Two Oak Bluffs students were honored at the state house in Boston as part of a national reading and writing program for young people.
Lily Davey and Bella Chimes, eighth-grade students at the Oak Bluffs School, both submitted work to Letters About Literature, a program that asks young people in grades four through 12 to write to an author (living or dead) about how his or her book has had a profound impact on them. Lily wrote a letter to Tahereh Mafi, the author of Shatter Me, and Bella wrote a letter to Donna Cooner, the author of Skinny.
The Oak Bluffs School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year. Eighth grade high honors: Taber Caron, Lily Davey, Aivaras Gedvilas, Andrea Guyther, Emma Hall, Julia Hart, Danielle Hopkins, Julia Levesque, Nayson Peres, James Robinson, Colby Scarsella, Sarah Thomas, Liam Weiland and Eva Wilson.
The Oak Bluffs School is going to the sea for its annual fall musical with a production of The Little Mermaid. Showtimes are tonight, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., all at the Oak Bluffs School.
A federal civil rights investigation of the Oak Bluffs and Tisbury
schools has cited both for failing to meet the instructional needs of
their growing population of Brazilian students.
The investigation was triggered by a parent complaint in November
which alleged that the schools' lack of trained teachers,
interpreters and appropriate materials was shortchanging Brazilian
students.
Portrait of Close Companions, As Drawn at Oak Bluffs School
By C.K. WOLFSON
"If you can imagine it, you can dream it, if you can dream it,
you can become it," wrote Kevin Hayes (K.J.) Johnson in his Oak
Bluffs School 2001 yearbook.
A secretary at the Oak Bluffs School has been charged with embezzling more than $15,000 from a school account by forging the principal’s name on several checks and then keeping the money.
Susan T. Peters, 59, of Oak Bluffs, was summonsed last week on charges of larceny by a single scheme over $250, forgery of checks, uttering false checks and larceny over $250.
Oak Bluffs School principal Laury Binney will be showing a short film and speaking about his recent travels to Brazil on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. It is free and open to all.
Mr. Binney, who took an unpaid sabbatical last year, and his wife Marcy, a reading teacher, spent six months visiting elementary schools in Brazil in an effort to gain insights into addressing the needs of Brazilian-born students on the Vineyard. The talk takes place at the Oak Bluffs School.
Under financial pressure on all sides, the Oak Bluffs School will cut three faculty positions, slash general supplies and professional development funds and dip into school choice savings to help pay for a town budget shortfall, it was decided this week.
And while the school is doing its share to help the town, the town will not return the favor, and is set to pocket nearly $3,000 in compensation for the use of the school last week as a briefing area by the White House and media center for the press corps during the presidential visit.
Carlin Hart is already settling into his new job as principal of the Oak Bluffs School. In an interview at his office on Wednesday this week, he took a seat among boxes and books, some of them his, some belonging to outgoing principal Laury Binney.
