Monroeville’s Divine Mercy Academy kicks of Catholic Schools Week each year with a Mass at St. Bernadette Church on Sunday, followed by an open house for current and potential families.
The remainder of the week is filled with activities for the students, such as dress up days, treats, games and community service projects, establishing the importance of giving back.
This year, the Roman Catholic school embraced a dog theme to mark the week of Jan 26-Feb.1. Students watched the movies “Space Dogs” and “Inside the Mind of a Dog,” and they collected clean shirts, towels and fleece in order to create and donate rope toys to animal shelters.
Students also had canine visitors. Say It Once therapy dogs visited, and the younger students got to read stories to the dogs. During an American Kennel Club assembly, members of the Loyalhanna Agility Club visited with their show dogs.
Wednesday’s theme was “Celebrating Our Nation.” Students dressed in red, white and blue and wrote letters to active U.S. military, thanking those men and women for their service.
Classrooms collected “Dollars for Dogs” to help raise funds for the Pittsburgh-based Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans program.
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