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Three years after the pandemic began, international travel has begun to recover as many countries lifted restrictions. At the beginning of 2023, three mid-year students, including Emily, became part of the OVS community. Recognizing the need to provide additional support to incoming international students, OVS decided to restart the ESL program.

Continuing a long-standing tradition, Ojai Valley School has launched a woodshop program at the Upper Campus, allowing high school students to explore a discipline that until now had only been available to their counterparts at the Lower Campus.

Earlier this month, the Gene Haas Foundation awarded a $4,000 grant to support the OVS Robotics program. This is the largest of a handful of donations solicited by the robotics students this year.

For the first time in two years, Ojai Valley School Upper Campus students staged a storytelling initiative that connects high school students with many of the younger students at Lower Campus.

On Wednesday, a team of students, led by Ms. Davis, spent a cold afternoon digging holes in the landscaping around the classroom buildings and planting hundreds of Milkweed plugs that were donated to the school as part of a statewide effort to restore Monarch habitat.

Ojai Trees is a nonprofit organization working to reforest the valley with native trees and planting over 100 every year. Our students, led by Roman Cluff- Thompson and Alula Alderson, went out on Saturday to help plant trees around the Ojai area.