Hello Olympia Families,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday break! This week was a busy but pretty incredible week here at Olympia. Our students continue to do amazing things daily. More recently, I have been discussing with the staff on how negativity and negative thinking/perceptions about Olympia can cause such a burden on productivity, student achievement and pride in our school. I talked about how for every one undesired incident there are 100 more positive things taken place in our building at the exact same time, but that we and the community seem to overlook those moments. I am reminded of saying I first heard from my grandmother, "a car doesn't make the news unless it is on fire." That is so true, and I think I see that with the perception of Olympia. Therefore, I have challenged the staff to acknowledge the great things that happen at Olympia daily, check out our social media posts for highlights on the everyday awesome things that happen here. We cannot let the day-to-day, minute-to-minute celebrations be drowned by the negativity. I also encourage you to ask your child each day about a positive experience they have had at school that day.
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Thank you,
Principal Jones
Your Proud Principal
#WeAreOlympia
