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OCEAN Newsletter

OCEAN Newsletter

September 3, 2024

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Here are the new announcements in this newsletter:

  • First Week Conference
  • First Week at Home learning
  • Comprehensive Sex Ed Family Info Session, September 23
  • Please complete Child Nutrition Eligibility forms

New Announcements

First Week Conferences Sept 3-6

Look for an email from your conferencing teacher for your first week conference. Both the student and the parent/guardian/family member should attend the conference.This conference is a requirement of the program. If you cannot make your scheduled time, email your teacher and ask to reschedule.

First Week at Home Learning

From September 3-6 students are participating in learning at home. Families can pick up assignments at conferences as well as follow the links provided here.


Grades K-5


Middle School



High School

Comprehensive Sex Ed Family Info Session, September 23

Students in grades 4-12 will be participating in sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention lesson as part of their classes at OCEAN this school year.


Our district is using lessons from Rights, Respect, Responsibility Advocates for Youth, which includes information about how people get HIV and how to prevent it. It stresses the importance of student-family communication and abstaining from sex. It provides age-appropriate information about human growth and development and the reproductive system, healthy relationships, consent, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy prevention methods.


Since 1988, all Washington students in grades 5-12 must receive HIV/AIDS prevention education at least once each year (RCW 28A.230.070). Parents and guardians may remove their children from these lessons with a written request after attending a district presentation about the curriculum. Students will be given other lessons.


Since 2022 all Washington schools are required to provide comprehensive sexual health education at least twice between grades 9-12, at least twice in grades 6-8, and at least once in grades 4-5. Parents and guardians may review the sexual health education curriculum and may remove their children from these lessons with a written request. (RCW 28A.300.475). Students will be given other lessons.


A presentation for parents and guardians will be held at back to school night:

Manday, September 23, at 5pm at OCEAN.


For more information, to request an interpreter for the parent presentation,

or to request that your child(ren) be removed from lessons, please contact: Sarah Rubenstein, srubenstein@ptschools.org.

Please complete Child Nutrition Eligibility forms

OCEAN families always do a great job completing the Child Nutrition Eligibility form. Our rate of return means that for the second year in a row all students will receive free breakfast and lunch at OCEAN. Completing your form this year can help our school qualify for continued free meals and other funding.


You can complete this form in Skyward or by using the paper form that was mailed, or pick one up at school. More information and directions are available here:


https://www.ptschools.org/for_families/food_services/free__reduced_meal_application


If your family is eligible for other fee waivers be sure to complete the Consent to Share form as well.

Upcoming Events

  • September 3 - Course Studies Begin
  • September 3-6 - Student and Family Conferences
  • September 9 - In person FPP classes begin
  • September 23 - 5pm, Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Family Info Night
  • September 30 - Picture day


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Non-discrimination statement

Port Townsend School District No. 50 does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, immigration status, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. The district provides equal access to the Boy Scouts of America and all other designated youth groups listed in Title 36 of the United States Code as a patriotic society. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:


Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator for State Law (RCW 28A.640/28A.642): Carrie Ehrhardt 360.680.5756 cehrhardt@ptschools.org

Title IX Officer: Carrie Ehrhardt 360.680.5756 cehrhardt@ptschools.org

Section 504/ADA Coordinator: Shelby MacMeekin, 1610 Blaine Street, (360) 680.5763, smacmeekin@ptschools.org

Title IX inquiries may also be directed toward the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR):https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html

Sarah Rubenstein