In recognition of National Teach Ag Day, Ms. Valerie Rodriguez, a senior student at Colonial High School, was teaching Ms. Glenn's Ag classes on Thursday. As you can see below, the students enjoyed having her on campus. Incidentally, Colonial High School's agriculture program wins state level awards year-after-year for the success of both their Veterinary Animal Science and Service curriculum and their FFA program. Colonial's agriculture reputation is well established both in our district and throughout Florida. Thank you to Ms. Rodriguez and Colonial High School.

Third and 4th period Flight Academy students have been working hard at learning how to fly a basic Bounce Pattern. Fifth period student, Yangel Lopez and 3rd period student, Kevin Nyugen worked hard at assembling and setting up our “Frankenstein” simulator (they pieced milled it together). Mr. Lopez spent time with 3rd and 4th period Flight Team Leads working on their Bounce Patterns and in turn those Flight Team Leads are now working with their Flight Team members to master the art of Flying a Bounce Pattern around Orlando Executive Airport – of course on the simulators.

Thank you to all of our parents who showed up this week for our Multicultural Parent Leadership Council. The event was well attended and we were able to share pertinent information with our families!

Help us win the @oclslibrary School Library Card Drive to get a $250 gift card for our school! Students can sign-up for their own library card using our school’s link: https://www.ocls.info/colonialhighcard

Got your card? September is National Library Card Sign-up Month and Orange County Library System is hosting a School Library Card Drive. They’ve set a community goal of 1,500 new juvenile library card registrations! Students can get their own cards by using our school's unique sign-up link to register online: https://www.ocls.info/colonialhighcard

Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 18) - "UF again tops Florida colleges in U.S. News rankings; UCF climbs 13 spots" by Jeff Weiner

The University of Florida again was rated as the state’s top college in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings released Monday, with the Gainesville university placing in the top 30 for colleges nationwide.

Source: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity - Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

While income is obviously a key factor when considering a career path, it is not the only consideration. We included this list to give our Grenadiers some idea of what the median hourly wage looks like in our area for the higher paying positions (2022). As you can see, most of these jobs require post-secondary education. While you are still at Colonial, please take advantage of our College and Career Center when making career, college, or military service plans. 

This past week, both current and former Grenadiers were together during the High School Office “Quarterback Club” meeting. During this meeting, principals work together to share different initiatives going on around their school and make recommendations as to how we can work together as #ONEOCPS to bring these ideas along to other campuses.