News & Announcements

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!

Dear OPA Families,
We hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Next week our Professors will be hosting parent/teacher
conferences for all students on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. There will be no school for students on those
days. All parents have the opportunity to meet in person or through zoom. As usual, we anticipate strong parent
participation and partnership with our professors. You should have received an invitation from your child’s
professor, if you have not, please reach out to them directly.

Happy Friday OPA families and staff!! I hope that you all had an amazing week. As we move into fall, we have some exciting upcoming events.

Next week is conference week. Please make sure that you have signed up for either an in-person or virtual conference time with your champion’s professor(s). Also, please note that there is no school for students from September 29th to October 1st. If you will be joining us for an in-person conference, please follow all health and safety protocols, including wearing a mask and staying home if you have any COVID-19 symptoms.

Dear OPA Families,
We hope that you are having a wonderful weekend! We are excited to announce that our programs and
traditions on campus are coming back to life!
Last week was our first week of football and Volleyball practice. Our coaches and Champions were excited
to have these practices. It was great to see the coaching, engagement and sportsmanship during practices. Our first TK& Kinder Meet-Up is this Friday at 1:00-2:30 p.m. at Barcelona Park (next to the school). All current
TK&K parents are invited.

Congratulations to the OPA Community! We are excited to announce that SOC has won the OC
Parenting Reader’s Choice Award for Best Charter School in Orange County! This recognition
is a testament to the commitment, dedication and love for our school by our entire OPA
community.

Thank you all for an amazing first month of school! It has been great having our champions back and implementing some of the things that have had to be put on hold over the past 18 months. As we continue to get the 2021-22 school year underway, our students and professors have been busy with diagnostic assessments, building their classroom communities, learning new curriculum, and putting the great professional development organized by Dr. Henry into action in the classrooms. It is also very exciting to see all the creative MI activities professors have been implementing, including choice boards, MI class groupings, and outdoor learning activities, etc.

Dear OPA Families,

Thank you for joining us on Wednesday for University Orientation. We had hundreds of families join us for the general information session with Dean Velez and myself. If you did not have the opportunity to join us, please visit our website to view the presentation. The night was followed by great informational presentations by our dedicated professors.

Dear OPA Families,
I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases and the increased transmissibility of the Delta Variant, it was decided
that this year’s University Orientation will be virtual. We want to ensure that this large family event does not
lead to a rise in cases at OPA and a disruption to the learning environment.
Oxford Preparatory Academy’s University Orientation (Back to School Night) will be held VIRTUALLY on
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 for students at OPA- SOC. This day will be a minimum day with classes ending
at 12:30 pm for all students.

I hope that you all had a wonderful start to the school year! It was great seeing all the excited champions as they returned to school last week. We are all so grateful to be able to have in person instruction to start the year and have so many of our champions back on campus. Our teachers and staff have worked incredibly hard to make this an amazing return to school for our champions and families!

Thank you for a wonderful first full week of school!! It was great seeing all our champions this week and the wonderful classroom activities happening across both campuses and our virtual learning program.