Dear OHS Families,

I hope you were able to enjoy some beautiful early fall weather this weekend!

I want to remind you about a few special events happening at school this week:

• On Tuesday, the Fairfield Fire Department will bring their Grade 3 Life Safety Trailer Program to Osborn Hill. In this program, small groups of grade 3 students will be guided through the trailer, which is a simulated home environment, and members of the fire department will help them locate fire hazards. When not in the trailer, another fire department instructor will lead a discussion with students on fire and life safety guidelines.

• Also on Tuesday, 4th and 5th grade students in the Gifted Workshop program will be visiting Yale’s Art Gallery and the Peabody Museum.  Students going on the trip need to meet at OHS at 8:15 AM.

• Thursday will be Pink Pledge Day at OHS in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Students are asked to wear pink for the day and bring in $1, which will be donated to the Norma Pfriem Breast Center. There will also be a visit by the Pink Car to OHS on Thursday.

• On Friday, Grade 4 students will be going on their erosion study field trip at Perry’s Mill Ponds.

Also, as I detailed in this Parent Square communication on 9/28, Phase 2 of our HVAC work began this past week. As planned, the drop ceilings were removed from the hallways, and classroom ceiling removal will happen during the evenings this week. Classrooms 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 are scheduled to be done this week.

Finally, our Silver Spoon Program during lunch started this week, and it is going well so far! The children were able to eat in a more pleasant environment, and they earned many silver spoons to work towards getting a special classroom reward.

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

Sean F. Smyth, Principal

Last call for acts, narrators and stagehands! Email the Variety Show Committee at ohsvarietyshow2025@gmail.com today to register your act, or if you'd like to be a stagehand or narrator. Please list all the children in your group and include their classrooms. If you have a group name, it would be great to include that too! 

Music requests open next week

Song submissions can be made by email starting October 14 at 12pm. Song reservations are first come, first serve.  Only the song name is needed at this time, the music file is due December 16. 

• Grades 4-5 as in years past, song length can be up to 2 minutes 30 seconds
• Grades K-3 - song length can be up to 2 minutes (the committee encourages our kindergarten/1st grade participants to keep it closer to even 60-90 seconds. Please note, this time constraint is new. We’ve noticed how hard our younger friends work on their routines and we want to take the pressure off! We want them to have fun at practices, not feel like dance zombies. Let’s put them on stage, keep it short and easy, and then celebrate them). Trimming our allotted times will likewise help reduce overall show time. 

Want to know more? You can find Variety Show details and a timeline of key dates on our website, ohspta.com.

Get ready, readers! Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair is next week. We are looking for volunteers to assist with shopping and sales at the book fair. 

Click here to volunteer!

Shopping Hours

You'll have chances to shop the Book Fair before and after school:

^{Join us for a day of fall fun at the OHS Harvest Faire Saturday, October 26 from 1pm-5pm. We'll have games, crafts, inflatables, food, amazing raffle prizes and more! The faire is fun for the whole family and is a great fundraiser for our PTA.}

Buy your tickets now and SAVE!

^{Enjoy early-bird pricing when you buy ahead of time! You can shop for wristbands and ticket books at ohspta.com at a discounted rate until October 21.}  

We will have over 100 winners at our Harvest Faire Raffle - but you have to play to win!