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Catholic schools were built in this country beginning in the 19th century. Now, centuries later, the desire for a Catholic education still flourishes. That is the seed of the national, weeklong celebration of Catholic Schools Week. Sponsored by the NCEA, Catholic schools plan events that “focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to Church, local communities and the nation.”

More than a million students take the SAT each year. A perfect score is 1600 and the average score is in the 1200 range, according to the Princeton Review. What many students find to be the biggest challenge of this testing is the Math component. So, when two of our AWHS seniors score an 800 it certainly is something to celebrate.

Tyler Wansley’s life so far has a poetic charm to it. He has very definitely taken the road less traveled. Born in Florida, raised in New Hampshire, attended college in Vermont, lived in China, Tyler now resides in Boston making his daily commute to Braintree an almost easy drive.

Seniors Sophie Bionelli (Weymouth) and Katie Evers ( Braintree) are fierce! They are two Bishops who have navigated the college application process with tenacity. Now they are able to step back, open their acceptance letters and feel satisfied. The satisfaction is well earned.

Our International Students pose a unique challenge in our classrooms. Having English as a second language and arriving at 80 Independence Avenue with a range of fluency, the ESL program is a necessity so these students could reach their best potentials in an American environment. Now five years into the program, teacher Tyler Wansley explains the value of the program…

f you are lucky enough to be a student in Mr. Robert Brearley’s theology class, you know that you will spend the year, in his class, examining your soul and recognizing the souls of others. When Mr. Brearley looks at the students that fill the seats in 103, he see’s limitless potential and goodness. And in making that assessment this theology teacher has created a class tradition in his sophomore classes.

Mrs. Joanne Adams has financial savvy and she wants her Economics students to be savvy as well. Joanne is passionate about “making learning as practical as possible”. With that goal in mind, she arranged for her students to attend the Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge.

As the Christmas season calendar fills up with falala and decking the halls, it is a special pause each year for the Archbishop Williams community to experience our own kind of Revels, filled with grace and merry-making of our own.

The chapel is quiet. The candles on the Advent wreath shine as classes of students enter and find a seat. Programs of prayers, shared talks and music are distributed and the Advent service begins. This will happen several times a day until every AW student has had the opportunity to be part of our school community celebration of Advent.

It may be the calm before the storm. The flu storm that is. For school nurse Holly Bartlett, RN, ADN there are rare lulls in her year. The opening months of school are busy and hectic with paperwork and student, faculty and staff visits. A window arrives, if lucky, of a week or two before the onslaught of aches, pains, chills and fever. If anyone is ready for all the challenges of nursing the Archbishop Williams community it’s Holly.

Tree sales are Wednesday - Friday: 5 to 8 pm

Weekends: 8am to 8pm.

Regular trees are $60

Apartment trees are $40

Wreaths are $20

Ornaments $15

“You’ll shoot your eye out”. It’s a classic line from the Christmas classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY. Adapted from the screenplay by Philip Grecian, our AWHS Theater Ensemble treated the audience to two nights of humor and theatrical silliness as it kicked off its 2018 -19 season with this beloved Christmas yarn.

Archbishop Williams is proud of the graduates of this school who have served in the Armed Forces. School librarian Mrs. Joanna Sands, in particular, feels both honored and obligated to recognize the service of our veterans.

Senior year is a lot about “finals”. No, not the dreaded end of year exams; rather, it is the final high school class, final lunch in the caf, final school liturgy, final school dance. But there is one final that is announced on the Morning Bulletin that elicits lots of emotions from our student athletes.

Weymouth’s Sallyrose Savage, Class of 2020, is still “beyond excited”. After five years of performing in school shows, Sallyrose received her first major role in the Theater Ensemble’s production of A CHRISTMAS STORY.

It’s that time of year when the holidays loom and the thoughts of how each of us is blessed is recognized in so many ways. Perhaps the one blessing we take for granted is the gift of food. We wake up each day and decide if our bagel will have cream cheese or butter; will lunch be salad and yogurt and dinner pasta or fish? Rarely do we wonder if there will be food on our tables.