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Owensville Community School at Office Depot :70037187 Every time parents, teachers and school supporters give our school's 5% Back to Schools ID number when buying school supplies at Office Depot, OCS receives credits equal to 5% of the qualifying purchases to use for school supplies.
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6569 S. State Road 65, Owensville, IN 47665 Phone: (812)724-3705 or (812)729-7428 Fax # (812)724-4201 OCS Attendance: OCSAttendance@sgibson.k12.in.us Tuesday, August 7th, will be registration day for school from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM and 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Tuesday, August 21st, will be Meet the Teacher Night from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the gym. The purpose of the Indiana Reading Evaluation And Determination (IREAD-3) assessment is to measure foundational reading standards through grade three. Based on the Indiana Academic Standards, IREAD-3 is a summative assessment that was developed in accordance with Public Law 109 which "requires the evaluation of reading skills for students who are in grade three beginning in the Spring of 2012 to ensure that all students can read proficiently before moving on to grade four." OCS Sports SchedulesOCS Sports CalendarOCS Class Time: 7:55am - 3:30pm K-8 Reading Carnival is May 18, 2012 Click to download the Kindergarten Medical Form: Kindergarten Medical FormReturn to: Pam Grubb, RN 6569 S. State Road 65 Owensville IN 47665 Kindergarten Registration Begins
Some very exciting activities will be going on this year at OCS to improve student learning. The teaching staff and I will be attending professional development activities through the Southern Indiana Education Center and also the Southwest Indiana Network for Education (SINE). Kindergarten-2nd grade teachers will be working on implementing Time to Teach and DIBLES. Teachers in 3rd, 4th and 5th are meeting by grade level and continuing training on working with high ability student, 1-8 teachers will continue using strategies on Reading in the Content Areas and I plan on attending the annual Indiana Association of School Principals fall conference to learn about new or updated administrative ideas and strategies. Owensville School is also continuing the Student Success Program (SSP). As your child goes through Owensville School you will also notice that he/she will do a lot of writing. One of our school goals is to incorporate writing into every subject at every grade level. Owensville School sees writing as one of the most important communication skills that every student will need throughout their life. Writing also helps develop critical thinking skills in students, a valuable tool for higher education and future employment. In the area of technology each classroom has two student computers and a teacher computer that is connected to the building network. The teacher computer is connected to a DLP projector with a wireless mouse/tablet that allows for teachers to work throughout their class on group projects with the class. Students use the Internet to research subject area topics as well as write pen pal letters with the word processor to be sent outside the corporation. Students will continue to learn keyboarding skills using type to learn software while learning skills in word and excel. The corporation has also installed Instant Messenger. This allows each school or the corporation to automatically call parents to notify them of school emergencies do to weather or other sudden changes in the school day. Through these improvement efforts and your continued support, we will strive to improve the educational opportunities we provide the students of Owensville Community School.
GOALS Owensville Community School will continue to work on the goals set in the school improvement plan to be achieved by the end of the 2011 school year. Goal 1. Ninety percent of the students in grades 3, 6, and 8 will demonstrate an eighty percent mastery level on the final local grade level SSP mini-assessment in reading comprehension by the end of the 2011 school year. Goal 2. Ninety-percent of the students in grades 3, 6, and 8 will demonstrate an eighty-percent mastery level on the local grade level final SSP mini-assessment in number sense and computation by the end of the 2011 school year. These are very challenging goals for our school to achieve, but by staff members using the Student Success Process (SSP) and attending professional development activities, we are working to reach these goals.
OCS IS “EXEMPLARY” For the last four years Owensville Community School has received an “Exemplary” rating under guidelines set forth by Public Law 221. This law places every school in one of five categories based upon performance and improvement of their ISTEP+ scores. Owensville Community School’s performance score has been above 80% (the percentage of students that passed the ISTEP+ test) and our improvement rate has been 1% or higher (based on improvement in a school’s ISTEP+ scores over a three year period). We believe that these ratings show that the programs implemented at Owensville Community School are successful, and that our students are working hard to improve. We view this recognition as a great compliment to everyone in our school community.
BREAKFAST PROGRAM
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Ms. Dianna Miller
The Gibson County Literacy Coalition is celebrating literacy in Gibson County. We commend Owensville Community School for the success of the school-wide sustained silent reading program. We get a "kick" out of your efforts!
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