Orion High School

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The great day continues! The OHS Marching Chargers win best percussion, best winds, best crowd appeal, and 1st overall in 1A at the Metamora Marching Invitational! Congrats!

Great day to be a Charger! Varsity volleyball goes 5-0 today at the Monmouth United Tournament and wins the championship game in straight sets over Illini West. Ellie Knupp and Madison Reid earned All-Tournament honors. Congrats girls!

Another great weekend of Volleyball as we hosted our Varsity Charger Challenge. The Chargers took on a very tough Galena team in the Championship falling short and taking home 2nd place hardware! Congratulations to Avery Knupp and Kennedy DeBaillie for All-Tournament selection! Great job today girls!!

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day gives the public an opportunity to prevent prescription drug abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Take part in the QC area event on October 26th.

OHS Boys Golf traveled to Valley View today for their IHSA 1A Regional! Congratulations to Senior Kaleb Sovey for advancing to Sectionals on Monday Oct. 7th in Rockford, IL. Great season for the boys golf team and good luck to Kaleb on Monday!

Join us at OHS tomorrow night for our Fall OMS/OHS Choir Concert starting at 7pm. Feel free to stop by early and check out the improvements in the music room. Hope to see a big crowd tomorrow night!

OHS Girls Golf traveled to Valley View today for their IHSA 1A Regional! Congratulations to Sophomore Lilly Stone and Freshman Evelyn Wilbur for advancing to Sectionals on Monday Oct. 7th in El Paso, IL. Great season for the girls golf team and good luck to both Lilly and Evelyn on Monday!

Homecoming Pep Rally was a success! Thank you everyone who helped make this night successful; from the parade, to the dinner, and the assembly! Thank you to the students, staff, parents, families, and community for coming out and making this night fun. Congratulations to this year's 2024 King and Queen, Jake Bainbridge and Lainey Kunert. Now let's keep that energy and support into tomorrow night for Boys Soccer at 4:30pm and Football to follow at 7pm! Go Big Red!

Homecoming Walls are ready for tomorrow. We hope to have a big crowd tomorrow night for the parade starting at 5:00pm, followed by the Homecoming Dinner at 5:30pm, and the Pep Assembly at 6:30pm. Go Chargers!

Last chance to order t-shirts for the Orion High School Volleyball Team's “Knights of Honor” community service project on October 22. This event will honor veterans and first responders for their selfless service to our community and the nation as a whole. All proceeds from this event will be given to the QC Honor Flight. T-shirts for this event can be purchased using this link: https://stores.inksoft.com/ohs_volleyball_knights_of_honor/shop/store-closed

Friday's Homecoming game will be a double header as we will be hosting the Riverdale Rams for both Boy's Soccer and Football. Soccer will start at 4:30pm and Football will follow starting at 7pm. In between games the Homecoming Court will be announced . Come show some support and cheer on both teams to victory this Friday Sept. 27th! Hope to see you there!

IT'S HOMECOMING WEEK! Shout out to the OHS Spirit Squad for getting the school in "Disco" spirit for the week. These decorations all over school look awesome!

Looking for an easy dinner on Thursday? Don't forget about the OHS Homecoming Dinner. Watch the OHS Homecoming Parade at 5pm and then make your way to OHS for dinner, before watching the Pep Assembly starting at 6:30pm.

Fun weekend of Volleyball as we hosted our F/S Volleyball Tournament today. Congratulations to our F/S team for placing 1st and taking home some hardware! Great day of volleyball girls!

The Orion School District is in need of substitute paraprofessionals at C.R. Hanna. These positions offer a highly flexible schedule and would be great for college students going into education.

Homecoming week kicks off starting Monday! There will be some creative and funny outfits with these spirit days. It should be a fun week!

Today, Orion FFA students attended the ICC Career Fair and Ag Career Immersion day in East Peoria. Students experienced careers in soil sample testing, forestry identification, veterinary science and horticulture. In addition, students had the opportunity to speak with representatives from over 30 employers from all over the Central Illinois area. Representatives in attendance included John Deere, Caterpillar, Birkeys, Altofer, Kubota, Cummins, Penske and Bayer to name just a few.

At the request of the American Legion Color Guard, OHS will be using a new Homecoming Parade route starting this fall. This route will match the 4th of July Festival Parade with the parade starting and ending at OHS. The Homecoming Parade will take place on September 26th at 5pm followed by the Homecoming Dinner at 5:30pm and the Homecoming Assembly at 6:30pm.

Orion High School will again be live streaming all basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, and wrestling home games this school year on the NFHS Network. New this year is the addition of Orion Middle School games with the installation of a camera at OMS.