Hello Raccoon Community!
We made it through our first few days of the new school year and I am so
excited for what's ahead. Over the last few days, our Raccoons have had the
chance to get connected with classmates and staff, review the importance of our
school values of being grounded, committed, and accountable, and had the chance
to reflect on our mission of being Career, College, and Life Ready. It’s been a
busy few days as we set the stage for the next 9 months together!
As students, staff, and families, it is important that we are on the same page as we work together to make this school year successful. Outlined below are a few reminders and important information about the norms and expectations that help to guide our community. These norms have been either reviewed in class these last few days or will be discussed in the upcoming week as we ease into the routines of the new school year.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me, your associate principal, or your counselor.
It’s going to be a great year!
Jason
Important
Links to Bookmark (Each Title Contains the Link)
- School News: Raccoon
Community Connection (RCC): Our school news is broadcast daily
at 8:55 a.m. Families should consider watching to see all the important
news, celebrations, and other information being shared with students on a
daily basis. The link above will allow you to watch live at 8:55 a.m. or a
replay at any point in the day.
- OHS Community Commitments: The Community
Commitments hold all of us accountable to creating a productive learning
environment. These commitments were reviewed in each class on Wednesday.
- Tech Support Site: Reference this
website for all your technology needs and questions. This site also shows
families how to monitor and follow your students’ courses in Canvas.
- Updates
from OHS Blog: If you are reading this post, you are
on the school blog! Each post will share important school-wide information
about upcoming programming, schedule adjustments, and resources to support
our vision of helping each Raccoon become Career, College, and Life Ready.
- YouCanBookMe
Scheduling Website: This website allows students and families to
schedule an appointment time with your counselor. Counselor assignments
are linked above.
- OHS Website: The website is a great resource for
information about attendance, purchasing tickets to events, and other
programming information you may want to reference from time to time.
- Pride Protocol: This is the one-stop
resource for all our guidelines and norms related to our flexible period
known as Pride, which occurs every day from 8:55-9:25 a.m.
- Instagram:
- OconRcc
(School News)
- OconThemes
(Announces themes for each sporting event)
- OconSchools
(The official account of OASD)
- OHSHeadRaccoon
(Mr. Curtis’s Instagram page—typically reshares posts from student
organizations)
- X:
- OconSchools
(The official account of OASD)
- OconCurtis
(Mr. Curtis’s X page—typically reshares posts from student organizations)
- Safety
Routines and Procedures: Click here to watch the information
shared by Mr. Curtis and Officer Hass during our Community Meeting on
Thursday, September 5. In our annual safety seminar, we reviewed some of
the following topics:
- Evacuation
Procedures
- Critical
Incident Response Protocols (ALICE)
- Visitor
Safety Information
- Parking
Regulations
- Speak Up
Speak Out: Anonymous Reporting Site
- We will
conduct drills throughout the year to practice our safety routines and
procedures. This includes:
- Monthly Fire
Drills
- Two Critical
Response Drills (October 7 and March 3)
- Severe
Weather Drill (April)
- Unannounced
K-9 Searches
- In
partnership with the Oconomowoc Police Department and the Waukesha County
Sheriff’s Office, our campus will be searched by K-9 units for illegal
drugs. These unannounced searches will consist of the campus being placed
on a non-emergency lockdown so that the K-9 units can search our parking
lots, locker rooms, and/or classrooms.
