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Mrs. Macchia's Second Grade class from Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic School visited Clanton's Pumpkin Patch. While there they toured the petting zoo, rode ponies and brought home their very own pumpkins. 
Admissions Counselor John Arndt, center, discusses St. Bernard Preparatory with sixth grade students at Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic School. Located in Cullman , St. Bernard was established in 1891. 
Fun is the recipe for a unit based on food and nutrition at the Our Lady Queen of Mercy Child Development Center.
Brenda Avant's K-3 class made chef hats and enjoyed nutritious treats. Modeling her hat is Mia. 
MONTE CARLO NIGHT The School Board is sponsoring this fund-raiser to celebrate Catholic Schools Week. This adult-only event is always an entertaining evening. Buy a horse at the school office and help purchase one for the benefit of your child's class! Come play cards or shoot dice. The gambling is all done with “funny money” that can be spent to “buy” raffle tickets for some great prizes. Your ticket price includes the food and a grub stake at the tables. |
As many of you may know, OLQM is experiencing a financial crisis. It is imperative that school raise a substantial amount of money or risk the possibility of closing. Please read the text and give generously! Please contact our School Board President, Thereassa McDaniel at thereassa.mcdaniel@colfin.com or the front office. Click here to read the letter. |
Open House (6:30 P.M.) 1/29 We look forward to meeting the families of our prospective students for next year. We hope to see our current families there as well to spread the good news about Queen of Mercy school! Listen to an audio clip (mp3) promoting our big event read by one of our students. Click here. |
To the left are several of our fourth graders dressed for the occasion. |
| We have several opportunities for families to contribute to our wonderful school. Click here to find a variety of ways tto give to our childrens' education. |
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Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic School's Girl Scout
Troop 263 helped students at Enterprise Elementary School
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The kindergarten class at Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic
School visited the Alabama Cattlemen Association's MOOseum
and learn all about beef. |
Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic School Choir join Right Reverend Victor Joseph Clark, O.S.B. after participating in the annual Red Mass at St. Peter's Catholic Church. This 34th annual event is a centuries-old tradition commemorating the beginning of the judicial year. It is traditionally attended by judges, lawyers and court officials. |
Montgomery 's Best Kept Secret!
Welcome to Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic School 's website. Let me tell you a bit about our school and our Queen of Mercy community.
The school was first established downtown in 1873 as Loretto Academy by the Sisters of Loretto. In 1962, the name was changed to Our Lady Queen of Mercy School when the nuns transferred the elementary grades to Our Lady Queen of Mercy parish on Narrow Lane Road. The sisters taught here until 1986 and today the strong liturgical emphasis that was a part of Loretto Academy continues. Now a solid part of our tradition, this emphasis--the living rosary, living Nativity, living Stations of the Cross, Advent services, school-wide morning prayer, weekly student-led Mass, monthly Benediction and more—remains the firm foundation of an active faith for our students.
Queen of Mercy graduates have been referred to as the “heart” of Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School 's student body. OLQM students are always to be found at the center of the school's efforts to serve, whether within the school itself or in the wider community. Look at the Right-to-Life chains that form along Montgomery 's streets, or at the students who step forward to read at school Masses, or at the winners of the Ideal Catholic High Graduate award—these are the places that you will see Queen of Mercy's students! Look again and you will also see that OLQM students listen to God when he calls them to His personal service—two of our more recent graduates entered the priesthood and another is currently studying at a seminary.
We are equally proud of our academic curriculum. Catholic High's National Honor Society regularly inducts a large percentage of Queen of Mercy graduates. At the May 2006 academic awards night, former OLQM students walked off with all but one of the six departmental prizes for excellence. Moreover, one of our students achieved the highest grade point average in the senior class, earning the honor of Valedictorian. In 2003, our MathCounts team was selected to participate at the state competition and, in the last few years, we have sent teams to participate in the B.E.S.T. Robotics contests.
Our Lady Queen of Mercy is a superb school. I have been associated with it off and on for more than twenty years—each of my seven children was a student here at one time or another. We were a military family and my children attended public and parochial schools in Ohio , Mississippi , North Carolina , and Nebraska —as well as Department of Defense schools in Norway and Italy . I can rank OLQM as among the best of all these schools. It is outstanding in the field because of its emphasis on liturgy and faith-filled service, and because of its dedicated teachers and high academic standards. OLQM has all this at one of the lowest tuition rates in Montgomery !
I invite you to come to visit us. You will be greeted by the most polite, best-behaved students in town and warmly welcomed to experience the best kept education secret in the South!
Sincerely,
Susan Duke, principal
Please visit Mrs. Duke's Principal Corner page for further details of other interesting and important news and events.
Please visit the Student Life page and teacher pages for images and information on various special events and activities going on at our school.
Read a great article on Our Lady Queen of Mercy!
OLQM stickers are available in the office for your vehicle. Ask Mrs. Loftin for yours today so you can spread the word about the best elementary school in Montgomery!