Class lists are posted on the main door (blue awning) and the door by the flag pole. The lists will remain up all weekend during the festival. To honor the privacy request of some of our families, please do not post pictures of the list on social media media.

Thanks to Rumpke for donating 30 red recycle bins for our classrooms!

Mr. Powers awarded Ms. Gruenwald's 3rd Grade class with their Championship P.E. "Behavior & Effort" Medals.  They earned three first place achievement certificates during the 1st, 3rd, and 4th quarters and five  "WOW" awards during the school year. Congratulations to them for having such a great year and for setting a good example for the rest of the school to follow.

Last Wednesday during lunch, the 4th grade had tables set up in the cafeteria for prayer requests. All students, teachers, and staff were encouraged to visit the prayer tables and fill out a prayer intention form. The 4th grade will include the requests in their daily morning prayers.

Bob & Marianne from Warm 98 Radio came today to honor our Gifted Specialist/Accelerated Math and Accelerated Reading teacher Mrs. Anne Flick as Teacher of the Week! The 8th Grade Accelerated Math students nominated her. They came with gifts, an award plaque, and pizza from Westshore Pizza and Cheesesteaks.

THANK YOU St. John's families for reaching our goal of $11,000! No school on May 26! Thank you chairs Jaime Christensen and Shannon Memory and all the Walk-A-Thon volunteers!

Last week St. John the Baptist School celebrated Right to Read Week. The theme this year was Open a Book and Explore the World! We were honored to have the author Barbara Coyle present to the students. She has written In the Land of Soon Come a children’s book about her religious journey to Jamaica. Every day last week we had a mystery reader and time for the students to read. Families/students were also encouraged to donate new and gentle-used books for Ethel Taylor Academy. Everyone was VERY generous. The total books collected in one week were 2,145!

On April 6, the 7th Grade went to Matthew 25 Ministries for their grade level service project.  There, they removed excess packaging from cases of personal cleansing wipes and placed individual packs in bins for shipping to those in need. We’d never seen so many of those wipes! There were cases and cases of them. It did our hearts good to see that they were not going to waste. Students enjoyed working together on this job saying it was “oddly addictive.”  In addition to the work, they also went on an educational tour to learn more about the work of Matthew 25 Ministries. The tour includes 3-D scenes displaying what the aftermath of natural disasters and poverty-stricken places where Matthew 25 sends aid are like.

6th, 7th and 8th grade students gathered together for a retreat facilitated by NET Ministries Team # 3 at Corpus Christi on Thursday, March 30. The retreat theme was “Anchored in Hope’ and focused on the power of being anchored in the hope of the Resurrection amidst the storms of life. Students connected well with the team members and were very engaged in the activities. It was a spiritually uplifting day of reflection and growth in faith as well as one of fun and fellowship.

Thank you to all the dads for spending the morning with our students last Friday during our Donuts with Dads event.

Students in second grade recently had two enrichment programs from Mother's Nature. During the first visit the students watched and participated in a puppet show called "Body Mechanics" to learn all about the Human Body. The second visit was to teach the Second Graders about Recycling. They learned all about the 3 R's with a short puppet show, sang a recycling song, listened to a story about Pollution, and played a game called "Recycle or Landfill?" They even got to replicate a paper recycling factory by working an assembly line to recycle old newspaper. They made a new sheet of paper from the recycled material!

Seventh grade students visited Sharon Creek on April 3 to learn about the Ohio River watershed. Led by the Ohio River Foundation, students collected macroinvertebrates and fish from Sharon Creek to check for biodiversity. Students also conducted various river chemistry tests to check the health of Sharon Creek. Based on the data collected, the students determined that Sharon Creek was marginally healthy.

In support of our hometown baseball team, wear a Cincinnati Reds or red-colored shirt with regular uniform bottoms to school on Monday, April 3, 2017

Nate’s Toy Box was created in 2006 as a memorial to Nathan Schroeder who loved children, toys and reading. This week Nathan’s parents Gary and Pam Schoeder presented our school with a box of new books for all of our second graders. Their hope is to stimulate the imagination and encourage reading.

The Cincinnati Museum Center gave a science presentation to the preschoolers about seasonal weather. The students got to complete a water cycle using cotton balls, make snow, and watch beads turn to different colors in the sunlight.

The PTO Carnival is this Saturday from 10 AM - 2 PM in the Gym. Please come and play games and win prizes.

8th grade students worked with A Child’s Hope International’s “Hands Against Hunger” program at The Hope Factory on East Kemper Road.  The students were able to present the organization with $2138.72 through their fundraising efforts and the donations made toward the Lenten almsgiving project by parishioners from St. John Neumann, Corpus Christi, and St. John the Baptist on Ash Wednesday.  These funds allowed them to package 8,640 high protein meals and enough water purification packets to provide over 4,000 gallons of fresh water for orphans in Swaziland.

Last month third graders visited Caldwell Park and did maple sugaring to go along with their social studies and reading curriculum.

The Pregnancy Center West would like to thank all the students of St. John the Baptist School and the parishes of St. John Neumann, Corpus Christi and St. John the Baptist who generously donated so many baby items and money in the baby bottles for our center during Catholic Schools Week. The total money counted this year was $537.09!

Several representatives of our St. John's School Student Council attended mass at the St. Peter's in Chains Cathedral during Catholic Schools Week.