Oxford Preparatory Academy - South Orange County Home

Dear OPA Families, We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones and a relaxing week! It is hard to believe that we only have three weeks of instruction in December before we go on Winter break for three weeks December 20th through January 7th. Since our Champions have been on break for a week, it is important that we work as a team to set up our students for success when they return to school tomorrow morning. Our OPA families can support us by making sure our students are ready and prepared for school and by reviewing the CHAMP Expectations on the chart below. Our Champions are Compassionate, Honest, Accountable, Mindful, and Prepared.

Dear OPA Families, We had a fantastic 4th grade Meet-Up. Students were engaged in a fun holiday craft and our room parents served snacks and hot chocolate. Thank you fourth grade families and professors! A special thanks to our virtual families and professor who joined us. Next, is our 5th Grade Meet-Up on Tuesday, November 30th at Barcelona Park. We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones and enjoy the much needed break! Our school office will be closed this upcoming November 22nd - November 26th.

Dear OPA Families, Oxford Preparatory Academy has partnered with the Orange County Department of Education to host a Cyberbullying virtual presentation for OPA families on Thursday, November 18th at 6:00pm. Due to the recent incident with students creating an account to post pictures and comments about other students, we highly encourage all middle school parents to join us and take advantage of this opportunity which you will find helpful. This presentation will be beneficial whether your student has or does not have a social media account. The virtual presentation focus areas will include: social media trends, information literacy, privacy and security, addressing and reporting cyberbullying, and parent/child communication.

Dear OPA Families, All Champions will be engaged in writing benchmark assessments between November 1st - 12th. Each year, our students engage in Informative, Narrative and Opinion/Argument writing. Our professors focus on one type of writing per trimester. At the end of each trimester, our grade level teams will collaborate and share writing samples from their classes to determine areas of growth and areas of strength and share ideas.

We had a fabulous Literature Day on Friday! In this annual school event, students and staff dressed as a character from their chosen book. We had a school-wide serpentine parade, classroom activities, arts and crafts and read-alouds in each classroom by all of our staff . The intent is to celebrate and encourage reading while having a fun-filled day of activities. Thank you to all the parents who put together goodie bags with pre-packaged items and donated items to make this day a special event for our Champions. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Dear OPA Families, This week we are celebrating Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week is the Nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention awareness campaign. Today, millions of people celebrate it. We will begin our week with a visit from Deputy Murphy from the OC Sheriff’s Department who will present information to our students about the meaning of Red Ribbon Week and living a healthy drug free life. Students will then participate in theme days (see list below), recess activities, and class posters in support of Red Ribbon Week.

Dear OPA Families, On Friday we had a fabulous ABC Fashion Show hosted by our Kinder Professors Ms. Bova and Mr. Rechtien. Prior to the fashion show, parents and students developed creative designs to highlight the letter of the alphabet their Champion was representing. During the show our Kinder students were proud and excited as they walked down the red carpet. Parents were able to view the fashion show through Zoom. Thank you families for your support and participation and a special thank you to our awesome professors Ms. Bova and Mr. Rechtien.

Dear OPA Families, We are excited to share that our first football game will be this Friday, October 15th at the Saddleback campus located at 22882 Loumont Dr, Lake Forest, CA 92630. The Football & Volleyball game start time for the JV (5th/6th) is at 1:30pm and the Varsity (7th/8th) will start shortly after the first game. Parents are welcome to attend, but we also plan on livestreaming the game. We thank all students for participating and families for supporting our sports program. A special thank you to our coaches who are making this happen: Coach Barton, Coach Jones, Coach Cordoba and Coach Baney. Go OPA SOC!

I hope you all had a wonderful, rainy Friday!! It finally feels like fall. And now that fall has arrived, everyone is gearing up for our fall activities, like Literature Day, SOC vs SV football games, and SOC vs SV volleyball games. Also, our after-school clubs and enrichment opportunities are now in full swing. It is great to see excited students participating in activities like coding, world language, poetry, music, art, STEAM, and sports.

Dear OPA Families, We hope you had a great parent/teacher conference last week! We have received a great deal of positive feedback from our professors and families about their conferences. Our Champions’ academic success and social-emotional wellbeing is a shared responsibility between the school and home. Our commitment is to continue to work together to meet the individual needs of each of our Champions!