Lower School

16 Sep

Posted at 15:06h in Arts, Lower School, PREP, Upper School

The Festival of the Fine Arts will be a wonderful evening where you can experience a taste of the Fine Arts offered at Westminster Academy! This benefit concert will include our 5th Grade Choir, 4th–8th Grade Drama, High School Drama, Band, Orchestra, Art, Choir, and Broadcasting performances! It will be a delightful time for all ages! Please join us in the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Sanctuary at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21! This month, we are beginning auditions for Cinderella and Shrek that will be performed in the spring. Twenty-five of our talented 7th–12th-grade choir students will travel to Cypress Bay...

05 May

Posted at 15:20h in Academics, Lower School

The fourth and fifth-grade classes have been working hard on this year’s Science Fair projects. Each student did individual experiments as they displayed their knowledge of the Scientific Method. The fourth-grade winning projects were selected with the help of the National Honor Society. The fifth-grade students presented their projects before two judges on Monday, April 26. The judges were very impressed by all of the hard work, scientific thought, and creative display boards, making their job of deciding the top three very difficult. A special thank you to all of our judges: Mrs. Scasserra, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Leonard, and our...

03 Mar

Posted at 11:26h in Lower School, School News

Lower School Student Council collected supplies to create 25 boxes containing 295 "joy kits" and 6 boxes of additional supplies for families at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. Each grade was assigned items to bring in such as toiletries, activity books, socks, stickers, board books, crayons, card games, throw blankets, and stuffed animals. Third through fifth-grade representatives assembled the kits and officers, Joey Pekic, Preston Pacienza, Evie Branham, and Siri Deenah delivered the supplies to the hospital last month! ...

04 Feb

Posted at 15:15h in Lower School, School News

It is with great excitement that the Lower School announces the addition of a math enrichment program for grades 3–5 titled “M3 Adventure.” This program utilizes the M3 Mentoring Mathematical Minds curriculum which is a National Association for Gifted Children's Curriculum Studies Award Winner. It was designed for gifted and high ability students and was developed at the University of Connecticut NEAG School of Education's Renzulli Center for Creativity. It fits well with our math program and allows for the addition of STEM and higher-level thinking activities. This program is by invitation only for students who excel in math. The class...

03 Feb

Posted at 16:36h in Lower School, School News

On Friday, January 22, 2021, we held our Scripps/Miami Herald 4th and 5th-grade Spelling Bee. The students were well-prepared and excited to show their spelling expertise. After 18 rounds and 167 words of intense competition, Klorey White won the spelling bee. Klorey will go on to represent Westminster Academy in the Miami Herald/Scripps National Spelling Bee for Broward County in March. Words that were spelled correctly and led to the final round were: “Scandinavia,” “laboratory,” and “indecipherable.” Congratulations to the winners and those who qualified to participate: First Place: Klorey White (5th Grade) Second Place: Jade Engen-Ruiz (5th Grade) Third Place:...