently in the demo phase.
UPDATE: Osage Hills School collected $350 and 3 boxes of food items in 3 days to help our friends and neighbors in Barnsdall. The money and food are being delivered to the Pastor of the First Baptist Church to help someone in need. Thank you to all who contributed!
Our Neighbors Need Our Help! Donate to Barnsdall recovery efforts. During these last 3 days of school we will be accepting money donations to benefit those in need in the Barnsdall area. After consulting with the Superintendent at Barnsdall, she told me the school, a local church, and the Emergency Management official had set up a special account to distribute funds to families in need. Here at OHS, everyone immediately wanted to help our friends and neighbors, but weren't sure how. Hopefully, with the donations we collect over the next 3 days, we will be able to ease the burden and stress of someone in Barnsdall just a little.
OSDE proposed Accreditation rule changes put many schools at risk of closure or State takeover. This letter came from Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition:
Superintendents of Oklahoma,
By now, most of you are aware of the gravity of the proposed rules coming from the
Oklahoma State Department of Education impacting school accreditation.
We realize this potential change is broad reaching for all schools and recognize the need for community members to have an opportunity to weigh in with the legislature on this upcoming vote. With 149 legislators, this can be a time consuming and difficult task, so we have created an easy action link where your school employees and patrons can send one email to all House and Senate members.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education's proposed accreditation rules threaten the future of public schools across our state. Recent combined data analysis by CCOSA and Appleseed Law revealed that at least 82 schools are at risk of closure or state takeover upon passage (see attached).
As you know, the rules in question allow the State Department of Education the capacity to take over districts based on A SINGLE TEST TAKEN ON ONE DAY.
If passed, this continuous cycle of takeover/closure threat will happen year after year and will especially devastate small districts, where a few students' scores could unfairly doom an entire school. Entire local economies depend on their schools - forced school closures based on annual testing scores will be catastrophic for these communities and families. Because this will be an annual "hit list", public school supporters need to know that just because their district isn’t on the list this year, that could change any given year based on the test scores of a handful of students.
This action alert link will allow your communities to send a letter to the entire legislature. This is time sensitive.
PLEASE SHARE WITH ANY OF YOUR EMPLOYEES, BOARD
MEMBERS OR PATRONS WHO MAY BE INCLINED TO SEND IN A LETTER:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/5-alarm-action-alert-osde-proposed-rules-for-accreditation
Erika Wright, Founder
Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition
Osage Hills School is in session today, Tues. May 7th. We were fortunate. We have power and no damage. If you were affected by last night's storms, let us know if there is anything we can do to help you. Stay safe everyone!
Before he was a Dewey Bulldogger, this State Champion threw his first Shot Put as an Osage Hills Warrior! Congratulations Braden Garrison! We are so proud of all you have accomplished.
4th-8th grade to AR winners enjoyed some CiCis pizza and a new book or two for reaching their grade level Accelerated Reader goal for the year.
Lost & Found is overflowing ! We will be sorting by size & setting items out for parents to easily go through Wed.-Fri. of this week (May 1-May 3). Any items not picked up by Fri. afternoon will be donated to charity or taken to Goodwill on Mon.
All Lunch & Before Care bills must be paid on or before May 10th for students to receive awards at the awards assemblies on May 14th.
This form is being sent home with 5th-8th athletic students for the Sports Banquet next Tuesday, April 30th. Please sign and return the bottom portion by Thursday, April 25th.
Earth Day activity for OHS Leadership Club included picking up trash along Pathfinder trail near OKWU.
Eric Pruett was awarded the Governor's award for an outstanding Red Ribbon Week essay contest.
Zoo Field Trip
1st-4th Grades
April 5th, 2024
Blue & Gold orders are ready to pick-up! We do not have storage space for this, so parents please pick up your order ASAP! Thanks so much for making this a successful fundraiser for PTO. We try to limit the fundraisers we ask you to do and so appreciate that you really step up on our Blue & Gold sales.
In this PLTW/STEM activity students learned about Nano fabrics. Each group conducted an investigation by creating their own Nano fabric piece of material and testing it against two other pieces of fabric. They tested each piece of fabric to determine its resistance to wrinkles, water, and stains. Then, they documented all of their results in a data table to compare with other groups.
Through our partnership with Varsity Tutors for Schools, Osage Hills students can now use 24/7 On-Demand Chat Tutoring. When help is needed, connect with a highly qualified expert tutor, day or night. Learning has never been more flexible! You can find the link for Varsity Tutors on the school webpage under the Parent/Student Resources button. Students will use their school email/google accounts to log in to the platform.
Celebration Day! Osage Hills got to celebrate 100% Academic Growth score on last year's state testing.
OHS celebrating having the highest Academic Growth score in the state on last year's OSTP tests! Way to go Warriors! Students and teachers are hard at work preparing for this year's state tests which will take place between April 17th and May 10th.
