Express Newsletter

The remaining seven weeks of school are full of performances, presentations and celebrations. You have several ways to access the OES calendar.

• All School Public Website Calendar - this includes options to filter the calendar for LS Events only. The calendar icon is located in the upper right corner of each OES website page
• All School Calendar in List form covering two months of events located at the bottom of the OES homepage
• Parent Portal Community Calendar - this calendar includes filter options as well as events that are of relevance to smaller groups of the OES Community

Besides the OES Calendar you have four other sources of school information.

• The bi-weekly Aardvark News, emailed to you each Friday morning with news from across the school
• The weekly Lower School Express, included as a link in the weekly Aardvark News
• The weekly Room Parent newsletter emailed out to you each Sunday which contains information particularly relevant to he grade or class
• The teachers’ classroom websites contain schedules, curricular updates and news about upcoming events

Next week the Americans Who Tell The Truth exhibit by Robert Shetterly will open in the OES Chapel. The exhibit, which runs from April 28 through May 30th, features portraits of 20 Americans committed to environmental justice. You are welcome to come to the chapel to experience the exhibit yourself. If you want to confirm that there is no other programming taking place at the time (such as a division's chapel), please feel free to contact Chris Decatur, Head Chaplain.

Moving Into Coffees
Among the upcoming events we will be offering this spring are the annual Moving Into Coffees. Each year we offer parents a time to be introduced to their child’s grade to come during our Moving into Coffees.  See the table below for the dates and grade levels of the coffees. The coffees are listed in grade level order. Review the schedule below and plan to attend the coffee for the grade that your child will be moving into next fall. Kirstin McAuley, Chris Thompson, grade level teachers, and I look forward to sharing our goals for the 2025-26 school year, highlights of the grade level to come, and answering your questions.

Each Moving into Coffees will be preceded by an informal coffee social from 7:45 - 8:15 in the LS Library.