Parents and students:
I want to clarify what Fridays will be used for during our Hybrid and/or Remote Learning days. These are days set aside for teacher planning, for students who need extra help and need to communicate with their teachers, and work on assignments or projects that are due for the next week.
Thank you,
Mr. Alli
MEALS: Today is a food distribution day. Meals for today, tomorrow, and Tuesday will be included. Please come to the front doors of the school building between 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. today. Action Packs will also be available for pick up today at the same times. This is the weekend food packs families signed up for at registration. If you have any questions about either program, please call the school! Next meal pick up day will be Wednesday, Sept. 9th (this is a change from the previous message). Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.
MEALS: If your family signed up for meals throughout the week, those will be ready for pick up tomorrow, Sept. 3rd, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Please come to the front doors to get your pack which contains food for Thurs. & Fri. The next meal pick up day is Tuesday, Sept. 8th. If you would like to be added to the list, please call the office so we have meals ready for you. Weekend Action Packs are also available tomorrow during the same times. If you signed up for the weekend food packs on your family survey, you are registered for this service. Please call the school should you have questions about your family's participation in the Action Pack program. Thank you!
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A new month means a new Regal Eagle award recipient. This award was started to highlight residents and graduates from my favorite school, in my favorite village. The award this month goes to Patrick Budds. Patrick graduated from Odin in 1992. He has chosen a career in law enforcement and has been making a difference ever since. Officer Budds was assigned to a DEA task force for 11 years and was recently presented with an award from the US Department of Justice for the work he did there. He is currently an officer in O’fallon Missouri where he has been proudly representing law enforcement while setting an exemplary standard of being a good person we should all strive to achieve. Thank you Officer Budds, we are proud of you in the village and proud to call you not just an Eagle- but a Regal Eagle.
Fall Picture Days for Elementary and High School students are scheduled for Wednesday, September 23 (Group A) and Thursday, September 24 (Group B). Please note that due to COVID restrictions, Lifetouch will not be able to provide the black drapes or tuxes for seniors. Those students are welcome to bring their own. For more information regarding picture packets, please visit Lifetouch.com
Due to staff member(s) testing positive for COVID 19, we will extend our closure through September 11. We hope that our hybrid program will resume on September 14. Thank you for your understanding and support at this time. We are all in this together! 🦅
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Correction: Meals will be available starting at 9:00 a.m until 12:30 p.m. Our apologies for the typo.
MEALS: If your family signed up for meals throughout the week, those will be ready for pick up today, August 31st, from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Please come to the front doors to get your pack which contains food for the next three days. The next meal pick up day is Thursday, Sept. 3rd.
If you would like to be added to the list, please call the office so we have meals ready for you. Have a great week!
Per TeachEase support, the E-Learning check in option is no longer available through the TeacherEase app. For daily attendance check in, please go to https://www.teacherease.com/common/login.aspx and log in from there. We apologize for the inconvenience, and TeacherEase has assured us that they are working to make the check in through the app an option again.
Materials that students will need for remote learning are available for pick up until 3:30 today, and from 9:00am-12:00pm tomorrow. Students should come pick up any textbooks that they did not take home. If you can not come during those times, please contact the school on Thursday before noon to make other arrangements.
Fridays are going to be set up as assignment catch up day. Students may ask their teacher's questions regarding lessons and assignments. Teachers will be planning their remote instruction for the following week on Fridays. Students MUST still check in to TeacherEase on Fridays for attendance.
Please see the attached picture on our website and Facebook page regarding student check in through TeacherEase for remote instruction days.
**DAILY CHECK IN MUST BE DONE BETWEEN 8:00-8:30am **
If you cannot log in to TeacherEase, please contact the office so that we can make sure there is a current email address on file.
If you can log in to TeacherEase, but can not check your student(s) in for attendance, please contact TeacherEase at 1-630-592-4200 Ext. 2 and ask for Eileen.
A message will be sent out later today regarding times for parents and students to come pick up materials needed for remote learning over the next 14 days.
Please see the attached letter on our app and Facebook page regarding remote learning for the next 14 days. Please note that there will be NO in person learning until Wednesday, September 9, 2020. We have also included the current guidelines from IDPH regarding isolation following symptoms. If your student was in close contact with an individual testing positive for COVID-19, the Marion County Health Department will be in contact with you within the next 24 hours with further details and instructions.
The Junior Class would love you to mask-up in style! Check out the link below and order your Odin Eagle Mask! Online orders ONLY and the online store closes 9/4/2020.
odinstudents2020.itemorder.com
The HS baseball game at Odin vs CORLHS that was scheduled for Thursday has been moved to Wednesday (26th) @ 4:30pm
The Illinois Department of Health provided updated guidance on Thursday, August 20, describing when a student or staff member should be excluded from school. This guidance has been attached for your convenience. In this guidance, it describes how long the student or staff member must be quarantined and the process to return to school. It is important that you look through this chart to fully understand how students and staff must be quarantined in certain situations. Please note that if your student is experiencing ONE of the listed symptoms, they must be excluded from school. At this time, we are requesting students and staff who are forced to quarantine, but healthy enough to engage in the classroom remotely, continue to work remotely similar to our remote learning for all plan.
Odin Public School District will continue to closely monitor quarantined individual numbers as well as local COVID-19 case numbers to determine what phase of our return to school plan we will move to in the future.
As we work to reach our "new normal," the safety and health of students, staff and families is the top priority for everyone at Odin Public School District.
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/IDPH-COVID19-Exclusion-Decison-Tree.pdf
Please see the following link for a guide to Google Classroom:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1g-0F_xa9WSocHxHz8aJylaFnj-XQVNN8/edit?filetype=mspresentation&fbclid=IwAR00OCZqmsa6jxAdfYyV_raZsxxFxeNg9182G_wQZtjyJ0hzAd5Y0CtZf40
You may also watch the video presentation at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lowi-gmbys
We apologize for the delay! Students who chose the Remote Only Learning Option may pick up their Chromebooks and materials from the office today before 3:30PM.