Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School

6th grade theology completed their first middle school Bible puzzle to earn access to the classroom!

Kicking off our 2024-25 era! Welcome home, Lourdes Lions. 💛💜💙🧡💚❤

Diocese of Richmond Catholic Schools

Meet the Teacher day is one of our favorites! The excitement of both students and teachers is palpable, and everyone is ready for our first day of school tomorrow!

A prayer as we begin a new school year....

Creator of all things,
true Source of light and wisdom,
lofty origin of all being,
graciously let a ray of Your brilliance
pe*****te into the darkness of my understanding
and take from me the double darkness
in which I have been born,
an obscurity of both sin and ignorance.
Give me a sharp sense of understanding,
a retentive memory,
and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations,
and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm.
Point out the beginning,
direct the progress,
and help in completion;
through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

—St. Thomas Aquinas

Our new faculty were sorted into their houses this morning! Welcome home! 💛💜💙🧡💚❤

Immaculate Mary, assumed into heaven, teach us to trust in God's plan the way you did. Do not let us fear obstacles or uncertainties. Inspire us and pray for us today, as we celebrate your Assumption. Amen.

Safety first! We are so grateful for our partnership with Henrico County Police and for the annual training that HCPS SRO Funn, provided for us this week. Our students safety will always be our top priority.

Our teachers aren't the only ones who have been planning for the upcoming year this summer. Our student leaders have already been planning this year's house meetings, too. 💛💜💙🧡💚❤️

Our teachers are back, and, of course, we kicked off the new year with Mass and teambuilding! 💛💜💙🧡💚❤️

Welcome especially to our new Lions! 🦁

to some of your favorite posts from the 2023-24 school year!

Congratulations again, Class of 2024! We can't wait to hear all about your freshman year of high school!

Every year, we offer some of our newest teachers the opportunity to spend a couple of days at the Ron Clark Academy, observing great teaching, being inspired by their students, and gaining great ideas for our house system.

Kindergarten celebrated the 100th day of school in a big way!

My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from You.
My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to You.
My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to You. Amen.

-St. Nicolas of Flue

this summer to some of your favorite posts from the 2023-24 school year! 😍

Safety First! Mrs. Hamer attended a school safety summit this week on building safer schools. While our discipleship traits are our passion, the safety of our students and teachers is always our priority.

Engineering class made their own bouncy balls, using borax and glue!

My God, I give you this day.
I offer you, now, all the good that I shall do,
And I promise to accept, for love of you,
All of the difficulty that I shall meet.
Help me to conduct myself during this day
In a manner pleasing to you.
-St. Francis de Sales

LourdesRVA

Today's Teacher Thursday post comes from Ms. Dozier!

After graduating college in 2023, I began looking for a place where I could not only grow as a teacher, but as a person as well. In the beginning, I didn’t realize how hard this journey would be, but by the end of it, I realized that going through the hard parts of your journey is what make it so rewarding. Lourdes has been such a warm welcoming, supportive place for me to begin.

My first year of teaching, I had the great opportunity to become great friends with my colleagues, and I truly feel as I am heard, seen, and supported along the way. The administration will come in your classroom, help you out with activities, and just be there to support you. Being a teacher at Lourdes has gone above and beyond my expectations, and I am glad that I get to be a part of it.

My favorite thing is getting to see my students grow so much throughout the year and continuing to watch them throughout their educational journey at Lourdes. It is also amazing to see them grow in other areas, like art and music and PE and technology and have them bring that back to the classroom. I am still to this day so grateful to that for the opportunity to teach at Lourdes, and I thank God for that every day.

I have greatly appreciated all the support I have gotten this year from the Our Lady of Lourdes community, and I look forward to this next school year with so much excitement and happiness! 🩵🤍

Our parents reflect the very best of our school in all of the many ways that they give of themselves. One of the most exciting ways is by being mystery readers in our younger classrooms. The kids always love seeing who is the guest of the week!

“A mosaic consists of thousands of little stones. Some are blue, some are green, some are yellow, some are gold. When we bring our faces close to the mosaic, we can admire the beauty of each stone. But as we step back from it, we can see that all these little stones reveal to us a beautiful picture, telling a story none of these stones can tell by itself.

That is what our life in community is about. Each of us is like a little stone, but together we reveal the face of God to the world. Nobody can say: 'I make God visible.' But others who see us together can say: 'They make God visible.' Community is where humility and glory touch.”
― Henri Nouwen

to some of your favorite posts from the 2023-24 school year!

⏰Past Lourdes students, it's time to update your information with us! Especially as we get closer to the opening of our new wing, we want to make sure you are receiving our updates and invitations. Share with a friend!

https://forms.gle/XNBvMwVMk4TUHVRa9

Teachers are still hard at work planning for the next school year during summer! In their own words....

Deacon Steven: During the last week of June, Mrs. Jenkins and I had the good fortune of being given the chance to travel to Boston and participate in the Christian Deeper Learning Institute. During this week-long intensive, we were immersed in practices and strategies that could help us teach the Christian faith and our CHRIST discipleship traits not only in the content of our classes but also in the manner and method of how it is taught. We explored how things like giving feedback, explaining expectations, and even giving grades and assessments can be opportunities to deepen a student's relationship with Christ and can help them to become not just a better student but a better person. I specifically was struck by examples of projects where students accomplished beautiful, important work as a service to the community - it inspired me to think of new ways to push learning beyond the boundaries of the classroom and to perhaps re-consider what our students are capable of accomplishing.

Mrs. Jenkins: While attending the Deeper Learning Institute, I immersed myself in learning methods of teaching that honor the image of God in all students. Through this process, I gained a deeper understanding of how every action I take and the culture I cultivate in my classroom can reflect our CHRIST values. I was inspired by how many of these methods have been brought back and implemented in the Lourdes community throughout the years. I discovered the significant impact of creating real, meaningful work on my students that not only engages them academically but also nurtures their spiritual growth and gives back to the community. This experience was transformative, highlighting the role teachers have in shaping not just students' minds but their hearts and spirits as well.

Pre-algebra classes made carnival games to study probability. 🎡🎠