MVA Baccalaureate c/o 2010

Congratulations Montverde Academy Class of 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We celebrate Baccalaureate for the class of 2010 today and the students were fantastic! It's always so neat to see them in their dress outfits. They loved hamming it for the camera too!













This group has all been at MVA for more than 6 years - quite a feat for our school!



Valedictorian Yi (Samantha) Shen, Roger Ross Dean of Upper School, and Salutatorian Binbin Zheng



Matthew Parets and his students




Getting ready to go!



This is one of my favorite pictures of the day.


It's always so exciting to watch them walk out - they are full of pride and purpose!

Headmaster Kasey Kesselring getting ready to go!

Toni Specht and Kasey Kesselring

Matthew Parets



MVA Faculty 2009-2010



Bonnie Parks - Study  Hall teacher extraordinaire- greeted every single student with hugs and tears of joy.






The Baccalaureate Ceremony







Shiyou Yang, Class of 2010 singing "The Time of My Life"



Soo Min Kim & Fatou Gamatie, Class of 2010 singing "A Moment Like This"



Harvey Perez, Class of 2010 singing "I Believe"





Yoshi Kodate Class of 2009 - accompanist




Thanks to the staff and faculty of MVA for guiding these students to success! Thanks to Kasey Kesselring for leading a great team!

MVA Upper School Awards Night 140/365

Tonight was the Montverde Academy Upper School Awards Night. Students were honored for their academic achievements through out the year and the next years honor council and prefects were chosen.

Headmaster Kasey Kesselring and his assistant Toni Specht did a fantastic job of keeping the program moving quickly - no small task with this many students!



A mosaic of students receiving their awards





Congratulations to the Montverde Academy Upper School teacher of the Year - Troy Urquhart!





Troy is a fantastic teacher! You can purchase his latest chapbook here http://www.airforcejoyride.com/gg24.html

Yearbooks are out! 134/365

 After a long year of work - the yearbooks are finally ready to hand out! Charles has really done a great job and he's ready to get them out!



The kids were really excited to see them.



They were handed out after school in the Student Center where all the Seniors, Sophomores and Freshman gathered. (The Juniors had a college info assembly to attend). It was controlled chaos and quite efficient! Members of the Yearbook Club did most of the work and they did a great job.







I loved seeing them stop as soon as they got the book and start flipping through it.













They quickly found chairs and couches and settled down to really get into it.

















Even as they walked back to the dorms - they were still paging through the book!