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