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The Treblemakers had a wonderful opportunity in December to sing in front of the Betsy Ross House, Christ Church and Snyderman Gallery in Old City.
Carol Night is a beautiful tradition at WMA!
The WMA Orchestra, grades 2 to 5 and Treblemakers performed at this fun event in the Dixon Gym on December 16!
Every year, Mr. Stritch reads The Polar Express to the first graders. He takes their tickets when they get 'on the train' and he reads them the classic as they sit by the fire. They even get their own bells to keep to make sure they can still hear the sound every year!
This year, WMA shared Christmas gifts with the men, women and children of Bethesda Project, St. Columba’s Shelter, St. Katherine Day School, Catholic Worker Clinic, Abbottsford Falls Health Clinic, and Our Lady of Hope Parish.
Third graders at WMA presented their Christmas Around the World projects to their classmates this week. They brought in props, and special treats!
What a week! Pre-k Feast with their grandparents, grades three and four baked pumpkin bread, and WMA donated more than 50 Thanksgiving Baskets chock full with turkeys, all the trimmings and pies to families at the Catholic Worker Clinic, Project Home, St. Katherine Day School and Mercy Neighborhood Ministries. In addition to the baskets, WMA sent 25 boxes of food to help replenish the shelves at Mercy Neighborhood Ministries, and Catholic Worker Clinic received 50 loaves of pumpkin bread handmade by WMA students.
Waldron Mercy Academy students from all over the Delaware Valley are thrilled that WMA has won the nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award twice - in 2001 and 2009.
On Thursday, November 12, the WMA school community came together to celebrate our earning the Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award from the Department of Education. Among the many guests invited to the ceremony was Most Reverend Joseph P. McFadden, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, who gave remarks at the event.Grades three through eight were invited to the special ceremony.
There was a brunch for the guests in the Perry Library after the ceremony, and later in the afternoon, students enjoyed jugglers in the Dixon Gym.
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Guests were escorted into the building.
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Despite the Nor'Easter that swept across the Delaware Valley, it was a great day for WMA's Homecoming!
More than 150 students, parents, faculty and staff joined with ConKerr Cancer to make custom pillowcases for children at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They cut and pinned and sewed the fabric and made cards for the patients.
Grade 6 recently took its annual trip to the Renaissance Faire, where they had a medieval good time!
It was a day of basketball in WMA's Dixon Gym at Winter Carnival, as we watched the jv and varsity boys' and girls' teams, third and fourth grade teams, and alumni teams out on the court and having fun!
Fourth grade teacher Sam Sheng, his family, and Michael Borton, music director, performed a snow-delayed "Lion Dance" in honor of Chinese New Year in the Dixon Gym recently. Gong Hay Fat Choy! (Photos by Mr. Fogarty)
Firefighters from the Bala Cynwyd-Merion Fire Company visited Mercy Child Care recently. It's never too early to learn about fire prevention!
Waldron Mercy Academy has raised $6,110 with its Walkathon toward Pennies for Peace, to support the Central Asia Institute and Greg Mortenson, the author of Three Cups of Tea, in their work of building schools and promoting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Waldron Mercy Academy (WMA) hosted “Hats, Hops, Hoops and Hope for Haiti” event where students and faculty played games and gave donations to benefit Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) efforts in Haiti. The events began in the morning when students of all ages wore their favorite wild and crazy hat as they brought in donations of any size for CRS. Next students played “MERCY,” WMA’s version of BINGO. The seventh and eighth graders then paired up with their Little Buddies for an afternoon of board games. The final event, held in the Dixon Gym, was between the eighth-graders and faculty as they participated in hula-hoop relay races to see which team will triumph. (The faculty team won, with Sr. Pat Smith throwing her hula hoop the length of the gym!)
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