Happy Holidays

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and blessed Holiday Season. We hope everyone has a chance to "recharge" their batteries and enter 2012 excited about school. Please remember that we will have "OPEN GYM" time beginning January 3rd in the morning. Morning times will be from 7:30 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. Afternoon times will be Monday through Thursday from 3:05-4:00 p.m. The open gym time is for archers to get extra practice. Only archers who have all of their paperwork completed with the school nurse may participate in open gym. Tryouts for the team will be held the week of January 16, 2012. All of the best to you and your families.

THANKS!!!

Mrs. Hart and myself would like to offer our sincere thanks to Sensei Paul Kilduff for volunteering two weeks of his time for our students at OCS. For the second year, which we hope will be an annual event, Paul came to our physical education classes and instructed the students in the basics of Isshinryu Karate. The students had so much fun breaking boards and hitting the pads. Sensei Kilduff demonstrates the qualities of good character that we try to teach our students. THANK YOU SENSEI from all of us.

Lockers

Many thanks to the Oxford Board of Education for purchasing basket lockers for the boys and girls changing rooms. The baskets will allow students to place their belongings in a secure place while attending physical education classes. The students may bring in a lock to place on the basket while in class, but MUST remove the lock at the end of the class. This will allow all students to use the lockers while in physical education class. The baskets are the perfect spots for students to place their DEODORANT and change of shirt while participating in class. We have been addressing with each class, grades 3 - 8 the need to bring deodorant (non-aerosol) in use before and after class.

4th Grade Poster

Our 4th grade students are participating in the annual poster contest for the Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey. The students are to create a poster on a single 8.5" x 11"  white copy paper poster that highlights "Fun Things to Do Instead of Doing Drugs". The focus should be on the students artwork, and they should limit the amount of text so the poster can be reproduced if chosen as a finalist. More information regarding the contest can be found at the following web page:http://www.drugfreenj.org/2011_4th_grade/. Please contact Mr. C. with any questions: rcauston@oxfordcentral.org.
 THE POSTERS ARE DUE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011!!!