Hello, dear friends!
It has been a while since I've posted, but you deserve an update on what has been going on at AHF. All of it has been a combination of amazing and blessed. Our community is committed to infuse the three Goals into all aspects of life at AHF for the duration of this year. We have embraced an Academic Goal: Continuing to promote writing across our entire curriculum; a Social Goal: Continuing to strengthen the sisterhood and strengthen the connections between our day and boarding students; and a Spiritual Goal: To be Salt & Light to all we encounter (Matthew 5:13-16).
First, our students have really been coming together and creating community. I love watching them as they interact in Hanlon Hall, in their classrooms and on the soccer field. We are so blessed to be able to observe their growth; socially, academically, spiritually and more. The saying, "Where friends become family" is so evident, regardless of where you look around campus.
Secondly, our co-curricular activity selection has just grown in leaps and bounds! One of our newest ones, the Human Rights Club, received a great kick-off when AHF hosted a High School Invitational to celebrate Peace One Day. Students from St. Bernard School and Marianapolis Prep arrived on our campus for sessions with visiting speakers, a soccer challenge and a game of dodge ball, a chance to share lunch and a FlashMobDance. The Human Rights Club is now preparing their programming for the rest of the school year. Among their efforts, the young women in this organization are focusing on Children's Rights
Our Teens In Action club, a long-standing organization at AHF, got off to an outstanding start to their year as they sponsored a pot-luck supper to raise funds for Andrea Dellarco-Legore, teacher of English at the Academy who underwent a double-lung transplant. By the grace of God, Andrea is recovering, and we look forward to having her rejoin us at the Academy. The girls have been doing a great job of keeping her up to date with what has been going on during the day with their videos, "selfies," and more.
The Guardian, the AHF newspaper, is off and running. As of this writing, its staff has produced its first edition and is currently completing its second. Hard copies are distributed on campus, but you can read The Guardian by following this link. We look forward to future editions of this great effort that combines our students' writing, technology and artistic skills!
So much more...so much more! If you didn't catch it during its debut airing, you can watch AHF on WFSB's Cool Schools, as our students and faculty shared four reasons why the Academy is just SO cool! Here are some photos of the taping that took place when Meteorologist, Mark Dixon and Videographer, Mike Fisher visited us for a morning. Memories were made, the word about AHF's COOLNESS was shared, and what a day it was.
Have a blessed day!
Mrs. T
Meet Cedric, one of our Guidance Office staff members. Cedric's name was voted upon in two rounds by the entire AHF community, and he received his name on the Feast of St. Francis.
It has been a while since I've posted, but you deserve an update on what has been going on at AHF. All of it has been a combination of amazing and blessed. Our community is committed to infuse the three Goals into all aspects of life at AHF for the duration of this year. We have embraced an Academic Goal: Continuing to promote writing across our entire curriculum; a Social Goal: Continuing to strengthen the sisterhood and strengthen the connections between our day and boarding students; and a Spiritual Goal: To be Salt & Light to all we encounter (Matthew 5:13-16).
First, our students have really been coming together and creating community. I love watching them as they interact in Hanlon Hall, in their classrooms and on the soccer field. We are so blessed to be able to observe their growth; socially, academically, spiritually and more. The saying, "Where friends become family" is so evident, regardless of where you look around campus.
Secondly, our co-curricular activity selection has just grown in leaps and bounds! One of our newest ones, the Human Rights Club, received a great kick-off when AHF hosted a High School Invitational to celebrate Peace One Day. Students from St. Bernard School and Marianapolis Prep arrived on our campus for sessions with visiting speakers, a soccer challenge and a game of dodge ball, a chance to share lunch and a FlashMobDance. The Human Rights Club is now preparing their programming for the rest of the school year. Among their efforts, the young women in this organization are focusing on Children's Rights
Our Teens In Action club, a long-standing organization at AHF, got off to an outstanding start to their year as they sponsored a pot-luck supper to raise funds for Andrea Dellarco-Legore, teacher of English at the Academy who underwent a double-lung transplant. By the grace of God, Andrea is recovering, and we look forward to having her rejoin us at the Academy. The girls have been doing a great job of keeping her up to date with what has been going on during the day with their videos, "selfies," and more.
The Guardian, the AHF newspaper, is off and running. As of this writing, its staff has produced its first edition and is currently completing its second. Hard copies are distributed on campus, but you can read The Guardian by following this link. We look forward to future editions of this great effort that combines our students' writing, technology and artistic skills!
So much more...so much more! If you didn't catch it during its debut airing, you can watch AHF on WFSB's Cool Schools, as our students and faculty shared four reasons why the Academy is just SO cool! Here are some photos of the taping that took place when Meteorologist, Mark Dixon and Videographer, Mike Fisher visited us for a morning. Memories were made, the word about AHF's COOLNESS was shared, and what a day it was.
Have a blessed day!
Mrs. T
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