OCEAN Newsletter

Here are the new announcements in this newsletter:

• Back to School Night Thursday, August 29, 2024 5-6pm
  
• Picture Day September 30
  
• 2024-25 School Year Schedules, Course Offerings
  
• 9th and 10th grade Health Class Notification
• Please complete Child Nutrition Eligibility forms
  

We look forward to seeing you at Back to School night at OCEAN. Meet teachers, pick up schedules, and say hi to new and old friends.

Picture Day is Coming - Picture Day is coming! It will be held on Monday, September 30 at OCEAN. Get ready to say “cheese” and don’t forget – please don’t wear green. Detailed times for students who are not on campus during picture day will be published closer to picture day.

Below are links to the planned schedules and high school course offerings. Detailed high school schedules available at conferences. K-8 enrichment sign up at conferences.

• Class Schedule 2024-25 (updated 8.19.24) - subject to change
• High School
• Grades K-8
• High School Course Offerings

Students in 9th and 10th grade will be participating in sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention lesson as part of their 1st semester Health course. These lessons will begin the week of September 23rd.

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. 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:

Thursday, August 29, at 6pm 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.

For students in other grades an information session will be held at a future date.

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.

• August 29, 5-6pm Back-to-School Night @ OCEAN
• August 29, 6:30-8pm - AI Community Workshop @ Salish Coast Elementary School
  
• September 3 - Course Studies Begin
• September 3-6 - Student and Family Conferences
• September 9 - In person FPP classes begin

View the OCEAN Calendar Online

Sarah Rubenstein, Principal

Email: srubenstein@ptschools.org
Website: https://ocean.ptschools.org/
Location: 3939 San Juan Ave, Port Townsend, WA, USA
Phone: 360-680-5750
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oceank12

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceank12

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