A Strong Start at OLL School

Our Lady of the Lake School believes in an engaged learning community

Our Lady of the Lake School opens its doors to our children on Tuesday, September 1.  We are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding year.  Our theme for this school year is:  “Finding God in all Things.”  We want to become more aware and understand that God can be found in every one, in every place and in everything. When we learn to pay more attention to God, we become more thankful and reverent.

In our opening meetings as a faculty and staff, we agreed that there were several things we wanted to accomplish this school year.  We wanted to increase our students’ academic performance and we wanted to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ.  We identified three ways that we knew would help us achieve our goals. 

They are:

Maintaining a Positive Attitude - We are committed to remembering to find the positive in every situation.  We will help our students learn to be people of faith and hope, who see the joy in life.

Building Relationships - We will connect with our families, our children, and one another, to get to know each other and value our time together.  We want to encourage one another and give our children a sense of accomplishment.

Student Engagement and STEM - We want our students to be part of their own learning process, to be active, engaged learners.  Along with our annual STEM initiative for all grade levels, we are implementing a weekly STEM program for our 3rd through 7th grades that will allow for hands-on, project based learning.  Our technology program will serve to enhance student engagement and now includes iPads throughout the school, Chromebooks for our Junior High and in each classroom, Google Apps, Newsela, IXL Math, streaming Discovery Learning and a distance learning lab.

We are confident that it is going to be a wonderful school year, where we will share the Gospel message and help our students develop a lifelong love of learning.