Westlake Christian Academy

Grayslake kindergarten, elementary, junior high and high school academy providing Christian families with private academic education.

(847) 548-6209   275 South Lake Street Grayslake, IL

Father & Son Campout

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Father & Son Campout FIREside FELLOWship
Friday, October 2 – Saturday, October 3

Due to some feedback from fellow WCA dads, we have decided to change the Father and Son Camp Out to a Father and Son Fire Side Fellowship.
Here are the details for the Father and Son Fire Side Fellowship :

Calling all WCA fathers and sons!
Westlake Parent’s Association is holding its annual Father and Son Camp Out, this year as a Father and Son Fire Side Fellowship, here at WCA on October 2nd (Weather Permitting).  This event will look a bit different than previous years due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Who can come?
WCA Fathers or Father Figures and WCA Boys

Cost?
This year the cost is FREE.  In return, we ask that you bring your own dinner and campfire snacks since food cannot be shared or distributed.

Suggestions for Food:
Dinner– Sandwiches, pick up a pizza, or anything else you may like. We will have a campfire and you are permitted to cook hotdogs with your own skewers.
Campfire Snack– Again you may bring any food you like. We will have a campfire and you are permitted to cook marshmallows for S’mores.
***Food may not be shared beyond your family.***
Additional Requirements:
Social Distancing is strongly encouraged.
Schedule of events:
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm     Arrive.  Kids may play with one another while fathers set up fire and games.

6:30 pm – 7:15 pm     Dinner

7:15 pm – 8:30 pm     Games


8:30 pm – 9:30 pm     Devotion and Social Time around the fire (bring your own snacks).

10:00 pm                     Extinguish fire and depart

Questions?
Interested in helping? Many hands make lite work.
Contact Steve Leach –> Steve@leach1.com

Open Board Meeting

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Join us on Monday, September 21, 2020 at 6:30pm for our bi-annual All-School Board of Trustees Meeting. 

Twice a year, the school’s leadership prepares a meeting to report to families about what’s going on. The constitutionally mandated meetings happen in September and May.

This fall, the meeting will be held at the school, with the option to join via Zoom. All parents are encouraged to attend the meeting (either virtually or in-person). Questions may be submitted online in advance, and there will also be an opportunity at the end of the meeting to ask questions (virtual participants may use the chat feature in Zoom).

In-person attendees must register in advance, so that we can adhere to gathering size restrictions. Face coverings will be required, and chairs will be socially distanced. Childcare will not be provided.

At the meeting, brief presentations will address the activities of the school administration, development, finances, as well as the Board itself. All parents and staff, of course, are important stakeholders in this ministry and should be interested in those reports.

Zoom Info

If you prefer to attend the meeting virtually, you may do so by joining the Zoom meeting.

Please sign in with your first and last name, so that the meeting host will recognize you. Please mute your audio and video if you do not wish to be seen or heard by other participants. Questions may be asked through the chat feature in Zoom.

When: September 21, 2020 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: WCA All School Board Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/95020377941?pwd=bW9jaDJ3K01sOTFscFhkSndjU0VOUT09

Meeting ID: 950 2037 7941
Passcode: q3ZKB3

Grandparents’ Day 2020

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We love our Grandparents!

Westlake Christian Academy looks forward every fall to having our students’ grandparents visit the school. This year, we couldn’t invite our grandparents to visit in person, but we did put together a special presentation. We hope you enjoy it! 

Purchase Punch Cards for Milk at Lunch

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 GotMilk?

Who has $0.40 in change on them any given day? And what elementary student is excellent at not losing change? Well, we’ve tried to solve those problems for you by creating a punch card system for purchasing milk at lunch time.

Each card will have 10 punches available for $4.00. You may purchase as many cards as you’d like at the beginning of the school year or you may purchase them as needed. The charge for the cards will be applied to your FACTS family account monthly by our business manager, Mrs. Gearhart. Unused cards or punches will not be refunded.

Once you complete the order form below, punch cards will be distributed from the office (as a parent, you won’t need to worry about picking up a card). Depending on the grade your child is in, the teacher may keep the cards at their desk or allow your student to hold on to their card themself.

If you have any questions about this new process, please reach out to the office via email.

Milk Punch Card Purchase Request

  • Parent & Student Information

    Please provide your contact information and the name(s) and grade(s) of your child(ren) so we may apply this charge to the correct FACTS family account.
  • Please let us know the name(s) & grade(s) to whom we should give the cards. For the younger grades, we may have the teacher hold on to the card so they aren't lost.

  • Purchase Your Punch Cards

    Each card allows a student to purchase 10 milk cartons. Every time a student receives a milk at lunch their card will be punched. You may purchase as many cards as you like. **UNUSED CARDS OR PUNCHES WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.**
  • Price: $4.00 Quantity:
  • $0.00
  • By signing below, you're agreeing for your FACTS family account to be invoiced for the above total.

Medical & Dental Requirements

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To prepare for next year, make your appointments early and submit the following requirements to the school office prior to the first day of school.

Please email completed forms to Mrs. Kathleen Beckman or fax to (847) 548-6481.

Forms may be obtained from your health care provider or the school office. WCA complies with the requirements of the IL State Board of Education.  Consult your physician for details.

New Students

  • Health exam & immunizations – parents must complete & sign the health history section
  • Vision exam for students transferring from out of state (most recent for exam, Kindergarten and above)
  • Dental exam (most recent for exam, Kindergarten and above)

Kindergarten

  • Health exam & immunizations – parents must complete & sign the health history section
  • Dental exam
  • Vision exam

2nd Grade

  • Dental exam

6th Grade

  • Health exam & immunizations (includes 1 dose of Tdap) – parents must complete & sign the health history section
  • Dental exam

9th Grade

  • Health exam & immunizations (includes 1 dose Tdap) – parents must complete & sign the health history section
  • Dental exam

12th Grade

  • MCV4 vaccines (qty: 2)

Sports Physicals are required for ALL students participating in the athletic program prior to starting practice.

Forms may be obtained from your health care provider or the school office or under Documents.

Website Updates

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We’d love your input as we try to make our website more user-friendly! Please fill out as much of this survey as possible so we can improve our site.

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School Supplies

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The beginning of the school year is right around the corner which means

School Supply Season!

If you’re looking for a comprehensive list of the 2020–21 supplies required for all grades, click here.

Our Parents Association has also arranged for online purchasing of school supplies, which you may order here.

We’ve created individual screen-sized images for you to save to your phone for ease of shopping. You can just save whichever ones you need.

Discover Westlake

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Westlake Christian Academy offers a complete preschool through 12th-grade educational program. Families who are interested in a quality Christian education are encouraged to explore our website, watch our videos, and contact us for more information!

Special note regarding Fall 2020 admission: Our semester has started, but we are continuing to enroll new students. Please request additional information below or apply online to start the process.

Update September 3, 2020: Our kindergarten and first grade classes are full. In addition, four-year old Pre-K is full for M/W/F.  Preschool (3 yr olds) is also filling quickly.

Tour the School

We are currently conducting limited tours of the building. Prior to entering the building, we will check your temperature. Face coverings are required inside. To request a tour, please submit an inquiry below.

Please look through our Open House packet for an overview of our school, programs, and pricing.

If you would like more information, please submit your request below. We look forward to talking with you soon.

Request Information

Celebrate Westlake

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Please join us for a live virtual event:

Friday, April 24th

7:00 pm

 westlakechristian.online.church

***If the video does not start playing automatically at 7pm, please refresh your screen. If there is no sound, click the “Tap to Unmute” button on the video.***

Celebrate Westlake is a time for our school community to come together in praise to the Lord for what He continues to do through Westlake. While we can’t gather in person this year, we hope you will join us for this opportunity to hear from our principal and board chairman, in addition to some special testimonies from our graduating seniors.

We encourage you to invite someone you know who would be blessed by this evening of thanksgiving.

Tickets are not required for the virtual event.

Donate

Donations can be mailed to:

Westlake Christian Academy
Attn:  Erica Bucy — CW20
275 S Lake Street
Grayslake, IL 60030

The 2020 Celebrate Westlake Virtual Event will include an artwork slideshow, along with videos from our school family. Be sure to tune in at least 10 minutes early to see this pre-program special.

International Arts & Culture Day

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We are excited to announce Westlake’s upcoming International Arts and Culture Day, March 19, 2020!  This year’s theme is focused on countries around the world and their arts, including music, dance, crafts, and food.

We are looking for volunteers to provide either time or food for sampling. Please sign up below by March 9th if you are able to help with either of these!

Thank you for helping make this a successful International and Arts and Culture day at Westlake! We look forward to partnering with you to make this a memorable event.

Sign Up Now

We need volunteers to assist in three ways:

  1. helping to supervise our 20-minute activity sessions

  2. providing small ethnic food samples, or

  3. helping distribute ethnic food samples during lunch.

Helping to supervise activity sessions

Each of the grades is creating an activity for our International Arts and Culture Day. Activities might consist of doing a craft, learning a traditional dance, participating in role-playing, learning about a non-traditional musical instrument, playing a game, etc. Because we want all of our students to be able to experience all of the activities, we need parent volunteers who will partner with a teacher to supervise the activity 20 minutes at a time, for six sessions. The volunteer will not need to create or plan the activity. The activity will already be planned and materials will be in place. The volunteer will just assist the teacher in “running” the activity. If you volunteer to help supervise, a teacher will reach out to you and brief you on the activity and your role in it prior to the International Arts and Culture Day. You will be asked to commit to helping either in the morning, from 8:20 until 11:30, or in the afternoon, from noon until 3:20.

Providing ethnic food samples

We also need volunteers to prepare samples of various ethnic foods to enhance our lunch. The students will bring their lunches, but we would like to have them have the opportunity to choose up to two small samples of a food from another culture. If you are able to help us with this, we would ask you to prepare enough to be divided into three dozen sample cups. Students will be issued two tickets each to use to “buy” the samples.

Distributing ethnic food samples

We would like different volunteers (not the ones providing the samples) to help serve the food samples during our lunchtime. Each volunteer will be placed at one of several stations in the lunch area (gym), exchanging the samples for the tickets. If you volunteer for this, you will need to be present from 11 AM until about 12:30 PM, as we will also need your help setting up the stations and taking them down.

Thank you for helping to make International Arts & Culture Day a success!

275 South Lake Street
Grayslake, IL 60030
(847) 548-6209