School Council

Your 2022-2023 OLA School Council Executive:

Chair: Andrea Turenne
Co-Chair: Jennifer Maldonado
Treasurer: Amy Miskolzie
Secretary: Candace Dealy

Huge thanks to these leaders who are willing to share their time and talents with our awesome OLA Catholic School community.

To connect to your OLA School Council, please email schoolcouncil.ola@gmail.com

All parents are welcome at our monthly meetings - please come and support our school community!  Upcoming meeting dates: 

February 20, 2023 Meeting Minutes

January 11, 2023 Meeting Minutes

November 15, 2022 Meeting Minutes

October 4, 2022 Meeting Minutes

September 15, 2022 Meeting Minutes

June 7, 2022 Meeting Minutes

May 12, 2022 Meeting Minutes

April 7, 2022 Meeting Minutes

November 18, 2021 Meeting Minutes

October 5, 2021 Meeting Minutes

We are happy to announce that the OLA milk program will be offered to students again.

Stay tuned for the 2022-2023 Milk Program dates.

OLA SC Milk Program Committee

Your OLA School Council will be offering Hot Lunch during the 2022-2023 school year. 

Stay tuned for more information.

For anyone new to our Fort Saskatchewan Catholic schools, we are four Catholic schools that have been restructured from three Catholic schools upon the completion of a new Catholic high school.  Within the restructuring process we have the following changes:

1. St. John XXIII (SJXXIII) (grades K-4) has half the number of students as half of the students were reallocated to OLA.
2. Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) has changed from a middle school (grades 5-8) into an elementary school (grades K-4).
3. St. John Paul II (JPII) has changed from a high school (grades 9-12) into a middle school (grades 5-8).
4. St. Andre Bessette (SAB) is a new build for a high school (grades 9-12).

These changes were much needed, but have resulted in the playgrounds, equipment and outdoor spaces being inappropriate or non-existent for three of the four schools.  We are left with the current problems that need remedying:

1. OLA (grades K-4): has 30-year-old playground equipment more appropriate for a middle school
2. JPII (grades 5-8):  does not have any playground or outdoor play structures since it had been a high school
3. JPII (grades 5-8):  we will need to remove half of the parking lot to make room for an outdoor play structure
4. SAB (grades 9-12):  does not have any outdoor gathering spaces and needs benches or picnic tables
5. SJXXIII (grades K-4):  due to school enrollment at full capacity for so long, the playground is worn.  They just received a bill for $40,000 to replace a broken play structure.

We are applying for grants and fundraising to replace old playgrounds and to build new ones where needed.  We are fundraising as one community as we see our Catholic schools as one family, with close connections with each other.  We plan on raising these funds together, and together building outdoor spaces adequate for all our Catholic schools.  As ambitious as it sounds, we would like to complete our fundraising within 18 months.