The freshman started their second week of school on the Notre Dame Cathedral Latin Campus ropes course. First-year students gathered in the early morning with the senior CPE representatives, volunteer teachers, and campus ministry to learn even more about their classmates and how they would carry out the core value of community. CPE leaders were assigned groups of students in the first-year class throughout the day to complete challenges such as the trust fall, birds’ nests, walking plank, and a fan favorite, the donut hole. Plenty of other challenges concurred, but the leadership and fellowship, the classmates of 2026, demonstrated were welcoming, bright, and strong. That’s what the NDCL community is all about!

Sophomores take the early morning on the bus to a particular park by continuing to live out the core values of NDCL. The sophomore retreat is all focused on the big idea of respect. Sophomores journey and hike through the peaceful woods of Squires Castle Park and focus on how they can be better individually and socially. Students then take the time to reflect on their own lives after Miss McKeon’s speech over hers. The day is finished with lunch and a game of kickball.

The junior retreat is focused on the core value of justice. The junior class was challenged to serve in a community with either elementary students, do yard work, or clean/package up items in a less fortunate school. Students got the chance to choose when and where they wanted
to go based on a list provided to carry out their justice.

In early September 2022 and late April 2023, the senior students have or will take on the kayaking trip with mass to learn even more about their integrity and leadership in the Notre Dame Cathedral Latin community. On the kayaking ride, senior students were asked to reflect on their integrity and how they could show more excellent leadership. The trip lasted on about a six-to-twelve-mile river course where students paired together to work together to accomplish this long ride. Furthermore, students who took the kayaking trip in September said it was a great experience and a relaxing trip to focus on individual leadership and get closer to the class as our high school days end. Topping that off, they traveled to Mcdonald’s for ice cream cones!