Private All Girls School | Girls K-8 | Co-Ed Preschool | Malvern, PA

Leadership and Service

Leadership and Service packing peanut butter and jelly

At Villa Maria Academy Lower School, our mission is to empower young women through leadership and service in the IHM tradition.

Leadership

It is important for girls to see themselves as leaders from the beginning.

Villa Maria Academy Lower School empowers students to be bold leaders. At Villa, students are taught that leadership is primarily related to the power of their influence. Internalizing this concept, we believe, is the foundation to future success.

Embedded in the academic program is a commitment to the understanding of group dynamics, social responsibility, and leadership through love and service.

Service

The primary Gospel mandate is that of service. Service learning helps students to build character by allowing them to foster and develop personal values, beliefs, awareness, confidence and a sense of empathy and social responsibility. Students learn to understand the impact of the individual on the local and global community. Service is a key leadership tenet that permeates every aspect of Villa’s culture.

Emphasis on service includes

  • School-wide student service projects
  • Collaboration with community charity programs
  • An outreach component to Student Leadership Team
  • Service programs required of all athletic teams
  • Support of student/family service projects
  • Daily opportunities to be of service to one another
  • Responding to the immediate needs of the most vulnerable

Service projects

Although projects change each year, below are some of the projects and organizations which Villa has and continues to support.

Back To Top