Our junior high science students are very excited about the two newest residents to the science lab. Squirt and Crush are semi-aquatic turtles. The seats next to the turtle tank are now coveted seats!

Second graders took a trip around the world as they explored cultures from Africa, Asia, Australia and South and North America through clothing, crafts, games, celebrations, music and photographs during a classroom enrichment with The Cincinnati Museum Center. Click on the article title to see more photos.

Our 2019 Student Council Canned Food Drive was a mighty 979 pounds of success! Thank you to all of our school families that donated to help provide Thanksgiving meal baskets to needy families. Students helped to load the trailer with the canned goods to take over to the Corpus Christi Food Pantry.

Students celebrated All Saints Day after mass last Friday by playing Saint Bingo with their faith families. In Father Pete's homily, he explained that we are all called to be saints in our daily lives. Click on the title to view more pictures

On Friday, October 25, our eighth grade class spent the day at Camp Kern for a day full of fun-filled leadership and team building activities. Click on the title to view more photos. This was their first of three class field trips this year. In the spring, they will have breakfast while cruising the Ohio River on B & B Riverboats before attending a Cincinnati Reds game and will also travel to Columbus, Ohio to visit The Ohio State House, Ohio Supreme Court and COSI.

Last week, in honor of Red Ribbon Week,and as part of their D.A.R.E. program, fifth grade students promoted drug free awareness by selling 25 cent candy grams during lunch periods. A record number of candy grams were delivered to students, faculty and staff! Thank you to everyone who participated to help raise drug free awareness among our students. The monies raised will offset the costs of the D.A.R.E. graduation program and the remaining will be donated to a charity (to be determined).

Congratulations to the cast & crew of our talented Performing Arts Troupe for their fall performance of Twinderella, a story about Cinderella and her long lost twin brother, Bob. All students grades K-8 enjoyed a performance of the show during school hours on Friday, October 18th. That same evening, our troupe returned to school for round two with an audience filled with families and friends. Click on the title to view more pictures.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the huge success of our annual Walk for Technology!  We reached our donation goal and as a reward, will be off school on Monday, November 25, 2019, giving us entire week off for the Thanksgiving holiday. The funds raised will be allocated to five new card scanners on major entry doors to be placed throughout the school.  These doors will enhance the safety of our school and require scan cards for faculty & staff entrance into the school. Click on the photo to view more pictures from our Walkathon.

Junior High students recently gathered for a retreat in Daniel Hall at St. John Neumann Parish. They were greeted by a NET Ministries team of twelve young adults who were excited to share the love of Christ with them through games, skits, personal witness, small group discussion, prayer, and quiet reflection. The theme for the retreat was “Fully Alive.” It explored our search for finding true happiness, highlighting the one thing that is big enough to fill our deepest desires –God. Students learned that prayer, sacraments, fellowship, and service are all important ways grow in meaningful and fulfilling relationships with God and others. It was a great day of personal reflection and fun faith formation. (To learn more about NET Ministries, visit netusa.org or facebook.com/netministriesusa.)

A big thank you to all of our school families that donated and volunteered for the St. John the Baptist Parish event, Create the Good. They tied knots in 84 "no sew" fleece blankets for Pregnancy Center West, filled 246 bags with childrens personal care item for Hope's Closet, made countless greeting cards for Vivian's Victory and filled bags with 130 swim trunks, 115 beach towels, 87 bottles of sunscreen, $300 in gift cards and 41 games, puzzles, and playing cards for the youth program at Santa Maria Community Center. This was a great example of living out our school mission statement by being "heralds of God's love in the world."

In conjunction with their science unit on the human skeleton, fifth grade students built models of the human backbone using licorice laces, tube shaped pasta and gummy lifesavers to represent the spinal cord, vertebrae, and cartilage.

Mrs. Seller's first graders recently completed a breakout challenge with the assistance of Mrs. Flick's 6th & 7th grade accelerated math students.

Our 3 and 4 year old preschool classes began on Tuesday, September 3rd. Students attended a shortened version class in which a parent/guardian stayed with them in the classroom. Pictured here is our 4 year old afternoon class enjoying story time before going home. Our Pre K class will begin on Wednesday, September 4th.

We hope that you can join us for Open House on Monday, August 19th. The evening will begin at 6:00 pm in the church with a short prayer service and a welcome from Mr. Minelli. From 6:30 pm-8:00 pm, the school will be open for students and their families to see their classrooms and visit with teachers.

We wish the very best to each of our 36 members of the Class of 2019! A special graduation ceremony was held on Thursday, May 31st at St. John the Baptist Church followed by a fun celebration for parents and graduates in the Parish Center. Best of luck to them in high school!

This morning during a special Candle Ceremony our eighth graders each passed a "light of leadership", symbolized with a candle, to a seventh grader. In return, each seventh grade student passed a flower to an eight grader. Mr. Minelli then spoke to the seventh grade class asking them to commit to several promises including, "Will you be, like St. John the Baptist, heralds of God's love in the world?"

Congratulations to our eighth grade students on receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation on May 8th at St. Peters in Chains Cathedral. Bishop Joseph Binzer presided .

Eighth grade recently spent the day in Columbus, Ohio visiting the Ohio State House, Ohio Supreme Court, and COSI. They finished out the day at Dave & Busters for dinner and some games before heading back to Cincinnati. To see more photos, click on the article title.

Sixth grade students visited the The Cincinnati Museum Center today to view the Egypt exhibit. The exhibit explores the realities of daily life in ancient Egypt with the use of vivid interactive multimedia spaces, detailed models of once-lost cities and landscapes, and more than 350 original artifacts dating back over 4,500 years. While at The Museum Center, students also had the opportunity to visit the Holocaust and Humanity Center. Click on the article title to view more photos.

CONGRATULATIONS to our “Top 8” winners of the Pizza Hut Book It Challenge! These super readers each read over 10,000 minutes during the school year, with our top two reading over 43,000 minutes! Winners got the first pick of “Book It”prizes in the library this morning.