Haverford Middle School Students Help Save Lives

The Save-A-Heart event teaches students how physical fitness benefits the heart and shows them that volunteering can be a fun and positive experience for the whole community.

Haverford Students To Perform at the Kimmel

Two eighth-graders will appear Monday and Tuesday night on one of Philly's biggest stages.

Editor's Note: The following article was contributed by The Haverford Township School District's Amanda Larsen. Patch Whiz Kid of the Week:   Chloe Datner and Tara Huff   Whiz Kid's Age: Both Chloe and Tara are 14. Whiz Kid's School: Haverford Middle School Whiz Kid's Accomplishment: Chloe Datner and Tara Huff  are actresses in The Butterfly Project, a theatrical outreach program of the Wolf Performing Arts Center, a non-profit performing arts center based in Wynnewood. The Butterfly Project features a performance of I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti. This one-act play based on the book of the same name brings to life actual poetry written by children who passed through Terezin Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Over …

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8th-Grader Puts Haverford on the Map

Haverford Middle School student Jack McGovern will compete Friday for a shot a geographic greatness.

Invasion of the Milkshake Gulpers

It happens every once in a while, usually on a Friday and regulars know to just get out of the way and step around the backpacks.

  Friday, just before noon, a strange phenomenon hit the Wawa at the corner of Darby and Eagle roads in Havertown. It happens a few times a year, usually on a Friday. Dozens and dozens of middle school students flood the Wawa. As they rush in, they drop their backpacks on the floor by the front door. They are motivated by an unyielding hunger, satisfied mostly by milkshakes, hot dogs and the occasional soft pretzel. Like a swarming herd they come, celebrating their early release from Haverford Middle School, just down the street. They mean no harm. In fact they're welcomed and good for business. A swarm of young teens and a few tweens who, like moths to a flame, are instinctively drawn to the milkshake machine. Within a few minutes, the …

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Haverford MS Students Learn to Ask for Help

The sixth graders are learning ways to identify problems in their lives, and those of others.

Teacher Feature

Meet Haverford Middle School Teacher Jackie Serratore

Meet Haverford Middle School's choir teacher who recently helped the school's choir, 7th Heaven, achieve second place in B101's Christmas choir competition.

Haverford-Havertown Patch is featuring great area teachers who deserve some spotlight. Teachers give a lot to their students, schools and studies and we'd like to recognize them and say a simple, thank you, for all that they do. Though this is her first year at Haverford Middle School, this music teacher has already been in the spotlight, helping the school's choir, 7th Heaven, achieve second place in B101's Christmas choir competition. B101 recently visited the school to present the choir with a check and trophy for placing second in the competition. Name: Jackie Serratore School: Haverford Middle School Grade/Subject: Grades 6-8/Choral Music Years in the Industry: Seven years teaching, first year in Haverford School District. Teaching …

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Haverford MS Chorus Gets Check from B101

The station dropped by the winter concert and presented the kids with a $2,000 check for their second place finish in the B101 Christmas Choir Competition.

Haverford MS Teachers Cut a Rug at Potter Cup

Haverford Middle School teachers perform a dance at the 2013 Potter Cup.

The rivalry between Haverford Middle School and Paxon Hollow Middle School in the annual Potter Cup is unmistaken but there may be an unsaid rivalry between the teachers as well.  Each year, the middle school teachers perform a dance in the pep rally benefitting Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. And, each year, the dances are different and more intricate for both schools.  Watch the video above to see this year's dance performed by Haverford Middle School teachers to a mash-up of currently popular songs. This year's Potter Cup, between the two schools, raised $40,000 to help benefit childhood cancer awareness.  

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Haverford Middle School Sweeps 10th Annual Potter Cup

The 10th annual Potter Cup raised $40,000 for Alex's Lemonade Stand.

In 10 years, an impassioned rivalry between Paxon Hollow Middle School and Haverford Middle School has raised nearly $300,000 to fight childhood cancer. Gillian Kocher, spokesperson for Alex's Lemonade Stand, said the Potter Cup raised over $40,000 this year. The competition is a best two-out-of-three for girls' basketball, boys' basketball and wrestling. Haverford swept all three competitions. Alex's parents, Liz and Jay Scott, appeared at the Potter Cup's pep rally—on Jan. 18, what would have been Alex's 17th birthday—to give students words of thanks and encouragement. The couple recalled Alex reaching her benchmark goals with her front-yard lemonade stand. They, at first, thought she wanted to experiment with a lemonade stand for fun …

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