FriYays @ Catalina Elementary! Thank you faculty and staff for your dedication to our scholars! Happy Friday! 😊

Catalina Takes Flight at the Innovative Schools Summit – Soaring Toward Excellence in Vegas! #CatalinaTakesFlight

Great job Catalina for preparing your teachers with tools needed during pre-pre planning

Principal Anderson leading a break out session on PLC at Catalina. We enjoyed it as well-great job

Some more pictures of the PLC session at Catalina

📌A&O supporting schools on their FIRST DAY! 💙 We're stoked to help kick off the year! #OneOCPS #FirstDayOfSchool #BackToSchool 🚌

📢 Stay in the loop! 🏫✨ Follow us on all our platforms for the latest school news, events, and celebrations. 🎉📅 #StayConnected #SchoolPride

Our first day is school visits with a little gift to start the day.

💙🐴 The Colts are back! We loved welcoming our students to a brand new school year full of opportunities. Let’s make it a great one! ✨

Ms. Hernandez had the AWESOME pleasure of supporting Ms. Cumbie & Ms. Butts at Catalina ES! Check us out below - Honorary "Media Specialists" for a few days! 😎 #FirstWeek #CSO #DeviceDistribution 💻🧑🏽‍💻👩‍💻👨🏻‍💻

More photos of the most amazing start to the school year

🛫 🛫 Taking off into a new school year—fueled by teamwork, guided by purpose, and landing only at Excellence!

Our young scientists worked together ‘To Save Fred’! 🐛✨ Through teamwork they defined the problem, made predictions, observed closely, and revised their plans—putting the Nature of Science (SC.5.N.1.1) into action!

🎉 Kicking off the year with our first staff meeting! We celebrated our June, July & August birthdays, learned more about the OCPS instructional evaluation system, and even enjoyed a surprise pizza delivery from a former Colt who’s now a manager at @oasisatmosspark 🍕💙

🌟 Congratulations to our 2025 honorees! 🌟 🎉 Support Person of the Year: Ms. Walker – A true jack of all trades who keeps our school shining! 🍎 Teacher of the Year: Ms. Leggins – A leader in the making who goes above and beyond every day! We love and appreciate you both!💙

🎓We loved celebrating National College Colors Day with our staff and students as we showed off our school pride and honored the colleges that shaped us! #collegecolorsday #WeAreOCPS Shelia Windom OCPS Counselors ocpsnews

Principal Anderson and our students can’t hide that Colt Pride! 💙🐴 💛Don’t forget on Fridays, we wear our spirit shirts! #ColtPride Shelia Windom

📚✨ Book Fair Alert! Parents, stop by and shop tonight during our SAC/Parent Square meeting from 4:00–5:30 PM. Don’t miss out on all the amazing reads! #BookFair #FamilyTime #SchoolFun

We wrapped up Start With Hello Week, but the kindness continues every day 💙💛

What a fantastic Fall Festival! 🍂🎉 Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out, it was such a great event! If you missed it, be sure to keep an eye out for the next event. Big shoutout to our amazing PTO for making it all possible! 👏✨