Immaculate Heart High School Celebrates Catholic Schools Week with “Panda Families”
Immaculate Heart junior Adeline Bunje of Studio City shows off one of the handmade heart pins the seniors created for students during Panda Family Day as part of Catholic Schools Week.
Immaculate Heart High School this week celebrated Catholic Schools Week with a special “Panda Family Day,” which brought groups of students together to jump rope, play board games, and create chalk art in honor of Immaculate Heart’s community spirit.
Students in different class years reconnected by playing card games together during Immaculate Heart High School’s “Panda Family Day” as part of Catholic Schools Week.
Seniors in theology teacher Maria Pollia’s Women’s Studies classes organized Tuesday’s event as a way to connect members of the senior class with the freshmen, sophomores and juniors before they graduate and leave Immaculate Heart. Because of the pandemic’s disruption and the isolation of last year’s online classes, Pollia said the seniors had been concerned that the IH legacy “of mentoring, community, friendship and sisterhood would be broken unless they did something about it.”
Students in different class years reconnected by playing card games together during Immaculate Heart High School’s “Panda Family Day” as part of Catholic Schools Week.
As a result, students – who were already dressed for the day’s pajama theme – gathered in groups of different class years and spent time getting to know each other before eagerly tackling board games, hula hoops, and craft projects, among other activities. As a memento of the day’s festivities, each student received a pin of hearts and flowers, all handmade with love by their senior sisters.
As part of their Panda family bonding, students decorated the campus with colorful chalk art.
Panda Family Day was a time for students to relax and play together, including jumping rope on the ballfield.
About Immaculate Heart
Founded in 1906, Immaculate Heart High School & Middle School educates and empowers young women in sixth through 12th grades from its central location in the Los Feliz foothills near Griffith Park. The school has a long and distinguished history, with more than 11,000 graduates. Today’s student body of more than 675 young women is both geographically and ethnically diverse, drawing on students from throughout Los Angeles County. Last year, virtually 100 percent of Immaculate Heart graduates matriculated to colleges, including the most prestigious schools in the country.
