Ooltewah Elementary PTA members help organize prizes at the school in anticipation for the fall festival.With caramel apples, pumpkins and cake walks, the Ooltewah Elementary School Fall Festival is about as fall themed as any Saturday afternoon can get, and that’s what school PTA president Miranda Perez hopes brings families out to the new school Saturday, Oct. 12.
“This is our first festival at the new school and I really want it to be a community effort,” Perez said. “When we were at the old school we only had around 500 students and now we have more than 800, so we hope a lot of families come out.”
Since the new school absorbed the students of Birchwood Elementary and some of Snow Hill Elementary’s students this fall, Perez said the PTA wanted to bring traditions from those schools into the annual celebration.
Fourth-grade student Aiden Rose, along with other Birchwood students now at OES, knows that can only mean one thing.
“I’m ready for the pig races. They are a lot of fun and I am excited about that,” he said.