Over the course of several class periods, 5th grade girls designed and created 3D Christmas Ornaments in STEM class. The girls worked with an online software program called BlocksCAD to design, create and print 3D prototypes on the MakerBot printers…
7th grade girls in Miss Connors' music class created their own instruments out of recycled materials. This was a cross-curricular project, as the girls then programmed their instruments with Makey Makeys with Mr. Friedman and tested them out in STEM…
7th grade visited their 2nd grade buddies yesterday at Chester County Family Academy – a charter school serving underprivileged children. Students made cards, read to their buddies and gave them new pajamas in time for a holiday pajama party. Senora…
Middle School students celebrated Computer Science Week last week with hour of code activities through Codesters.org. Codesters lets students create interactive projects in Python - an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Codesters uses drag-to-text programming, which guides students through text-based coding, while…
Computer Science Education Week is celebrated nationally to spark student interest in computer science and to bring awareness to careers in the computer science fields. In addition to the STEM education our girls receive on a daily basis, our students…
Prayer Partners in 3rd and 5th grade spent the day together last week, before traveling to sing an Advent Program to the IHM Sisters at Camilla Hall. The students made cards thanking the Sisters for their dedication and service and…
Congratulations to our 7th grade Science Fair winners and to all our students for their hard work on these projects! The following five girls received certificates of excellence and will be moving on to compete in the Chester County Science…
Grandparents and Special Friends Day on Friday, November 22 was a beautiful morning for the children to spend with their special guests. This annual Villa tradition was a chance for guests to see what makes Villa Maria Academy so unique…
Fall is for Field Hockey at Villa Maria Academy and we are Villa proud of our girls. Villa Maria Academy had a great season on the field hockey pitch! Our JV team consisting of 24 fifth and sixth graders players…
On October 31, Villa Maria Academy Lower School hosted its annual Mission Day event. Mission Day is a tradition at Villa Maria Academy where the eighth graders host a celebration around Halloween to raise money in support of a local…