Congratulations to our OLQA students!

We celebrate our student winners in their citizenship, essay and American History categories for the annual Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) contest.   All schools in the Newport Mesa area, private and public, are invited to enter this contest and OLQA was very well represented with nine medals.

There were twelve overall winners in the essay contest.   Out of these twelve winners, five were from Our Lady Queen of Angels School!  Our committed teachers have developed our students into fine writers capable of competing at the highest level with their peers from other schools. The writing programs in the grades that qualified this contest are taught by two very dedicated teachers. We congratulate Mrs. Sharkey and Mr. Bergeron for their students’ success.

Three years ago, our faculty chose to follow the Lucy Calkins Writing Program.  This writing program is a worldwide writing program that began at Columbia University in New York City.  Their curriculum is based on educational research and continual training for the teachers.  Over the past two summers, our teachers have had workshops on the Lucy Calkins Writing Program.

Now in our third year in this writing program, we see our students as creative and skilled writers.  Every teacher from Kindergarten through Eighth Grade should be praised for all of their efforts to make our students the successful, confident writers that they are today.  A graduate of Our Lady Queen of Angels School will enter high school with the ability to clearly communicate their thoughts through writing.

Congratulations to our winners!

DAR Youth Citizenship Medal and Certificate: 

Seventh Grade: Paul Habeeb & Caroline Amling

Eighth Grade: Kieren Spradlin & Madeleine Ashworth

DAR American History National Essay Writing:

Second Place:  Sophia Fanticola &  Anna Bell

Third Place:  Madison Wilkins, Stella Pozzuoli, &  Lucas Phillips