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        Curriculum        

Service

At Mount Merici, children learn the importance of being of service to their families and others. The sixth grade is a special year for Mount Merici students. A special focus is made on service to others. The Mount Merici sixth graders will be involved in service projects Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout the school year. These service projects include the Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen, The Muskie Center or working in the younger level classrooms.

We feel the Service Projects are effective and important in the education of our students. Our students who have participated in these projects have experienced a feeling of pride for helping those in need. The sixth graders began to appreciate aspects of their lives that had sometimes been taken for granted -- not only food, clothing, and shelter, but also the love and care that many of the people they visit do not receive. We are looking forward to another successful year, with this and other sixth grade projects.

I know there are people out there less fortunate, I want to help them. an 11-year-old student says proudly.

Many of these students continue to participate in service projects they began in the sixth grade. It is not unusual to see our alumni continue to work at the Parish of the Holy Spirit Soup Kitchen or to be ringing the bell for the Salvation Army during the holidays. We often see them as Eucharistic Ministers and lectors in our local churches.

Service in Action:

Insieme Project "The Change"...

Mount Merici Academy students, PreK through Grade 6, with faculty and staff, presented the 2010 Spring Musical "The Change" before a standing room only crowd March 21.

"The Change" featured all original music written and orchestrated by Julia Vigue of Waterville, a gifted alumna and proud Mount Merici parent. The program's theme centered on the power each person has to be the change in this world.

As part of the performance, Julia incorporated an incredible video of Ursuline students around the world singing "Insieme", a song performed by Mount Merici students last year in honor of the Ursuline chapter message "together".

Love Changes Everything...

This is how one elementary school in Maine is contributing to peace. This is from our production of an original musical entitled "Love Changes Everything." This video contains the original title song from that were performed by Julia Vigue and The Children of Mount Merici.

The children worked to raise money to help the Ursuline Sisters of the Northeast Province build a school in Akon, South Sudan, and also bought a large number of goats for families in Kenya, through Feed the Children. This video is being acclaimed worldwide as part of "Peace One Day" For more information, go to PeaceOneDay.com.

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