Olympia South

On Saturday, September 28th one of our students Mary L and her mom, Heather, planned a Literacy Safari event at our three local libraries. This provided our students an opportunity to celebrate the fun of reading! At the end of the event, Mary read a book that she had wrote in costume. She plans to give the book she wrote to each of our libraries. The proceeds from the event were donated to OSE. Thanks so much for supporting our students and our school!

This morning OSE celebrated our first Super Spartans of the year. These kids are gifted in the art of Self Reflection. Great job Spartans! Keep up the good work! Click the link to watch today's parade: https://bit.ly/3NbbVca

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It's year five of our dedicated Digital Citizenship outreach! Starting today we begin our annual focus on the six core areas of digital citizenship; providing resources and support for our Oly families. More details can be found here: bit.ly/OlyDigCitOverview

On Friday, third graders listened to "Rosie Revere, Engineer" by Andrea Beaty. Then they created their own treasures. There were some very creative ideas!

A group of Oly South students were selected for an 'Out of the Blue' trip to the playground this afternoon as part of the PBIS program. Student names were drawn from the school bin of blue tickets that are earned through being spotted meeting expectations at school! Great job!

Congratulations to Dewberry Architects on their design award for the Olympia South addition / renovation project. We are thrilled with the space and are maximizing it every single day! Please click on the image below to see the article and a few photos of the renovated and new spaces. https://schooldesigns.com/Projects/olympia-south-elementary-school-gymnasium-and-flexible-learning-center/

Third graders showing off their Spartan Spirit! 🩵🤍

We read the book, Alma and the Worry Stone, and then created our own worry stones to use this year whenever we need to work through those worries and feel more confident! Even adults, like Mrs. Rogers, need worry stones. Every stone is unique, just like all of our second graders!🥰

It was a big day for the third graders as they got to use chromebooks for the first time!

Third graders at South learned about being good mathematicians by "Saving Fred" today. 🙂

The Olympia Administrative Team is ready to go! Planning on an amazing year.

Any South family is welcomed to check out the mobile food truck in Waynesville this Saturday @ 11:00 am at the Christian Church. Also, the Atlanta pantry located at the Christian Church is open 9-11 every Saturday.

Mrs. Grays firsties ended the year with a blue carpet celebration! Together we cheered on each classmate as we recognized their growth through the year. We also got to take a fun look at comparison first and last day pictures. We all ended the year with a Spartan celebrity status! We ended our last day with reading "Last Day Blues" and trying last day blues juice! You will be missed first graders, but you're sure to do great things in second grade!

We had our last Parade of Champions for the year on our last day of school. We celebrated our 5th grade class and Mrs. Barnes, who is retiring. Good luck next year! We will miss all of you! Click the link to see the parade: https://bit.ly/3WU59Oq

Congratulations to this incredible 5th grade class! Olympia South will miss you and we cannot wait to see all that you accomplish 🩵🤍💙

Olympia South Elementary bus riders surprised LaDonna, Mike, and Wayne with a retirement send off. We would like to thank each of you for your years of service, and wish you the best in your retirement!

Olympia South students celebrated one s'more school day with a last Out of the Blue day for the year!

It was such an 'Awesome Day" at South! Thankful that our fall fundraiser brings this much fun to our school in the spring. Thanks to all who supported and helped out today. The kids had a blast!

OSE students were excited to watch a couple of songs this afternoon from the Beauty and the Beast performers from OHS. Congratulations to our coloring contest winners, Owen, Delilah, and Cullin who won free tickets to this weekend's show!