Inside Mater Christi
News: New Mac Lab at Mater Christi School
March 30, 2023
This week, Mater Christi School students began using the new Mac Lab in the middle school building. This graphic design lab space features 28 iMacs donated by the University of Vermont, as well as several 3D printers. The lab is available to students in all grades, and it has already been used by seventh graders to research continents and countries for their Google Earth research projects. These projects will be […] Read more...
News: National Novel Writing Month “NaNoWriMo”
March 13, 2023
Every November, the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers Project Challenge: to write an entire draft of an original novel in 30 days! once again this year, every middle schooler succeeded! This year, the students combined their efforts and produced an impressive 785,836 words! After a few weeks of editing and rewrites, each submission was evaluated by Mrs. Mancini and Ms. Fischer according to the NaNoWriMo YWP rubric. The winners […] Read more...
News: Science Fair
March 3, 2023
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the MCS Science Fair! Your hard work and dedication to science and engineering projects are truly inspiring. We hope that you have learned valuable lessons and gained experience that you can carry with you throughout your academic and professional careers. Of course, we also want to extend a special thanks to the judges who took time out of their busy schedules to […] Read more...
News: Two MCS Students Selected as Legislative Page
December 5, 2022
Every year, the State of Vermont selects a small group of 8th-grade students to work as legislative pages. Working with members of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and various legislative offices is a great honor, and we are proud of our two students selected to serve this year: Ziva Baker and William Cunningham. Ziva and Will will serve in Montpelier for six weeks in a group of ten pages. […] Read more...
Teacher Talk: Totem Poles
November 17, 2022
As part of a unit on the native people of North America, fifth graders learned about the role of totem poles in the history and culture of the tribes of the Northwest Coast of the U.S. and Canada. Students studied the many uses of these poles, which since the late eighteenth century, have been used for storytelling, tombstones, and family (clan) histories. The project was also an opportunity to discuss the […] Read more...