Author Karen Hesse

Our Lady of Good Counsel School and Standing Ovation Players will present our year-end musical, "Beauty and the Beast" on Thursday, May 30th, and Friday, May 31st, at 7:30 pm. If your child is not is the drama program, please send orders, payable by cash or check to OLGC, to the main office.

Don't forget to order your tickets to join us at the Richmond County Ballpark on Saturday, June 15th!!

Any parents who have "Challenge Coins" from their positions in the NYPD, FDNY, DSNY or one of the Armed Forces, please donate one to our new display in the main office. We would love to honor your service to our city and country!

The annual St. Baldricks event has been moved to Tuesday, May 14th. Please consider helping this very worthy cause!! See the flyer for more information.

Today, 140 OLGC students took part in the annual St. Jude's Math-A-Thon. A huge thank you to Mrs. Biondi and her daughters, Sofia '19 and Julianna '17. Stay tuned for more details!

Please send in canned and/or boxed food to donate to the Bread of Life drive. All of the food collected stays on Staten Island to help feed the hungry. Your donations are greatly needed and greatly appreciated.

Scooter visited us today to get us excited for June 15th! Remember, there will be fireworks after the game! Tickets make a great gift for Father's Day!

I am sure many of us can appreciate 3rd grader Owen O'Connor's shirt!

The meeting for our First Holy Communion candidates in grade 2 has been rescheduled for Monday, March 18th, at 7:00pm in the school auditorium.

Alexa Fiorello was the Zaner-Bloser Handrwiting winner for the kindergarten level in New York City and New York State! Alexa will now compete in the nationwide contest. We are proud of Alexa and of all our students who took part in this contest!

OLGC will be closed tomorrow, March 4th. Please be safe!

We are so proud of our many 8th graders who were awarded scholarships to the various high schools. At last count, they have amassed over $650,000 in awards. Congratulations to all!

Please join in at the Scout Mass at 9:30 this Sunday. All Scouts should wear their uniforms!

While the PK may have 'flown' through the first 100 days, we all hope they "nest" here at OLGC for many more years!!

Students in grade 1 celebrated the 100th day of school today. Students challenged themselves to do certain things in 100 seconds. They proved that they could do a lot of jumping jacks in 100 seconds!!

Join us on Saturday, February 23rd, for the 3rd annual OLGC Iceskating Event!!

Thank you to Brooklyn Orthodontics for donating 300 toothbrush kits to our students!

This site will be updated weekly. Please be patient as we all learn the ins and outs of it!!

Mrs. Paradiso was recently honored at the Archdiocese of NY. Last year's third grade achieved 97% proficiency on the NYS math exam. Fewer than 10 teachers received this recognition. With a class of 31 students, this is quite an accomplishment. We are very proud of the achievement of Mrs. Paradiso and the entire class. Keep up the great work!