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Mount Royal Academy welcomed eight more students into membership of The Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapter of the National Honor Society, in a ceremony held at the school on February 21. Members were selected by a council comprised of faculty members for meeting high standards of scholarship, service, leadership, and character.

Adrianna Kenyon, Maria Klucinec, Miriam Caveney, Matthew Caveney, Vivian Wok, Rebekah Thibault, Ziqing (Kelly) Wang and Maria Lucia Fuentes Forera met all of the requirements necessary to obtain this honor. As part of their induction and election into office, the students mus...

Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the Lenten season.  During this liturgical season we prepare for Easter by imitating Jesus and going out into the "desert" to pray and sacrifice.  Lent lasts forty days (with the exception of Sundays) and during this Lenten season you will notice students learning about the meaning of Lent and the various Lenten practices we traditionally follow, guiding us through this journey.

It is a season of prayer, giving, abstaining, and fasting.  One way students are giving is by bringing in loose change for our penny drive (doesn’t have to be pennies).  All procee...

We capped off Catholic Schools week with a prayer service. Students across all grade levels prepared original general intercessions, a decade of the rosary was prayed, and we also reflected on the life of an exceptionally selfless and tireless servant to youth: St. John Bosco. It was very fitting that St. John Bosco's memorial marked the end of Catholic Schools week. His life was a total self-donation to young people who desperately needed and thirsted for the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. 

Our prayer is that Mount Royal Academy will continue to bring more and more youthful souls to Chri...

Mount Royal Academy Students Undertake Humanitarian Project in East Africa

The students of Mount Royal Academy in Sunapee, New Hampshire have begun an international humanitarian project: providing charitable assistance for 86 poor, orphaned children in the East African country of Uganda. The students’ goal is to secure charitable donations through personal appeals to friends, relatives and other potential benefactors. Donations will be forwarded to a Ugandan priest (the orphans’ guardian) and used to fund several self-sustaining agricultural projects ( e.g., raising cows and goats; growing cof...

The elementary school held its annual school spelling bee in the St. Joseph Center on Tuesday.  Classroom winners Willie Spanos (grade one), Lauren Dustin (grade two), Julia Stout (grade three), Luke Bartlett (grade four), Rosie Treece (grade five), Anthony Mihaly (grade six) and Alex Kalpagkian (grade eight) competed in the school level competition of the National Spelling Bee.  After several competitive rounds between Lauren and Luke, Luke won the bee on the word "hydra".  Congratulations to Luke, who will participate in the state bee in Concord in March.  We are proud of all of the particip...

We are celebrating All Saint’s Day tomorrow, November 1st. This has been a tradition at Mount Royal Academy for the past nineteen years. Sometimes students ask why we don’t celebrate Halloween at school. My response to the little ones has been that we like to dress up as saints so that we can learn to be more like them, which will help us be closer to Jesus. It is a simple answer yet very true as we want our children to see the beauty in virtue, and see examples of people who have striven to live a life in Christ and been recognized by the Church as saints.

The three days of All Hallow’s Eve (...

Within the last couple decades a new continent has been discovered: the digital continent. The world of social and online media is growing rapidly. New mediums of communication are introduced so quickly that the average user can find it difficult to track the developing forms of online social connection.

Adolescents are NOT average users. They are extreme users of social media. As adults who care about the eternal, spiritual, and moral well-being of all children, we think that is it very important for parents to know the dangers of the digital continent. The world of digital media and social n...

The 2013-14 academic year is well underway, and students and faculty alike have hit the ground running.  Students have quickly acclimated to the daily routine, and special classes such as art, music, gym and languages, are in full swing.

We are privileged and grateful to have three priests alternately offer Mass for our school community this year.  Fr. Michael Monette, pastor of St. Patrick/St. Joachim parish, Fr. Robert Biron, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima parish, and Fr. Rene Butler, director of the Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette, generously visit campus each week on a rotating basis.  Weekl...