Enjoy $2 Extra Style Day Mondays.
Help get the team to Texas by sending your student in their style day best each Monday in April and early May (4/3, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, & 5/8) for a donation of only $2 or more each day.

Make a donation to the team.

If you would like to make a donation in support of the Robotics Team, you can do so via RevTrak (please add “ROBOTICS” to the comments section).

Become a Robotics Business Sponsor.

Support the Robotics Team on the road to Houston and beyond by becoming a 2024 Business Sponsor! Donate $500 or more to support the team and your business will be featured on the team t-shirt and competition banner as well as Orange Grove’s website, social media, and online communication. To make a Business Sponsor donation, you can do so online via RevTrak (please include “ROBOTICS” in the comments section along with the name of your business).

By this time next week, we will have already begun our last quarter of the school year! We have so many fun activities planned for the 4th quarter. Do you want to be part of the fun on a daily basis? I am happy to make that dream come true for you. Simply click here to complete a quick Substitute Teacher Interest Form and let the fun begin.

Thank you for your continued support of The Grove!

John H. Clendaniel

CEO

MARCH

March 22: March Madness EXTRA Style Day - Bring $1 / Middle Spring Pictures

March 23: Book Fair Online Shopping opens!

March 24: End Q3 / Teacher Workday / No School

March 27 - 28: Book Fair Preview Days

March 28: Middle School MAP Testing / PTO Board Meeting 1:50p @ Elementary

March 28 - 30: Elementary iReady Testing (K - 4th)

March 29: March Madness EXTRA Style Day - Bring $1 / Elementary In-School Book Fair Shopping opens

March 30: Middle School MAP Testing

March 31: Q3 Report Cards home

APRIL

April 3: Robotics EXTRA Style Day - Bring $2

April 4: Middle In-School Book Fair Shopping Day / Book Fair Family Shopping Night 3 - 5:45p @ Elementary / PTO General Meeting & 2nd Grade Show (5:45p - doors open / 6p - start)

April 4 - 6: Elementary iReady Testing (K - 2nd)

April 5: Last day for Elementary In-School and Online Book Fair Shopping

April 6: Blood Drive @ Elementary - Sign up to donate here

April 7: Early Release (11:40a - Elementary / 12:15p - Middle) / CD - 2nd Grade Career Day

April 10 -14: Spring Break / No School

April 17: Robotics EXTRA Style Day - Bring $2

April 18 - 19: Elementary iReady Testing (5th only)

April 24: Robotics EXTRA Style Day - Bring $2

April 25: PTO Board Meeting 1:50p @ Elementary

April 27: OGCS Charter Board Meeting 6p @ Elementary / Chorus Concert 6:30p @ WAHS

MAY

May 1: Robotics EXTRA Style Day - Bring $2

May 6: 8th Grade Dance 6-8p @ Elementary

May 8: Robotics EXTRA Style Day - Bring $2

May 9: PTO General Meeting & Steel Drum Performance (5:45p - doors open / 6p - start)

May 11: Middle School Moana Performance 6p @ Cafe

May 12: Early Release (11:40a - Elementary / 12:15p - Middle) / Q4 Progress Reports Home

View the 2022-2023 OGCS Academic Calendar here.

Congrats to all of our baseball, softball, and soccer players at the Middle School for wrapping up their strong seasons earlier this month. Coach Butler and the softball team were able to place 2nd overall in their division!!

Middle school and elementary tennis seasons have just begun, so please click on the link below for a copy of their schedules. We hope to see you guys out there to support!

https://sites.google.com/a/ogecs.com/ogcs-middle-athletics/tennis?authuser=0

A huge thank you to the parents and community volunteers listed below who took time from their busy day to come in and speak with our 3rd-5th graders on our March 10th Career Day! The students had a great time learning about different careers and thinking about their own dreams for the future. Next up: we're looking forward to all the fun and excitement of Kindergarten - 2nd grade's Careers on Wheels Day headed our way on April 7th.

Parents/Guardians,

There are several illnesses currently going around. Please keep your child home if they are not feeling well. If they visit a Doctor and get a Doctor’s excuse, they must not return to school before the date of return listed. If they return to school before the day of return on the Doctor’s excuse, they will be sent home.

If your child has a fever, they must be fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medications (Ibuprofen/Tylenol) before they can return to school. A fever is defined at 100 degrees or higher.

Thank you for helping us keep our students and staff healthy!

South Carolina law requires that all students entering seventh grade receive one dose of Tdap vaccine. The Tdap vaccine protects children from three serious diseases: tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (often called whooping cough). If your child has already had the vaccine (this vaccine is usually administered at their 11 yr old well check), you must provide the school with proof that they have had it on an official DHEC Immunization form provided by their health care provider.

If your child hasn’t received the vaccine, please contact your health care provider to schedule an appointment. Once your child has received the vaccine, please remember that you must provide proof to the school nurse. Students entering the seventh grade who have not received the Tdap vaccine by the beginning of the next school year (Aug. 2023) will not be allowed to attend school until they have received the vaccine and provided proof to the school nurse.

If you have any questions, please contact our nurse at 843-852-7927 or email leah_mosqueda@orangegrovecharter.com.

For information about this vaccine click here.

Thank you,

Leah Mosqueda, RN