Weekly Flash

January 20, 2025

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

Updates from Principal Smyth
Donations for OHS family in need
Variety Show is Saturday!
Tickets on sale for OHS night at the Bridgeport Islanders game 2/22
Service project at Fridgeport in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Get ready for Otters Read Together
Video recording of our last PTA meeting
Registration open for 2025-2026 Kindergarteners
Fairfield SEPTA hosting mozzarella making fundraiser

This Week

January 20- NO SCHOOL
January 21 - Author Chris Grabenstein visits Gr 3-5
January 24 - Variety Show Dress Rehearsal
January 25 - Variety Show, 2pm

Coming Soon

January 31 - Spirit Day
February 3 - 100th Day of School (scheduled)
February 7 - PTA Meeting with SRO Felicia Clark, 9:15am
February 14-17 - NO SCHOOL
Save the Date: February 19 - OHS Parents Night at R1DE spin studio
February 22 - OHS Night at the Bridgeport Islanders

Click here for a printer-friendly list of 2025's key dates!

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Dear OHS Families,

I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend!

Thank you to the parents who joined the PTA meeting this past Thursday evening. The parent support and involvement at OHS really strengthens our school!

Thanks to the PTA, we are excited to host another author visit this Tuesday. We will welcome author Chris Grabenstein to OHS to visit with our grade 3-5 students. Mr. Grabenstein is the New York Times best-selling author of the Lemoncello series, as well as other engaging books. We are excited for his visit!

A few important reminders for this week:

We are expected to experience some significantly cold weather this coming week. Please make sure students come to school with appropriate cold weather apparel.
We completed our Winter NWEA assessments last week, but we are still engaged in Acadience testing in grades K-3 until January 29th. We will notify you when scores are posted in Infinite Campus.
Please make sure you update your SDM daily with any dismissal changes.

I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead! Take care.

Sean F. Smyth, Principal

Donations for OHS family in need

We have an immediate need in our OHS community for the items listed here. Please consider signing up for items on this list and dropping them off in the office as soon as possible, ideally by next week. For the larger items, please email our school social worker, Stefanie Cappellieri at scappellieri@fairfieldschools.org. Items will be distributed by Ms. Cappellieri. We thank you for your help.

Please contact Melissa Miller with any questions.

The stage is set for the Variety Show Saturday

It's almost showtime! The OHS Variety Show is this Saturday at 2pm at the Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport. Here are some notes for ticket holders:

Tickets will be distributed to performers at dress rehearsal. Non-performers will receive their tickets through backpack mail.
Performer check-in is between 1pm-1:30pm. Groups can't check in until every member and chaperone are accounted for. Ushers will help you to your seats.
Doors for ticket holders open at 1:30pm. Seating is first come, first serve. You must have your paper tickets with you! Please see the will call table if there's an issue.
Parking is across the street for $5 per car. Cash or credit accepted.
Handicap seats are available - please email the Variety Show Committee at ohsvarietyshow2025@gmail.com.
Food and drink are available for purchase by cash or card.

Any other questions? Contact the Variety Show Committee

Get your tickets for OHS night at the Islanders hockey game

Get your tickets! OHS Night at the Bridgeport Islanders is Saturday, February 22 at 5pm. Our 5th Grade Chorus will perform during the first intermission!

We have a section reserved for OHS. All family members are welcome, and each child must attend with a ticketed adult responsible for them. Tickets come with a free hat! A small portion of each ticket sale will go to the OHS PTA.

Buy your tickets HERE

50/50 Raffle benefits OHS Fifth Graders

While you're at the game, you can purchase tickets to the 50/50 raffle outside section 100. All proceeds from the raffle benefit the OHS Fifth Grade Committee. This is the largest fundraiser for our fifth grade end-of-year celebrations.

Questions? Contact Kate Fierman

Service project in honor of MLK Day

The OHS Culture (formerly IDEA) Committee, along with teams from Burr and Dwight, volunteered at Fridgeport food pantry Saturday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Thank you to our volunteers and to all that wrote notes and donated food and hygiene items!

Interested in sharing aspects of your culture with the OHS community? Contact the OHS Culture Committee

Gearing up for Otters Read Together

Thank you to Jen Ruwisch and Lauren Castaneda for designing this bulletin board about "The One and Only Ivan" as we prep for our inagurual Otters Read Together event in February. Want to learn more about some of the activities planned? Check out our padlet featuring the reading schedule, gorilla facts and more.

Any questions? Contact Jen Ruwisch and Lauren Castaneda

Watch our last PTA meeting online

If you couldn't make our last PTA Zoom meeting, we've recorded it for you! Click here to hear news from Principal Smyth, updates from our committees on upcoming PTA events, and information from past PTA President Rachel Parrish about joining the PTA Board for next term. The Zoom password is f79=h56Q.

Our next PTA meeting will be Friday, February 7 at 9:15am, where we'll be joined by OHS School Resource Officer Felicia Clark.

Kindergarten Registration now open for 2025-2026

Registration has started on January 6^th for incoming kindergarten students to attend Osborn Hill School this fall. If you did not receive an email from Mrs. Budlowski regarding the procedures for registration, please email her at TBudlowski@fairfieldschools.org with your future KDG student’s name, date of birth and the preschool they attend so the registration procedures can be emailed to you.

Mozzarella Making Fundraiser to benefit Fairfield Special Education PTA (SEPTA)

Purchase tickets here

After creating a SEPTA Membership Toolkit account you'll be taken to the page to purchase.

Have news to share? Email Jen Braunby 10am Friday
to include in the following Monday's OHS Weekly Flash.

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