Ballet Program Receives AZ Golden Bell Award

Ballet Students, Clarendon School

 

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The Osborn School District Ballet Program offers professionally oriented ballet training after school for boys and girls with related studies, activities and fieldtrips. Currently in its seventh year, it has contributed to improved student achievement and added additional depth and breadth of education and experience. The program annually attracts in excess of 60 fourth through sixth graders from Clarendon School with an additional 50 third grade students from sister school Encanto and continuing seventh and eighth grade students from Osborn Middle School. The overarching goal is to make professionally oriented ballet training available to students who do not have access to it. Students have earned the privilege of auditioning with professional dance companies and receiving scholarships for further study. The Ballet Program recently received the Arizona School Boards Association Golden Bell 1st Place Award for 2009. Click here for more information.

 

Chinese Language and Cultural Education

Councilman Stanton, Lin Ling Lee from the Tai Pei Committee, Osborn Sustainability Specialist

John Ewing, and Mayor Phil Gordon at 2007 camp © www.peterjordanphoto.com

The Osborn District is pleased to announce that the Taipei Chinese Culture Summer Camp has been moved to the Osborn School District.  The Cultural Camp Offers the opportunity for Asian youth to explore their culture and for students of all ethnic backgrounds to learn about a culture they are seldom exposed to.  In 2007 the Camp received the Mayors Partnership Award. Longview School hosted the 2009 Summer Camp. Students learned paper folding, folk dances, Kung Fu, calligraphy, and much more!

Osborn Elementary District plans to apply for a grant to begin an intensive Mandarin language program in one elementary school with the goal of fluency after three years instruction.  This grant, if approved, would begin with language classes in the fall of 2009.  Research indicates that the earlier children are exposed to a new language the easier it is for them to acquire it. 

We would like to begin language instruction in Mandarin as a jumpstart and also to show our commitment to the grant-awarding committee.  Osborn Educational Foundation is soliciting DONATIONS to aid the district in this exciting new endeavor.