Ursuline Academy performed their Christmas pageant Tuesday, telling the story of Jesus Christ's birth. (Jarek Rutz/Delaware LIVE News)

Ursuline’s Nativity kickstarts celebration of Christmas

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Ursuline Academy’s second grade routinely offers a Christmas pageant at the end of the year, but this year’s was a bit fluffier. In addition to 13 students, the cast for the first time included animals – several goats, a calf, an alpaca and a donkey –  to tell the story of Jesus’s birth. “When Jesus was born, there were plenty …

Phillie Phanatic celebrates reading with Ursuline students

Susan MondayEducation, Headlines

  The Phillie Phanatic visited Ursuline’s elementary classes to celebrate reading.   Ursuline Academy found a way to lure their youngest students away from screens during the cold, snowy month of January. The private school in Wilmington jumped at the chance to be part of “Snow Much Reading with the Phanatic,” just one piece of the Lower School’s multi-year literacy …