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A few more slots have opened up for our next Varks Volunteer event at Northwest Children's Outreach! Join us!

Come support the Boys and Girls Soccer teams in the state playoffs!

One of the endeavors that my department colleagues and I appreciate the most is that we have the unique opportunity to explore some of the most compelling and beautiful questions about what it means to be human. How do I understand a person or group so different from me? What is my place in an increasingly digitized, pluralistic, and volatile world? What’s the right thing to do in any given situation? What do I think is true?  They’re not easy questions, certainly, but my colleagues and I are convinced of their utmost importance—not only

This past Sunday, we were delighted to welcome prospective and current Middle School families to campus for our annual Open House, an event that truly showcased the best of the OES Upper School. Our students were extraordinary ambassadors, displaying authenticity, thoughtfulness, and poise throughout the day. On the student panels, they spoke candidly about their experiences, answered questions with depth and insight, and demonstrated the warmth and inclusivity that define our community.

Manuela (Manu) Azul's life has been one of confinement, and concealment; as an undocumented immigrant in hiding from her father's Argentine crime family, she mostly stays in the Miami apartment she shares with her mother and Perla, a surrogate grandmother and fellow Argentine immigrant. 

🌽🎃 Annual Corn Maze Trip – Saturday, October 25th! 🎃🌽

On Saturday, we will take a group of Upper School students on one of the most anticipated trips of the year,  the Corn Maze at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island. We only have spots to take 100 students. Interested students must register here. Registration closes on Friday, October 17th. 

Last fall, as my colleagues and I were returning from Thanksgiving break, we found ourselves chatting in the English office about some of the conferences we’d had before the holiday. We talked about how engaged the students were in the conversations about their learning, how genial and kind our senior parents had been, and how joyous we’d found the exchanges. What really caught my attention was that a considerable number of the seniors, about a third of them, take more than one English elective each semester.

Our first Parent Partnership Meeting of the year will take place on Tuesday, October 14.

Tracy Hardister, Director of Counseling and Learning Support and licensed psychologist, will lead a thoughtful dialogue on parenting through adolescence.