Wesley Christian Academy

2026 Talent Show: Part 1 – June 17th

This afternoon, the elementary division put on the first part of the annual talent show, showcasing some of the many budding skills and talents of our young students. Thanks to our emcee team of four Grade 4 students, the hour long talent show moved smoothly through the twenty performances! The first act, which consisted of five Grade 8 students, set the tone and wowed the audience.

Subsequent acts included performances that showcased dancing, Taekwondo, Rubik’s cubes and gaming talent.

Musical presentations included various solos on piano, drums, viola, violin, acoustic guitar as well as a brother-sister voice and piano duet!

Also included in the show was a thirteen member group of musicians and dancers. These Grade 5 students have been practicing since September and came fully dressed in matching t-shirts that featured the song that they would sing, “Praise”, which is based on Psalm 150:6.

Our final act this afternoon was a dance solo starring one of our Grade 4 students.

By the end of the show, it was very clear that Wesley has some students with amazing talent! We are so thankful that God has blessed them with the desire and ability to share some of the gifts that He has given them with our community. We look forward to Part 2 of the show tomorrow afternoon.

Term 3 House Team Day – June 16, 2026

Today was our last House Team Day of the 2025-2026 school year. The House Team Captains started us off in the morning with House Team cheers during announcements.

Students and staff came dressed in their house team colours. Many even had accessories – ballet tutus, hair bands, stuffies, flags, hats, necklaces, capes, masks – to enhance their outfits.

In the afternoon, there was a short assembly consisting of House Team cheers and the announcement of the winner of the House Team Cup! Mrs. Ma asked House Team Captains to reveal their own team’s total. Congratulations to Buchanan House for coming in first place this year!!!!

After the cheering died down, Mrs. Ma explained the afternoon activities. Each student would create either a colouring sheet (JK-Grade 3) or a booklet (Grade 4-8) to celebrate the special memories or highlights of their school year. In addition, students would paint rocks that will be used to beautify the grounds of Wesley.

By the end of the afternoon, colourful booklets or sheets were taken home and a collection of freshly painted rocks were drying in the classrooms. Creative shapes, Bible verses, animals, short messages, crosses and other designs were proudly painted on those smooth surfaces.

We are thankful for another year of growth within our House Teams and friendly competition between each House. We look forward to next school year for these bonds of friendship and community to continue to strengthen and flourish!

Special Senior Band Workshop – June 15, 2026
by Miss Errington

This morning our Senior Band was treated to a workshop by Mr. Kevin Hayward, the music teacher from Toronto District Christian High School. Our band, made up of 80 students from grades 6-8, began with a short warm-up and tuning session before performing the four pieces of music that will be showcased at the Spring Concert next week. A few short areas were worked on with Miss Errington, and then Mr. Hayward was welcomed and invited up to work with the band.

He spent almost an hour encouraging, challenging, and sharing with our students and his words of wisdom and various suggestions were greatly appreciated. He helped our Wesley musicians focus more on balancing their sound, playing with musical phrases, and paying closer attention to the articulation in music. He complimented them on their attention and focus, their solid technique, and the power that they can produce! After the workshop, Mr. Hayward shared with Miss Errington how much he enjoyed working with our Wesley students and how receptive they were to learning and trying different things.

After Mr. Hayward finished his workshop, the band was blessed with a spectacular performance put on by Mr. Hayward’s two children, Kevin and Anna. Kevin is a recent University of Toronto music graduate, now pursuing a Master’s degree, and Anna is a grade 12 student, also hoping to go into music. Anna showcased her amazing talent on the flute while Kevin accompanied her on the piano, and they wowed everyone in the audience. It was a fantastic opportunity for our students to witness what practice, hard work, perseverance, and a love for music can look like, years down the road.

It was a great morning of music-making and we are very thankful to Mr. Hayward, Kevin, and Anna for taking the time out of their day to travel to Wesley and share their experience and expertise with us. We look forward to working with them again in the future!

Meet our Grade 6 Published Authors!

During Term 1, the Grade 6 classes learned about writing suspense short stories. To challenge and encourage their pupils to put forth their best work, our two Grade 6 teachers – Mr. Pun and Ms. Wong – announced that every student’s summative suspense short story assignment would be entered into the Polar Expressions Fall 2025 Short Story Contest. We are extremely pleased to share that the works of thirteen of our students were chosen to be published in a soft-cover, keepsake collection released in May.

Congratulations to our newest published authors at Wesley!

Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 6B – Math Meets Music – A Week of Creativity, Courage, and (VERY) Catchy Choruses

by Ms. G. Wong

If you walked past the Grade 6B classroom last month, you might have wondered whether you had accidentally stepped into a recording studio instead of a math lesson. Humming, rapping, singing, beat-making, and even dancing spilled into the hallway as students took on one of the most joyful assignments of the year: writing and performing a song to teach how to solve a story problem involving the area or perimeter of any polygon.

The project began with an example performance from me – a parody of the popular Kpop hit Golden by Huntr/x, rewritten to teach how to find the area and perimeter of a rectangle. The moment the final note faded, the room erupted with excitement. Suddenly, every student wanted to be a songwriter, a performer, a mathematician, and a music producer all at once.

Students were given the freedom to choose their creative path. They could parody a well known song, write an original math poem or haiku, or compose their own tune using musicmaking tools such as Chrome Music Lab, Incredibox, or BeepBox. What followed was a week unlike any other.

Math periods transformed into vibrant creative sessions. Some students experimented with building their own beats; others became parody lyricists, layering clever math explanations over the melodies of familiar songs. If you had stepped into our classroom, you might have recognized tunes like Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling, Phil Wickham’s Battle Belongs, Forrest Frank’s Your Way’s Better, or Pharrell Williams’ Happy … all reimagined with the Grade 6B’s signature math twist.

One group even elevated their performance into a full symphonic experience, pulling out their band instruments – clarinets and saxophones – to play the melody of Battle Belongs as they launched into their maththemed lyrics. The room was filled with laughter, rhythm, courage, creativity, and applause as students blended math with music in ways that were both impressive and unforgettable.

By performance week, every group had stepped onto our “stage” with confidence, as they put on brave faces to mask their nerves! The 6Bs poured their heart and soul into their work. They didn’t just complete an assignment – they created art. They taught math. They performed with real guts. They supported one another. I was deeply moved watching my students push past their comfort zones to share their creations. This assignment blurred the line between subject areas as the students discovered that learning can be expressive, joyful, and deeply personal.

I could not be more proud of my Grade 6s – for their bravery, their voices, their dance moves, and the way they embraced this challenge with such overwhelming enthusiasm and heart. This week reminded all of us that math is not just something you solve. Sometimes, it’s something you sing.

Today’s Chapel Service – June 12, 2026

Today’s elementary chapel service was postponed to the afternoon as it was Teams and Clubs Photo Day this morning. Chapel Team 3 opened the service with the national anthem, the Lord’s Prayer and the Land Acknowledgement. They started musical worship with a song called “Firm Foundation (He Won’t)”, a song about trusting God’s faithfulness and remaining steadfast during seasons of anxiety, suffering, or uncertainty. This was followed by a second song, “Build Your Kingdom Here”. This is an energetic hymn about personal revival as well as societal change to bring hope and healing.

After filling the gym with praise, the students sat down to listen to Mrs. Serio’s Care and Share announcement for WCA Class of Graduate, Sharon Ngai, her husband Michael Cortimilla and their two children. Mrs. Serio talked about Sharon’s visit to Wesley in 2023 as they were preparing for their move to South Africa. This month, Care & Share donations collected on Monday, June 15th, will support their work in running a nine month residency program to train young South African leaders in the true Gospel so that they can go back to their communities and share what they have learned about Jesus. In addition to raising funds for the Cortimillas, Mrs. Serio asked that we pray for the work that God has called them to do as well as His provision for the family.

Next, royal trumpets played as Mrs. Vant Erve galloped into the gym as “Sir Learns-a-lot”. She led a review of the theme verse and reflected on the quest to seek the Kings Armour – something that we have doing this entire school year. After reviewing the different sub-themes, she prayed over the Wesley students, asking God to help them know to trust God, to seek justice, to find peace, have faith, be saved and know that Christ is the only way, truth and the life.

Chapel Team 3 then led the review of the different pieces of the Armour of God before leading the singing of “Lord Reign in Me”, a song about surrendering to God so that He can be King of our lives. Thirty seconds were then spent with elbow partners about why it is important to wear the full Armour of God.

Our guest speaker today was Pastor Kevin White from Cornerstone Community Church. He asked for a volunteer and a Grade 8 student rose to the occasion. Pastor Kevin asked him to get ready to play hockey. He subsequently handed him a helmet, which the student put on. This was followed by a pair of flip flops and a t-shirt. The student put both items on as well. However, he was clearly not ready to play hockey. Pastor Kevin explained that we, Christians, often do the same thing. We put on part of the equipment that we need or only the pieces that we like. However, after reading Ephesians 6:11 and 13, Pastor Kevin emphasized the word FULL in reference to putting on the FULL Armour of God. He even got the students to say (several times), “Armour only works if you wear the WHOLE thing!” He then gave an example about how we might wear the shoes of peace but when we see others in trouble, we look away instead of using the breastplate of righteousness. He used other examples to emphasize how there are HOLES in our armour when we don’t put on the full set. Pastor Kevin then listed each piece of armour and the associated Bible story that was associated with it this year. Next, he asked students to take 30 seconds and quietly reflect on one area (piece of armour) that God may be asking us to grow in. Lastly, he prayed for the audience. He thanked God for not sending us out without armour and asked us to be reminded to wear the full set. He also prayed that God would speak to us in a way that we can hear and understand, using Jesus as our example and the Holy Spirit as our guide.

After Pastor Kevin’s prayer, Mrs. V dismissed the students to end the school day.

2026 – Term 3 CRISP Celebration

Last school year, the focus of our elementary division was to encourage students to display CRISP (Compassion, Respect, Integrity, Servant’s Heart, Perseverance) behaviours. This is a foundational expectation that we are carrying forward to complement our yearly theme. As such, we want to continue to recognize students who have stood out this term with their CRISP actions, words and deeds.

On Thursday afternoon, Mrs. V led the celebration. She started by encouraging the students to read the description, actions, and key Bible verses associated with each CRISP trait before she announced the winners. The winners were nominated by teachers. Mrs. V read short descriptions about why each student was given the award. There are no fixed number of awards by grade or class so sometimes, there are many winners for a CRISP characteristic while other times, there may only be few winners for a specific category. As you can see from the photos, there were quite a few who were given the “Servant’s Heart” award this term.

After the CRISP Awards, there was a Wesley Wildfire Sports Update. It focused on two sports – Badminton and Track & Field. Overall, WCA came in third place at the ACSI tournament. Each of our players on stage medalled. The Encourager Award was given to a Grade 8 student who, unfortunately, was away today.

Over 100 students participated in the Track & Field events. Ms. Hoover handed out many ribbons, beginning with 5th up until 1st place. Next, she awarded the two Encourager Awards – one for the junior and one for the senior event. Lastly, she handed out medals of those who scored the most points for their grade and gender.

Congratulations to all the award winners today! Give thanks for the character, talents and opportunities with which the Lord has blessed each one of these students.

Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 2 Shopping Adventures!
by Mrs. Yuen & Mrs. Liu

This term, the grade 2 students have been learning all about Canadian money. To make money concepts more meaningful, students had the opportunity to step into the role of being shoppers! Using a local grocery flyer, each child enjoyed pure shopping freedom as they selected any two items of their choice. Once their items were chosen, the students dug into their ‘wallets’ to identify the exact coins needed to pay. This activity brought much excitement, as our grade 2 shoppers were thrilled that they could ‘buy’ any items of their choice with their pretend money!

After mastering exact payments, we moved on to another important skill of making change. To practice, a special pop-up shop was opened right in our classroom – the Grade 2 Super Store! The grade 2s had a lot of fun role-playing as cashiers and customers. They took turns choosing items, paying with more than the exact amount, and calculating the correct change.

With their new skills, our little mathematicians are ready to shop in the real world – whether at a grocery store, farmer’s market, or perhaps the Grade 2 Super Store 2.0 one day!