Education
Maker Faire Ox Ridge 4-4-16

Ox Ridge ‘Maker Faire’ Gives Kids Experiences in Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts, Math

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Blending play, imagination, and creativity, staff and students at Ox Ridge Elementary School launched the school’s first Maker Faire this month. During the week-long event, the school’s 461 students rotated through a variety of stations in the school’s library that allowed them to experiment and explore. Exhibits included opportunities to make instruments, create short movies, build an electric fishing rod, drive programmable cars, use a Makey Makey programmable circuit board, and direct the school’s Sphero robots. Students from Darien High School’s Independent Projects in Engineering course ran a few of the exhibits. There were even stations to construct paper airplanes, and build with Legos and cardboard.

Parents & Kids
Let Me Run 3-8-16

‘Let Me Run’ Program Registration Opens for 4th & 5th Grade Boys

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A running program for boys in 4th and 5th grade is open for registration this year, with teams at Royle, Ox Ridge, Tokeneke and Pear Tree Point schools in Darien. “We try to get boys from schools that don’t have programs onto another team, if possible,” said Shannon Silsby, an organizer at Royle School. You can reach her by emailing thesilsbys@optonline.net. Here’s the announcement about the program on the Royle Parent Teacher Organization website:

Let Me Run is back this Spring! This program inspires boys through the power of running to be courageous enough to be themselves, to build healthy relationships and to live an active lifestyle.

Education
School budget public hearing 2-3-16

On School Spending, PART 3: Statements from Budget Hearing

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Here are several more statements from the Board of Education’s Feb. 2 public hearing on the school budget. All three of these statements were made on behalf of the Council of Darien School Parents. They were presented by Wendy Ward (on technology), Tara Ochman (on the capital budget) and Karen Wilber and Beth Lane on the World Language Program. Darienite.com will publish the full text of every statement from the public hearing that we receive by email If you didn’t give your statement to the CDSP, please email it to us at dave@darienite.com; we encourage readers to send in letters to the editor on this or any other topic by emailing to the same address.

Around Town
Ox Ridge School

UPDATE: Water Main Break on Mansfield Fixed; Ox Ridge School Reopens Tuesday

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Update 6:27 a.m., Tuesday

Ox Ridge elementary school students, who are going back to school Tuesday morning, didn’t even get a whole extra day off from Mondays water main break on Mansfield Avenue — they’ll have to make it up with a half day on March 28, the school district announced. Here’s the announcement from Darien Public Schools:

We are pleased to report that the water main has been fixed on Mansfield Avenue and that school will resume at Ox Ridge tomorrow on a regular schedule. Connecticut school law requires that students attend classes for 180 days.  As a result of Ox Ridge students missing today, they are at 179 class days requiring them to make up one day of instruction. March 28 which was originally a professional development day for teachers will now be a half day of instruction for the students at Ox Ridge. Students will be picked up at their normal times and be released at 11:45 a.m. on March 28.