Ocean View strives to support a safe and secure learning environment that treats all students with dignity, respect, and high expectations

Halloween is on Friday, October 31st. 🎃

Your student can wear their costume to school, but please abide by the following guidelines:

• Costumes should not depict gangs or horror characters

• Costumes should not be scary for our youngest students

• Masks are allowed only during the parade and must not obstruct vision

• Costumes may not demean any race, religion, nationality, handicapped condition or gender

• No fake fingernails

• No weapons, even fake ones

• Make sure your child can walk in their costume

Parade Viewing - Families and friends are welcome to attend Ocean View’s annual Halloween Parade. The parade viewing areas are outside of school grounds in the coned off drop-off lane in front of the school, and in front of the parked cars in the North Staff Lot. The parade will travel along the sidewalk in front of the school and the exact time for the parade will be announced soon. 

Halloween is a full day, no early dismissal. At the conclusion of the 1st-5th grade parade, after all grades have returned to their classroom, we will open the gates and if parents need to sign their child out early, then parents can go directly to their student's classroom to sign out with their teacher. Please check-in with your teacher, as many will be holding their Halloween festivities after the parade.

Ocean View PTA excitedly invites you and your family to the annual Fall Festival, taking place Saturday, October 25th from 11am-3pm! We will have lots of activities and events to walk around and enjoy, such as our signature Walk-a-Thon and our first ever Pie Baking Contest. We also have volunteer opportunities if you would like to help make this day magical for our students and the Albany community at large! 

Thank you all, and we can't wait to see you there 

To register for the Walk-a-Thon, click the link here: Pledgestar Walk-a-Thon Link

To register as a Pie Baking Contestant, click here (OV students only): Pie Baking: OV student Only Link

To volunteer as a AUSD Middle/HS volunteer for the festival, click here: AMS/AHS volunteer link

To volunteer as an OV community member for the festival, click here: OV Parent Sign-up Link

To volunteer to cook/bake a dish for the bake sale, click here: Bake Sale Sign-Up Link

Parking

The parking lot on the corner of Buchanan and Jackson is for staff only. Thank you for keeping these spaces open so teachers can park and get to your students' classroom on time!

Play Structures

Our campus play structures are off limits for public use during and after school hours, this includes the small playground near the staff parking lot. These parks are being utilized by the aftercare programs. There is an Ocean View Public Park located behind the baseball field/tennis courts outside of the school campus.

Entrance Gates

South Front Gate (TK/Kinder): will be open from 8:00-8:30am.

Central Gate (1st-5th): will be open from 8:15-8:30am.

School starts at: 8:30am. Tardy slips start at 8:31am.

If your student comes in after this time, stop by the office for a late pass. If your student goes straight to the classroom, they will be sent down to the office. All parents/guardians must leave through the main office when gates are closed. Please do not open any gates.

Illnesses

If a student has been absent for 10 days due to medical/illness within the school year, we are required to ask for a doctor's note to excuse any medical/illnesses after the 10th day. Any medical/illnesses already excused by a doctor in the first 10 days of absences are not counted toward this requirement. If your student is absent due to fever, they must be 24-hour fever free before returning to school without use of fever-reducing medication. Report all absences to ovattendance@ausdk12.org

Health Forms for Kindergarten Families

Kindergartners need to have the Oral Health Form completed by their doctor/dentist and on file in the school office before the start of first grade. 

Please submit electronically to ovattendance@ausdk12.org

Volunteer with Us!

Volunteer I application needs to be completed yearly. Visit this Volunteer Link. Allow 1 week for approval for volunteer 1 and 6-8 weeks for volunteer 2. 

Elementary Parent Handbook

If you have questions about school policies such as cell phones, electronic watches, discipline, Visiting, school rules and such, please see our Elementary Parent Handbook. 

Understanding California’s New Law On Mandatory Screening For Reading Difficulties

North Region SELPA’s Community Advisory Committee is presenting an online parent education night program on the new law requiring mandatory screening of students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade for reading difficulties, including dyslexia. The guest speaker will be Lindsay Nofelt, co-founder of Reading For Berkeley. Everyone is welcome. October 20, 6:45pm. Use QR code on the flyer or this Zoom link to join: https://ausdk12-org.zoom.us/j/85116386172?pwd=4HAnaoIMkk6W2xakBOXJu7LLXWhJco.1&jst=2

Albany Community Craft Fair

The AMS PTA’s Craft Fair returns on Sunday, November 2, 11am–3pm. Come for crafts, music, and food. All are welcome!

Albany Library United Against Hate Event

United Against Hate Week (October 19–25, 2025) is a call for seven days of local civic action by people in every community to stop the hate and implicit biases that are a dangerous threat to the safety and civility of our neighborhoods, towns and cities. Join us at the Library to Create Against Hate. We'll have coloring sheets and 3D printed logos with anti-hate messages. Everyone is welcome to join us! Sunday, October 19, 2–3pm, Albany Library, Edith Stone Room.

SWANA Ice Cream Social

Grab a cone at the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Parent Engagement Group’s ice cream social. All are welcome! Friday, October 24, starts at 5:30pm in the Cornell Multipurpose Room. 

Mark Your Calendars: AEF Book Fair at Pegasus Books

Support Albany schools while you shop at Pegasus Books! Albany Education Foundation (AEF) is having a book fair fundraiser at Pegasus Books on Solano Ave. from October 25 through November 1, Pegasus will donate 30% of all sales when you mention "AEF" at checkout. Do you have friends and family who live out of town who would like to support our schools? Direct them to pegasusbookstore.com during the AEF Book Fair and be sure to type "AEF" at checkout. All purchases at Pegasus qualify — books, gifts, gift cards, etc. If you would like to purchase a book for a classroom or library, Pegasus has lists — both in store and online — of requested books for each AUSD school.

ABSC

Registration is open for winter Futsal. Register at abscsoccer.com. 

Recorder and Voice Lessons From Voices of Music 

Students from 3rd – 8th grades are invited to register for singing classes, Wednesday afternoons, October 22–May 6, excluding school holidays. Students from 2nd–5th grades are invited to register for recorder classes. Classes are Wednesday afternoons, September 17–May 6, excluding school holidays. All classes are at the Albany Senior/Youth Annex, 842 Masonic Ave. For questions or more info, contact Greta at gretahh@gmail.com or go to www.voicesofmusic.org.

Book’Nic In The Park