Archmere News A Private High School in Claymont, Delaware.

May

May 2025/June 2025

5/1/2025

Drama Club Attends West Chester Theatre Festival

This month the Drama Club attended the West Chester Theatre Festival to present a competition piece called, "The Spot". The club attended performance workshops, a Q&A with a current Broadway actor, and was able to meet with college acting students and students from four other high schools. In addition, "The Spot" was recognized with several awards that day:

- Caeli McAlonan was awarded an Outstanding Performance medallion for a monologue auditions competition

- Meredith Victoria was awarded a medal for Outstanding Tech Crew

- "The Spot" won a trophy for Outstanding Performance

Actors at West Chester: Caeli McAlonan, Vivian Lehman, Bridget McNamara, Luke Merritt, Brianna Cubbler, Katie Savitsky, Natalie Skelly, Meredith Victoria

April

April 2025

4/28/2025

HRAI Student Daniel Qi '26 Serves as Concert Master

In addition to earning the first place win at the Music Teachers National Association Senior Performance competition, violinist Daniel Qi '26 served as concert master of the All Eastern Honors Ensemble Orchestra at the National Association of Music Education in Hartford, Connecticut on April 27.

March

March 2025

3/10/2025

Junior Portfolio 3D Design Final Projects

Mrs Silverman's Junior Portfolio 3D Design students are hard at work on their found object apparel and architectural design projects. After a series of introductory assignments and three-dimensional material investigations, students apply the design thinking process to their chosen project, either a wearable fashion design made out of found materials, or a site-specific architectural design for a client of their choosing incorporating sustainable features.

The final projects will be displayed at our upcoming Fine Art Festival student showcase, featuring hundreds of works of art and design from each of our thirteen distinctive art electives on Friday, April 25th from 6-8pm in the Patio.

February

February 2025

2/5/2025

Harmony for Peace Foundation Awards

The Harmony for Peace Foundation recently recognized several of our HRAI student musicians. The Foundation celebrates the power of the arts and music for a more peaceful world, and students compete to become ambassadors for peace through music.

Third Prize awards went to: Andres Ramos '26, strings and Valentina Ramos '26, piano. Honorable Mention was awarded to Arlene Chiu '25. The students study under Mrs. Mary Ellen Schauber, Director of the Helena Raskob Arts Institute.

January

British Literature Class: Faith Connection

January 2025

1/27/2025

British Literature Class: Faith Connection

This month, juniors wrote meditations based on their reading of "Meditation 17" by John Donne in Mrs. Valerie Wright's Wit and Persuasion unit. The class is learning about rhetorical devices through the study of literature in order to explore the varying reasons to write persuasive pieces.

Students gathered in the Oratory to transform their state of mind as they wrote, connecting them spiritually to their assignment and centering them in their faith/beliefs as well as the charisms of Archmere.