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Flag Bestows Special Honor

A U.S. flag has become a piece of living history to Cardinal Pacelli students. On Wednesday, April 18, Army veteran Martin “Keith” Potts presented the Cardinal Pacelli junior high with a United States flag that had been flown at the…

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Exploring Careers in Design

In March, the Cardinal Pacelli Fine Arts Committee sponsored a design-related field trip for the school’s sixth and seventh graders. They visited UC’s College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) and the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

Vanessa Phelan of…

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Jelly Bean Mosaic Depicts Easter Masterpiece

This spring, Cardinal Pacelli’s first and second graders are giving people a whole new perspective on what jelly beans can do. In celebration of Easter, they created a 4’ by 2 ½’ mosaic depicting Christ’s Resurrection using ten pounds of…

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Eighth Graders Take on Stock Market

Jeff McPeek, a Portfolio Manager at Nottinghill Investment Advisors, spoke to the eighth graders about investing in the stock market on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. The students are participating in a Stock Market Game sponsored by the Economics Center at the…

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Catholic Schools Mass at the Cathedral

On Tuesday, January 31, St. Peter in Chains Cathedral downtown was brimming with students. Every year during Catholic Schools Week, student representatives from across the region’s parochial elementary and high schools join together for a special Mass celebrating Catholic education.…

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Telling Stories Through the Arts

Cardinal Pacelli’s Fine Arts Committee knows a meaningful life includes exposure to the Arts. So when they chose this year’s theme, “Expressing Yourself: Telling Stories Through the Arts,” they selected activities that would allow students to explore a variety of…

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American Mathematics Competition

The results are in from the American Mathematics Competition which our eighth graders participated in last November. The AMC 8 gave students an opportunity to apply their mathematics skills in a friendly and fun competition. The questions ranged in difficulty…

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The Joy of Giving

It’s amazing what a crafty and enterprising fifth or sixth grader can do with ten dollars. The annual Christmas Kindness Challenge has begun and already students have been working out creative ways to grow their money.

Since the project began…

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A Very Important Visitor

When Jim Rigg took over as the new Superintendent of Catholic Schools on July 1, 2010, he set an ambitious goal for himself: visit all 113 Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

On Thursday, November 10,…

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8th Graders Lead Science Experiments

The fifth graders at Cardinal Pacelli have a new appreciation for safety in the school’s science room thanks to the good example set by the eighth graders. The two classes joined together to experiment so the younger students could learn…

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