Principal's Message

Principal’s Message November 22, 2021 Thanksgiving Break is this week, and it’s an extra-long one as students won’t return to school until next Tuesday. I would wait on this communication until we return, but there are a few things I want to make sure I get out sooner rather than later. There is a lot going on over the next month or so as we have the holidays, so I will try to cover everything here, but please also make sure to keep an eye ...

Principal’s Message October 18, 2021 I apologize for the time gap between communication from me. For those that don’t know, I missed a month of school and last week was my first full week back, so there was a lot of catching up to do. I want to make sure I thank Mr. Matich for keeping things running while I was out. A big part of why things were able to carry on well is that we have a great faculty and awesome students, so a big thanks goes ...

Principal’s Message August 26, 2021 The first couple weeks of school have gone well. Thank you to the teachers, students, and parents for getting the year up and started. It’s been great having the kids back in the building and beginning to get to know them. There has been a lot of positivity from the kids. For the first time in a year, we were able to have an in-person assembly yesterday. The kids enjoyed themselves and were loud while ...

Principal’s Message August 13, 2021 We have a few last-minute things to make sure everyone is aware of before school starts on Monday. The teachers have been working hard this week to get ready for kids and we are excited to see everyone. It has been great to see so many students and parents coming through the building the last two weeks. If you haven’t had a chance to come walk the building and practice lockers, know that you’ll be okay, ...

Principal’s Message August 2, 2021 Online Registration: Online registration opened today. There is an issue going on at the district level that is making it so you cannot access your student’s schedule immediately upon completion of the online registration process. From our understanding, the schedules are queuing at the district level and sending out, it just takes some time. The district is working to figure out how to fix the system ...

July 21, 2021 Dear Olympus Jr. Families, Welcome to the 2021-2022 School Year! We are excited to get the school year up and started, and we are anxious to get to meet all our new students. We have started getting a lot of calls in the office, so I want to get this information out to everyone so students can feel calm and ready for school to start on August 16. Many of the questions pertain to what school will look like this year compared to ...

RISE Testing: We are finished with RISE testing. We did make-ups today and yesterday. We should successfully meet our 95% tested threshold, so thank you for having your kids at school and having them take the tests. As we get finalized data, I will share that out with everyone. Teachers have already started looking at the preliminary numbers and having discussions of what the data means and how we need to move forward next ...

Principal’s Message May 13, 2021 Testing Update: Today did not go as planned for testing. We found out about 20 minutes prior to the testing window that the RISE platform was down state-wide. We received no additional information that gave us any idea of what was wrong or how long it might take to fix the issue. With that in mind, we decided to have the kids report to their testing rooms in the hope that it was a temporary problem and ...

Principal’s Message May 10, 2021 RISE Testing: It’s time for RISE testing again. We missed the opportunity to test the students last year, so it’s important for all students to test this year so we can see where they are in their understanding of math, science, and English. After going on dismissal for 4th quarter last year and having our school year structured with no in-person learning on Fridays this year, we want to make sure our ...