Future Angels Enjoy Classes & Camaraderie at Showcase Day

Future Holy Angels students from near and far enjoyed upper school classes and camaraderie during Angel Showcase Day (November 10, 2022). The AHA Admissions Team organized the full-day event so incoming ninth graders could explore their interests with current upper school students, meet faculty members, and develop new friendships.

Admissions Director Michèle McGovern and Assistant Admissions Director Jennifer Bullis arranged for students to attend classes with an Angel Ambassador, craft a beaded bracelet during community time, and enjoy lunch together in the Student Commons.

Faculty members prepared hands-on lessons and engaged visitors in discussion. Showcase participants chose from classes such as biology, photography, world history, Spanish, religion, marketing, economics, and more.

World language teacher Carmín Torres-Fontanez provided the future Angels in her Spanish class with an opportunity to come to the board and answer questions. She also gave each visitor a paper “suitcase” for students to decorate and “pack” with slips of paper containing new vocabulary. 

Visitors in Patricia Prucnel’s biology class received a lesson about how trees produce and store food, and the structure of a leaf. Prucnel instructed every student to make a rubbing of a leaf she provided and map out features, including the petiole, margin, apex, and more.

Throughout the school, incoming Angels could be seen smiling and talking with their Ambassadors and their future classmates: the sign of a successful event. 

Founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1879, the Academy of the Holy Angels is the oldest private girls’ school in Bergen County. While AHA is steeped in Catholic tradition, this prestigious school serves young women from a broad spectrum of cultural and religious backgrounds. Over time, thousands of women have passed through AHA’s portals. Many go on to study at some of the nation’s best universities, earning high-ranking positions in medicine, government, law, education, public service, business, arts, and athletics. The Academy’s current leaders continue to further the SSND mission to provide each student with the tools she needs to reach the fullness of her potential—spiritually, intellectually, socially, and physically, by offering a first-rate education in a nurturing environment where equal importance is placed on academic excellence, character development, moral integrity, and service to others.