Odyssey Charter School

Odyssey’s annual rite of passage for 5th and 8th grade students, Tiger Walk, will be held on Friday afternoon, May 18. Students, staff, parents, friends and family will begin lining up in the hallways around 2:15 with the 5th grade Tiger Walk beginning at 2:30. The 8th grade Tiger Walk will follow immediately afterward. All classes will be dismissed at 2:45pm that day. There will be no check outs after 2:15 on Friday.

If you are planning to attend Tiger Walk, please DO NOT PARK against our fence, at Yokogawa or at the church across the street from the school. Please continue down Amlajack and park in the University of West Georgia parking lot, in the section closest to the back door of Odyssey.

Odyssey recently held the winter/spring sports banquet at the school. Below are the award recipients:

Boys’ Basketball
Most Valuable Player: Ty Williford
Best Attitude: Nathan Chamberlin

Girls’ Basketball
Most Valuable Player: Janaya Strickland
Best Attitude: Alayna Frausto

Flag Football
Most Valuable Player: Ty Williford
Best Attitude: Harrison Campbell

Boys’ Track
Most Valuable Player: Nathan Chamberlin
Best Attitude: Thomas Hudson

Girls’ Track
Most Valuable Player: Sabrina Lewis
Best Attitude: Alayna Frausto

The boys’ track team completed their season recently, finishing 2nd in the conference meet.  At the same meet, the girls’ team made a strong showing but finished 3rd in the final standings.  Below are the individual and team race winners from Odyssey:

• Nathan Chamberlain 200 meters
• Nathan Chamberlin 400 meters
• Sabrina Lewis 400 meters
• Thomas Hudson mile
• Boys 4 x 400 relay (Thomas Hudson, Eric Geeter, Nathan Chamberlin and Colt Dooley)

Congratulations to Adam Mowers. His artwork entitled “Gone Fishing”, is one of four from Georgia that has been selected for the CVS Caremark/VSA “All Kids Can Create” art contest semi finals. Two pieces will be chosen to represent the state of Georgia in a national exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, D.C., this August. We wish Adam good luck as we await the national judges’ decision.

Adam now joins the ranks of other talented Odyssey students who have won notoriety in this same contest over the past several years. In 2010, Alexis Lewis’ artwork represented the state of Georgia at the 2010 VSA Arts Festival in Washington, D.C. In 2011, 9 Odyssey student art pieces, created by Jakob Duke, Alexis Lewis, Christian Rodrigues, Gracie Coyne, Lucus Zeise and Katie Bird Coyne, were selected for a month long display in the VSA art gallery in Atlanta. That year, CVS selected Lucas Zeise’s artwork as a Georgia Semi-finalist.

Odyssey PTO is organizing a Touch A Truck event, to be held at Ashley Park Mall on Saturday, June 2nd, from 10am-2pm. Kids of all ages will be able to get up close to all their favorite vehicles like police cars, fire and rescue trucks, military vehicles, construction vehicles, race cars, tow trucks, 18 wheelers, and much more! The Atlanta Motor Speedway Official Pace Car will be there as well as the Red Cross Emergency Disaster truck. County, City and Military vehicles are free to touch. Admission for all others is $2 per person or $1 with a canned food item for Newnan Coweta Food Pantry. Children 2 and under are free. All proceeds benefit the students at Odyssey Charter School!

Click here for more information.

Odyssey will be a participating school in the Artist Trading Card exhibition, “Journey”, to be held this March in Singapore. “Journey” is being organized by the Singapore National Library Board and a group of teacher-curators from Singapore. Artist Trading Cards (ATC) from students at Odyssey will be exhibited along with work from students attending schools in California, New York, Singapore and Ghana.

Thanks to Mrs. Coyne for finding this unique international opportunity for our students.

The 2011 financial audit can be found on the School Statistics page, and the Student Handbook can be found under the “Parents” tab on the left.

PTO Today Magazine recently named the Odyssey PTO as the 2011 Parent Group of the Year for Outstanding Outreach to a Multicultural Parent Base for last year’s International Night. Click here to read the text of the full article.

In the last year alone, in addition to International Night, our PTO has purchased chairs, a sound system, a library software system and 25 microscopes for the school. Way to go PTO!