NHS Officers shop for Toys for Tots and the Humane Society
NHS Officers shop for Toys for Tots and the Humane Society
Lady Spartans pick up another win on the road over Tri Valley 47 to 31. JV also picks up another win. 36 to 31.
The home boys' swim meet scheduled for today Dec. 13th has been cancelled.
JOIN THE CIRCUIT BREAKERS! The Bloomington Normal Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (BNJATC) Training Director and apprentices lead the club in order to give youth an authentic experience working alongside professional electricians in the same training facility. Youth who are 12 by September 1st of this year are eligible to join whether or not they are currently in 4-H. There is a no-commitment information meeting on January 15th from 6 – 7 p.m. for parents and youth to learn more about it and then meetings will happen once a week starting January 22nd.
Lady Spartans pick up a victory on the road over IVC 51 to 36. JV also earns the W.
NHS Officers and Advisors at Purdue University for State Summit
Olympia History Club checking out the McLean County History museum
Congratulations to Jaden Eilts for signing her letter of intent to play softball at Lincoln College in Lincoln Illinois. Jaden plans on majoring in Exercise Science while at Lincoln. Good Luck next year as a Lincoln Lynx.
Olympia High School Varsity and JV girls basketball teams record non-conference victories over Tremont tonight.
OHS Civics students are playing cards!!!!! ...in order to learn about civic engagement.
Congrats to OHS for being recognized as a Featured School at the Raising Student Achievement Conference In St. Charles.
Olympia Freshman Orientation Wednesday December 5th! All incoming freshmen and parents are encouraged to attend.
Freshman boys 🏀 pick up the “W” against Eureka! 45-39
2018 Madrigal Performance.
2018 Madrigal Performance.
Freshman Boys 🏀 beats Unity 63-31!
Madrigal Mania Begins!
Spartans pick up JV and Varsity wins on their home opener over Peoria Heights. Varsity 51 to 45 JV 68 to 38
Lady Spartans pick up home JV and Varsity wins over Roanoke Benson. 43 to 17 and 47 to 19.
All IESA 7th Grade Regional Games and High School Girls Basketball games are still on for tonight.
Atlanta Community Tree Lighting is this Saturday, Dec 1 from 4:30 pm-6:00 pm. Caroling, cider, cookies, Christmas stories, and a special visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus.
All Olympia schools will start one hour later than normal today, Monday, November 26, 2018.
Spartans pick up their first win of the year at the El Paso Gridley Tourney. 52 to 47 over Hartsburg Emden.
Lady Spartans win their home opener over El Paso Gridley. 49 to 43
English OHS students had a great time taking a behind the scenes tour at the Bloomington Public Library plus we took part in a scavenger hunt!
OHS students had a great time exploring the Bloomington Public Library! We enjoyed learning about all the incredible resources BPL has to offer! Thanks Mrs. Shelton for organizing this awesome field trip!
Intermediate Algebra students find real life parabolas using Desmos
Lady Spartans pick up another win in the Clinton Tourney. 42 - 26 over DeeMack.
Coach Hoffman’s Unified P.E. class had a great and challenging experience in the inflatable obstacle course! A special thanks to our National Guard recruiters for giving us this great experience!
Lady Spartans start the season off with a 59 to 52 win over Tri Valley at the Clinton Tourney.
Freshman Fun Night is this Friday November 16th from 6-8PM. All Olympia High School Freshman are welcome to attend. This FREE event includes open gym, video gaming and inflatable obstacle course.
Here is the link to our Veterans Day Assembly if any one wants to view beginning at 8:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrnlm2Ph1OQ
Olympia Speech took 4th place as a team at our first meet. We took first through third in Varsity DDA, first in JV DDA, and First in Varsity HI. Congrats speeches!
Start of the boys cross country state championship
The start if the girls cross country championship.
OHS Student Council hosted a Cenois District of Student Councils workshop today. We had a great time building our leadership skills. #OlySpartanPride
Key Club is sponsoring a clothing drive for the Olympia District schools beginning Nov. 5 and ending Nov. 16. They need clothing of all sizes 3T through adult. They are in most need of pants including leggings, sweat pants, jeans, and track pants. The clothing may be new or gently used. There will be a collection box in the high school office.#OlySpartanPride
Spartan Bowlers had a spooktacular practice at Minier Lanes on Halloween! A big thanks to Danny Brown for hosting our team for 7 years!
Get ready for Trivia Night February 2, 2019 at the Danvers Township building. Get you team in before the tables fill up! We are currently accepting reservations. $200 per table of 8 players. A fun night to support the OHS After Prom. Hope to see you there!
Congrats to sophomore cross country runner Savanah Beavers for being an individual medalist at the IHSA sectional meet at Elmwood on Saturday. Savanah placed 10th out of 138 runners.
National Honor Society is hosting Haunted Halls this Sunday, Oct 28th from 1-3 PM. Children Pre-K through 5th grade invited! Free admission with accepted donations for local charities. NEW! Spooky Hallway added!
As we approach the General Election, don't forget that there's a ton of info available on my OHS teacher page..feel free to check it out and be an educated voter. (Your Olympia son or daughter can tell you how to get to the page!!!!!)
2018-2019 Yearbooks are on sale at OHS - please see this link for more information
Please play this video for your advisory students on Wednesday, and yearbook staffers will be around to distribute yearbook order forms to your kiddos:
https://youtu.be/qep091bRD6A?t=4
Volleyball wins in 2 over Canton in the Macomb Regional. Will face Quincy Notre Dame tomorrow at 5:30pm in Macomb at the Washington St. Gym.
Tonight's regional volleyball match is at the Washington Street Gym in Macomb not at Macomb High School
Special congrats to the following top-10 finishers at the Farmington Regional XC meet today. Payton Wille(9th), Savanah Beavers(5th), Logan Wheeler(8th), & Jon Neville(6th)!
Congrats to both XC teams for advancing to the sectional meet next Saturday. The gals finished second place and the guys were Regional Champs at Farmington today.
There seems to be some confusion on tonight's football game times. The JV game against IVC will be tomorrow at 1:00pm at IVC. The varsity game at IVC tonight will start at 7:00pm.
80 Blocks For Kate Dreyer and and 1000 digs for Kalli Terrell!
Geography students visited McLean, IL today to begin a Cultural Landscape Study, looking at cultural patterns and processes and investigating the impact of globalization.
Congrats to the Olympia High School gals and guys XC teams! Both teams took 1st place at the 20-team Effingham XC Invitational. Individual trophy winners for the girls were: Renee Hallstein(29th), Hannah Lawless(20th), Mary Grace Cleinmark(17th), Maddie Litwiller(15th), Payton Wille(2nd), and Savanah Beavers(1st). Individual trophy winners for the guys were: Jake Spaid(23rd), Lucas Lawless(18th), Alec Pfeffer(17th), Owen Dare(16th), Carter Fairfield (15th), Parker Kistner (12th), Anthony Ragland (8th), Charlie Kistner(5th), Logan Wheeler(4th), and Jon Neville(2nd). Good luck to both teams at Regionals next Saturday at Farmington!
Congratulations to Aurora B. for being chosen to be on the student selection panel for the Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award! Students on the panel will read up to 75 books, this fall, in order to pick ten for the Lincoln Book Award for next school year.
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Volleyball, Boys Cross Country and Girls Cross Country Senior Night is next Tuesday, October 16th, before the Olympia vs. St. Joe-Ogden Varisty Volleyball Game. Senior parents that have athletes being recognized please meet in the HS Commons by 6:30pm.
Fall Senior Night for Football, Cheerleading, Marching Band, Boys Golf and Girls Golf this Friday, October 12th at 6:40pm, before the Olympia vs. St. Joe-Ogden Football Game. Senior parents that have athletes being recognized please be at the South end of the track at 6:30pm.
The JV football game scheduled for Monday Oct. 8th at Prairie Central has been cancelled.
JV Volleyball won their pool today and lost a hard fought championship match to U-High.
National Honor Society is hosting our 4th annual Haunted Halls event! Pre-K thru 5th grade students are invited. Trick or treating, games, face painting, and a NEW very spooky hallway for students ages 6-10. Free admission with donations accepted for local charities!
Carley Martin, Nicholle Schuerman, Gracie Salvator, & Erin Turner are moving onto Sectionals. Way to go Spartan golfers!!
Carley Martin, Nicholle Schuerman, Gracie Salvator, & Erin Turner are moving onto Sectionals. Way to go Spartan golfers!!
Congratulations to the Olympia girls golf team for their 4th place finish at the Lincoln Regional Golf tournament. Great job ladies!!
The JV Football game scheduled for Monday October 1st has been cancelled.
OHS Student Council offers up a sneak peek of the Homecoming dance photo op!
Spanish 3 students celebrated Homecoming by learning about different dances in Spanish-speaking countries and even tried the Cha-Cha!
Kaelyn Leverson was selected to the All Tournament Team at Pekin!
Come out and cheer on the Spartans tonight at 7:00pm at the Homecoming Football Game.
Jayden and Mckenzie are painting a large canvas in the OHS Art room. Students have been collaboratively painting on it for the past 3 years!
The cross country guys took the 2nd place team trophy at the El Paso Invite, defeated by a slim margin of 4 points by the #1 ranked Clifton Central. Individual medalists included Carter Fairfield(15th), Parker Kistner(14th), Anthony Ragland(13th), Charlie Kistner(11th), Logan Wheeler(9th), and Jon Neville(5th). Great job guys!
Cross country gals take 2nd at El Paso Invite, giving #2 ranked Eureka a run for their money! Individual medalists included MaryGrace Cleinmark(16th), Ellen Springer(10th), Payton Wille(8th), and Savanah Beavers(6th). Great job gals!
This week’s “Player of the Week” is (Stanford) Olympia’s 5-foot-9 senior outside hitter Kalli Terrell. Terrell is a four-year varsity standout who recently recorded her 800th career dig. She also averages 3.8 kills per set and has 455 kills in her career. illprepvb.com
Team Relays this morning at Wednesday Assembly - Tug of War - Go Spartans #OlySpartanPride
The Homecoming bonfire has been postponed to tomorrow night, Wednesday Sept. 26 after the home soccer games at approximately 7:15 pm
Joe is learning office skills in the incredible PAES Vocational Training Lab! Students are learning valuable job skills in addition to soft skills while assessing their own preferences towards different work experiences.
Homecoming is so much fun at Olympia! The kids really came together for impressive door and hallway decorations!
Mrs. Shelton's English class just finished a unit on writing professional emails! We are connecting our daily work to the real world! #OLYSPARTANPRIDE
No Freshman Volleyball Game Tonight. JV Volleyball Game starts @ 6pm and Varsity Pack the Place starts @ 7pm. Come out and support your Spartan Volleyball!
Olympia homecoming under way as students enjoy “flick on the field.” Perfect night to enjoy Lights, Camera, Spartans.
English 1 students had fun presenting a mock trial for the short story The Tell-Tale Heart.
Hannah and Kacie love collaborative learning on their ChromeBooks! #olyspartanpride
Olympia Girls golf team celebrated senior night by defeating Fieldcrest and extending their record to 11 wins.
The high school volleyball games schedule for today Sept. 20th at Monticello will be played at Monticello Middle School.
Congratulations to the Olympia girls golf team with their 4th place finish at the Illini Prairie Conference meet!
Congratulations to the Olympia girls golf team with their 4th place finish at the Illini Prairie Conference meet!
Academic Learning Strategies practicing their teamwork and perseverance skills!
The JV Football game for today has been cancelled due to a lack of players by our opponent.
The Olympia Golf Girls bring home more bling placing 3rd at the LeRoy Invite. Congratulations girls!!
Congrats to the cross country guys for another 1st place team trophy. For the second weekend in a row, they were team champs at a large invitational; this time at Bureau Valley High. Individual trophy winners were Logan Wheeler(8), Jon Neville(10), Charlie Kistner(15), Carter Fairfield(16), Owen Dare(18), Anthony Ragland(24).
Dual-credit students visited Heartland Community College to learn about the benefits of taking college courses in high school. Students also learned about services and facilities available to them as College NOW students.
Congrats to the cross country gals for a strong third place team finish at the 20-team XC Invitational hosted by Bureau Valley High. Individual trophy winners included Savanah Beavers(8th), Payton Wille(9th), Ellen Springer(18th), Sydnee Usherwood(19th), & MaryGrace Cleinmark(22nd).
Great Night at Olympia. Spartans over Central Catholic 22 to 15. #OlySpartanPride
Olympia High School STEM Club was awarded a transportation grant from the American Mold Builders Association to attend the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2018 in Chicago Illinois. This summit took place on Friday September 14th. The purpose of this trip was to educate, inform and excite students about careers in the manufacturing industry. The IMTS trip allowed students to visit with leading technologies which included: design, 3D printing/rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing, machine and tool monitoring, automation, robotics, measurement, data acquisition and analytics, and the Cloud. Students had an opportunity to meet individuals currently working in these fields and ask questions. Overall this trip increased their knowledge within STEM related fields, use of technology within industries and allowed students to network with those within the field.
For more information about this trip see the following website: https://www.imts.com/student/index.html
Students had a great time and can't wait to go again in 2020!
STEM Club sponsors
Mrs. Bowers & Mrs. Benjamin
Olympia High School STEM Club was awarded a transportation grant from the American Mold Builders Association to attend the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2018 in Chicago Illinois. This summit took place on Friday September 14th. The purpose of this trip was to educate, inform and excite students about careers in the manufacturing industry. The IMTS trip allowed students to visit with leading technologies which included: design, 3D printing/rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing, machine and tool monitoring, automation, robotics, measurement, data acquisition and analytics, and the Cloud. Students had an opportunity to meet individuals currently working in these fields and ask questions. Overall this trip increased their knowledge within STEM related fields, use of technology within industries and allowed students to network with those within the field.
For more information about this trip see the following website: https://www.imts.com/student/index.html
Students had a great time and can't wait to go again in 2020!
STEM Club sponsors
Mrs. Bowers & Mrs. Benjamin
Dual credit field trip to the Heartland campus, checking out the impressive library!
Congratulations to the Olympia Girls golf team on their win over LeRoy. The girls extend their record to 8 & 4.
A beautiful day for Barbie Bungee! CAT1 students applied their predictions from their linear regression project to give Barbie a thrill jump from the top of the football bleachers! We can happily report Barbie enjoyed her time!
Volleyball sweeps PC Hawks at Home! Kalli Terrell records her 800th career dig tonight!
First meeting of the AFTER PROM committee will be held this Sunday September 16 from 5-6pm in the OHS cafeteria. Please come support our kids by providing a fun, safe environment for after the prom this Spring. We need Freshman through Senior parents to get involved in planning this fun evening. We will also be planning our second annual Trivia Night, and look forward to your input. Please call or email Angie Davis at angie.davis@olympia.org if you are interested in helping but can not attend the kick-off meeting. Hope to see you there!
Thanks to Aurora Bauer for the Media Center display on this somber day in American history
JV comes home with hardware! 4th place at IVC!
Congratulations to the girls XC team for a 5th place finish at the 62-team invitational at Detweiller Park in Peoria. Individual medalists included Savanah Beavers(23), Payton Wille(29), Ellen Springer(35), and MaryGrace Cleinmark(48).
Congrats also to the boys XC team for bringing home the 1st place trophy from the 62-team invitational at Detweiller Park at Peoria. Individual medalists included Jon Neville(17th), Logan Wheeler(24th), Charlie Kistner (35th), and Carter Fairfield(44th).
Volleyball sweeps at Decatur MacArthur! #DIG
OHS students volunteered at the Helping Hands Foodbank in Stanford this afternoon. This is our 5th year volunteering for this awesome community resource! #olyspartanpride
Varsity Volleyball gets the “W” at home vs. IVC. Freshman and JV go down in 2 sets each.
The JV Football Game scheduled for today Sept. 3rd at Olympia has been cancelled. Our opponent had to cancelled due to a lack of players. Attempts to find a replacement team were unsuccessful.
Varsity Volleyball goes 3-1 at the Central Illinois traveling tournament.
Photography class took their cameras to the nature trail today as a part of their landscape photography unit!
We had an awesome first day in Art Club! Students planned upcoming projects and began working on independent works.
Congratulations to Carley Martin for her first place finish at Metamora Fields. Oly Girls move their record to 7 and 1.
Olympia Spartan Volleyball Team picks up a great home victory tonight over Metamora in two sets. Great play ladies - great fan section Spartans. #OlySpartanPride
Congratulations to the Olympia Bowling team! The Spartans brought home 7 medals from the regional tournament on Saturday! Caleb Busick will be advancing to sectionals in October! Please congratulate these accomplished athletes!
Savanah Beavers takes 5th place in the girl’s varsity race at St. Thomas More’s 22-team XC invitational. The girl’s team was 2nd overall and the boys team was 3rd.
Congrats to the Olympia Girls Golf team with their win over Tri-Valley. First place honors goes to Gracie Salvator, who shot a 43.
Civics class is back in action for the new school year!
Congratulations to the Olympia Girls Golf Team on their win over Limestone and Elmwood. 1st place honors go to Gracie Salvator.
Calling all Junior parents and students, or any other willing parents and students! The Junior Class is in need of help in the concession stand this fall.
Sign up using the link and look for more info soon!
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/30E054DACA62BA31-junior1
Congratulations to the girls golf team placing 1st at the Blue Ridge Invite.
Got our Championship Trophy from McLean County 4H Fair Queen! Congratulations Morgan!!
Caleb Busick brought home the gold in the running long jump! Congrats to our state champ! #olyspartanpride #soillsummergames2018
Congrats to Caleb Busick for bringing home the gold! Caleb is the state champion for long jump! #olyspartanpride #soillsummergames2018
Proud to represent Olympia at the BACC Business Recognition Breakfast. Thanks to the dozens of local businesses that have provided plenty of opportunities for helping our students become career ready. #OlySpartanPride
Teachers working during summer break 😊 #socialstudies #curriculumrevisions
Another successful girls basketball camp! Thank you 3-8th graders for coming and working hard! #OlySpartanPride
We had an amazing day at Lake Bloomington celebrating our Seniors! #OlySpartanPride
It's graduation day for the Spartans! Livestream link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDG9jrUpUqnOUknhQpGI-A/featured
Olympia Spartans are Softball Regional Champs #OlySpartanPride
OHS Cheer Tryouts next Wednesday & Thursday (5/23 & 5/24) at 6pm-8pm. Anyone interested must pick-up a packet located in OHS & OMS offices
We had an amazing day at Lake Bloomington celebrating our Seniors! #OlySpartanPride
OHS students celebrate their beloved classmate Arthur before his big move. #OlySpartanPride
And it looks like the Seniors are biting too! #OlySpartanPride.
The fish are really biting at the Senior picnic! #OlySpartanPride.
Civics Seniors say goodbye on the last day of class. #MakeCivicsGreatAgain #OlySpartanPride
Class of 2018 #OlySpartanPride
Proud seniors finish inaugural Heartland math course at Olympia. #OlySpartanPride
Chem students mapping their learning to review. It feels like Final Season!!
Volunteer opportunities at Minier Corn Daze for OHS students on August 5. Contact connie.schroeder@olympia.org for more information.#OlySpartanPride
Olympia Relay for Life raised $1,302 for the American Cancer Society!#OlySpartanPride
Congratulations to all who participated in Saturday Night Live 2018. It was a fun night of jazz and OHS talent!
Olympia at Relay for Life! #OlySpartanPride #OlyGivesBack
Sociology students preparing for Final Summatives. #flexibleLMC #OlySpartanPride
Keaton Fogler placed 1st in the Illinois State Freestyle Wrestling Tournament this past weekend and will compete in USA Nationals at Fargo, ND this summer!
What do you do at the last soccer practice of the season? You have Kona Shaved Ice Truck come out and suprise your girls!! Lets them have some fun!!
Last regular season game. With our favorite crew! So why not take a picture after a great 1-0 victory!
Lady Spartans Soccer wins on senior night 1-0 over Bloomington. This marks the 14th win of the season for the girls. Adding to record win total!!
Congrats to Close Spracklen for earning top honors for her honor council book at IASC State Convention! #OlySpartanPride
Congratulations to Beth Ann Deal representing OHS at the IPA Recognition Luncheon. #OlySpartanPride
How awesome to be able to recognize an Olympia champion! #BreakfastofChampions #OlySpartanPride
StuCo enjoying the IASC State Convention
Congratulations to SRO Jordan Krone and his family on the addition their new daughter. #OlySpartanPride
Lady Spartans soccer gets their 13 win of the season tonight with a 2-1 win over Monticello. What a great night for these girls!!!
Hannah and Joey are hard at work making brownies and writing thank you cards for Ms. Hansen, their ISU practicum teacher this semester. We will miss you! #OlySpartanPride
Thank you parents, teachers, administrators and community for supporting After Prom! #olyspartanpride
Great win last night. 5-0 over LSA for the 12 win of the season. Great effort by all in the game!
Final concert of the year for Olympia Wind Ensemble under direction of Mr. Mitchell Lutz. #OlySpartanPride
Prom 2018 - Congrats to Queen Morgan Aldridge and King Brock Gottschalk #OlySpartanPride
Soccer signings. Jaci Terrell signs with ICC and Addie Ewalt signs with Olivet Nazarene University. Congratulations and Goid Luck
OHS Spanish 4 students went to Oly South to teach 4th graders a lesson about colors, numbers, and greetings! #OlySpartanPride #español
Congratulations Emme Olson and Mason Marquis - Illini Prairie Scholar Athletes #OlySpartan Pride
Dr. Jodlowski and Mr. Jones at NIU Anti-Bullying Conference learning good things to bring back to OHS!
Just a reminder there is no school on Friday, April 27. Juniors and Seniors make sure you get your prom/post prom tickets before Thursday.
This week is your last opportunity to purchase a 2017-2018 yearbook! Please see article on the website for the link.
Prom tickets are on sale during Jr/Sr lunch at OHS this week. Prom is April 28, 2018 in the Prairie Ballroom at ISU from 7:30 to 10:30.
Congratulations Josh Kaminski and Chloe Hilt on your recognition at IPA luncheon! #OlySpartanPride
Enjoying the sounds of Illini Prairie band festival. Way to go Spartan musicians #olyspartanpride
Good luck Class of 2019 on the SAT today! You got this!!! #OlySpartanPride
The April/May Newsletter is arriving today via email - make sure you take some time to read about all the activities! #OlySpartanPride
Congratulations to OHS teacher, Wendy Bowers, who won an Outstanding STEM educator award - Mrs. Bowers was given a $1000 grant to use for her STEM classes.
Reminder OHS has a late start on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018.
Reminder Wednesday, January 24th is an OHS late start day.
Volunteers Needed for YH4L on October 3rd.
OHS hosted regional XC meet.
Olympia FFA Takes 2nd at State Horse Judging!