Oak Bluffs School First Quarter Honor Roll

The Oak Bluffs School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2013-2014 academic year.

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With Excitement, Trepidation, Students Head Back to School
Olivia Hull

Wedged between her parents, each hand attached to one of theirs, Hannah McCormick approached the Oak Bluffs School. She wore a favorite light pink dress and colorful sneakers that lit up pink when she pressed into the toes. Her mother, Kate, slung a Little Mermaid backpack over one shoulder.

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Oak Bluffs School Announces Fourth Quarter Honor Roll

The Oak Bluffs School has announced its honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.

Eighth grade high honors: Tristan Araujo, Taber Caron, Lily Davey, Douglas DeBettencourt, Aivaras Gedvilas, Andrea Guyther, Alex Habekost, Emma Hall, Ellie Hanjian, Julia Hart, Danielle Hopkins, Julia Levesque, James Robinson, Colby Scarsella, Sarah Thomas, Nevin Wallis, Tessa Whitaker and Eva Wilson.

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Love of Literature Sends Students to the State House

Two Oak Bluffs students were honored at the state house in Boston as part of a national reading and writing program for young people.

Lily Davey and Bella Chimes, eighth-grade students at the Oak Bluffs School, both submitted work to Letters About Literature, a program that asks young people in grades four through 12 to write to an author (living or dead) about how his or her book has had a profound impact on them. Lily wrote a letter to Tahereh Mafi, the author of Shatter Me, and Bella wrote a letter to Donna Cooner, the author of Skinny.

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Oak Bluffs School Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll

The Oak Bluffs School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year. Eighth grade high honors: Taber Caron, Lily Davey, Aivaras Gedvilas, Andrea Guyther, Emma Hall, Julia Hart, Danielle Hopkins, Julia Levesque, Nayson Peres, James Robinson, Colby Scarsella, Sarah Thomas, Liam Weiland and Eva Wilson.

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Oak Bluffs School Presents the Little Mermaid

The Oak Bluffs School is going to the sea for its annual fall musical with a production of The Little Mermaid. Showtimes are tonight, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., all at the Oak Bluffs School.

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Schools Failing Needs of Brazilian Students, U.S. Investigation Finds
Chris Burrell

A federal civil rights investigation of the Oak Bluffs and Tisbury
schools has cited both for failing to meet the instructional needs of
their growing population of Brazilian students.

The investigation was triggered by a parent complaint in November
which alleged that the schools' lack of trained teachers,
interpreters and appropriate materials was shortchanging Brazilian
students.

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Portrait of Close Companions, As Drawn at Oak Bluffs School

Portrait of Close Companions, As Drawn at Oak Bluffs School

By C.K. WOLFSON

"If you can imagine it, you can dream it, if you can dream it,
you can become it," wrote Kevin Hayes (K.J.) Johnson in his Oak
Bluffs School 2001 yearbook.

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Oak Bluffs School Secretary Charged With Embezzlement
Jim Hickey

A secretary at the Oak Bluffs School has been charged with embezzling more than $15,000 from a school account by forging the principal’s name on several checks and then keeping the money.

Susan T. Peters, 59, of Oak Bluffs, was summonsed last week on charges of larceny by a single scheme over $250, forgery of checks, uttering false checks and larceny over $250.

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Oak Bluffs School to Host Talk on Brazilian Students

Oak Bluffs School principal Laury Binney will be showing a short film and speaking about his recent travels to Brazil on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. It is free and open to all.

Mr. Binney, who took an unpaid sabbatical last year, and his wife Marcy, a reading teacher, spent six months visiting elementary schools in Brazil in an effort to gain insights into addressing the needs of Brazilian-born students on the Vineyard. The talk takes place at the Oak Bluffs School.

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