The Husky Huddle

Family-Friendly Events: Bingo, Cookies, And Community Connection

• Genelle Morris

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We share details for Family Fall Fun Night at Washington West with activities that welcome every family and student, plus what’s ahead with Cookies with Santa and an affordable Holiday Shop. Volunteers, prizes, and simple traditions build a warm, inclusive school community.

• Family Fall Fun Night on Friday 5:30–7 pm at Washington West
• Bingo with prizes and announcements throughout
• Temporary tattoos and cookie decorating with 200 cookies provided
• Building-wide scavenger hunt with prize for completed sheets
• Shift from Halloween to inclusive fall theme
• Student and university volunteers supporting stations
• Cookies with Santa on Friday 5 December
• Holiday Shop with all items $2 and gift wrapping
• Every student guaranteed at least one gift to take home
• Future events teased, with ParentSquare updates

We invite all of our families to come and join us this Friday, November 14th, 5:30 to 7 for the Family Fall Fun Night. Of course, check in on Parent Square as more events are shared.


SPEAKER_01:

Thank you everybody for coming to our next episode of uh Husky Huddle, where we talk about everything Husky and the only city school district. And we're so excited to have Lord Stop here to talk about all sorts of really engaging and awesome stuff that's gonna be coming up for our families to engage in with our students, and it's gonna be really fun. And she has so much to share about this, including something that's gonna be happening this Friday, this very Friday, like two days from now. Yes. Wow. Okay, so can you, Mr., tell us what exciting thing is gonna happen on Friday this week?

SPEAKER_00:

So on Friday, November 14th, we have a family fall fun night at Washington West, and it is open to all of our students and families for some engaging opportunity to connect with each other and have a little bit of fun outside the scope of the school day. We will have bingo. Yes, everybody loves a good game of bingo. Uh, we also are going to have uh temporary tattoos, just for clarification, and we have um cookie decorating. So our friends at BoC's, the culinary arts department, they actually were able to bake us 200 cookies so that our kiddos can come in and decorate their own cookie and have a little bit of a sweet treat to close out the event as well. Hopefully, we'll have some games. We are going to have lots of student volunteers, not only from Oleanne High School, but also from St. Bonaventure University and the uh early childhood new visions program at Bose. So there's lots of helping hands that are coming over to assist, and hopefully we'll have a great night together, enjoying uh what was once uh fall weather. Now we have a little bit more of a wintry uh season upon us, but that's okay. We're still celebrating fall.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right, that's right. Regardless of the snow, it's still fall. We're gonna go with that. So is this the first year that we've done the family fun festival?

SPEAKER_00:

So we had one last year as well. We did it a little bit earlier in October last year. We found that some families don't necessarily celebrate Halloween, so we wanted to shift it toward a fall theme, and that way it was more inclusive of all of our students and the whole of our population. So we we moved away from the Halloween hoopla that we had in the past and we moved toward a family fall fun night. Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_01:

And the alliteration is impressive.

unknown:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you. Yeah. So how did your students respond when you did it the first time?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh everybody loved it. So one of the one of the most favored activities, actually, that's going to be embedded again. We did a scavenger hunt where there were different clues around the building and the students had to find different things in different spaces. And at the end, if they turned in their scavenger hunt sheet, they received a little prize. So everyone was kind of racing through the hallways and trying to find all of the clues so that they could earn that special incentive. They had the whole window of time to be able to engage uh and do that as well as invite them themselves in to play some games of bingo too. So it's from 5 30 to 7 p.m. on Friday. We'll open the doors right at 5 30 and there'll be announcements when we do bingo games so that nobody misses out on those opportunities. And of course, there's prizes for bingo too.

SPEAKER_01:

So this is all at Washington West this Friday. That's so cool. Um, is there anything else that our families and and friends should know is also upcoming as far as family fun.

SPEAKER_00:

So every year it's our it's one of our favorite events. We have our cookies with Santa event. It's on Friday, December 5th. And Santa comes all the way down from the North Pole. He is a phenomenal guy. This guy's getting in his calendar. Listen, sometimes he calls us. He wants to be a part of our event each year. So Santa is going to be coming to town. He will be here again on Friday, December 5th. And again, we do similar activities. We'll have some tattoos, we'll have games. Uh, we usually do cookies or cocoa and uh a craft as well, so that we can kind of keep everybody occupied while they're waiting to see the big guy. And we also, the following week, we open up our holiday shop, the 8th through the 12th. The holiday shop is open for our students to purchase items for their family members. We're really working hard to get some items, even though things are costing a little bit more these days. Uh, all items in our shop are$2, and the students can purchase for up to 10 family members. And uh all of our students, regardless of whether or not they do prov have money to shop, we will make sure that every student at least has the chance to purchase for mom, for dad, for a grandma, or grandpa. Everybody will go home with one item at least so that they can share the love of the season with their family.

SPEAKER_01:

I love that. I remember when my my kids were in school, they would have an opportunity to do something like that, and it was always the coolest things, and they got to choose the gifts, so that made it even more special.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, and we have lots of volunteers that come from the high school, and they actually come during the scope of the school day, so all the items come home wrapped too. So they are ready to go right under the tree that week.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you. So is there um before we wrap up, is there any other things that you want us to share that are upcoming for our families to make sure that they mark on their calendar because Santa has marked it on his calendar. He may he's making his list right now. Uh, I'm not sure if he started checking it yet, but I'm sure that's going to be coming up soon where he's checking it twice. But is there anything else that you want us to know is coming up?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, not in the 2025 year. There'll be more to come in 2026. We'll have an ice skating night in January and some fun events throughout the second half of the school year, but we do invite all of our families to come and join us this Friday, November 14th, 5 30 to 7 for the Family Fall Fun Night. And of course, check in on Parent Square as more events are shared.

SPEAKER_01:

Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing all this really fun information about things that our families can engage in in the upcoming month and month, and especially this Friday. We hope to see so many of you having a wonderful time at our family fun festival. There's a lot of to be done there, but it's gonna be super fun, and I hope we see all of you there. Thank you so much, Miss Stuff, for coming up and sharing this with us. And thank you for being on our most recent episode of the Husky Ottawa. Thank you.