Despite the weather and many restrictions on group activities this year due to the pandemic, Villa Maria Academy Lower School students and teachers celebrated Catholic Schools Week with fun and lots of Villa spirit! On Thursday morning, our 8th grade…
An Alumna’s Story ~ A University Student During COVID-19 Maddie Gilbertson, Class of 2013 (as seen in Villa Connections Magazine 2020) I remember Miss Connors, my music teacher at Villa Maria Academy Lower School, teaching my classmates and me an…
An Alumna Autobiography Priti Bhatnagar, Class of 1999 ~ Navy Test Pilot (as seen in Villa Connections Magazine 2020) When my parents moved to Pennsylvania for work shortly after I was born, they started looking for good schools, and Villa…
An Alumna's Recollection Julie Heaney, Class of 1980 ~ Administrative Patent Judge (as seen in Villa Connections Magazine 2020) Julie Heaney is a member of Villa Maria Academy Lower School's Class of 1980, the first 8th-grade class to graduate after…
A Love of Food Inspires Entrepreneurship: Lauren Carroll, Class of 2008 Food Instagrammer and Business Management (as seen in Villa Connections Magazine 2020) I attended Villa from Kindergarten through high school (2000 - 2012). I went on to Saint Joseph's…
This year for Catholic School’s Week the fourth grade and the eighth-grade student leadership team sponsored a service project called The Joy of Sox. The Joy of Sox is a locally founded nonprofit mission giving new socks to those experiencing…
In December 2020, several fifth graders from Villa Maria Academy Lower School participated in the Upper Merion Township Library's Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Contest, in which any student in kindergarten through eighth grade could create a picture or…
On Friday, November 20, the 2nd grade girls at Villa Maria Academy Lower School helped sort the items brought in from the Veterans service project they sponsored. The girls encouraged their schoolmates in Preschool through 8th grade to donate personal…
Many restrictions have hindered the opportunity to see what goes on in our classrooms live this year. So, we wanted to share the next best thing, inside looks from our teachers! We caught up with our kindergarten teachers, Mrs. Kate…
The new age of digital citizenship is upon us. As educators and parents, we are no longer charged with teaching our children the "don'ts" of digital learning, but rather we are called to empower them to be proactive digital learners. The…