News Archive

Our 2018 Home for the Holidays welcomed so many alumnae back, we had to put out more seats for Mass! Our Class of 2018 came out in huge numbers, creating a real buzz to the reception. As graduates young and old mingled with their former teachers and our grade 12's during the reception, the sense of community really resonated. 

Help our Senior Choir's fundraising challenge for May's Place Hospice 
As a participating choir in Yuel Duel (Vancouver's largest Christmas Carolling Competition), members of our Senior Choir will join 15 other choirs in an exciting muiscal experience on the sidewalks of Gastown this Thursday, December 6th to raise money for May's Place Hospice. As the event draws closer, we are asking members of our LFA community to consider donating to this worthwhile cause. 

By donating to our LFA SENIOR CHOIR PAGE we can help raise awareness and support May's Place, a hospice in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that provides compassinate end-of-life care for our city's most vulnerable. Also, come down and support us on Thursday, December 6th!

LFA's Grade 10's had an astounding weekend at Whistler's Model UN conference, walking away with a number of individual awards and a very prestigious delegation award.

Little Flower Academy’s Senior Field Hockey Angels settle for fifth in British Columbia after a fantastic AA Provincial Championship, where they only lost a single game. The team came together at the right time, playing some truly inspired field hockey. The highlight of their tournament emerged in two truly astonishing games against JL Crowe, from Trail, BC.

Our Senior Choir will be "caroling for a cause" this year! You can support our LFA Senior Choir as they participate in this year's "Yuel Duel - Carolilng for a Cause" on Thursday, December 6th in Gastown, Vancouver. 

The 3rd iteration of LFAMUN took place on Saturday, October 13th at LFA. This excellent day conference, organized by our very own LFA students, gave delegates a chance to practice their public speaking and debate skills, review MUN procedure and have some fun!

Our LFA Cross Country team came away as league champions for the second year in a row after a fantastic afternoon at the Zone Championships.

It has been really fun for many of us at LFA to watch the amount of attention and publicity that Kat Jayme '06 has received for her recent film, Finding Big Country. Not the least of which is seeing LFA basketball footage in the trailers! The film had an enthralling world premier at the VIFF. In addition to a planned second showing, they've added another because of the demand.

With our Senior Volleyball team off to a brilliant start and winning at a torrid pace, they are starting to get noticed. Their recent performance, winning the Elite Division at the UBC Mizuno Invitational Tournament got them highlighted in Varsity Letters (a website dedicated solely to telling the stories of local student-athletes and coaches).

The Senior A Field Hockey Angels were perfect at the UBC Tournament, winning each of their games and capping it with a convincing win in the gold medal game over a capable and determined Argyle team. The win gave them a repeat championship at this tournament.

You can read more and get tickets at www.ted.com/tedx/events/29875

A second win in two days for our Senior A Field Hockey Angels against cross-street rival York House was well earned as both teams are very closely matched. The win was also the Angels second of the day, as they wrapped up the Polar Bears Tournament on Saturday, finishing fifth.

This year's Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will feature the world premier of Finding Big Country: a film by our own Kat Jayme '06. Take a moment to enjoy the official trailer--you can see why the film is creating all sorts of buzz. The permier is on Sunday, September 30 (VIFF website for more information).

Not quite ready to accept that summer has slipped into an autumn dusk, we've decided to extend barbecue fun to this year's Grape Escape and enjoy an Aussie BBQ!

There is an important change to the process this year for every girl trying out for a team at LFA. You must now have an Athletic Team Try Out Consent Form completed before trying out.

Everything you need to know about the first day of school on Wednesday, September 5th.

A welcome back message, with important information on the first few weeks of school.

In addition to his numerous duties, Richard Cannon keeps our school grounds in pristine condition with the help of parents. September 8th is one of our first opportunities for you to log some PA volunteer hours as you're invited to assist with our yard cleanup. 

Asha Mior ‘20 recently had the opportunity to compete at the regional level of the Optimist Oratorical Competition in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Sisters of St. Ann are a congregation that has been actively living their mission longer than Canada has been a country. Little Flower Academy is just one of the many active ministries set in motion by these amazing women.

Recent graduate Michelle Rodrigues '18 has received the first place award for the B.C. Law Society Secondary School Essay Contest.

We would like to thank all families for their support in school fundraising activities. As we continue to rely entirely on philanthropy for major campus improvements like this year's STEAM Lab expansion and Library upgrades, your generosity has made a profound impact. When students arrive back in September, they will see a number of really positive changes to the campus.

The Richmond Flickers U15 Field Hockey Team won the Tier 2 Provincial Club Champions this past weekend in Chilliwack. A third of the team is from LFA! 

In addition to our thanks for all your support this year, there is important information on the upcoming PA Annual General Meeting, deadline for recording volunteer hours, and September's Welcome Back BBQ.

The Achieve Anything Foundation teamed up with the Royal Canadian Navy to give young women a chance to explore opportunities in Aviation, Aerospace, Marine & Defense, and other STEM-based fields to reduce gender disparity. Our own Athena Pucovsky '19 applied and was chosen to take part in the opportunity to spend a day on the HMCS Regina.

Anna Mazurenko ‘19 was accepted into the Stanford Pre-Collegiate program for Chemical Physics. This highly-intensive program is taught by Stanford students and professors and includes visits to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to see first-hand how scientists study chemistry in modern labs. Congratulations, Anna! We look forward to hearing about your experience. 

The Harvard Model UN Congress (HMCE) in Madrid in March, 2018 proved to be a superbly wonderful experience for all delegates. Known for its professionalism and organization, this conference  also boasts an encouraging and co-operative approach to negotiations that make liaising with others very meaningful. Harvard's conference in Europe is rich because there are many students from many countries around the world and they bring their experiences to the issues being discussed. Not only did this Harvard delegation enjoy this conference par excellence, these MUN students were able to enjoy some traveling to lovely parts of the South of Spain where they viewed beautiful architectural and historic sites cities as the UNESCO heritage city of Toledo, the Alhambra in Granada and the Mezquita in Cordoba.

Little Flower Academy is very proud of two very special alumnae: our recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Alumnae award. Congratulations to Clare Smart ‘91 and Emily Cordonier ’01, who are this year's inductees. Clare has demonstrated extraordinary community service, both through her successful career in policing and through her personal and deeply committed humanitarian outreach work. Emily reached the highest international levels in her sport, captaining the Canadian volleyball team, before bridging her athletic success into a successful broadcast journalism career.

Tonight, Tuesday, April 24, is our annual student Thank-a-thon. We have a fantastic group of student volunteers who will be phoning everyone who made a gift to the school this year. If you see a call from Little Flower Academy between 5 and 7pm (Vancouver time) tonight, be sure to pick up!

Demetra Maragos '15, who was featured for her university volleyball in our 2016 issue of La Petite Fleur, helped Ryerson to its first national championship earlier this month.

Little Flower Academy's Chamber Choir will be performing with the Clark College Women’s Choral Ensemble when they tour Vancouver and Seattle in early April. You are invited to the free concert on April 3^rd, 2018 at 7:00pm at St. Philip’s Anglican Church!

Over 50% of tickets are sold! This year's Little Flower Academy' Spring Fling event goes Vegas, with our "Viva Las Vegas" theme. The school Dining Hall will be transformed for a fantastic evening with parents, faculty, alumnae, and friends old and new.

This year, students in Programming 12 are using Unity 3D game engine and the C# programming language to build a mobile application to complete in this year's Technovation Challenge. They are also creating a business plan that includes various models earning income around their mobile application idea. In April, everything comes together for a Dragon's Den-style venture pitch in front of a panel of judges at a regional competition.

Twenty six students recently attended PacificMUN in Vancouver on 23^rd- 25^th February, 2018. It was LFA’s first time in attendance at this relatively new Vancouver Model UN conference and the overall experience was praised by all. Additionally, we also won 6 awards! 

Just a reminder that re-registration packages distributed on February 7, 2018 are due back at the office by Friday, February 23, 2018. If you require an extension, please contact Kathi Wilson at 604-738-9016 et 114 or email wilsonk@lfabc.org.

At the start of the season, conventional wisdom would have thought it would be a transition year, having only one returning player from last year. It would have also been understandable to also keep expectations low given two key players were unavailable for the season (rehabbing from injuries) and LFA running with a team of only 8 players (three of whom are grade 10’s)... but someone forgot to tell this team. The Angels through a collective team effort advanced to the provincials in a hard fought 80-59 win against a scrappy Pitt Meadows.

The LFAAA proudly presents our first-ever Murder Mystery Night on Friday, May 11th! In celebration of a most excellent decade, it will be all things 80s. Dress cool and return to high school. The future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades. There’s a mystery to solve and we’re going to need your help.

For many of our alumnae, they’ve watched our alumnae newsletter evolve from a few stories on a glossy sheet of paper into its current form—a stunning magazine, full of alumnae and school stories, alongside beautiful photography. While the format is strikingly different, the constant is the grass-roots input of storytelling and submissions of photos and ideas by our alumnae community. In that regard, it is over 80 pages of compelling reading for the more than 3000 alumnae, parents, and incoming families who receive the publication.

The pace of change in a learning environment is dictated by the tools at our disposal. This has never been more true than this year. With a fully functioning STEAM Lab, our Grade 8's are now learning to program using Arduino Microcontrollers LED's and photoresistors.

The famous relic of St. Francis Xavier is coming to North America for the first time in generations. Organized by Catholic Christian Outreach, The Archdiocese of Ottawa, and the Jesuits in Canada, the relic is travelling across Canada to celebrate Canada 150 and will be on display in the Lower Mainland for two days. The public veneration at St. Francis Xavier Church in Vancouver on Wednesday, January 24th includes a 7pm Mass with Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB.

With the upcoming arrival of the relic of St. Francis Xavier in Vancouver, Father Guy at St. Mary's Parish in Vancouver shared a thought-provoking reflection that we wanted to share with you. You can read Fr. Guy's comments in the St. Mary's Church Bulletin. 

When the Vancouver Police Department welcomed its newest recruits last week, there was a decidedly Little Flower Academy feel to the occasion. Six of the fifteen new police recruits were women, and two of those were recent LFA graduates. Congratulations to MK Battle '09 and Alex Bland '10! We know both to have impeccable judgment and integrity and will serve the community faithfully.

Our Senior Basketball Angels continue to play exceptionally well, winning bronze this weekend at the Churchill tournament.