**Weekly Flash**

November 3, 2025

Dear OHS Families,

I hope the children enjoyed Halloween and you all had a wonderful weekend! It was terrific to see everyone come out for our Halloween Parades on Friday. The kids looked amazing, and everyone seemed to have a great time!

I am very proud to announce that Osborn Hill has again been recognized by the state of Connecticut as a “School of Distinction” in 3 different areas as a result of our 2024-2025 performance on the Smarter Balanced Assessments. We received distinction for High Performance overall, High Growth for “All Students” in Math, and High Growth for our “High Needs Students” in Math. Thank you to all of the OHS staff and families for your combined efforts in helping us to achieve these honors.

Please keep the following in mind for this week at OHS:

• Please make sure your SDM is accurate for each day of the week- consider ASA’s.

• No School on Tuesday, 11/4, for students - Election Day.

• Alan Katz Author Visit on Wednesday, 11/5

• Grade 3 Field Trip to the Fairfield Museum on Thursday, 10/30 at 9:00 AM

We look forward to another terrific week ahead at OHS! Take care.

Sean F. Smyth, Principal 

Osborn Hill is going to the Women’s Stags game this Saturday, November 8th at 7 pm. It’s Opening Night, so it’s going to be a fun time! Come out for a community event- bring your family and OHS friends.  Click HERE to purchase tickets!

Let’s keep those pumpkins out of the landfill and put them to good use! Tell your neighbors, friends, and family to bring their pumpkins to OHS for composting!

Let’s bring home the win for OHS!

 - The OHS Green Team

November is Turkey Trot season! The Turkey Trot Food Drive to benefit Operation Hope starts on Monday, November 3rd and runs through Thursday, November 20th.  The food drive culminates with a school-wide fun run around the building during school on November 25th.

Please consider bringing in non-perishable goods from the list below to be donated to Operation Hope.  Donations can be brought right to your child’s classroom.  The classroom with the most items collected will receive a Crumbl Cookie Gift Card! (We know the food drive gets competitive between classes, so please remember when you purchase a box of hot chocolate that has 8 packets, that counts as one item, not eight!)

We are also in need of cardboard boxes to transport all of the items to Operation Hope.  If you have any small moving boxes please consider dropping them off at the main office.  

Below are a list if items requested by Operation Hope:

Thanks in advance for your support. Sign-up sheets for the Turkey Trot and for volunteers to help transport the donations to Operation Hope will be coming out soon. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Kate Fierman, Courtney Cataldo and Morgan Marcinek.

Osborn Hill Elementary School

760 Stillson Road

Fairfield, CT 06824

www.ohspta.com