Friday, May 6 is School Lunch Hero day! Thank you to the best School Nutrition team in New Hampshire for giving our students the best each day!
Here are the ORCSD School Board updates published in Durham Friday Updates and school emails this week:
Oyster River School Board Highlights for May 4, 2022
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you to all who teach our students in Oyster River! And thanks to the PTO leaders and volunteers who went the extra mile to show appreciation this week!
The School Board and Superintendent commended the work of Oyster River school nurses throughout the pandemic. While all school staff have gone above and beyond, school nurses worked tirelessly to ensure they stayed current on (often conflicting) state and federal guidance and worked to apply best practices when working with each student, family, and staff member. This outstanding group of dedicated professionals continues to provide excellent service to the Oyster River school community.
ORHS presents You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, May 5 and 6 at 7:00 pm and Saturday May 8 at 2:00 pm or 7:00 pm in the ORHS auditorium. Tickets are available online (http://showtix4u.com/events/orhs) or at the door.
School Start and End times for the 2022-2023 school year were approved by the School Board and will be slightly different than this year. For 2022-2023, the elementary academic day will be 9:15-3:25. The middle and high school academic day will be 8:15-3:00.
The new Oyster River Middle School continues to receive attention and accolades from outside Oyster River. After Sen. Hassan and Rep. Pappas visited on April 20, ORMS has also hosted the New Hampshire School Business Administrators and the NH Seacoast School Superintendents. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was expected to visit on May 6. On May 12, the New Hampshire state Board of Education will meet in the ORMS recital hall. Visitors for the NH BOE meeting will enter and exit through the recital hall doors and be separated from students and staff except for guided tours.
Assistant Superintendent Suzanne Filippone discussed Competency-Based-Learning and Communicating Student Learning with the school board for over an hour. Elementary and Middle schools will be reviewing the structure and content of report cards and academic progress are shared with students and families, with improvements expected for the fall 2022 semester. No changes to the ORHS grading system are currently being proposed, and any change to grading systems would require approval by the School Board.
The finalists for the position of ORCSD DEIJ Coordinator will each spend one day in Oyster River schools next week visiting schools and meeting with students, staff, and administrators. Members of the community can meet finalists in the ORMS learning commons from 5:45-6:30 on Monday and Wednesday May 9 and 11.
There is no school for students in Oyster River on May 27 and May 30 due to a teacher workshop and Memorial Day.
ORCSD School Board meeting materials are posted online at https://www.orcsd.org/school_board/agendas_and_minutes with links to videos when available. The best way to directly contact the entire school board is to email orcsdsb@orcsd.org or individual school board members.