The Westminster School at Oak Mountain

Our ninth graders took a trip to Montgomery this week to see Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival! It was a wonderful day to enjoy outstanding theatre and time together outside the classroom.

Our Middle School students recently enjoyed their annual Progressive Dinner, an evening of great food and fun! A huge thank you to the parents who graciously opened their homes and hosted each course. We’re grateful for the way our community makes traditions like this so special!

Our kindergarteners have been busy memorizing and reciting nursery rhymes, first for their classmates, and then for residents at various senior living facilities in town. Learning rhymes isn't just fun; it helps students recognize sound patterns and word families, an important step in learning to read. We love seeing our youngest students share both their growing reading skills and their joyful hearts with others.

Forward in Faith Ranch enhances lives through therapeutic horsemanship and sharing the Gospel in a nurturing, Christ-centered environment. Their programs in English and Western riding, including vaulting, create opportunities for people of all backgrounds to experience the healing and joy that come from working with horses. Our third graders enjoyed spending time at the ranch learning about their ministry and serving alongside their team.

As our high school students think about how they’ll build Christ’s kingdom beyond Westminster, we love connecting them with colleges and universities to help them explore what’s next. Recently, Harrison Scott Key, author, executive dean at SCAD, and uncle to Westminster students, spoke with seniors about their Senior Thesis projects and shared with 10th–12th graders about all the amazing opportunities at SCAD.

Exploration takes teamwork! Today, our seniors partnered with our fifth graders to celebrate the early explorers at Exploration Extravaganza!

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Our fourth graders made pear-fect masterpieces in After School Art last week!

Our ninth grade geometry students worked this week as city planners. Each student designed their own town with parallel and perpendicular streets and then placed buildings in specific places to create certain angle pairs (corresponding, vertical, alternate interior, alternate exterior, consecutive interior).

Our sixth grade students visited Foundations Early Learning Center, a Christ-centered preschool that partners with families to nurture children from birth to age five. Foundations helps little ones thrive academically, socially, and spiritually through strong family support and the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

Our second graders “traveled” to ancient Egypt this week to apprentice under a Hebrew rabboni and learn the art of mummification—on a chicken! They discovered how Egyptians weighed the heart against the feather of Ma’at to judge worthiness for heaven. We’re grateful our worth isn’t measured that way—because Jesus, who lived the perfect life we couldn’t, gives us His righteousness when we trust in Him.

One of the highlights of fourth grade at Westminster is visiting The Lovelady Center to spend time with the children there. The Lovelady Center is committed to empowering women through Christ-centered programs that provide hope, healing, and practical skills by helping them return to their communities as well-equipped women of God. It is a joy for our students to witness how God is at work in and through this ministry.