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This school year, student leaders have taken a new and bigger role in the daily life at school, learning valuable skills along the way.

Marie Samson, new faculty member, is bringing the French language back to OVS in a big way, joining Spanish in the language class offerings at school. This is the first time in years OVS has an official French class at school, with students in previous years taking an online class.

During the first community service opportunity of the school year, OVS students of all ages embarked on a beach cleanup trip. The outing allowed students to help local wildlife while also learning the importance of taking care of the environment.

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Once again, the Upper Campus is experiencing a surge of monarch caterpillars, which feed on milkweed planted around the school, anchor their chrysalises to buildings and bushes and eventually emerge as beautiful butterflies. OVS has been home to a sizable monarch population over the past decade, prompting teachers and students to take measures to protect this endangered species.

OVS English teacher Terry Wilson, fascinated by a New York Times article, assigned her AP students reading from a court case involving racist teenagers. Those teenagers were required to read well-known books, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, that explore the issue of racism and discrimination in society.