Save the date for our Elementary and Junior High 2026 Art Show! 🎨

February Students of the Month! The character trait for February was empathy. Congratulations, students!!




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2026-2027 Mt. Olive CUSD 5 School Calendar 📅

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Junior High Track and Field practice will begin on Monday, March 16, 2025. Practice will be from 3:30 until 5:30 pm, athletes will meet in the gym. We will have a brief parent meeting beginning at 5:30 in the Junior High Gymnasium.

Mrs. Spudich's dual credit Human Bio class was in the lab dissecting a heart this week. Some key functions of the lesson include identifying external anatomy, internal chambers and valves. Important techniques involve making longitudinal or transverse incisions.






📢🏀 Attention 8th Grade and HS Basketball players and guardians:

Some Mt. Olive alumni band members played with the HS pep band during the basketball season. Thank you to all who participated. We hope to continue and grow this event again next year!!


Congratulations to Senior Lauren Bailey. Lauren was selected First Team MSM All Conference. Freshman, Whitney Payne received MSM Honorable Mention All Conference.


March edition of "Helping Children Learn"


Parents and Guardians:
We would greatly appreciate if you take a few minutes and complete the 5Essentials Parent Survey. The survey closes March 13th. Once you have completed the survey, take a picture or screenshot of the confirmation email and send it to schellerprin@mtoliveschools.org to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Walmart gift card.
Thank you!!
http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
We would greatly appreciate if you take a few minutes and complete the 5Essentials Parent Survey. The survey closes March 13th. Once you have completed the survey, take a picture or screenshot of the confirmation email and send it to schellerprin@mtoliveschools.org to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Walmart gift card.
Thank you!!
http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
Congratulations to our 7th Grade Volleyball Team! They will be playing tomorrow for the Regional Championship! Good luck, Lady Bombers!! 🏐🏐


☘️ March Newsletters! ☘️



🥞🍩 National School Breakfast Week! 🍩🥞
Guardians....take a break from figuring our breakfast next week and have your student come to the cafeteria to try new breakfast items!
Guardians....take a break from figuring our breakfast next week and have your student come to the cafeteria to try new breakfast items!

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The Mt. Olive High School Student Council is hosting a blood drive with the American Red Cross Tuesday, March 3rd, from 1 p.m. until 6 in the high school gym.
Donate blood in March for a $15 Gift Card by email & successful donations get A1C testing! Rcblood.org/March
To sign up, follow this link to our blood drive:
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=MtOliveHS
Every donation saves multiple lives, so thanks so much for giving this March!
Donate blood in March for a $15 Gift Card by email & successful donations get A1C testing! Rcblood.org/March
To sign up, follow this link to our blood drive:
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=MtOliveHS
Every donation saves multiple lives, so thanks so much for giving this March!


