St. Ambrose School hosts the only dual language program in the Arlington diocese. In the dual language program, students spend half the week learning their lessons in English, and the other half in Spanish.
At St. Rita School in Alexandria, a sixth grader is saying “no” to screen time in favor of service opportunities.
Wilson Gonzalez Soto, 11, said that for him, serving others in his Alexandria community is more than just about screen-free distraction — it’s biblical.
There are two new Purple Star schools in the diocese.
Holy Spirit School in Annandale and Our Lady of Hope School in Potomac Falls both received the distinction last month.
With its Nov. 21-23 presentation of a 20th-century telling of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” JP Drama welcomes guests to Messina, Italy, where a battle of wits ensues, and secret plots unfold.
The school community celebrated its patron St. John Paul II’s Oct. 22 feast day in style with an all-school retreat and visit from Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde.
More than 100 senior theology students from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington visited the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna last month.
Adeline Jensen (’28), a student in the Paul VI Options program and first-time runner, is one of two alternate runners for the VISAA Cross Country Championship race at Panorama Farms in Earlysville, Va., Nov. 6.
The Fife & Drum Corps performed at St. John Neumann Church’s Fall Festival in Reston Oct. 18 and then traveled to Yorktown to perform in an annual tribute celebrating America’s 1781 Revolutionary War victory.
St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly announced that its academic team — Finn Hargadon (’26), Indra Malli (’27), Gus Radkowski (’27) and Ethan Tran (’26) — earned a decisive victory on the popular quiz show “It’s Academic.”
The Bishop O’Connell boys cross country team took first place at the Oct. 21 Virginia Catholic Cross Country Championship in Newport News.
