PRE-KINDERGARTEN–5TH GRADE
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Senior gets accolades from WXYZ-TV
Notre Dame senior Natalie Lyijynen honored by local TV station as 'brightest and best' for academic achievement and commitment to community service. Notre Dame senior Natalie Lyijynen was among the 200 young men and women from 10 different counties in Michigan who were honored Saturday, […]
Notre Dame celebrates its ‘lifers’
Marist Academy’s lower school, which educates children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, officially opened in Waterford in 2003, joining Notre Dame's existing middle and upper schools. It was a rather bold move by NDPMA administrators at the time because the closing of Catholic elementary schools […]
Spanish specials
Marist Academy students fare well in national language examination; four get gold medals. Notre Dame’s Marist Academy scored big in the most recent National Spanish Examinations, bringing home 17 awards, including four gold medals. The awards are sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of […]
Celebrating Notre Dame and STEM
Easterwood Wing naming ceremony today celebrated science, art, technology and empowering young women for a future in STEM. The official naming of the Timothy J. Easterwood Science, Art and Technology Wing was celebrated this afternoon by a crowd of nearly 100 school faculty, staff, students and […]
Notre Dame VRC robotics update
Second year in a row a team of Marist Academy 8th graders make it deep into the competition. During a busy couple of weeks, Notre Dame's extensive robotics program participated in the FIRST Robotics World Championships (high school) held in Detroit at Cobo Center, the […]
Living as art
Special performance in downtown Rochester results from collaboration between Notre Dame's visual and theatre arts departments. In an old episode of the popular TV show, Gilmore Girls, which ran on the WB Television Network for seven years, the community of Stars Hollow and all of […]