Marietta Public Schools

Important announcement: Marietta Public School will begin serving the children of our community a breakfast/lunch combo meal during the school closure beginning next Monday, March 30th. Meals are free for any child under 18 years of age and will be need to picked up drive thru style. Children must be in the car to get a meal. To help us get a more accurate count of meals, please email our Child Nutrition Director, Wendy Birks at wbirks@mariettaisd.org or call 580-276-9444 ext. 234 to leave a message if you plan to pick up. Please give your name and the number of children needing meals. Here are the times and locations for drive thru pick up: North side of cafeteria bus loop - 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Enville Church parking lot - 10:00 a.m. Shady Dale Baptist Church parking lot - 10:00 a.m. Times and locations are subject to change pending participation. Any changes will be announced on our Marietta Public School Facebook page.

Good evening, Marietta Indians! This morning, the State Board of Education voted to close schools and all extracurricular activities to be canceled for the remainder of the school year as expected. There are still a lot of questions during this extraordinary time, but what we do know is that we miss and care about our students. Here is what you can expect at this time: We will begin to offer daily meals for students next Monday, March 30th. Watch our Facebook page for pick-up schedules. We are working on schedules for pick up of personal items from classrooms/lockers as well as medication. Your child's site will be sending out information as it is available. We are also working on a creative alternate plan for graduation as we want to honor our Senior's amazing accomplishments. Information will be sent out as soon as it is available. If you are needing to reach out to a teacher or coach during this time you can contact them via email. All staff have access to their school email even when not on campus. Follow this link to access our staff page on the website. https://www.mariettaisd.org/o/marietta-ps/staff. We will begin the required distance learning services on or shortly after Monday, April 6th. We understand that a fully online platform may not be feasible for all of our families. Our teachers are planning for all circumstances including using online instruction as well as other methods for those that do not have internet access. Each site will work with families' individual circumstance to help meet the needs of our students. The state will be giving us further guidance on the many questions we have about this process and we expect to be able to apply some flexibility in this difficult time. Just know we are all in this together and we all want what is best for our students. We ask for your patience as we plan and please email (preferred) or call 276-9444 to leave a message if you have more immediate needs or questions.

In an effort to return students’ personal items from the elementary school, you are welcome to bring your child up as planned: 3rd grade- Friday, March 27 from 9-11 am 4th grade- Monday, March 30 from 10:30am -12:30 pm and 5th grade from 1-3 pm. We will try to have less than 10 students in the building at a time, to keep everyone safe.

We are sending out a google form survey, at the middle school level, to our parents. Please check your email for the form.

We are missing our kids!!! Teachers will be calling this week to check on our students and their families.

See attached letter for the latest update.

After careful consideration, we have decided not to offer daily meals to our students during the current 2-week closure. Instead, we have received a large donation from a vendor providing us with fresh produce. This produce along with additional canned food from our food pantries is being sorted and packed by volunteers from our school and community and will be delivered to approximately 60 students we know are in need. If the closure extends beyond the initial 2-week period, we will reevaluate and look at all options including providing daily meals to make sure our students are fed. If you are a parent of a Marietta student that does not receive a food box/backpack and are in need of food please contact Mrs. Naylor at bnaylor@mariettaisd.org or call the school's main number 276-9444 to leave a message and we will help put you in touch with resources.

The Oklahoma State Board of Education has enacted a mandatory statewide school closure in effect until April 6th. We are waiting on additional guidance from our state agencies and will make plans over the coming days to best serve our students and staff during this closure. Please watch for additional information via our school app, Facebook and automated call system.

Spanish version of previous communication.

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Marietta high school students at the OYE Ag Mech 2020 shined by winning one division, 1st in two classes and 2nd in the third. All three projects created will sell online with Big Iron Auctions. Pictured below Cody Hicks, Nicholas Bierschenk and Pike Thompson.

Congratulations to county level Middle School winners of the 29th Trash Poster Contest. Winnerd included Kelsi Lawson, Azya Scott, and Fisher Payne.

Congratulations to 4th graders, Javier Garcia and Karrington Staton, for being county level winners in the 29th Trash Poster Contest!

More art work from Marietta high school students at the Goddard center. The art display will be at the Goddard through March 28th. Make sure come check it out!

Congratulations to the following students who placed in the Goddard Center art comp. 1st Miriam Cisneros 2nd Lynnsey Poag 3rd Daria Stalbusch Honorable Mention- Colours Starsick 1st Miriam Cisneros 2nd Lynnsey Poag 3rd Daria Stalbusch Honorable Mention- Colours Starsick

Info on coronavirus.

Congratulations to Kylie Slawson & Hailey Dasilva for their winning entries in the REA Youth Tour contest. Kylie won 3rd & received $500. Hailey won 2nd which is an all expense paid trip to Washington DC this summer! Also pictured is their amazing English teacher, Tonya Bucher.

So proud of all of our Students who are participating in the county show this weekend!

Oops! Our mistake. Tomorrow's Teacher Professional Day was not listed as a no school day on the online calendar. Hopefully you were relying on the paper calendar given to all parents at enrollment. Please accept our apology if this causes any inconvience for your family.

We know sometimes it's very difficult to avoid missing school but here are some upcoming state testing dates for elementary to help you plan your family calendar. 3rd Grade - April 21st and 23rd 4th Grade - April 28th and 30th 5th Grade - May 4th, 5th 6th and 7th Please no late arrivals or early departures. We don't want students to feel like they must rush on such important tests. Thank you for helping your student with their success!