What was your experience of becoming and belonging in Middle School? What do you wish your classmates and teachers knew about you in those years? What would you tell your sixth-grade self? These are the questions we asked Upper School students Avi Singh ’20 and Favor Ufondu ’22 to reflect on in their meditations offered at Middle School Chapel on Wednesday, January 15.

As educators, we often find ourselves in the weeds - considering etymology, functionality, pragmatism. Should we focus on respect, love, empathy, kindness, compassion, caring, niceness, or civility? What are the similarities and nuances? Does it matter? And how do these ideals lead to the creation and sustaining of community? 

On Wednesday, January 8, our Lower and Middle Schools gathered in Central Moravian Church for an annual tradition: welcoming the new year with the celebration of Epiphany.

As a part of our unit on colonial times, Mrs. Katie Merluzzi and Mr. Michael Merluzzi, parents of Nora Merluzzi '33, generously visited our Pre-K students.

On Halloween, our seventh-graders presented Macbeth by 'popping-up' (in flash mob-style) throughout the day in classrooms, offices, and cafeterias at both the Lower and Middle School.

With the help of many students, we completed the Moravian Academy section of the Spotted Lanternfly Zones of Syncopation art project. Organized through Penn State Lehigh Valley, this project is the brainchild of artist Elsabé Johnson Dixon and involves many groups throughout the area.