Mounties in MSM's Class of 2024 celebrated their final official day of classes earlier this week with a class gathering and lunch in the MSM student parking lot. The countdown is now on for graduation on May 18th, where we will celebrate this wonderful group of students and their many accomplishments during their time here at MSM!

From the Desk of Ms. Antoinetta Castaldo:

On March 28, a group of MSM students, parents, and chaperones embarked on an amazing nine-day voyage to France. While in France, we visited Paris' famed Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre Museum, and navigated the Seine River on a "Bateau-Mouche," a French pleasure boat, to name just a few of our adventures!

As awesome as Paris was, the trip did not end there. This mighty group of 38 people between the ages of 14 and 70 traveled south to Orleans, the Versailles Palace (pictured below), home of French kings Louis XIV, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette, the cities of Tours and Toulouse, Rocamadour, a town carved into the side of a mountain whose church is home to the Black Madonna, and finally, a highlight of our trip, Lourdes, located at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains in Southern France. Lourdes is the site of the 1858 apparition of our Blessed Mother to a young Saint Bernadette. A portion of the front lawn of Mount St. Mary Academy pays homage to this apparition.

This truly was the trip of a lifetime, an ambitious foray into some well-known and some not-so-well-known places in France so that students might experience a wide variety of regional French language and culture.

C'etait magnifique!

Spanish students, join us as we delve into the beauty and culture of Puerto Rico in February 2025! Old and New San Juan await us!

From the Desk of Mrs. Anne Evangelos:

As part of their final project, students in Mrs. Evangelos's Introduction to Statistics class created and sent a survey to all MSM students and faculty. Some of the questions included: favorite place to get coffee, eye color, preferred mode of transportation, most common birthday months, and many more! Results were calculated from the responses of 199 students and 34 faculty/staff members. Students made posters to create a visual representation of the responses and presented the results to their class.

Below are just a few examples of their great work!

Attention MSM families! If you or anyone you know is tackling a spring cleaning project, please keep our STEAM classes in mind if you find any of the items listed below! Our STEAM classes will put these items to good use and your donations ensure that MSM's STEAM classroom remains a vibrant and well-equipped environment for learning.

We will gratefully accept donations of the following items:

• Knitting Supplies - Students will learn to knit and relate knitting to coding. Supplies required include old knitting needles, and balls of yarn (half used balls of yarn are perfect).
• Sewing Supplies - Students will engineer their own patterns and sew items for themselves and/or Barbie dolls. We need fun interesting fabrics, fat quarters, and thread. We would also greatly appreciate one or two unused sewing machines.
• LEGO - One of our goals for next year is to build a Rube Goldberg Machine out of LEGOS to enter the ECC Tech Wars Competition. We would be grateful for donations of old, unloved LEGOS sitting in basements; our STEAM students will put them to good use!

If you are able to donate, please send the items to school with your student. Thank you in advance for your continued support and dedication to our MSM STEAM programs!

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From the Desk of Ms. Anne Kohl:

May is the last month for Tuition Payments. If your automatic payment normally occurs on the 20th or 25th of the month, please note that your payment date has been moved to May 15th to ensure that your account is paid in full, prior to graduation.

Note: If you normally pay by invoice, your payment is due by

May 1st.

All tuition and fees must be paid in full and by the due date in order to be eligible for graduation.

Questions? Contact Ms. Anne Kohl: akohl@msmacademy.org

Thank you for your understanding.

Any current MSM family (registered for 23-24) is eligible for a one-time tuition credit of $500 if they refer a new family with a student in the class of 2025, 2026, 2027, or 2028 to our school!

Important details: New family must register, not just inquire.

Contact Ms. Suchan-Reitz in the Office of Admissions for more details: esuchan-reitz@msmacademy.org

Summer is coming and as our Mounties and future Mounties know, MSM Summer Camps are the best! Registration is open for girls going into grades 5 - 8 (Fall 2024) for a variety of summer fun including: Flag Football, Cooking, Photography, STEAM, Entrepreneurship, Musical Theater, Taylor Swift Camp, and SO much more!

Use the QR code below or click HERE to register and to learn more about dates, times, descriptions, and locations for our awesome offerings for Summer 2024!

Click the link below to visit the official Mount St. Mary Academy Thunder Website for a calendar of upcoming athletic events. Come out and support our Mounties in action!

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Mount St. Mary Academy, founded by the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, is a Catholic, private, college preparatory school for young women. Within a nurturing and academically challenging and inclusive environment, the Academy strives to develop the whole person’s gifts and potential. Guided by our Catholic tradition, and rooted in Gospel values, we empower scholars to be leaders dedicated to lifelong learning, moral integrity, social justice, and service to and inclusion of others.

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