Ocean Gate School District

Today we celebrated Fire Prevention Week by exploring a firetruck and learning how to prevent and escape fires! Thank you to the Ocean Gate Fire Department for teaching our student...

Today we honored the brave men and women who have fought to keep our country safe, free, and united. The students learned about what Veteran’s Day means and why it is important to ...

Gym just got a little cooler! Mr. RJ is teaching the classes how to play pickleball. The students are so excited to learn about a new sport!

Happy Halloween! We had, yet again, another successful Halloween parade around the school. Thank you to the staff for ensuring a safe and happy experience for the students, and tha...

The forth grade class used trial and error to see how many candy corn should be in a bottle to do a perfect bottle flip! They used a data sheet to calculate how many they missed an...

Kindergarten took their annual trip over to Atlantic Farm to pick pumpkins, feed animals, and learn more about fall! Thank you, Mrs. Parliman for organizing another wonderful adven...

Mrs. Szewczyk’s fifth grade class was all wrapped up in preparation for Halloween! The fifth graders took turns using toilet paper to turn each other into mummies. Earlier in the w...

Need a Creepy Crawler Catcher? Call Mrs. Szewczyk’s class! The fifth graders broke off into groups to create their own traps for creepy crawlers. This STEM activity had the student...

This past Thursday, the Ocean Gate PTO hosted a Halloween Dance for our students and their siblings. It was a night of scary costumes, great tunes, yummy treats, and fun games! Stu...

The third grade class took an adventure outdoors to find different parts of nature. They used objects like sticks, leaves, wood chips, and flowers to make patterns. What a creative...

For the past week, the 6th grade class was making costumes to represent idioms! Today they paraded to each classroom to teach the younger students about different idioms and their ...

Mrs. Szewczyk’s sixth grade science class took a trip down to the gym to build catapults! What a good way to learn about engineering, simple machines, and motion!

Today, our gym teacher, Mr. RJ, focused on teamwork to build the tallest tower using only tape, string, spaghetti, and marshmallows! This STEM activity helped the students have an ...

Special thanks to Stacie Gentile from the PTO and Seven Brew in Tom’s River for surprising our staff with donated coffees, energy drinks, and lemonade. We are all incredibly gratef...

Last night, families had a chance to connect with teachers, see the classrooms, and learn more about the year ahead! We are so grateful for our parents who came out and played a pa...

Please see the attached letter regarding the upcoming BOE Special Meetings that are going to be held On Wednesday, October 1st and Tuesday, October 7th. Both starting at 7 pm in t...

We are so thankful for another successful Scholastic Book Fair! Students had a great time exploring the shelves, discovering new stories, and getting some fun school accessories. T...

We had the opportunity to say good bye to our 6th Graders on Friday with a clap out at dismissal. Thank you for a great year and we wish you the best of luck next year in middle s...

Ocean Gate Elementary School was well represented last evening as we had two students honored for their Illustrating America Art Work Project that they completed with Ms. Jarka in...

We had to wait a few weeks due to the rain but the wait was well worth it as our 6th Graders got fantastic weather for their annual Statue of Liberty trip. It was a long day at Li...