From the desk of Mrs. Kerr...

Mrs. Kerr

Dear Peace Families, Welcome to March and a hope for some SPRING weather around the corner! As we begin the season of Lent, we reflect on becoming closer to God and anticipate a wonderful Easter for all. Last month was action packed with fun activities like our cheer camp, Mystery Dinner Theater, eighth grade trip to Charleston, and our pep rally for our boys and girls’ 7-8th grade basketball teams who both ended up finishing second in the season and second in the tournament. We are ready to cheer on our cheerleaders who will perform at the WPL Showcase on Saturday, March 2 at 9AM at CCHS. We also enjoyed applauding the many accolades earned by our students. Among those were our Math Day Team, our spelling bee winner fifth grader Jana Schodzinski, our Lions Club Student of the Semester Chaz Frizzell, and the 2019 Aquinas Winner Braden White-latch. We are so proud of all of our students as they have continued to work hard and show excellent effort throughout this school year academically, spiritually, and athletically. To watch them succeed and learn is the best gift of all. Our students are a great reflection of the dedication of our teach-ers and families to create a wonderful school rich in catholic identi-ty, academic challenges, and community responsibility. Please know we couldn’t do it without you giving of your time and talents each day. Thank YOU! This month we invite you to join us for stations of the cross on Thursdays during the school day (please refer to the calendar for times). We also hope to see you and your family at our Knights of Columbus Fish Fry on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. This is a delicious meal, great time for fellowship and a wonderful way to show our Knights we appreciate all the work they do for us throughout the year. Mark your calendars for April 13, when we will hold our first Trivia Night. We have some fun plans up our sleeves to make this an EXTRAORDINARY night out and great fundraiser for the school. Make it a great month! With Peace,

Our Lady of Peace School S C H O O L N E W S L E T T E R M A R C H 2 0 1 9

Dates to note: Fish Fry Fridays during Lent (not including Good Friday) March 2 Cheering Showcase CCHS @ 9AM March 6-8 Book Fair March 7 Diocesan Science Fair March 11-15 Terra Nova Testing March 13 Middle School Orientation 6PM March 17 Gr 6 leads 10:30AM Mass March 17 Paint n’ Shake @ noon March 19 Diocesan Spelling Bee March 20 PK4 Conferences March 21 PK3 K-8 Conferences

P A G E 2

Celebrating our FAITH

Panther Athletics:

We are excited to begin

our athletic events this

month with our Parochial

Cheering Showcase for

our 5-8 Cheerleaders! The

event will be held March

2nd at 9 AM at Central

Catholic High School’s Skip

Prosser Court. Please

make a point to come out

and cheer on our student

athletes who cheered on

our teams all winter.

We congratulate our 7-

8th grade boys and girls

basketball teams. Both

teams finished second

place in the season and

tourney runners up!

As of press time for the

newsletter our 5-6th grade

boys team are one of the

top four teams in the WPL

Tournament.

We love our Panthers and

our awesome coaches!

Spring volleyball for 5-

6th grade girls will begin

soon. Watch for more in-

formation.

Our Athletic Banquet

will be here before you

know it. Watch for more

information to come in

your Thursday envelope.

Plan on bringing your friends to this super fun -raiser for OLP! Plan to attend our first ever Trivia Night at Peace on Saturday April 13th in the Peace Family Center. Doors open at 6 p.m. and game begins at 7 p.m. Oh, this is not your mother’s Trivial Pursuit game! Think more way more laughs, more challenges, prizes, and good food. We will have a contest for the best themed table. YES, think of a team name and fun theme to decorate your table—birthday party, sports, country, elegance, etc. Go all out (or don’t worry about decorating and incorpo-rate that in your team name. Hmmmmm?). Watch your Thursday envelope this month for a registration flyer. In the meantime get your team together. You can have up to 8 players on a team. The evening will also include a Not So Silent Auction with class art projects; 50/50; tail-gate food; pop; and water (BYOB).

Trivia Night April 13th!

Please, join us for our school Masses set for 8:30 AM: March 1st, 6th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

Reconciliation for Grades 4 & 5 is TBA.

Stations of the cross: March 7th, 14th, 28th (Possibly March 21 time TBA)

Mark your calendars—Our seventh and eighth graders will present the Living Sta-tions at 7 PM on Friday, April 12th. If you have not attended this meaningful even-ing before, make plans to go this year. You will be impressed.

Set your child up for success! Terra Nova Testing will be held for our K-8 students March 11-15. So mark your calendars now and make sure your child will be here (so as we said at the beginning of the school year - no doctors appointments or similar, please). We encourage all of our students to make sure they have plenty of sleep and eat a good breakfast each day during this week. Students must be on time in the morning. Morning announce-ments will be at 8:15 AM and testing will begin promptly at 8:30 AM. We appreciate your cooperation. Together we can prepare our children for success!

ACRE Testing set for April As we finish the Terra Nova testing this month, we turn the calendar and will be assessing our students in grades 5 and 8th with the ACRE test on April 3rd. The ACRE is a national religion test. Again, please make sure your child is here for the full day and on time. FUN FACT: Our Lady of Peace 8th Graders have scored the highest each year for at least the last 13 years! AND... our fifth graders have consistently finished in the top three.

Celebrating our FAITH P A G E 3

M A R C H 2 0 1 9

Did you turn in your REGISTRATION FORMS?

From Mrs. Murphy’s Office:

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART!

Happy March! The week of March 18-21

our K-3 will participate in Jump Rope for

Heart. This same time grades 4-8 will

participate in Hoops for Heart. This is an

important service project we do each

year. Almost every family has been af-

fected in some way with heart disease.

OLP families have been very generous in

past years and I hope you continue this

year. THANKS for your support.

-Mrs. Murphy

Tennis (balls) anyone? Our Physical Education classes are in

need of tennis balls if you could donate a

canister of balls or have any good ones at

home that you are no longer using,

please consider giving them to the

school. Mrs. Murphy and the students

will be so grateful.

Sarris Candy Sale Thanks in advance for their support of

our Sarris Candy Sale. Big thanks to Mrs.

Becky Kalo who coordinates this sale,

and has for the last several years.

Transportation Notes: Parents must pick up at noon on March 21st.

Fish Fry Fridays—YUM! REMEMBER Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent are Knights of Columbus Fish Fry Days—We hope when you pick up your child you will make a point to come in and enjoy dinner. Dine in or take home. This is a great way to gather as a community and support our Knights, who continually give to the school in so many ways throughout the year! Get there early so you can enjoy the yummy homemade desserts too!

Registration forms for the 2019-2020 school year were due at the

end of February. Please, get these forms in now for your family. This

information is vital as we look to prepare for the new school year.

If you need another form please call the office.

Phase 1 deadline for Tuition Assistance (TAPS) for Catholic families is

April 30.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES: March 20—PK4 (No preschool)

March 21—PK3 and K-8 (Noon Dismissal. No preschool)

K-8 Conferences will be from 12:30-5:30 PM Sign up sheets will be in

the front hallway the week of March 18th and at church March 16-17.

SHARE OUR WEBSITE, TWITTER, & FACEBOOK:

Please make sure you check our school website, Twitter, and Face-

book posts. They are full of information and highlights. Our website is

also a valuable resource for info and forms. Also when you are on

Facebook you have an option of rating our school and leav-

ing a complimentary message, Mrs. Bibey would love to see your

5-star rating and glowing comments on how great OLP truly is! Invite

your family and friends to like and follow us!

Olpschool.org @OLPSchool Facebook.com/OLP.School

Meetings and Student Events to Note:

March 7 Diocesan Science Fair @ CCHS

March 5 Faculty Meeting 3PM

March 6-8 Book Fair

March 13 Middle School Orientation 6 PM

March 17 Paint n’ Shake @ noon

March 19 Diocesan Spelling Bee @ WJU

March 20-21 No PK Classes

March 20 P-T Conferences PK4

March 21 P-T Conferences PK3 and K-8

Pi Day

TERRA NOVA TESTING

Middle School

Orientation 6PM

Area Principals

Meeting 8:30AM

WPL 9:30AM

TERRA NOVA

TESTING WEEK

Get your rest

Book Fair

Fish Fry 3-6:30PM

Parochial League

Cheer-

ing

Mass 8:30AM

Book Fair

Diocesan Science Fair

@CCHS

Stations of the Cross

Library

Faculty Meeting

6pm 5/6 Volleyball

West Liberty

Science

Fair

Mass 8:30 AM

St. Patty’s Day

Gr. 6 leads

10:30AM Mass

Paint n’ shake @

NOON DISMISSAL

PK3 & K-8

Conferences

PK4 Conferences Library Day

Diocesan Spelling

Bee WJU @

Library Outreach

Ash Wednesday

Mass 8:30AM

Book Fair preview

Mass 8:30 AM

Mass 8:30AM

1:45PM