May 8, 2018
Earlier in the semester, Mrs. Mehl's class was invited by random classroom selection, from a middle school in Minnesota to join the Great Mail Race! By participating in the Race,...
May 7, 2018
School Kits order forms were sent home with students last week and the order forms are due back on May 18th. By ordering through School Kits, all supplies will be delivered to yo...
May 3, 2018
On Thursday, May 3rd, the Olympia Middle School staff celebrated its May 2018 Illinois State University graduates. Miss Melody Haigh has been a student teacher in the sixth grade...
May 2, 2018
8th Graders successfully completed various community service projects at Miller Park Zoo before spending some time exploring the exhibits. Using the information from their experie...
May 1, 2018
OMS students began their first day of FitnessGram assessments today with the 20 meter pacer. The students are challenged over their aerobic capacity, flexibility, muscular enduranc...
April 30, 2018
Sunday was another great day to be an Olympia Spartan! Our OMS Special Olympics Athletes competed over the weekend at the Regional Special Olympics track games at East Peoria. Our...
April 30, 2018
Olympia Middle School would like to congratulate Nicole, Mattie, and Aime for being selected as Spartans of the Week by their teachers. Way to go students!! #OlySpartanPride
April 29, 2018
Congratulations to the OMS 8th grade band! Their performance at the IGSMA State Contest earned them a rating of "Superior", the highest possible rating. The band traveled to Troy ...
April 27, 2018
This year art OMS art students started using Artsonia, the world’s largest student art museum, where they have started to build digital art portfolios. It is so much more than a...
April 26, 2018
Olympia Middle School hosted a Walk of Champions on Thursday April 26th for the 7th and 8th Grade Chorus and the 8th Grade Band. Both of these groups will be participating in the...
April 24, 2018
7th Grade students in Mr. Neylon's class spent time last week designing, building, and testing popsicle stick bridges. Once they finished building them they took them down to the...
April 20, 2018
7th grade students in
Mrs. Hembra's class are in the beginning stages of preparing for a debate unit
in English II. Today, Ms. McMillan moderated a debate over the claim:
Cell...
April 20, 2018
Congratulations to Cole, Eva, and Taylor for being named Spartan of the Week by their respective teachers. #OlySpartanPride
April 20, 2018
Over the past few days students in Mr. Smith’s Technology class have been designing machines to draw an image on paper. They then redesigned the machine to see if they could have m...
April 17, 2018
On Monday, April
14th, Mr. Steve Skelton, an attorney from Bloomington, came to Mrs.
Hembra's Mock Trial elective to speak with seventh grade students about what
it's like to b...
April 14, 2018
On Saturday April 14th OMS hosted the Tom Smith Track Invitational. There were 11 teams that competed. Thank you to all of the parents and OHS track members that volunteered their...
April 13, 2018
Olympia Middle School is proud to honor 8th Grade students Neil and Erin as student leaders. They were honored as our students of the year at the Illinois Principal’s Association ...
April 13, 2018
OMS would like to congratulate Nick, Nic, Adrianna, and Taylor for being named Spartan of the Week by their teachers!! #OlySpartanPride
April 9, 2018
OMS would like to congratulate Calvin, BJ, Demi, and Abraham for being selected as Spartan of the Week by their teachers. Way to go Spartans!! #OlySpartanPride
April 7, 2018
On Friday April 6th Olympia Middle School hosted Grandparent’s Day. We were excited to host over 200 Grandparents during the afternoon. Grandparents and their grandchildren were a...