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Varsity Wrestling with a 52 to 21 win over GCMS/Fisher tonight to bring their season record to 22 and 8.
The OHS Speech Team competed at Glenwood High School this weekend. They placed 4th in team sweepstakes with 3 JV and 11 Varsity Finalists! They have one more regular season tournament before the IHSA Series in February!
Coming Soon: Tuesday, February 8th event on Autism
We live in a digital world where we have access to news at our fingertips. But how do we evaluate these sources to make sure they are reliable and trustworthy? Mr. Hendricks’ students are analyzing new sources for bias and accuracy by examining news websites. Media literacy provides students with skills that will help them think critically about media, helping them develop into active consumers of information.
Check out these OHS students diving into an activity to determine their Core Values! Our values orient, drive, and anchor us. We experience integrity when we act in alignment with them. These students were challenged to think about how their core values help them make decisions, connect with others, and expand their resilience.
The OHS Speech Team is back at it again. At the Norlympia West Tournament there were 6 Varsity Finalists and 4 JV Finalists. Extra Congratulations to Julia Collins for being tournament champion in JV DEC and Michael Bagby for being tournament champion in Varsity HI!
Start the new year off with the goal to be at school everyday!
Attention OHS girls interested in track and field: We will hold an informational meeting during advisory on Wednesday (1/12) in the auditorium.
Please contact Coach Hamilton (cj.hamilton@olympia.org) or refer to our website (https://sites.google.com/olympia.org/ohs-girls-track/home) with questions!
Join our Remind group using class code @ohstf22 to get updates.
Saw some great things in buildings today but nothing made me laugh like the T-shirt below! Great to have kids back!
Varsity Boys Basketball falls in the first round of the State Farm Classic to Aurora Christian. They will play tomorrow Dec 28th at 12:30pm at Illinois Wesleyan against Providence St. Mel.
Varsity Girls Basketball falls in the first game of the State Farm Classic. 53 to 37 against Camp Point Central. They will now play tomorrow Dec. 28th at 2:00pm at Bloomington High School.
Wikipedia.org is where millions of people stop first for information. Tools like it are what make the internet so valuable. But they also teach an important lesson, one you can start teaching your kids now: don’t believe everything you read. Family Tip Sheet: bit.ly/OlyNMFR2
Olympia is now officially on Instagram! If Instagram is your social media platform of choice, follow your favorite Olympia sites using these handles:
bit.ly/ConnectWithOly
Check out this list of trustworthy resources to help you learn what's true (and what is not!) on the web. You can even use one of them to look back in time and what was on a website in the past!
The OHS National Honor Society partnered with the counseling department and PBIS Team to host a “De-Stress Fest” on Dec 17th. This event allowed students and teachers to devote time to practicing healthy stress-reducing activities as the end of the semester approaches. The event included: A therapy dog, yoga, dancing challenge, holiday games, free treats, coloring, board games, and athletic events. The students were wonderful and appreciative of having time to de-stress.
A special thank you to Mrs. Hapgood and Mrs. Steve for all of your work and leadership! You do an awesome job empowering our student leadership at OHS. We are thankful for you!
The OMS choir conducted their annual Holiday Concert last night in the OHS auditorium. They sang a variety of holiday songs to help get us in the holiday spirit. The evening concluded with a collaborative effort by all OMS choir members and the OHS chamber choir. Thank you to Mr. Gallegos and all OMS choir members for their hard work and effort.
Tip #5: Choose a Variety of Sources.
Show your children how you get news and information from different places, and explain how you make your choices. Use words like "credible," "trustworthy," "respected," and "fair." Ask them where they get their information, and if they think about those same words when choosing. As kids get older, introduce the ideas of bias, satire, and clickbait.
If a picture's worth a thousand words, do the words always tell a true story? One way to find out is through a reverse image search. Search with an image instead of a keyword and see what you discover!
Tip #4: Play "Should You Share?"
Talk through the kind of content you and your tween or teen pass along to friends online. What types of things do you like to share? Do you always check to make sure something is true before you share it? How do emotions factor into your decisions to share things? Have you ever shared something and later found out it wasn't true?
Tip #4: Discuss fact vs. opinion
Play around with ideas, deciding which are facts and which are opinions. Ask: How tall are you? What's the best food in the world? Do you like dogs? Point out that both facts and opinions show up in the news, but opinion is usually labeled.