Winchester Christian Academy

Thank you to our PTO PRIDE for these awesome WCA portfolios! 🎄💜💛🎄

A big congratulations to our middle school Lions basketball team! They played hard all week in the Grundy County Jingle Bell Invitational Tournament and came out on top as CHAMPIONS!

Colton Cox, Mason Woodall, Weber Bradford, Connor Parker and Memphis Foster all were recognized as All-Tournament players.

Thank you to our coaches Cory Glenn and Josh Neal and Athletic Director Maureen Cox for all the time and love you give to these young athletes!

LET’S GO LIONS!👏👏👏

A big congratulations to our Elementary Lady Lions and Lions basketball teams for an amazing season!

Elementary Lady Lions ended the season UNDEFEATED and were given the Franklin County Girls Basketball Regular Season Champion trophy! They also came out on top as CHAMPIONS of the county-wide tournament!

Elementary Lions also had an awesome season finishing 7-1! They received the Franklin County Boys Basketball Runner-Up trophy. They also fought hard in the county-wide tournament and finished as the boys runner up team!

That’s a lot to be proud of and we’re grateful to our coaches Katie Baggett, Cheryl Heatherly, Jeana Stidham, Chris Blevins and Shane Stovall for all the time, attention and love you pour into these athletes.

LET’S GO LIONS!👏👏👏

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Congratulations to the WCA Elementary Lady Lions and Lions for winning their games in the first round of the Franklin County Elementary Basketball tournament!

Both teams will advance to the semifinal games on Thursday night!

Let’s go Lions 👏👏👏

Thank you to UT Extension-Franklin County!

Happy Friday and a BIG SHOUT OUT 🗣 to our ✨Students of the Month ✨

Elementary School Students of the Month:
Scarlett Neal & Dylan Stovall

Middle/High School Students of the Month:
Stella Metcalf & Jack Price

These students were nominated for exhibiting exemplary behavior, outstanding academic performance and spiritual leadership.

Well done, Lions! We’re proud of you!

Next week we’re getting in the Christmas spirit with themed dress up days!

Monday, December 12th
🧦 Holiday stockings: wear your holiday socks

Tuesday, December 13th
🎄Trim the Tree: wear your favorite festive hat or headband

Wednesday, December 14th
🎅Deck the Halls: tacky Christmas sweater day

Thursday, December 15th
🟢 You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch: Grinch themed clothes or the color green

Friday, December 16th
🎄Christmas spirit day: wear anything Christmas themed

Upper school students enjoyed a hot cocoa and coffee bar then took selfies 📸 with Santa yesterday!

Thank you, WCA PRIDE PTO!

Elementary schoolers had so much fun at Breakfast with Santa this week!

Thank you to our WCA PRIDE PTO for sponsoring this cherished yearly tradition🎅

The WCA PRIDE PTO Meeting scheduled for today, December 6th at 6:00 pm has been CANCELLED!

PTO will pick up their regular meeting schedule in January!

Happy Thanksgiving from the WCA Family!

A big congratulations to our upper school students that attended the National Beta Club State Convention this week at Opryland Hotel! This group represented WCA quite well during the competitions.

🥇Congrats to 6th grader Rylan Parvin for coming in 1st place in Science for 6th-8th grade.

🥉Congrats to 8th grader Nicholas Castle for coming in 3rd place in Social Studies for 6th-8th grade.

We enjoyed having our families this morning for a very special Thanksgiving devotion time. Students helped Mr. Joseph lead worship as we prayed and gave thanks to the Lord for all our many blessings.

"Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!" Psalm 107

Upper school students are Beta Club State Convention bound! We wish these students a fun-filled convention with friendly competition, networking and lots of fun!

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Our 6th Annual Turkey Trot Walkathon is coming up November 21-22!

Order your t-shirts today!

If you know of a business that would like to be listed as a sponsor on our shirts, please reach out to us. A sponsorship of $50 gets listed on the back of the shirt. A sponsorship of $100 or more will have the company logo placed on the back of the shirt.

Information about sponsorships and shirts went home in your child’s folder this week. More information about the walkathon will be coming home next week!

Shirt orders and sponsorships are due Friday, November 11.

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WCA PTO is offering fresh wreaths for the 1st time this year. These wreaths are beautiful!

There are 2 options:
Fraser Fir - Approx. 28” finished - $25 (pic #2)
Boxwood - Approx. 25” finished - $25 (pic #1)

Forms went home in folders last week. Orders are due Wednesday, November 9th.

Pick-up will be at Wi******er Christian Academy on November 21st from 2:00-6:00PM.

Fifth grade visited the Hermitage in Nashville last week! They learned about Andrew Jackson, his personal story and a little about the reasoning behind some of his unpopular decisions. They toured his home, the cemetery, and the beautiful grounds including the slave dwellings and heard some of their stories.

What a beautiful day for such an amazing field trip 🍂☀️

WCA Elementary Basketball games for Monday have been rescheduled for this Thursday, Nov. 10. Games will be at FCHS.
Girls play at 4:30.
Boys play at 5:30.
Come support our Lions!

Hey, LIONS!!! 🗣

Let’s rally together tomorrow night at East Middle in Tullahoma to pack the visitor bleachers!!!

Lady Lions and Lions take on the Panthers!

Grab your purple and gold and come cheer on our teams!!📣 🏀

Lady Lions @ 6:00 pm
Lions @ 7:00 pm

LET’S GO LIONS!!!

The WCA PRIDE PTO food drive begins today!

WCA loves giving back to the community. All goods collected will be donated to Campora Family Resource Center. Campora builds Thanksgiving food boxes for families in our community during the holiday season.

A note was sent home in your child’s folder about the food assigned to each grade level. Please turn in any donations by Friday, November 4th.

“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his steadfast love endures forever.” Psalm 118:1

Thank you! 💜💛

Our cheerleaders rocked their first game on the sidelines of the middle school basketball games last night! Awesome job, Lady Lions Cheer Team!

LET’S GO LIONS!📣

Tomorrow is PURPLE AND GOLD day at WCA!

Be sure to wear your school colors as we celebrate the beginning of basketball season with a pep really!

LET’S GO LIONS 📣

Make plans to attend WCA’s 1st Annual Chili Cook-off TODAY from 3:00-6:00 pm!

🎟 Don’t have a ticket? No problem! There will be extras sold at the door.

- Grilled hotdog meal
- Chili tasting
- Cotton candy and popcorn
- Homemade baked goods sale
- Classroom pumpkin decorating contest (proceeds go to WCA Band)
- DJ with music
- Games for the kids
- Spirit Store with brand new items available

Sneak peek 👀 at a few of the new WCA spirit gear pieces!

Come browse the Spirit Store and check out all the new swag!

Get ready for fall sports! Monday is purple & gold day as we kick off basketball season 🏀

🎉SPIRIT STORE POP-UP🎉
When: Friday, October 21st
Where: WCA - under the awning
Time: 1:00-4:00 pm

We’ll also have the Spirit Store set up during the Chili Cook-off Saturday afternoon!

Cash/Check/Venmo

Chili Cook-off Event

Chili Cook-off Volunteers 🌶💜💛🌶

Chili Cook-off Event Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

Wishing our WCA family a very safe and restful fall break! We look forward to seeing our students back at school on Monday, October 17th!

Happy Friday and a BIG SHOUT OUT 🗣 to our ✨Students of the Month ✨

Elementary School Students of the Month:
Hannah Tapp & Everett Miller

Middle/High School Students of the Month:
Elise Horton & Levi Karl

These students were nominated for exhibiting exemplary behavior, outstanding academic performance and spiritual leadership.

Well done, Lions! We’re proud of you!

Second graders have been learning about different animal habitats. They spent time researching an animal and then made a diorama of that animal’s habitat.

Awesome work, 2nd graders 👏👏👏

Thank you to the WCA PRIDE PTO for providing dinner for the teachers tonight during parent-teacher conferences. 🍕 🍪 🥤

Eighth and ninth graders visited beautiful Cheekwood Gardens in Nashville yesterday during their Harvest Festival. 🍂🎃

Students enjoyed learning the history of Cheekwood Estate and Gardens while exploring the grounds.

The first annual Make Your Mark Golf Tournament was a tremendous success!

A huge thank you to all of the players and sponsors for supporting our first tournament!

Congratulations to all of the winners!🎉

Many thanks to the Franklin County Country Club Board and staff for being so accommodating and supportive of WCA!

Our WCA Golf Team and Coach Mike Oliver manned the putting contest throughout the day and got in a little extra practice while there.

Funds raised from the MYM Golf Tournament will be used towards fulfilling our phased plan for building our new middle and high school facilities.

For more information on the Make Your Mark Capital Campaign visit https://www.winchesterchristianacademy.org/give

Kindergarten and PreK checked out library books for the first time on Friday! 📚 They had so much fun in our new library!