Today is the day! There is a blood drive taking place in the Omro High School commons from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to OMS and OHS Fox Friday winners from Friday, March 8, 2024! These students were nominated by staff members or other students for demonstrating the Fox Four (Safety, Responsibility, Respect, or Positivity).
Staff members were nominated by students or other staff members for being a role model, an advocate for students, or having a positive connection with students.
Mrs. Morse's Advanced Culinary Arts class had the opportunity to go to Fox Valley Technical College on Friday, February 16, to be a part of their Culinary Arts and Hospitality Event.
The students got to meet Chef Jeff and the rest of the FVTC Culinary Instructors, see food demonstrations, and tour the campus. They also had the chance to hear from past FVTC Alumni who have shared about their careers after graduating from the Culinary Arts Program. They heard from an entrepreneur who opened up her own B's Bakery, two gentlemen who own and operate Breadsmith, and Ace Champion, a celebrity chef, who has his own TV program called "Cook Like a Champion."
National Honor Society (NHS) hosted their 3rd annual Toy Drive, in collaboration with the boys basketball team.
This year the toys, games, books, and money were donated to senior OHS student Faith A's non profit organization, Room to Care.
Room to Care works to refurbish foster care visitation rooms around Winnebago County. Faith is working to expand to Outagamie County as well.
Thank you to all community members, students, staff, and basketball players who donated to this wonderful cause!!
Congratulations, Lexi!
Lexi has taken another first at the district level of the American Legion Oratorical contest. She presented her ten-minute speech on the First Amendment and the National Hockey League and then had to prepare four, three to five minute speeches on The Amendments to The Constitution. She will advance to the Regional level March 23 at Ripon College. If she performs well, she will advance to state that same afternoon.
Not only has Lexi gained valuable speaking experience, she has earned $800 so far.
Best wishes to Lexi as she continues her speech contest journey!
Mrs. Babcock's second grade math class was recently working with patterns for Unit 5, Module 4. The hands-on approach supports students students with identifying, describing, and extending patterns. When the students are able to explain their pattern with the document camera they take on the role of teacher, building their leadership skills!
In February, students at OES and HB Patch celebrated the 100th Day of School. Celebrations included engaging in writing prompts, sorting items (such as M&Ms) into factors of 100, scavenger hunts, dressing up, and photo booths with 100 day props.
OHS is hosting a Blood Drive on Friday, March 8, 2024, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Our doors are open to the community to be a part of the Blood Drive; please just make an appointment by visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-733-2767.
Today is National Maintenance/Grounds Worker Appreciation Day, and we have some great ones here in the School District of Omro!
Thanks to Steve and Kenny for all that you do to keep our district running efficiently and effectively!
Congratulations to our Fox Paw winners from H.B. Patch and OES for the week ending on March 1, 2024. Thanks for exemplifying the Fox Four of being safe, responsible, respectful, and positive!
Events happening the week of March 3, 2024:
Monday, March 4
~ Finance Committee Meeting
~ Negotiation Committee Meeting
Thursday, March 7
~ Conferences: Omro High School
~ Music: OoMPA Meeting
Friday, March 8
~ Blood Drive
For more information visit: https://www.omro.k12.wi.us/district/calendar.cfm
Mrs. Morse's Culinary Arts class volunteered their time to prepare a healthy snack to share with the students at OHS to promote Heart Disease Health Month sponsored by Key Club and the American Heart Association. The Culinary Arts students prepared and bagged up over 300 servings of a heart healthy trail mix to distribute to all students.
CTE Student of the Quarter
Each quarter, the Career and Technical Education (CTE) department recognizes students for their outstanding contributions.
Congratulations to Xander who was selected by Mr. Hooks, to be a 2023-2024 Quarter 2 CTE Student Spotlight for the Agriculture Department!
Congratulations to OMS and OHS Fox Friday winners from Friday, March 1, 2024! These students were nominated by staff members or other students for demonstrating the Fox Four (Safety, Responsibility, Respect, or Positivity).
Staff members were nominated by students or other staff members for being a role model, an advocate for students, or having a positive connection with students.
The OHS students recently celebrated Winterfest. This week's Throwback Thursday post has images from the Winterfest celebration in 2000.
If you are a School District of Omro graduate or former student, what are some of your favorite Winterfest memories? If you went to school someplace different than Omro, did you have a week long school celebration during the winter season?
Two weeks until "Reading Takes You Places" takes over Omro Elementary from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on March 14. We are looking forward to seeing our district students and families at 2024's Omro Family Literacy Night!
This is what happens when you actually read the recipe and measure accurately... you get perfect pancakes!! Breanna and Jose are students in Mrs. Morse's Food, Family and Society class. This lab was all about understanding abbreviations and conversions. Well done!!
Our 2024 Battle of the Books Teams from OES, OMS, and OHS represented the Omro School District in the Final State Test the last week of February. Results will be released the first week of March of how they placed among other schools throughout the state of Wisconsin. Great job teams!
Battle of the Books is a fun academic club that focuses on reading new or classic books and testing students' knowledge of what they read. The new list of 20 selected books is released in early June so students have a chance to read over the summer to prepare before the school year begins.
Any students in grades 4 - 12 can participate by forming a team of 2-4 members. Teams will battle each other by taking team tests on the books with the top team from each school moving on to represent Omro in the Final State Test. There will be a celebration for all participants in early Spring!
https://sites.google.com/wemta.org/battle/home
Students in Intro to Psychology had fun playing with Legos and learning about research methods. Each group was tasked with building something out of Legos and writing down the directions or drawing a picture. Groups then had to switch Legos and try to rebuild them using the directions. The learning was that if the directions (operational definitions in research and experiments) are not clear and detailed, it is very difficult to replicate.
4K Round-Up, for the 2024-2025 school year, is tonight (Tuesday, February 27, 2024). We look forward to welcoming our new rising 4K students and their families! Families previously signed up to attend a 3:30 pm or a 5:00 pm session.
If you have any questions, please contact 4K Program Coordinator, Kelly Kozlosky via email (kkozl@omro.k12.wi.us) or phone (920.685.7400 ext 2504).
