The Student News Site of Osage Trail Middle School

OTMS Falcon Flyer

OTMS Falcon Flyer

The Student News Site of Osage Trail Middle School
Yearbooks are selling fast
Dodgeball Day set for May 23
Kooper LeHotta plays Minecraft on his Chromebook.
E-sports class gives students a new elective choice
Eighth graders create a poster for "do something" which is one of the strategies used to intervene when bullying is witnessed.
MOCSA leads the first Green Dot training for students
A screenshot of the new E-Hall pass in Clever. Students are given three bathroom passes a week.
Students, staff use new E-Hall pass system
The 8th grade dance was held in the OTMS cafeteria. It was sponsored by Student Council.
Talent show, 8th grade dance pictures available
Honor Choir
KC Metro Middle School Choral Invitational selects students from Overtures class
8th grade band
8th grade band struggles as they prepare for first winter concert
Green Dot
Green Dot trains students to be an active bystander
movie theater
Teams recognize their students efforts
The girls cross country runners pose together before the start of the OTMS Invitational on Sept. 18. where 13 schools participated with over 150 runners. A team runner Madeline Rogers finished 14 with a time of 10:00:92. B team runner Trinety Hughes finished 47 with a time of 11:55:73.
Midseason Recap: Girls cross country show strong effort
Mia Niederhauser passes the ball to the setter as Payton Heman and Sojay Sinthusy watch in a game against Campbell Middle School on Sept. 25. OTMS lost in three sets: 25-15, 19-25, 14-16.
Mid-Season Recap: B team volleyball suffers only one loss
Seventh and eighth grade girls tryout out for basketball after school on Oct. 30. The beginning of practice required a lot of leg work like lunges and sprints.
Players show excitement for start of winter sports
Jameson Lehane (8) heads toward the finish line in the cross-country meet at Grain Valley.
Cross country kicks off their first week of meets
Quarterback Clay Hopgood (7) escapes the Pioneer Ridge defenders to run the ball. The Falcons won 28-0.
Football begins their season
Rows of unused lockers that would have been assigned to Voyager students line the upstairs hallway near the library.
Why Don’t We Use Lockers?
Staff and students are offered an added layer of protection with new school protection specialist, Jessy Gleason.
New staff feature: Gleason gives added protection
Barnhart
Barnhart plans to retire
Nguyen twins
Students spend time as lawyers
Coppenbarger will retire at the end of the school year.
Special Education Process Coordinator Coppenbarger retires
Emma: A Pop Musical by Eric Price. It is adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. The JV Edition is adapted by Marc Tumminelli. The JV Edition was conceived and workshopped by Broadway Workshop in New York City the Fall of 2017.
Students work hard to prepare for the upcoming school musical
Avatar movie poster
Review: Avatar-The Way Of Water
Ginny and Georgia poster
Review: Ginny and Georgia
in the hood
Play cast prepares for showtime
Poster for Sonic Orgins from Sega.
Sonic Origins is a disappointment
atc logo
Go shopping at Arizona Trading Co.
Avatar movie poster
Review: Avatar-The Way Of Water
Ginny and Georgia poster
Review: Ginny and Georgia
Poster for Sonic Orgins from Sega.
Sonic Origins is a disappointment
How do students feel about taking the MAP test?
How do students feel about taking the MAP test?

OTMS Falcon Flyer

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The OTMS Productions classes are an elective class offered to 7th and 8th grade students at Osage Trail Middle School in the Fort Osage School District. We maintain three accounts (Falcon Flyer, Facebook, and Instagram) to connect, interact and inform the OTMS community which includes staff, students and their families. Users with Facebook and Instagram have already agreed to the terms of these social media platforms. 

All the content on our platforms are created by students and we would like feedback on our work.  We encourage our readers to comment on any of our posts, so we can see their thoughts and reactions. Sharing of opinions, making suggestions, and taking part in conversations is welcomed, but in order to keep our page focused we have to put some commenting guidelines in place. 

We ask our readers to be appropriate by being polite and RESPECTFUL of individuals’ opinions, especially if a discussion becomes heated.  We also ask them to show proper consideration for the privacy of others. Inappropriate comments will not be approved and will be deleted. These include:

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Many Facebook and Instagram posts might be kept to use as instructional examples for future OTMS Productions students.  Some posts and comments associated with them might be removed while others might be archived when they are no longer deemed timely.

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