Our brave IHM Brigade, very tired yet happy after another completed pilgrimage! (Yes, that is Sister Mary Joseph hiding behind Sister Maria Rosaria.) The pilgrimage this year was set-up a bit differently, but the graces involved are incalculable.

My word is ????

Our annual Spelling Bee includes grades three through twelve – with the elementary school competing separately from the high school.

In the elementary school, our last two contestants were a third grader and an eighth grader – producing a David-and-Goliath contest that lasted a long time! The IHM Elementary School Spelling Bee Champion is Joseph Vasilak, grade eight, who spelled fifty-four words correctly. Second place (and the top third grade speller) went to Tristan McCann; he spelled forty-four words correctly. The top fourth grader is Peter Vasilak; the top fifth grader, Anne Doucette; Stephen Bryan for sixth grade; and Maria Bosonetto for seventh.

Our high school Spelling Champions are Cecilia Bryan (first place) and Samuel Bednar (second place). There was an exciting back-and-forth between them with words like kainite, nacreous, obbligato, and rallentando. The winning words were tertian and ubiquitous. For pictures,

Bring flowers of the fairest; bring flowers of the rarest . . .

The May Procession is an important highlight of our school (and community) year. The event allows us to honor our heavenly Mother is a special way, and the procession is the impetus for us to get the grounds cleaned up after the winter storms. The Sisters beg the flowers from vendors of a flower market and the girls come to help them make crowns and bouquets.

Mary Grace & Brendan -- happy to have Our Lord in their hearts!

Two of our first graders and one guest from out-of-town made their First Holy Communions this past May 22. Here are some pictures.

From our 2007 concert

Immaculate Heart of Mary School students (officially: the Blueberry Jammers and the Future Famous Fiddlers) are putting on an hour’s entertainment at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, on Sunday, May 22, at 3pm. With fiddling, dancing, singing, and acting, an audience of all ages is sure to have smiles on their faces. The performance will be in the Museum Auditorium. Just come in the front door (ignore the closed signs and look for Sisters in habits and children in uniforms!).

To figure out driving directions, please click here. The concert is free, but donations are welcome!

Sister Mary Peter and Cecilia help Maria Pilar

As the weather warms up, we are watching the snow and ice on our ponds, streams, and roads melt away. Last month, right before the rink closed, we took the entire school ice skating (at a “real rink”). You will notice that this is a very practical lesson in physics! Here are a few pictures.

Grand Prize - Luke Bednar - Grade Seven

For students in grades seven through twelve, the first half of the school year carries the excitement (and anxiety!) of getting ready for the year’s Science Fair. Each science project includes a research paper, experiment, oral presentation, and presentation board upon which each student is graded (usually this is most of the second quarter science and research grades). At the public portion of the project, the Fair itself, the students are judged by Fair judges (pun intended). This year the junior-high students make an excellent showing. The winners are:

Grand Prize: Luke Bednar (grade seven) – Duct Tape

First Place: James Bednar (grade ten) – Electromagnets

Second Place: Maria Bosonetto (grade eight) – The Effects of Sugar

Third Place: Samuel Bednar (grade ten) – Left Brain/Right Brain

Congratulations! Other interesting projects covered hair color and IQ, the comparative merits of specific chainsaws, persuasion, kinesiology, pain tolerance in men vs women, the effect of video games on vital signs, and

On March 6, Maria Bosonetto, grade seven, made her final promises as a member of the Sursum Corda Society. This sodality-like prayer group is run by Sister Marie Therese (our prioress and school principal) and Sister Maria Perpetua (the seventh and eighth grades’ teacher). The Society is for young ladies who wish to work and pray for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the lives of themselves, their families, and the religious and laity at Saint Benedict Center. Thank you, Maria! For pictures, please