Please help us by Rounding Up for Oceanway at the Winn Dixie at 12333 Sage Ave. W. through August 30. Our cheerleaders will be bagging groceries Monday, August 29. Come out and support the team and our school. The cheerleaders need to best the football team defense ($904) and offense ($1327) fundraising from last week!

Oceanway Middle needs volunteers for help with school office or projects or to assist with student events. All volunteers must go through a district screening. The link for the screening is here: https://dcps.samaritan.com/custom/506/volunteer_registration

Please let us know if you're interested in becoming a volunteer by emailing Sharon Williams at williamsS1@duvalschools.org

5000 Role Models of Excellence is targeted for black male youths ranging in grades 3 through 12 who do not have a male role model in their life. Please review the program website and the district page by clicking on the links below:

https://www.5000rolemodels.com/

https://dcps.duvalschools.org/Page/8163

We will be having our interest meeting on Wednesday 9/14 at 4:30 pm at the school. We encourage everyone that feels that they have a child this program would help to attend the interest meeting.

Mr. Jeffrey T. Horton and Mr. Martin V. Lee will be serving as co-site directors of the program at Oceanway Middle School. Our goal as a school is to have as many students as possible that can begin at Oceanway and grow within the program. Each student that is accepted into the program must be an active participant.

There is a need for support for each student selected. If you can serve as an adult role model, the information is available on either website. Contact Mr. Horton (hortonj4@duvalschools.org) or Mr. Lee (leem5@duvalschools.org) for more information.

Students who did not turn in computers and/or cords at the end of last year, please do so ASAP. Students will be charged for missing machines and cords. Students will not be issued a new laptop until the previous one is checked in.

To help close the technology gap for students in need, the district applied for a federal grant known as the Emergency Communications Fund grant.

Through this grant, the district is able to loan 43,000 laptops and 10,000 hotspots to students.

We encourage all families in need to complete an application.

This application is online in the parent's FOCUS account. It is called the “Parent Emergency Communications Fund Survey.”

Applications will continue to be collected until all technology has been handed out.

OCEANWAY WILL BE TRANSITIONING TO CLEAR OR MESH BACKPACKS THIS YEAR!

Per School Advisory Council approval, an active uniform policy is in effect at Oceanway School. Each student has the responsibility to dress appropriately and have respect for self and others in the school environment. Apparel, jewelry (such as body piercing(s) and ornaments), hairstyles, and general appearance should not disrupt the classroom atmosphere, be unusually provocative and/or violate the health and safety rules of the school. These requirements for dress and grooming will apply to all students. Student dress and grooming must be neat and clean, and follow the criteria below:

· Uniform shirts:

o short or long sleeved solid colored polo style shirt with a collar shall be worn. Oceanway logo shirts can be purchased through this link: Totalimpactjax.com

o Shirts must be solid navy blue, light blue, medium heather grey, black or white in color.

o NO VISIBLE LOGOS on uniform shirts.

o No rips holes or frayed edges on uniform shirt.

· Uniform bottoms:

o Solid black/navy khaki twill pants, ankle length, capri length, knee length shorts or knee length skirts are allowed.

o Full, ankle or Capri length blue denim jeans without shred, rips tears or holes are allowed. Denim shorts including those if knee length, are NOT allowed.

o Bottoms including skirts may not be form fitting, knit or spandex in design and material.

o NO sweatpants, gym shorts, athletic leisure, leggings or “jeggings”.

o All uniform bottoms should be free of designs, logos, rips, holes or frayed edges.

· Shoes:

o Shoes must have closed toes and heels. Shoes with rubber soles are recommended for proper traction. Bedroom shoes, slippers, slides, flip flops or crocs are not allowed.

· Additional layers of clothing for warmth:

o An outer layer of clothing may be worn over the uniform shirts

o Students may wear a zip up or button up jacket or sweater in solid black or Navy.

o NO hoods, pullover sweaters, sweatshirts or hoodies are allowed.

o Students may wear a white, black or navy plain long-sleeve t-shirt under their uniform shirt.

o No visible logos on outerwear.

o Zip up or button up Oceanway school spirit outerwear without hoods may be worn.

o Outer wear should have no rips tear or frayed edges.

Physical education Uniforms:

o PE bottoms:

§ Students will wear loose fitting, solid black or navy-blue knee length gym shorts, sweatpants or athletic pants. Leggings and spandex pants/ shorts are not allowed.

o PE tops:

§ Students may wear a plain white, black or navy-blue t-shirt or Oceanway spirit wear.

§ No visible logos on PE uniforms.

o PE shoes:

§ Athletic shoes or sneakers.

· The waistbands of bottoms shall not be worn below the hips. This includes students’ outermost layer of pants. Clothing that is worn appropriately, is suggestive, has tears that expose body part, has printing with words or pictures that have a sexual connotation will not be permitted.

· Clothing and accessories shall not be worn if they display profanity; violence; lewd and obscene message; sexually suggestive phrases or advertisements; phrases or symbols of alcohol, tobacco/drugs or other symbols phrases or advertisement that will be offensive to common propriety or decency.

· Head covering; including but not limited to athletic sweatbands, headbands with logos, scarves, caps, hats, bandanas, hair curlers, and/or sunglasses is not permitted unless required by a physician. Headbands or hair accessories may not be worn around the forehead.

· Any article of clothing or jewelry that may cause injury to oneself or others Is not allowed.

All students must adhere to these criteria for acceptable apparel and appearance in order to maximize instructional time. Students will be given the opportunity to immediately correct dress code violations. Refusal to comply with uniform/dress code policy will result in disciplinary consequences per DCPS student code of conduct.

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