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Independent High School Night
INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOL NIGHT
At VILLA ACADEMY
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
7-8:30 P.M.
This event is for all 8th grade students and families interested in independent high school options. Nine different PNAIS high schools will present information. This will be a great night to learn more about the schools you are interested in! For more information, please call the Admission Office at 206-527-9388.
Native Plant Garden courtesy of the Green Team
The Villa Academy Green Team is planting a native garden in the strip of soil between the two carpool lanes on the east side of the school. Funding for this student-driven project came from a $300 “Terry Husseman Sustainable School Award” granted to Villa Academy by the Washington State Department of Ecology. Preparations for the garden began in May and will continue through the summer and into next year.
All the plants in the Green Team garden will be native to Washington State. In an effort to save water and energy in the summer months, the Team has focused their selection on plants that flower only in the spring and fall and have chosen species that are found in areas with more sun exposure and drier soil.
The students have worked diligently to plan and prepare the execution of this project. Lots of brainstorming, research and schedule planning preceded the first day of digging last week. As part of their preliminary planning, the Green Team writes, “Our native plant garden is important because it gives homes to native animals and our plants are adapted to the climate and to native animals. It also provides a variety of foods all through the year.”
At one of their earliest meetings, student members of the Green Team voted to spend the $300 award from the WA Department of Ecology on tools, supplies and planting soil to keep their garden growing.
Join us as we watch the Green Team’s Native Garden bloom! Students will begin planting this week. Informational plant signage and additional garden touches (such as bird feeders, woodpecker suet logs, etc) will be coming soon!
Field Day 2010
Field Day 2010
Who: The Villa community, students Grades K-7.
What: FIELD DAY! This year, we will be having a fun run/walk followed by game play time. Follow the seventh grade leaders to complete the course!
Where: A run/walk route around the entire Villa campus, starting on the soccer field and ending on the playground.
When: June 17th. 9am-11am.
Kindergarten-2nd grade running and playing from 9-10
3rd-6th grade running and playing from 10-11
Why: To celebrate the end of a great school year! What’s better than exercise, games and time with friends?!?
For student safety, the campus will be closed to vehicle traffic from 9:00-11:00am.
This year we are changing things up a bit for Field Day. In previous years, Field Day has consisted of a series of games for teams of students to navigate, while competing in mixed grade level teams with their peers. This year, the first activity of the day for Field Day participants will be a Fun Run. The course takes 12-15 minutes to walk, traversing many of Villa’s most treasured locations. Having all students, faculty and staff participate in the Fun Run allows Villa students to observe our community participating in a healthy, physical activity. The walk/run will end on the Villa playground where a bouncy house obstacle course, face painting and games await those who complete the course. Students will be given more freedom than in previous years and will have the opportunity to visit each game in their own time. In order to ensure students have an opportunity to access all the games and experience success while playing, Field Day will occur in two sessions, one for Grades Kindergarten-2, and one for Grades 3-6.
Field Day is the first opportunity for seventh grade students to serve as the leaders of our school. Traditionally, seventh grade students forgo playing, and become the directors of the day’s events. This change in roles is an important one for our upcoming eighth grade class, and it is a real pleasure to see them act in such responsible roles helping the younger students. Seventh grade students will set up large alphabet signs along the running course for participants to follow. They will also be in charge of organizing the games, face painting and managing student flow.
We look forward to a great end of the year.
Preschool Garden Clean Up Day
When: Saturday, April 24, 9:00am-1:00pm
Who: All Preschool Parents Past and Present and Middle School students looking for volunteer service opportunity
What: 4 BIG EARTH WEEK PROJECTS
- Heavy pruning of an old laurel hedge
- Serious weeding of terraced garden (with a statue of Mary)
- Mulch all Preschool garden beds
- Clean Up for green pick up!
Bring: Your own garden gloves and tools
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a young child friendly event. We will not be able to supervise children.
We are working hard to make our Preschool Garden an amazing outdoor space for our children NOW and for years to come!
Thank you for your help!
Questions: Please email P-5 teacher, Sara Olson
Villa's Christmas Illuminata
Christmas Illuminata
7pm Thursday, December 3rd
Hot cocoa, cookies, caroling, and tree lighting!
Come one, come all!
Home Sweet Home
Villa Academy is lucky to call the Laurelhurst neighborhood its home. We have enjoyed the treasures of this favorable location since Mother Cabrini’s decision to move the school here in 1914. She definitely understood the importance of location. To read more about Laurelhurst in the The Seattle Times “neighborhood of the week” article click here.
Eight Grade Legacy gift from class '08
The eight grade legacy gift from the class of 2008 was recently covered in the July 10th issue of The Catholic Northwest Progress.
“Stonework artist Jeff Homchick stands by the artwork he completed recently at Villa Academy in Seattle. The piece, featuring a map of the world within a compass rose, was the legacy gift to the school from its eighth grade Class of 2008. The compass signifies the many roads the members of this class and future Villa classes will travel. Homchick, who has children at the school, donated the piece, which includes stonework from different parts of the world. Surrounding the compass rose are 16 canisters which hold “time capsules” for graduating classes to fill.”
