News & Announcements

Dear OPA Families,
This week we celebrated Kindness and School of Choice week. Our Theme for the week is “OPA
Chooses Kindness”. Our PAL students led this week’s
events. Throughout the week they have been creating a
kindness chain made of kindness notes from all students.
Each day we had a dress up day. Follow us on Instagram to
view more photos. We thank all of our wonderful families
and students for the great school spirit.

Dear OPA Families,
I hope you had a restful weekend! This week we are celebrating School Choice and
Kindness Challenge Week. Our theme this year is OPA CHOOSES KINDNESS!
You can help us spread the word about why you chose OPA South Orange County as
your school of choice by sharing your experience on Niche. This site provides in-depth
school and college profiles to help students and families find and enroll in the right
school for them.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation during this first week back after our winter break.
With the recent surge in Covid cases, we ask parents, students, and employees to be extra
vigilant with safety mitigation measures. We all must do our part to reduce the spread of this
virus to the greatest extent possible. You must keep your child home if they are sick or exhibiting
any COVID-19 symptoms – no matter how minor those symptoms may seem.

Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful and safe winter break with your loved ones. We
are looking foward to welcoming our Champions and staff on Monday, January 10th.
On Friday, January 7th, we had the opportunity to offer each of our students and staff an Antigen
Rapid COVID test. We had a significant number of families pick up tests who were so grateful
and kind to us when we were distributing them. If you did not have an opportunity to pick one
up on Friday, you may do the following:

School resumes on Monday, January 10, 2022. I am looking forward to greeting our students and staff on campus. We will continue to focus on safety, building relationships, supporting students and staff, and providing a high quality educational experience for all.

As COVID and the new Omicron variant continue to cause surges in case numbers across California and the world, we want to continue to ensure that our OPA champions, staff, and families are safe and healthy.

I hope you are all having a wonderful, relaxing winter break. School resumes on Monday, January 10, 2022. We are all very excited to start the second half of the school year and see all of the amazing things in store for our OPA community. It is going to continue to be a fantastic year at OPA!!
OPA has been given the opportunity through the Orange County Department of Education to distribute at-home test kits to classroom-based families so that you can test your children for COVID-19 prior to them returning to campus on Monday, January 10, 2022.

Dear OPA Families,
Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!.
We will be on break December 18th - January 9th, 2022.
The front office will open on January 6th - January 7th if
you have any questions you may call (949)305-6111. Our
professors will respond to your emails after December 10th
when they return from the break.

As we head into winter break, I hope that you all have a wonderful, relaxing holiday with friends and family. It has been an incredible first half of the 2021-2022 school year with our students back on campus full time experiencing the programs and activities that make OPA so special.

Dear OPA Families,
I am excited to share that on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week our 5th and 6th
grade students were engaged in our annual Walkthroughs. A Walkthrough is an engaging and
interactive 2 ½ hour presentation of standards-based history curriculum through literacy and the
arts. Fifth grade students focus on the American revolution and sixth grade students focus on the
Ancient World. The presentation is facilitated by an animated trained presenter who guides
students through historical events using dynamic, kid-friendly stories and activities.

Happy December!! I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and a great week back at school. It was definitely full of great activities, and we are getting more and more busy as we near winter break.