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Oakwood High School August 21, 2020
Comet Courier
Volume VIII, Issue 2
Comet
Calendar
August 24, 25
NO SCHOOL
Remote Learning
Planning Days
August 26
First Day of School
Freshmen Only
11:30 Dismissal
August 27
First Day of School
Purple Group
August 28
First Day of School
White Group
September 1, 2, 3
School ID Photos
Taken
September 7
NO SCHOOL
Labor Day
District unveils hybrid plan
The Oakwood Unit District #76 unveiled their reopening plan on August 12 and it
was unanimously approved by the school board.
Around 85% of the high school students chose to be in-person learners this year,
causing the district to move to a hybrid schedule with A-L students attending on
Mondays and Thursdays. M-Z students will attend on Tuesday and Fridays. Wednesdays
will be Oakwood Remote Learning School days for all District students.
Fall 20-21 Semester Calendar
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat
August
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
October
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
September 16
School Board Mtg.
Weekend, Holiday, or Teacher Institute -- No School
Purple Cohort Day: A-L In Person
White Cohort Day: M-Z In Person
Remote Learning Day For All Students
Freshmen and 7th Graders Only/Remote Learning Packet and Chromebook Pickup

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College Express starts on Aug. 24
Some OHS juniors and seniors
will be returning to DACC
for their College Express classes
this semester, although there are
some changes from year’s past
due to COVID-19.
Students enrolled in College
Express classes will have their
first day on August 24. College Express
students are expected to be in
class EVERY day, Monday through
Friday. Classes will run from 12:30
to 2 p.m. each day.
OHS will NOT be providing
transporation to College Express
this year.
Booster Club could use your help
The OHS Booster Club is ready to begin another
year supporting the athletic teams and they could use
your support.
The group meets just once a month, at 7 p.m. on the
first Wednesday of the month. Next month’s meeting
will be September 4.
In past years they have provided assistance to each
of the school’s programs.
They have bought golf bags, re-surfaced the soccer
field, helped purchase the gym scoreboards, purchased
training equipment for football, uniforms for
softball, patches for championships, pins for letterwinners,
and many other things.
School lunch
accounts
Lunches may be purchased by
completing a payment through
E-Pay on our website (www.oakwood76.org)
or sending money
with your child to the school.
If you are sending a check,
please put the child’s name on the
memo line of the check. Checks
should be made payable to “Oakwood
High School.”
We encourage payment by
check when sending money to
the school because it serves as a
dated record of payment.
If you must send cash, please
enclose it in an envelope with the
student’s first and last name on
the envelope.
Free and reduced lunch applications
will be available in the
school office and on our school
website.
FOOD SERVICE CHARGES
Daily $ 3.05
Weekly $15.25
Extra Milk $ 0.50
Any extra food will be sold
to students in the second lunch
if they have money available in
their account.
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OHS welcomes
four new staff
Matt Blair
English
Clear backpacks
available in office
Students may still carry normal backpacks to and
from school, but they must remain in the locker, as in
years past.
However, since travel distances between classes may
be longer due to one-way traffic, and since the administration
is trying to reduce the number of locker visits,
students may want to carry a backpack.
To ensure student safety and to help them carry the
books, clear backpacks are allowed during the school
day this year.
The office is selling the backpacks for $10 if a student
would like to buy one.
Upcoming Athletic Events
Go To https://oakwoodathletics.com
Aug. 25 G Westville (HP) 4 pm
Aug. 29 XC SaberCorn Invite (A) 9 am
Aug. 31 G Tuscola (A) 4 pm
Sept. 2 G Bis-Hen (HP) 4 pm
Sept. 5 XC Cowchip Classic (A) 9 am
Sept. 8 G Salt Fork (A) 4 pm
Sept. 8 XC SJO (A) 4:30 pm
Sept. 9 G Danville (H) 4 pm
Amy Brant
Business
Molly Ham
Family and
Consumer Sciences
Amy Jameson
Secretary
School ID photos on
Sept. 1, 2, and 3
All students and staff will have their ID photos taken
on September 1, 2, or 3.
The White group will have their photos taken on
September 1 and the Purple group will have their photos
taken on September 3. The remote learners will be
able to come to OHS on Sepember 2 between 8:30 and
11 a.m. for their photo.
The photos are used for their identification cards as
well as for publication in The Acorn.
Students should dress appropriately for the photographs.
If a student is absent or is unable to get their photo
taken at that time, there will be a makeup day.
The photos will be taken by Sharon Richardson.
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Project Success will continue with in-person program
Project Success is a before- and
after-school program offered at
OHS. We are happy to announce we
will be having in person program
this year.
The program offers homework
help and tutoring along with enrichment
activities for the students. Program
hours are 7 to 8 a.m. and 1:50
to 3:50 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday & Friday. Students must
fill out an enrollment packet to be in
the program.
We will be following the school’s
attendance policy. Students can
only come to program the days they
are in-person learning at OHS. They
can however receive help virtually
on the days they are not in school.
We will have staff available before
and after school to have on-line
meetings for those students.
All students who attend in person
programming are required to wear
a mask the entire time they are at
program. We will also be following
social distancing guidelines.
Project Success welcomes all stu-
dents and we encourage you to join!
Packets can be picked up at the high
school in the office or the library.
If you have a student who is doing
all remote learning and would
like to be enrolled, please email
ohscoordinator@vcproectsuccess.
org and we will email you an electronic
packet to fill out. There is a
packet at the back of this newsletter.
If you have any questions, please
email Mrs. Matte Lee at ohscoordinator@vcprojectsuccess.org.
OHS creates outdoor learning and eating areas
In order to help with social distancing rules, OHS has
created a variety of outdoor eating and learning areas
across its campus. Thanks to the local businesses and
community members (Owens Excavating, The Dairy
Barn, Deejay Tiernan, and Connie Young) that donated
tents and tables or helped moved bleachers.
The custodial staff also created a walking path around
the exterior of the grounds which will be beneficial for
PE or other classes.
Freshmen Only on August 26

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To help ease the nerves
of the freshmen, Wed.,
Aug. 26 will be Freshmen
only.
All members of the
Class of 2024 (and any
other new students to
OHS) will attend school
next Wednesday without
the rest of the upperclassmen
around to embarass
them when they get lost.
The students will get
a chance to walk around
the school and learn their
schedule. They will also
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First day of school will be Freshmen Only
Remote learners can pick up Chromebooks on Aug. 26
get Chromebooks and other
materials.
They can also move
into their lockers.
Part of the day will also
be used to go over important
school information.
Students should be at
school by 8 a.m. and will
be dismissed at 11:30 a.m.
The buses will run their
regular routes this day.
Students who have chosen
remote learning will
be able to pick up their
Chromebooks and other
OHS to utilize new
1:40 schedule
HR -- 8:05-8:20
1st -- 8:24-9:02
2nd -- 9:06-9:44
3rd -- 9:48-10:25
4th -- 10:29-11:06
5A C -- 11:10-11:48
5A L -- 11:06-11:36
5B C -- 11:40-12:18
5B L -- 11:48-12:18
6th -- 12:22-12:59
7th -- 1:03-1:40
materials on that same day
from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
OJHS will follow a
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similar schedule on this
day for the 7th graders.
Cross country, golf
still on the schedule
While the IHSA has postponed most of the fall sports
to the second semester, golf and cross country are still
on the schedule.
Spectators will be allowed at events on a case-bycase
basis determined by the host. But spectators will
be expected to wear a mask.
Chromebook handout
All OHS students will receive one of the school’s
Chromebooks this year, moving us to a 1:1 school.
The remote learners will pick up their Chromebooks
and other learning materials between 12:30 and 3 p.m.
on August 26.
The Purple and White groups will pick up their
Chromebooks on their first day of school.
Students MUST use OHS Chromebooks for all OHS
classes. No outside devices may access the OHS server
due to restrictions.