Although the winter sports seasons of basketball and swimming are underway, we have one fall sports team still competing. It has been a wonderful season for our seventh and eighth grade soccer players, under the direction of Coaches Levine and…
On November 10, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) celebrated their founding (1845). As a school community, students, faculty and staff gathered in the gymnasium in the morning for a short video presentation. After, members from…
As part of their study of the periodic table, the eighth grade girls are the proud parents of an element baby! Girls individually researched the atomic structure of their element, its history, its uses, period, group and reactivity. Then they…
The eighth graders and Mrs. Dow have been working hard to construct their robots and have now started programming them. Mrs. Dow showed the girls how to create programs and load the program onto the robots. The girls experimented with…
On November 3, Instructional Technology Coach, Mrs. Melissa Dow, began a 3D Printing Unit with the Fifth Grade. They started learning about what 3D printing is and how it works. The girls even looked at our 3D printer in action. The…
November is a month of Saints! On November 2 and 3, Villa's first grade girls led the annual All Saints' Day Prayer Service in Sacred Heart Chapel. The girls practiced their public speaking skills in class with their teachers and worked…
On November 6, Mrs. Klass' 6th grade math students did something a little different than a regular lesson to have some fun with numbers. They played SMATH! Practice makes perfect in the world of math, but practice is more fun…
Mission Day is a tradition at Villa where the eighth graders host a Halloween celebration to raise money in support of the St. Agnes Day Room. The St. Agnes Day Room serves the basic needs of the poor and immigrant…
From October 26 through November 2, students in grades K-8 learned the importance of voting by getting the chance to do it themselves through the the CCIU Kids Voting-Chester County program for the 2015 municipal elections. Students had the opportunity to cast their ballots…
On October 9, Villa’s Student Leadership Team organized a Pink Day where students, faculty and staff could donate a $1 (some donated more!) to dress down in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Donations went to the Cuddle My Kids…