Olympia CUSD 16

Lady Spartans pick up a home conference win over Pontiac tonight. 52 to 43. The JV team also earned a win.

MS Performance was GREAT! Last performance is Sunday the 2nd at 2pm.

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.

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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! bit.ly/OlyNMQ

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

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.

Fearless Fact Finding! Check out this list of trustworthy resources to help you learning what's true (and what is not!) on the web. You can even use one of them to look back in time and what was on a website in the past!

Wikipedia.org is where millions of people stop first for information. Tools like it are what make the internet so valuable. But they also teach an important lesson, one you can start teaching your kids now: don’t believe everything you read. Family Tip Sheet: bit.ly/OlyNMFR2

Lady Spartans pick up a couple home non conference wins over East Peoria tonight. JV 36 to 27 and Varsity 55 to 21. Varsity improves their record to 19 and 5 on the season.

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Lee on defending his dissertation! Way to go! #SpartanNation

Congratulations to the OHS Speech Team for placing First in team sweeps for limited entries this past weekend at Glenwood High School. Special congrats to Morgan Cisco (JV champ in Original Comedy) and Grace Melick (Varsity tournament champion in Oratorical Declamation)!

Congratulations to Olympia senior Colby Burt for scoring her 1000th career point in the Spartans’ win over Peoria Heights.

Don't forget your St. Jude shirt orders are due at noon on Monday, January 20th! https://forms.gle/qpLQBJyV2pQmw2ew8