9/16 Picture Day for Grades TK-2

9/21 4:00-5:00pm 1st School Site Council - Virtual

9/23 Picture Day for Grades 3-5

9/23 8:30-9:00 am Coffee with Principal Katherine live in the staff room

9/30 9:00am Mandarin Immersion Advisory Council virtual

9/30 Ice Cream Social

Orion Parent Volunteers sponsored an amazing festival for the local community and raised funds for Orion students.

Student performances, lion dancers, and special guest Mr. Jeff Gee, former RWC Mayor and council member shared in the celebration with special guest and Orion parent, Mayor Giselle Hale, and Superintendent Dr. Baker with Assistant Principal Winnie Wong.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, also known as the Mooncake Festival or Moon Festival, is one of China’s biggest holidays. The festival is a joyous celebration with family reunions, mooncakes, parades, and lanterns.

If you missed Back to School Night, every classroom teacher will send home the slide deck with useful information for parents for the year.

Check out the welcome video from Principal Katherine and Assistant Principal Winnie Wong and Orion PTO President Meghan Riley.

Our Mandarin Immersion Families in Grades 4 and 5 will attend Back to School Night this week, Thursday, September 15 from 6-7:15pm in the Orion Staff Room with Teachers Xuan Deng and Swati Solanki.

Mid-Autumn Festival - Thank You to everyone who joined together to admire the moon and express gratitude for friends, family, and community. We especially thank the event planners David Kwan and Hiep Ma for their extraordinary efforts in producing the event. We enjoyed getting together to play games and enjoy performances. We were grateful to invite the Kennedy Middle School students from RWCMI who started their MI journey as the inaugural class at John Gill back to the new campus to recognize them as middle schoolers.

San Francisco’s Lion Dance Me dazzled us with their performance.

We were delighted in watching our Orion Elementary students perform the student skits that they had practiced all summer. We want to express appreciation for Sheil Kee and Xiaolan Seeberger for their abundance of donated time and effort to organize the skits and rehearse for 8 weeks during the summer to support students in retaining their Mandarin skills. This is especially helpful for families that don’t have exposure to Mandarin after the public school day is over. We can’t thank you enough for donating your time to support students!

So sorry about the Bun Bao! There is a lot of learning we took away. Please feel welcome to add to our learning by giving feedback to the PTO and MI event planning team! Event Feedback Survey The PTO raised $6, 453 on Friday to support school-wide enrichment. Thank you so much to everyone who donated to raise money to support our children!

Seeking site chair for Healthy Cities Tutoring:

New Dad’s Club BRORION!

• First social meeting 9/14 6 pm @ Harry’s Hofbrau

• BRORION will host a pancake breakfast fundraiser at Campout-pancake flippers needed!

• Shirts coming soon

• Ideas or questions contact jitpal_sahai@yahoo.com

Thursday Market to begin this Thursday!

Give your child $1 or $5 to buy some snacks for school. We are seeking snack donations and sales volunteers. Our children cherish this weekly fundraiser.

September is hosted by Grades 4 and 5. October will be grades 2/3. November will be graded TK/K/1. December, we start the rotation over, and grades 4/5 are back at it.

Sign up here:

https://signup.com/go/nnbfYyy

Website: https://orion.rcsdk8.net/
Location: 555 Ave Del Ora, Redwood City, CA, USA
Phone: 650-482-2406