Oyster-Adams Bilingual Elementary School offers a nationally and internationally recognized bilingual program for grades pre-k to eighth. All instruction and school activities are conducted in a dual-language immersion environment, with equal weight given to learning in English and in Spanish. Both Oyster's faculty and its student body are balanced 50%-50% between native English and native Spanish speakers. In addition, by enrolling children from many neighborhoods, nationalities, cultures, and economic circumstances, Oyster provides a heterogeneous social environment that is essential to its multicultural mission. Oyster enjoys an unusual dual status as a DCPS neighborhood public school and as a school entirely devoted to a specialized program. Accordingly, all "in-boundary" children have a right to attend grades K-8, while "out-of-boundary" and pre-k applicants are admitted according to the school's selection criteria.
For more information about Oyster-Adams look through our website or call 671-3111 between the hours of 9:00 am-1:00 pm or 2:00-4:00 pm.
The new weekly bulleting was launched February 23rd, 2009.
This comprehensive bulletin will provide you each week with:
- Message from Principal Liang Aguirre - an opportunity for me to share some brief thoughts with you, and highlight events and issues of interest.
- News! - this section will give you brief information on important activities and events upcoming in the next week or two. If there is additional information or a flier on any of these items, a link will be provided.
- Updates - this section is for program or committee work, such as the middle school/intermediate campus updates I have been sending you, or OCC or LSRT information. To increase readership, we may keep an update posted until a new one is available, so be sure to check the date to see what's current.
- Next Week's Activities - this section provides a day-by-day listing of the week's regularly scheduled before and after school activities (such as basketball practice or tutoring) in all grades, PK-8.
- After School Program News - this section is for announcements that affect only after school program participants. After School Program announcements that affect the whole school community (such as fundraisers, classes that are open to all, etc.) will be posted in the News! section.
- Class News - this section is under construction. Our hope is to eventually use it to post class-specific information, and requests from teachers and room parents. We are discussing the best way to manage this and hope to activate this section of the Bulletin soon.
- Science News - this section will provide any updates from our science specialists (both elementary and middle school). At times, they may also provide information relevant web sites, local science-related exhibits and highlights of our expanding science curriculum.
- Master Calendar - running down the left side of this email you will see a month-by-month list of major events, school holidays, report cards, teacher conference days, etc.
Keep an eye out for the weekly bulletin in you email box.