District Information Osborn’s after school programs have begun! These classes are supported through special partnerships, grants and tax credit donations. While classes must have academic and enrichment components to assist students with school-day skills, they are also fun and engaging. Osborn students can choose from some of the following after school classes at one or more schools this fall. AeroSpace Challenge, Archery Club, Arts & Crafts, Book Club, Boys and Girls Ballet Classes, Brophy Tutoring Club, Child's Play Theatre - Drama, Computer Club, Cooking with Math, Culinary Arts, Dance & Health Together (ASU), Family B-Ball League, Family Campfire, Fitness Club, Game-A-Rama, Gemology, Gifted Club, Girl Scouts, Girls on the Run (Running Club), Glee Club, Homework Club, Journalism/Yearbook, Kinder Skills, Lego Creations, Math Club, Moovin’& Groovin’ to Hip Hop, Newspaper Club, Open Library, Pink Ladies Careers in Cosmetology, PowerPoint, Pride Store, Reading Club, Rocket Club, Running Club, Science Club, Student Council, Tap Dance, Teen Campfire, Tennis, Tutoring, Volleyball, Yoga, and Fit Kids, a collaborative program with Dr Kristi Samaddar at St Joseph’s Hospital in which students learn hip-hop, karate, games, and tips to have fun and be healthy.
The Osborn School District in Central Phoenix offers unique programs to ensure student success. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (candidate status) is at Longview School. Longview offers the only IB program at the elementary level in Phoenix. Montecito School boasts an award-winning A+ Peace Program and an Out-Door Learning Lab. The award-winning Spanish Dual Language Immersion Program is offered from K-8 at Encanto, Clarendon (A+ School Award) and Osborn Middle School. The Osborn Ballet Program (Golden Bell and A+ Awards) is also offered in those schools for students in grades 3-8. Solano School is working toward a Modified Traditional academics program. A Community Garden is also hosted onsite. Osborn students continue to receive Music, Band, Choir, Art, and PE instruction and are well prepared for rigorous academics at the middle school. Osborn Middle School is the only middle school in Phoenix that offers Geometry- a tenth grade course. Please visit OsbornSchools.org or call 602-707-2000 for more information. Los Compadres Mexican Food is partnering with the Osborn School District to encourage students at Encanto, Clarendon, and Osborn Middle School to improve their reading skills. They are offering a free meal to the students demonstrating the greatest growth in reading in each classroom during each trimester. The Valdivia family, who have owned Los Compadres for more than 50 years, attended Encanto and Clarendon and are determined to do something special to make a difference in the schools and to benefit their community.
Principals Sandy Meko and Marty Makar are pleased to announce that 19 Clarendon and 4 Osborn Middle School students from the Osborn Ballet Program were selected for children’s parts in Ballet Arizona’s production of Nutcracker. Five boys were selected to dance in the opening Party scene: Udith Karthikeyan, Darryl Knighton, Isaiah Medina, James Molarski, and Orson Westberg; 17 students were selected to be soldiers and understudies: Raquel Barraza, Leslie Caldera Gomez, San Juana Cruz Escamilla, Heather Dinius, Dulce Escobar, Kalan Hansen, Charidy Hullihen, Lorena Jasso Solórzano, Trinity Lugo, Larissa Morris, Estaphany Nava, Gabrielle Padilla, Trinidad Ramirez, Bobbie Lenae Seechoma, Cinthya Sierra, Gabriela Tola, and Autumn Toms Kennerson; and one student was selected to be an Angel understudy: Anna Barajas. It was an exciting experience. The group did a great job and will be rehearsing every Saturday to prepare for the performances which begin in early December. Ballet Instructor Camden Lloyd is pleased that so many students who worked so hard last year to earn the privilege to audition were selected. Osborn Ballet Program students will be learning from both sides of the curtain-- some for the third time! The Osborn Ballet Program is supported by the Osborn Educational Foundation, AZ tuition tax credit donations to Clarendon & Encanto schools, and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers after-school grant. More information is available at www.OsbornSchools.org/Programs/Ballet.htm.
Across the district, third graders and their parents are attending monthly KidsRead events held in the libraries. Students have breakfast with their family, listen to a story read by a guest reader and go home with a new book! KidsRead was founded 14 years ago by Eileen Bailey Driscol and the Osborn Educational Foundation. The program is designed to improve literacy by modeling reading together and giving third graders books to keep in their home libraries, so that they will have appropriate level reading material in their homes. Twice a year in December and March, all third grade students are given hard-cover Dr Seuss books. KidsRead is supported through donation to the Osborn Educational Foundation. Please visit www.OsbornSchools.org/OEF for more information.
Parents who live in the Osborn School District with concerns about their 2 ½- to- 5 year- old child's development are invited to participate in free screenings. Children will be screened in developmental areas, including: cognitive, language, motor, self-help, and social. Screening will take approximately 15-30 minutes. Please call Becky McNany for an appointment or for more information: (602) 707-2017. The screening dates and locations are: October 29 at Longview, December 3 at Montecito, January 14, 2011 at Solano, February 25 at Longview, March 25 at Montecito, and April 15 at Solano.
Source:
Cynthia Westberg, EdM
Osborn School District
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