News & Announcements

We hope you are having a wonderful and relaxing weekend! The Second Trimester has ended and final grades have been calculated. Parents/guardians will be able to view report cards on the afternoon of Monday, March 28th in
Aeries. We are thrilled to begin welcoming parent volunteers back on campus. We hosted a Volunteer Meeting on Thursday, March 24th. You may visit our volunteer section on the website to view the documents that were reviewed during our meeting and for more details.

We are happy to announce that on Saturday we installed the butterfly learning garden on campus. This was made possible with the support from our wonderful OPA families. We have two more gardens to build and we will invite our OPA community to help us with the next two projects.

I am excited to announce that last night at the OPA Board of Directors meeting our charter petition for a new OPA middle school was unanimously approved. The petition will be submitted to Saddleback Valley Unified School District on April 7, 2022, for approval to open a new middle school in Fall 2023. We are so excited about the new opportunities that this will allow us to offer both our elementary school and middle school Champions. We will be having a virtual Town Hall to discuss the middle school proposal on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, from 5:30-6:30 PM.

On Monday the new mask policy will take effect. It will move from requiring students, staff and visitors on school campuses to wear masks indoors to “strongly recommending” masks indoors. OPA will continue to implement multi-layered health and safety strategies such as cleaning and disinfecting protocols, hand washing, free COVID-19 testing for students, and staff and health
and safety protocols to keep sick students home.

Dear OPA Families,
We hope you are having a fantastic weekend! This week we will be hosting Open House on
Wednesday, March 9th from 5-7pm and a fundraiser at All Star Pizza. We hope you can join us!

During a press conference earlier today, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Secretary, announced that California’s indoor mask order for schools will be downgraded to a “strong recommendation” on March 12, 2022. Also, in a joint news release, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington cited declining case rates and hospitalizations as the basis for easing face-covering requirements for students and staff on public and private school campuses.

On Wednesday, March 2nd we will be celebrating Read Across America day. We will have a
school-wide reading event on the field in which our 4th-8th grade students will partner with
TK-3rd grade students to read. We will also have opportunities for our Virtual Learning Students
to read to a class on that day through zoom. We encourage all students and staff to dress as their
favorite Dr. Seuss character.

Dear OPA Families,
I am excited to announce that Mr. T and Ms. White will be leading our marching band and color
guard in the 51st Annual Festival of Whales Parade in Dana Point on Saturday, March 5th at
10:00 a.m. Please join us! This will be a great event and an excellent opportunity for our
Champions to showcase their talent.

Dear OPA Families,
On Tuesday, February 8th we had our second (LCAP) Educational Partner Meeting. This
meeting was about the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). If you did not get a chance to
join us, you can view the presentation on our school website (LINK) and you can join us for our
next meeting on April 20th.

Dear OPA Families,
I hope you are having a great weekend with your loved ones. This
weeek we are celebrating National School Counseling Week!
National School Counseling Week highlights the tremendous
impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve
school success. Oxford Preparatory Academy honours our
school counselor Ms. Kochan for implementing a comprehensive
school counseling program.