OUR LADY of the SACRED HEART SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER for SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

OUT-OF-UNIFORM WEEK (see below)

Monday, September 26 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.--Grades 1, 2, and 3 to Sharon Woods

Advanced Band during lunch

Tuesday, September 27 9 a.m.-noon--Grade 2 to Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve

2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Choir practice

2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.--High School Entrance Exam Prep Class

Wednesday, September 28 Magazine Drive Limo Lunch

2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Young Rembrandts Art Program

2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.--High School Entrance Exam Prep Class

Thursday, September 29            Magazine Drive Major Awards Day

Beginning Band during Music Class

Friday, September 30 8:15 a.m.--All-School Mass

Magazine Drive Ice Cream Social after lunch

INTERIMS GOING HOME TODAY (grades 2-8)

MAGAZINE DRIVE RESULTS: The Magazine Drive is OLSH PTO's major fundraiser. Overall, we raised an average of $133 per student. This is the most we have ever collected! Magazine sales accounted for 73% of the total, and Kids First products accounted for 27%. Because of the overall success of this fundraiser, we are allowing all students to be out of uniform for the entire week of September 26. (Please check page 25 of the OLSH Parent-Student Handbook for appropriate dress.) Any homeroom selling an average of $100 per student will receive a five-pound Hershey bar to share. Due to an accounting glitch, three more homerooms (in addition to the ones already mentioned in the purple flyer sent home last week) will be awarded a Hershey bar--4-D, 5-B, and 5-S. Qualifying seventh and eighth graders will have their limo lunch on Wednesday, September 28. I am looking for five volunteers to help out on Thursday, September 29 (our Major Awards Day--Money Wheel, Money Machine, Cash Box, and Flying Critter for Cash), from 9:45 a.m. 'til 11 a.m. PTO will also host an ice cream social for the entire school on Friday, September 30. I will need ten volunteers from 10:30 a.m. 'til 12:30 p.m. on that day. Please call Pam Kennedy (984-4597) or e-mail me at pendres@cinci.rr.com if you're able to help us. Congratulations to all participants--we thank you for your support of OLSH PTO!

FINGERPRINTING: All organizations are responsible for notifying their new volunteers about securing a Criminal Records Check and viewing the Child Protection Decree video. Please see page 18 of the Parent-Student Handbook for further information.

PROMISING WRITER: Earlier this summer, students from OLSH entered a poetry contest for young poets. Mrs. Cindy Creighton, junior-high Language Arts/English teacher, has received word from Creative Communication, inc. that OLSH eighth grader Meggie O'Brien's poem has been found worthy of publication. Only the best poems are selected for this honor, according to Thomas K. Worthen, Ph.D., Editor of Creative Communication, inc. Congratulations to Meggie! Please see her poem on the back of this newsletter.

YAC: YAC winter sports registrations for girls' volleyball and boys' basketball (grades 3-8) and boys' high school basketball will be after all Masses this weekend (September 24/25) in the Tiger Room of the Activity Center. (Your child should have brought home last week a blue registration form.) This is the final weekend for winter sports sign-ups. NO REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH SCHOOL.

AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING/HOMEWORK HELP: Could your child benefit from tutoring? Would extra explanation and practice increase his/her understanding of assignments/homework? Mrs. Mary Jo Eggenberger will be offering after-school/evening tutoring and homework help. If interested, please contact her at 563-2079 to schedule a day and time. Group rates are available for two or three same-grade students.

UPCOMING HIGH SCHOOL EVENTS: Eighth graders' parents are beginning to ask about upcoming events at area high schools. Here are the events that we are aware of at this point:

OPEN HOUSES

Sunday, November 6

12 noon-3 p.m.--Ursuline Academy

1 p.m.-4 p.m.--Mt. Notre Dame

2 p.m.-5 p.m.--Moeller

Sunday, November 13

11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.--St. X

11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.--St. Ursula Academy

Thursday, November 17

7 p.m.--The Summit Country Day Upper School

ENTRANCE EXAMS

Saturday, November 19

Moeller

Mt. Notre Dame

Ursuline Academy

Saturday, December 3

St. X

St. Ursula Academy

Saturday, December 10

The Summit Country Day Upper School

In addition, all of the above schools will visit OLSH during the week of October 24. Your eighth grader will receive information to bring home from each school's visit. Reading High School's Guidance Counselor usually visits after the first of the year. If you would like to have your child shadow a student from one of the area high schools, we strongly encourage you to arrange this with the high school on a day when OLSH is not in session (Monday, October 10, for example--our teachers will be at an in-service that day). Mt. Notre Dame and Moeller will host a special day for eighth graders on Friday, January 6. In years past, all OLSH eighth graders were expected to be in attendance at an area high school on this day. More info on that later.

NURSE'S OFFICE: Volunteers for the Nurse's Office for Friday, September 30, are Eleanor Bermingham (8 a.m. 'til 11 a.m.) and Jamie Brenner (11 a.m. 'til 2 p.m.). Thanks, moms!

MENU for the WEEK of SEPTEMBER 26

Monday…………..Belgian waffle sticks with syrup, sausage patty, hash brown potato, juice, milk

Tuesday………….hot dog, baked beans, applesauce, bag of sunflower seeds, milk

Wednesday…….chili, chips, and cheese, mixed fruit, juice bar, grahams, milk

Thursday………..grilled chicken on bun, mashed potatoes with gravy, mandarin oranges, milk

Friday…………….French bread pizza, tossed salad, pineapple, bag of pretzels, milk

TIME

The clock has stopped ticking. The clock has begun ticking,

The day is near. The day no longer.

It's time to face the facts Hard obstacles we face

And hide all fear. Will make us stronger.

You say you could never forget it--

That day before last. Meggie O'Brien

Was it so important Grade 8--OLSH

That it burned its way into your past?