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.

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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!

Every year we have an all-school meeting where our principal gives a “state of the union” type of address. Last year, because of the weather, we chose to make the evening virtual. That was so successful we decided to hold this meeting online again this year.

All families will receive a special email on Wednesday, January 29th with a link to watch the video. You may click here to watch the video via YouTube.

This video will contain important information for everyone to know. Please make it a priority to watch What’s Up @ Westlake Digital sometime between Wednesday & Sunday, February 2nd at midnight to qualify for dress down passes and an entry to win a set of Apple AirPods.

Here is some of the information that will be in the video:

• Our current spiritual emphasis theme and how we’re integrating that into our curriculum and service-learning opportunities
• The financial state of the school and tuition information for 2020/2021
• Reviewing our current curriculum and some exciting updates
• Continuous enrollment and the upcoming opt-out period, including our referral program
• All of our upcoming Discover Westlake Information events and other don’t-miss events
• Encouragement and ways you can help Westlake grow

There will also be an incentive for every family to watch the video:  a free dress down pass for each student whose parent watches. There will be a link hidden in the video for you to register for your child’s dress down pass.

The video will be sent out via email on Wednesday, January 29.

Check your child’s backpack

Each student was sent home with a special program to help you follow along with the video. Included inside the proram, you will find the following:

• Open House/Parent University Postcard – Please give this to a friend! Notice the space at the bottom of the card to write in a referral name (that’s you!). You can receive a $10 gift card for each new family who attends an Open House and turns in a card with your name on it. Would you like more of these cards? Email eadkins@westlakechristian.org or stop in the office.
• Fun-N-Sun Day Camp Brochure – Westlake is hosting Fun-N-Sun again this year. Registration is now open, and we hope you’ll invite your friends! If you would like additional brochures for your church or small group, email eadkins@westlakechristian.org or stop in the office.

How do I get a free dress down day?

Parents who watch the video can receive a free dress-down day for their students. Hidden within the video, we will share a link for parents to confirm they watched the whole thing.