Come out and support Life Schools OAP Performance of Alice in Wonderland. The performance will be at Waxahachie Public High School Theater Arts Center.

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Three Life School student-athletes will continue their athletic careers at the college level after signing a National Letter of Intent.

Life Red Oak pitcher Emily Fluitt will play for the Hill College Rebels softball team next season.  Named the District 13-AA Pitcher of the Year her senior season and First Team All-District her junior year, Fluitt plans to study psychology.  Her parents are Larry and Trish Fluitt; grandparents are Jack and Mary Ann Fluitt and Pat McBride.  The coaches of the Lady Mustangs are Rebecca Thrush and Jeff Smith.

Life School Oak Cliff football players Jerome Fellows III and Deunte Levine will both play at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville.

Fellows, an All-District 6-AA selection the past two seasons has played varsity basketball for four years.  He is the son of Jerome Fellows, Jr., and plans to study business.

Levine, an All-District 6-AA linebacker, was a captain for the Lions football team and also a regional qualifier in the 200m and 4x400m relay.  The son of Tyra and Cassandra Smith, Levine’s grandparents are Louis and Lillian Levine, Barbara Smith, and Bobby and Estella Person.  He is an active member of the Good Shepherd Baptist Church.

Both Fellows and Levine are coached by Robert Acree.

On May 3, 2012, twenty Life School Oak Cliff sixth grade students, chosen for demonstrating leadership, participated in a leadership training day.  The first stop was at the offices of PriceWaterHouseCoopers in downtown Dallas.  Mr. Mike Higgins, spoke to our students about what it means to be a leader.  He encouraged them to work on developing good communication skills, to read about the lives of great leaders and to serve in their communities.  PriceWaterHouseCoopers gave the students some mementos of their visit including a backpack and some sun glasses.  The next stop was for lunch at the Plaza of the Americas followed by a trolley ride through downtown Dallas.  Throughout our trip we received many comments about the mannerly and respectful behavior of our students.

In a thank you letter to PwC, Ariel Alvizo wrote, “Thank you for letting us visit and teaching us about leadership.  I love the things that you do help your community with people volunteering.  One thing I learned was about mastering leadership and showing good character to other people and showing good communication.”

Thank you to the sixth grade teachers, Mr. Jackson, Mr. DeJesus, Mrs. Pulver and Ms. Gray for encouraging leadership in their students.  Thank you to Ms. Gray and Mrs. Calhoun for spearheading the sixth grade leadership project. Ms. Gray was a chaperone for the trip, Coach Moore did an amazing job of navigating the streets of downtown in the bus and Coach Chester arranged transportation.

Student Thank you Letters

Thank you,

Kathleen Witte
Elementary Principal
Life School Oak Cliff