Olalla Elementary School

08/20/2026

🦉 Mark Your Calendars, Mighty Owls! 🦉

Thursday, August 27 is a big day at Olalla Elementary!

📱 Teacher Assignments Available
Beginning Thursday morning, families can log in to ParentSquare to view their child’s teacher assignment. ParentSquare is now our preferred way to share this information, so we will no longer post class lists or send individual assignment emails.

🏫 August Open House | 5:00–6:00 PM
Students and families are invited to:

Meet their teacher
Visit their classroom
Drop off school supplies before the first day of school — and save those backpacks from doing some serious heavy lifting!

While you’re here, stop by the Multi-Purpose Room to meet our PTA, before/after-school childcare program, and other community partners.

🎨 Chalk the Playground | 6:00–6:30 PM
Following Open House, we invite Olalla Owls past, present, and future to help us cover the playground with encouraging messages, colorful pictures, and words of inspiration for our students to discover on their first day of school.

Please keep all chalk artwork on horizontal playground and sidewalk surfaces and avoid chalking walls or buildings.

We can’t wait to welcome our Mighty Owls back! 💙🦉

05/26/2026

Olalla staff LOVES Jamaica Mi Hungry! Thank you so much for bringing your food truck to Olalla Elementary and filling our bellies with absolutely delicious food!

05/20/2026

🎓🦉 Calling All Olalla Elementary Alumni Graduates! 🦉🎓

Olalla Elementary invites our former Mighty Owls who are graduating this year to join us for our Senior Grad Walk!

📅 Friday, June 5th
⏰ 1:30 PM
📍 Olalla Elementary School

If you attended Olalla Elementary, we would love to welcome you back to walk our halls one more time in your cap and gown as we celebrate your accomplishments and inspire our current Owls to dream big!

Light refreshments will be served.

Please help us spread the word to Olalla alumni graduating this year — we can’t wait to celebrate you! 💚🧡

RSVP to Bryan Heim
📞 360-440-1854
📧 [email protected]

05/08/2026

This week, our Olalla staff felt incredibly seen, valued, and appreciated — and that is because of the amazing support from our Olalla PTA and the incredible families that make up our school community. ❤️🦉
From smoothies and tacos to boxed lunches, dirty sodas, desserts, thoughtful notes, decorations, donations, and countless acts of kindness… every detail reflected the love and appreciation our community has for the people who serve students each day.
At Olalla Elementary, we often talk about being leaders — and while we are incredibly proud that Olalla continues to lead in multiple academic achievement areas, what truly sets our school apart is the people. Simply put: no school has better families than Olalla. The generosity, positivity, encouragement, and partnership our staff experiences from this community is something truly special, and it does not go unnoticed.
Our staff works hard for kids every single day, and this week your kindness filled their buckets in a big way.
On behalf of the entire Olalla staff: thank you for making this year’s Staff Appreciation Week so memorable. The Mighty Owl community continues to prove that when schools and families work together, amazing things happen. 💙💛

05/05/2026

Mighty Owls Rise Up! is a high-energy SBAC hype song created for Olalla Elementary’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders as they prepare for the Smarter Balanced Assessment this week. Packed with Mighty Owl pride, staff shout-outs, testing confidence, and Olalla’s values of being Respectful, Responsible, and Safe, this song reminds students to stay focused, do their best, and show what they know!

Mighty Owls Rise Up! is a high-energy SBAC hype song created for Olalla Elementary’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders as they prepare for the Smarter Balanced Asses...

03/26/2026

The Mighty Olalla Owl Staff - District Champions!

03/13/2026

Dear Olalla families - Olalla Elementary is releasing early due to power outage. No developmental preschool. For Olalla Elementary students already on campus, busses will be departing school at 10:00am and running their afternoon routes to deliver students home.

03/06/2026

✈️🏅 History was made at Olalla Elementary! 🏅✈️

The First Annual Olalla Elementary Staff Paper Airplane Olympics officially took flight, and the competition was nothing short of legendary. Staff engineers put their design skills to the test in a showdown of aerodynamics, accuracy, and a little friendly rivalry.

🥇 Mr. Oster soared to victory, taking Gold in Distance with a flight that had the whole gym watching in awe.
🎯 Ms. Pack demonstrated pinpoint precision, earning Gold in Accuracy with a throw that hit the target perfectly. 😜

From creative designs to record-breaking flights, the event proved that when educators collaborate and have fun together, amazing things can happen. Our Mighty Olalla Owls know how to learn and how to fly! 🦉✈️

02/26/2026

This friendly little girl was found in a pet-carrier outside Olalla Elementary early this morning. I don’t know the circumstances that led to her being left here, but in the event this was a mistake—or she belongs to someone who is currently looking for her—I wanted to share that she is safe.

We brought her inside, cleaned her crate, and provided fresh food and water. She appears to be a small Chihuahua or Chihuahua mix, likely an older adult, and very gentle. She’s alert and responsive, though understandably a bit stressed from the situation, and has been calm with staff.

She looks like she may have been someone’s companion, and we want to give every opportunity for her family to be located. Animal Control will be picking her up later this morning so she can be properly scanned for a microchip and cared for while next steps are determined.

If you have any information that could help identify her or her owner, please contact Animal Control or Olalla Elementary.

02/11/2026

Over the past several weeks, Olalla Elementary has been carrying a heavy emotional weight. In times like these, the strength of a community reveals itself in powerful ways.

A heartfelt thank you to the Laughery family for recognizing what our staff has been navigating and for taking action in such a meaningful, compassionate way. By partnering with the wonderful team at Warmies, they coordinated a personal donation for each of our 60+ staff members — a warm, comforting reminder that they are seen, valued, and supported.

Too often, educators stand on the front lines of community hardship, working each day to ensure students experience consistency, care, and safety, even when the adults around them are hurting. When a recent tragedy touched our own staff, Olalla families responded with extraordinary kindness — from daily comfort food in the staff lounge to messages of encouragement and gratitude.

This gesture from the Laughery family and Warmies was a beautiful example of community in action. We are deeply grateful for the warmth, generosity, and care shown to the people who call Olalla Elementary home. Thank you ❤️

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