Lower School

15 Dec

Posted at 14:50h in Lower School, PREP, School News, Upper School

Re-enrollment for the 2023–24 school year is just around the corner. Next week, all currently enrolled families will receive an email with details about the re-enrollment process. The preferred enrollment window for our current families begins on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, the first day of the second semester, and concludes on January 31. Last year we had a 92% retention rate and high interest from new families, which resulted in waiting lists. Given the interest already expressed by new families, we are encouraging families to re-enroll as soon as possible because, on February 1, we will begin to admit new...

14 Dec

Posted at 15:32h in Lower School, PREP, School News, Spiritual Life, Student Life, Upper School

Our Portrait of a Graduate is both aspirational and a reality now. We aim to cultivate students who are Christ-followers, community builders, committed to excellence, critical thinkers, and compassionate contributors. This semester students have volunteered, collected resources, and raised funds for the following organizations: Volleyball teams raised $1076.28 for Holy Cross Health–Partners in Breast Health through Pink Night. National Honor Society hosted two blood drives with OneBlood collecting over 50 units of blood, a school record since 2011! This represents over 100 lives saved! The National Honor Society Alzheimer’s Walk raised over $3000 for the Lauderdale Lakes Alzheimer’s Center. Students...

10 Oct

Posted at 10:20h in Lower School, PREP, Spiritual Life, Upper School

Westminster Academy appreciates the resource Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church is to our school community. Each week, the church gathers for meaningful events to educate, enlighten, and enhance spiritual lives and invites all WA parents and students to join them. Upcoming Events David Phelps | Live in Concert: We are excited to celebrate our 50th anniversary season of the Coral Ridge Concert Series! Our first concert is renowned tenor David Phelps, performing on October 28 at 7:30 p.m. He served as a member of the popular and prestigious Gaither Vocal Band for over 15 years and has numerous Dove Awards, Grammy Awards, and...

08 Sep

Posted at 15:53h in Athletics, Lower School, PREP, School News, Student Life, Upper School

Our new school-branded activity bus was showcased at the football game last Friday night, where the varsity Lions won 23–0 over the Bradenton Christian School Panthers in the first game of the regular season! This additional bus will transport students to a variety of off-campus activities and will also serve as a traveling billboard for our school while representing Westminster Academy's standard of excellence! We are grateful for the family who provided a $50K match to encourage generosity for this project, which was chosen as our Annual Auction Heart Raise last spring. Our community responded with an additional $65K in donations! Thank you so much...

08 Sep

Posted at 15:35h in Lower School, PREP, School News, Spiritual Life, Upper School

Schoolwide Chapels officially kicked off, starting with Lower School Chapel last week. Students had a chance to come together to worship and hear from the first guest speaker Dr. Satterly. He spoke about our theme for the year, Cultivate, based on Colossians 2:6–8, “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world,...