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Letter from

the Editor W

inter break and the end of the second quarter are al-

ready upon us! It’s hard to believe how fast time flies!

November was a busy month with lots of exciting news to report

on, with everything from fundraisers to stellar performances from

Oakridge’s many clubs, activities, and sports teams.

With one national holiday past and the remainder of the holiday

season before us, it’s timely to reflect on and be thankful for the

privileges we have. I feel especially privileged to be an Oakridge

teacher. I am convinced that Oakridge students, teachers, and

faculty members are some of the best and brightest around, and

I feel fortunate to work for and with such a fantastic group of

individuals.

I could go on with my praise and gratitude, but that would de-

tract from the impressive work that the newsletter students have

produced here.

Go Bulldogs!

Josh Vet

Editor of OMS Bulldog Bulletin

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November-December 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2

Inside this issue:

Calendar of Events 2-5

Fundraisers 3

Midterm Schedule 5

Scholar Bowl 6

Debate Team 7

MathCounts &

Orchestra

8

And even more!

Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin

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School Website: http://www.collierschools.com/oms

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CollierSchools

District Website: http://www.collierschools.net

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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All-County

Band Auditions

3

4 5 6

Straight A

Breakfast

8th grade

Band Night @

GCHS

7

Orchestra Ens.

Festival @

FGCU 10 am

8 9

First Scholar

Bowl Match vs.

GGM @ OMS

10

Veterans Day

Celebration

11

NO SCHOOL

12 13

14

15 16

1st day of

Session 2 After

School

Enrichment

Program

17 18 19

Orchestra

Concert @

6:30

20

Scholar Bowl

Match @

Community

School

21

22 23

24

25

26

27

28

29 30

November 2015

For more information, check out www.collierschools.com/oms and http://www.collierschools.net/

Volume 1, Issue 2

No School—Fall Break

ww.collierschools.com/oms

The Salvation Army Canned

Food Drive was sponsored by

Jodi Virzi and the student gov-

ernment at Oakridge Middle

School this year. Cans were col-

lected through student home-

rooms from October 5 through

October 23. Volunteers from

student government collected

and counted cans weekly, work-

ing hard to manage the gener-

osity of Oakridge’s students and

teachers. By the end of the

competition, OMS donated over

1,700 cans and packaged foods

to the Salvation Army. Home-

rooms competed against one

another to collect the most

cans, and the competition was

close! The winning homeroom

for 6th grade was Ms. Walker’s;

for 7th grade, Ms. Wright’s; and

for 8th grade, Mr. Howell’s

homeroom. Each homeroom

receives a dress-down day on

December 16, when students

will be able to dress in CCPS

Dress Code. The Student Gov-

ernment thanks all students and

teachers who participated in the

Canned Food Drive for their

generosity!

Macy’s “Letters to Santa” Fundraiser

Now through the end of the

year, homeroom teachers will

collect Box Tops from students,

which will help us earn money

for an end-of-year PBS event!

Students who bring in the most

Box Tops in the school will have

the change to win rewards! Help

Oakridge earn up to $1000 for a

great year-end PBS event!

Volume 1, Issue 2 Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin

Canned Food Drive

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Distribution of

Interim Report

Cards

2 3 4

OMS Science

Fair

5

CCPS 5K @

MLK

Administrative

Center,

7:30 AM

6 7

Holiday Chorus

Concert @

Vanderbilt

Country Club

7 PM

8

Band Concert

@ OMS

Beg/Int: 6:00

Jazz/Adv: 7:00

9 10 11

6th and 7th

grade

“December to

Remember”

Social 4:00—

5:30

12

13 14

15

16

17

Early Dismissal

Chorus

Concert

@ 6:30 PM

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Early Dismissal

PBS day

Midterms

Make-ups

19

Winter Break

20

Winter Break

21

Winter Break

22

Winter Break

23

Winter Break

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Winter Break

25

Winter Break

26

Winter Break

27

Winter Break

28

Winter Break

29

Winter Break

30

Winter Break

31

Winter Break

December 2015

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Volume 1, Issue 2

Midterms Week: 14th-18th, Schedule on p. 5

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Midterm periods last 90 minutes, after which students will attend classes for the remainder of

the day. Midterms will count for 5-10% of the quarter grade, depending on the grade and

class level of the student. Thursday and Friday of Midterm week are half-days.

Beginning on December 1st, National Junior Honor Society will be pre-selling candy canes of all colors and flavors for students to purchase for their friends, teachers, administrators, etc. to celebrate the upcom-ing holiday season. Candy canes will be sold in the mornings from 8:30- 9:00. Additionally, representatives from National Junior Honor Society will be coming in to homerooms on Fridays to pre-sale. Candy Canes will be sold for $1 each and all monies collected will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Volume 1, Issue 2 Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin

Monday 14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 Friday 18

Period 1 Midterm

Periods 2 & 5 Midterms



Midterm Make-ups

Canes for a Cause

Midterms

Volume 1, Issue 2

Scholar Bowl

Page 6

Volume 1, Issue 2

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade

Michael Cope Devin Baer Kamdyn Atkinson

Victoria Culver Lara Ergun Evan Cohen

Charles Jaikaran Mia Ginsberg Lance Miller

Nathan Kim Jack Valenti Paridon Szittai

Kayla Weinrich

Emily Zhou

OMS won its first practice Scholar Bowl match on Monday, October 9th, in the Oakridge Middle School Media Center. They com-peted against a very good team from Golden Gate Middle. In the end, Oakridge triumphed, with the final score OMS 76 – GGM 56. OMS did a great job of answering questions and representing the middle school.

In their second match, Oakridge beat Community School, 75 to 68. Oakridge was behind by 9 points after the first round; however, the team was not discouraged. They were only down by 1 point after round 2. After a strong finish and emerged victorious!

The Scholar Bowl program is designed to recognize and challenge Collier County’s academically talented middle and high school students. The students answer rigorous questions about mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, humanities, fine arts, foreign languages, and current events. Not only are students answering questions, but they are also learning life-long skills such as teamwork, leadership, responsibility, self-advocacy, good sportsmanship, and collaboration. An important aspect about scholar bowl is the community partnerships that are created. Our program offers various opportunities for volunteers to support the children by moderating, judging, scoring, or timing at the middle and high school matches. The students get to know these community members, and the community members get to be inspired by our students.


Tesla’s Attic

After tragedy strikes his family, Nick moves into a new house. While looking into the attic, a toaster hits him on the head. All this stuff in the attic is junk and Nick holds a garage sale to earn some money from it. Then things start to go wrong; all these objects are in-scribed with the same initials, and they all start acting strangely for their new owners. Strange men show up and want to buy all the objects Nick sold. Why would they want the junk? Nick goes on a journey to find all the objects and get them back to discover why these strange men want them so bad.


Bladen Hopkin Cody Camp Andrew Meador

Brianna Barrantes Emily Zhou Angie Hobdari

Brianna Tourino Jada Dougherty Dorian Galvez

Carter Sickels Jillian Torres Evan Cohen

Charles Jaikaran Joey Lennon Grace Price

Chloe Pereyra Kennedy Eaton Jacob Schuchard

Cindy Leon Marina Ploeg Kamdyn Atknson

Donna Preston Mia Ginsberg Kyle Catino

Gabby English Rachel Gopman Mackenzie Meador

Gabby Toledo Sabian Saliasi Matthew Castanino

Isabella Rojas Sasha Davin Nyah Anglade

Jeremiah Paul Taylor Kerskie Paridon Szittai

Julianna Perez

Leah Stoltz

Maggie Platten

Osei Allen

Debate Team

On October 22, Debate Team won both their debates against East Na-ples and Cypress Palm.

Paridon Szittai, Taylor Kerskie, Jacob Schuchard, Kamdyn Atknson, Ra-chel Gopman, and Chloe Pereyra participated in the debate.

Debate Team is sponsored by Ms. Selden and meets on Wednesdays at 8:00 AM in 3-109.

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MathCounts students competed in their first competition Tuesday, De-

cember 1st, in the Collier County MathCounts competition. In the dis-

trict competition, Oakridge placed third. In the school competition, Ja-

cob Aybar placed first, and Kate Kramer came in second. Congratula-

tions to all our Mathletes!

MathCounts

Florida Orchestra Festival

Volume 1, Issue 2

The Florida Orchestra Solo/Ensemble MPA Festival took place Saturday,

November 7th, at the Bowers School of Music at FGCU. Ms. Pflieger from

OMS took 21 7th and 8th grade students to perform. All students received

the highest marks possible, “Superior” ratings.

Emelia Anderson Brandon Barrantes

Ian Blake Sarah El-Hafnawy

Lara Ergun Tori Guarino

Angela Huang

John Khalil Kayla Mathai

Victoria Mazza Yadira Mendez

Montana-Rae Pelak Anna Perez Lila Prince

Jeremy Saintyl Brenna Spieth

Vanessa Spinelli Kezia Tan

Sophia Vellozzi Natalie Wakelin Serena Zepeda


Christian Alvarado Gavin Antonacci Matthew Costantino

Jeanna Boltz Jacob Aybar Steven Dau

Michael Cope Devin Baer Lance Miller

Zayn Dalao Hadi Dalao Paridon Szittai

Gabrielle English Mia Ginsberg

Jack Griffith Joseph Hernandez

Manuel Hernandez Kate Kramer

Erin Ihrig Amaya Metelus

Robert Itu Jack Valenti

Nathan Kim

Zachary Raddani


Jordin Tubb had the privilege to in-terview one of our beloved guid-ance counselors, Ms. Pinkerton. During the interview, Jordin discov-ered Ms. Pinkerton was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. Ms. Pinkerton graduated from Ohio Uni-versity in Athens, Ohio, and the Uni-versity of New Hampshire, with a degree in Education. She later re-ceived her Masters in School Coun-seling from the University of Dayton in Ohio.

She originally when to school for Physical Education before changing majors to Biology, afterwards be-coming a classroom Biology teach-er. Growing up, she always knew she wanted to work with kids, and knew she wanted to teach. Later she switched to guidance to help kids with their studies.

When asked about bully-ing and anti-bullying month at Oakridge, Ms. Pinker-ton recom-mended ap-proaching bullying straight-forward, not ignoring the bullying. Instead, she said students should try to resolve, not turn a blind-eye, to it.

Finally, Ms. Pinkerton shared that she believes that even when people don’t think things can change, situ-ations can improve. And that’s what she’s there to help with!

Interview with Guidance Counselor, Ms. Pinkterton

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Newsletter Staff

This month’s newsletter was pub-lished by the hard work and dedica-tion of the following students:

Devin Baer—Layout, MathCounts

Kyle Catino—Debate

Tessa DiMare—Activities

Amelia Gaudio—Activities

Taylor Kerskie—Debate, Layout

Andrew Lundquist—Layout

Noelle Morey—Scholar Bowl

Marina Ploeg—Layout

Gabe Rivera—Layout

Carter Sickels—Calendar

Kylie Sickels—Activities

Selena Singleton—Interview

Olivia Strom—Calendars, Layout

Jordin Tubb—Interview

and Mr. Vet

On occasion, it may be necessary for a student to leave school during school hours.

If so, please observe the following:

Restrict interruptions of your child’s school day to emergencies only.

Schedule appointments during non-school hours whenever possible.

Students should present a written note with parent signature to the front office.

Sign out takes an authorized parent/guardian signature and picture ID; therefore, a parent/

guardian must come into the building to sign out their child.

Social arrangements should be made prior to coming to school. Last minute requests are restricted

to emergencies only.

CCPS

Oakridge Middle School is committed to providing a safe, stimulating, and positive learning envi-

ronment that inspires each student to obtain intellectual growth consistent with the student's high-

est abilities, and to pursue the development of good character.

Mission Statement

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Calling your child in sick? ATTENDANCE LINE:

(239) 377-4831

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