Who's Got Spirit? OLIVE has spirit! Our OMS school spirit wear sale is here!! We have a variety of shirts, shorts and sweatshirts that your children will love to wear. If you have any questions please email Stacey Esposito or Bridget Stannis. Shopping Link: https://www.headsupapparel.com/collections/olive-mary-stitt-2019 Shop Here

Order your 2019-20 yearbooks by September 30th and save 15%! To order, go to Treering.com. Add a yearbook to your cart for each student and the 15% discount will be applied automatically at checkout. Watch for flyers to come home via backpack mail with more information! Order Yearbook Here

Join us for this month's Art Club project!! We will be making Sun Art! Grades 2-5 are encouraged to sign up. We are only able to take the first 20 children who sign up. Click here to learn more and see the project.

Show your SPIRIT and Middle School PRIDE!! Order your spirit wear for your future 6th grader! South has free shipping on all orders until September 29th. Please order Thomas spirit wear by September 13th. See attached flyers to order. All orders will be sent to the middle school and then distributed to Olive. Please make … Continue reading Calling All 5th Grade Parents!

If you were unable to secure a ticket there is still hope! Follow the attached link and join the wait list. We will certainly have parents that are unable to attend, and will do our best at redistributing tickets. Thanks so much for your continued support of the OMS PTA. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/8th-annual-oms-house-hop-tickets-69680699849?fbclid=IwAR2-tNLeZbUQHyIJq40dsg2tiVhOtB3VcI99hLvLWerECinMLRTvCiNNbnQPassword: olive

Who's Got Spirit? OLIVE has spirit! Our OMS school spirit wear sale begins next week. We have a variety of shirts, shorts, and sweatshirts that your children will love to wear. We will post the link next week in the TWIG!

Mark your calendars and don’t forget to bring your smile! Student pictures will be taken on Friday, September 20th. Order forms came home this week. Online orders are available with the order code: 41850ZA (from a desktop) from the Inter-State Studio website - https://inter-state.com/. Please note: Yearbooks are not included with picture packages and will … Continue reading Picture Day is Friday, September 20th, 2019

Reflections, a National PTA competition will be accepting submissions through October 15! Keep a look out for Facebook posts on how your child can submit in the following areas: Photography, Film, Dance Choreography, Literature, Music Composition and, of course, Visual Arts. This years' theme: From Within. More to follow soon, but start your (kids') creative … Continue reading Reflections is Coming!

Attention ALL 3rd, 4th and 5th graders! The 2019 Bike Rodeo will be Thursday, September 26th after school until 4:45 p.m. The rain date will be Thursday, October 3rd. Each year at Olive, we require that all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders who would like to ride their bike to school (and have not participated … Continue reading 2019 OMS Bike Rodeo

Looking to get involved in your child's classroom? Then becoming a Room Representative is for you! If interested, please fill out the Volunteer Interest Form, indicating your preference for Room Rep and send in by 9/2/2019.

We are looking for an OMS PTA volunteer to be a liaison to the middle schools, one for Thomas and one for South. Pretty easy gig - you would simply help connect the two communities, bringing any important info from the middle schools and sharing notes at each PTA meeting. Email olivepta@gmail.com if interested!

We have a few extra kindergarten t-shirts available for purchase. They are $8.00 and a size medium. If you are interested in purchasing one, please contact Kari Bradley at karimoser@yahoo.com.

Please join us for our first PTA General meeting. Everyone is welcome! We will be highlighting several of our 2018/2019 fundraisers and programs as well as voting on our budget. Before the meeting we will be having our PTA Fair. We are excited to showcase and promote our various clubs and committees.If you would like … Continue reading PTA Fair and Meeting, September 12, 6:45pm

There Are so Many Fun Events and Committees That You Can Help With. There are volunteer opportunities varying from a one-time events to ongoing activities. Any amount of help is appreciated to support teachers, sponsor enrichment activities, host fun family events and raise funds. If you fill out the form, you are not obligated. You … Continue reading Kids Are Back in School, Now Is the Time to Volunteer!

Unfortunately Camp Fit sign up is full and we can't accept any more children. Camp Fit is back with new activities to keep your child active and healthy. Camp Fit will be offered Wednesdays starting September 11th & ending September 25th (rain date October 2nd) from 3:35-4:30 at OMS. Our goal is to teach the … Continue reading Fall Camp Fit Sign Up

UPDATE 9/4/2019 - HOUSE HOP IS SOLD OUT! UPDATE 8/30/19 - House Hop 2019 Almost Full!!! 8th Annual Olive House Hop (formerly called progressive dinner.) This event is only for Parents and Guardians of Olive Mary Stitt Students. House Hop is a premier FUNdraising event for the Olive PTA! If you have not attended in … Continue reading House Hop 2019 Sign Up

Stop by the PTA table at curriculum night and out some samples of Olive's spirit wear! We have a variety of shirts, shorts and sweatshirts that your children would love to wear. We will begin to sell the items on Friday, September 13th. We will be posting more information soon on the TWIG.

Whether you have open days or limited hours, if you are interested in volunteering, we'd love to have you! Please fill out this form to indicate your interest. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBeDACrHN-bQboAABThUYvo61gjm0KEVsaJqbF456OL2NpNA/viewform Any questions, please email olivepta@gmail.com.

Please keep a look out for the 2019/2020 online directory, Directory Spot, release in October. Please remember the Olive-Mary Stitt directory is for the private use of PTA members only, and it cannot be used for solicitation, commercial enterprises, personal agenda, public distribution, petitions, charitable or political causes. If you have any questions, please email … Continue reading Directory Spot Launch Coming Soon!

Join us 5-8 pm at Olive for the Back to School Bash! The event is outside, so in case of inclement weather, the rain date is the following day, Tuesday, August 20, same time, same place! Please join fellow OMS families for a night of fun, food and friends. Food trucks will be up and … Continue reading Back to School Bash

We need your help to keep Ecology Club running! A volunteer has stepped up to co-chair, but needs a partner for the 2019/2020 school year. Briefly stated, Ecology Club encompasses the following, which serves as a guideline and can be modified by Committee Chairs: Plan after school meetings for students (3rd, 4th and 5th graders) … Continue reading Ecology Club Needs a Co-Chair for 2019/2020!

Mark your calendars! AUGUST 19TH @5PM Food tucks, friends & Glowby the Bubbler is making his OMS debut! You won’t want to miss this monstrous bubble fun! (Rain-date August 20th)

It is June - which means we only have a few weeks left of the 2018-2019 PTA budget. Get your receipts in to Sarah Van Huis ASAP. If you can't get them in by the last day of school please let Sarah know right away. Thanks!

There are two vendor options for school supplies. Please see below for each vendor description and link: OPTION 1 - 1st Day School SuppliesOrder pre-packaged kits online with 1st Day School Supplies.ONLINE ORDER - https://1stdayschoolsupplies.com/kits.php?sid=34102DUE June 30th Use link above or search by zip code for Olive-Mary Stitt School School Supplies will be delivered directly … Continue reading Get Your School Supplies for 2019/2020!

We have just finished our annual food drive to serve the Wheeling Township Food Pantry and help fill their shelves for the upcoming summer months. Thank you to all who donated! This was organized by the Owl Way Committee, one of our amazing committees that helps our Owls focus on others and giving back. While … Continue reading Owl Way is an Endangered Committee!

Last week your OMS students attended a performance by Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre brought to you by the PTA Cultural Arts committee. They were an engaged audience, active and joyful participants in the dance lessons, and insightful thinkers during the Q&A time. The program took OMS students on a journey through over 100 years of … Continue reading Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre Comes to OMS!

It's hard to believe the time has come to get ready to wrap up the 2018/2019 school year. It is also at this time that we in the PTA leadership take time to reflect on the year, noting what works and what needs improvement. We would really appreciate you taking a few minutes to fill … Continue reading OMS PTA Wants to Hear From You!

There will not end up being an Art Club before the end of the school year. The Art Club Co-Chairs thank you for your patience and flexibility, as they have been dealing with incredibly stressful life events over the past few months. We thank you, Elizabeth Berger and Liz Schrenk, for bringing such an amazing … Continue reading Art Club Will Resume in the 2019/2020 School Year

We are so fortunate to have collected so many donations for the Wheeling Food Pantry, we need your help filling the truck! A group of students form a "human chain" to get the bags of food from the Commons to the food pantry truck and our volunteers will help facilitate this process. It is a … Continue reading Fill the Nest Volunteers Needed, Thursday May 30

Field Day Sign up is here! We need YOU to help run the MANY fun activities planned for June 6th (rain date June 7th). Primary grades will be 9:15-11:45, Intermediate grades will be 12:15-3:30. We also need one AM Kindergarten parent volunteer and one PM (9:00-11:50 and 12:40-3:30 respectively) for their Field Day on West … Continue reading Field Day Volunteer Sign Up!