Family Tip 1: Define your terms.
Make sure kids understand what cyberbullying is: repeated and unwanted mean or hurtful words or behavior that occurs online (through texts, social media posts, online chat, etc.).
Olympia High School Speech Team is hosting the annual "Meet the Regional Team Night" this evening at 6:30 pm in the OHS Media Center. Please come out and support our IHSA team before our regional on Saturday.
HS Baseball’s Open Gym for tomorrow 2/6 has been cancelled and rescheduled for Friday, 2/7 at 7am in the HS Gym.
Once kids go online, their chances of finding cyberbullies, haters, and trolls is, sadly, quite high. Find age-specific guidelines, videos, and articles to help with tough conversations -- whether your kid is a bully or is being bullied. Common Sense Media addresses your cyberbullying questions, offering age-appropriate advice, school resources, and more from parents and experts.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cyberbullying
The OHS Parent Feedback Meeting for tonight has been canceled due to poor weather conditions. A rescheduled date and time will be communicated soon. Be safe out there!
Freshman Boys Basketball for today 2/5/20 at Tri-Valley has been cancelled.
Lady Spartans pick up a home conference win over Pontiac tonight. 52 to 43. The JV team also earned a win.
Olympia High School Speech team had three tournament champions. Grace Melick in Oratorical Declamation. And Mariah Maris in both Humous Interpretation and Prose Reading
Fam Tip 5: Choose a Variety of Sources
Show kids how you get news & information from different places, & explain how you make your choices. Use words like "credible," "trustworthy," "respected," and "fair." As kids get older, introduce the ideas of bias, satire, and clickbait.
Lady Spartans pick up a road conference win over STM, 51 - 31. Spartans improve to 5 - 2 in the conference and 22 - 5 overall. JV girls also with the W.
Have you been keeping up with our News and Media Literacy suggestions? Here are some questions that you could use as discussion prompts to see how things are sinking in!
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Way to represent OHS Special Olympics, & inclusion! Hannah Baker, Jacob Begolka, Caleb Busick & Brenden Webb took home gold this weekend in individual basketball skills. They will compete at state in March. Dylan Olson, & Kacie Raffety won silver. Dakota Birky achieved bronze!
When we get news from our social media feeds, it often only tells us part of the story. Our friends - and the website's algorithms - tend to feed us perspectives we already agree with. Escape the filter bubble and have your ideas challenged! https://youtu.be/mh1dLvGe06Y
Applications for the new Laborer's Union Program are now available in the counseling office!
Following program completion, laborers can earn a starting wage of $24 per hour, and receive health insurance as well as a pension and annuity program.
Congratulations to Trevor White finishing 3rd today at the Boys Bowling Sectional in Collinsville - bowling 1342 and advancing to the State Tournament! #SpartanNation
Congratulations to the Olympia High School Speech Team on their competition at Downers Grove South. Congrats to semi-finalist in Prose, Mariah Maris. Also congratulations to our Tournament Champion in Oratorical Declamation, Grace Melick!
Thank you to the St. Joseph Ogden Spartans for teaming up with the Olympia Spartans in supporting the Olympia to Peoria St. Jude Run. #SpartansLoveSt.Jude @SJOBoysHoops, @OLYMBB
Family Tip 4: Discuss Fact vs. Opinion!
Play with ideas and decide which are facts and which are opinions. Ask: How tall are you? What's the best food in the world? Do you like dogs? Point out that both fact and opinion show up in the news, but opinion is usually(!) labeled.
Due to slick roads and dense fog, Olympia schools will have a one hour late start today (Friday, Jan. 24, 2020)
Lady Spartans with a couple of home conference wins tonight over Rantoul. JV 35 - 17 and Varsity 55 - 22. Colby Burt with 18 pts. and Abbi Bode with 17 pts. The Spartans improve their record to 20 - 5 on the year.