SPAGHETTI SUPPER & VALENTINE AUCTION
Mark your Calendar for Saturday, February 11 and plan to come and support GHCA as we host a public supper at the Littleton Ag Museum! Menu will be spaghetti, salad, rolls, dessert and a beverage, all for a donation to the Academy! Supper will begin at 4:30 and the dessert auction will follow! Come prepared to bid on a great selection of valentine goodies!
ALUMNI NEWS
Faculty and staff at Greater Houlton Christian Academy enjoy this time of year when so many former students return home for the Christmas holiday. We invite them to stop by the school at any time and "catch us up" on their endeavors! The sports boosters is also pleased to sponsor free admission to one varsity basketball game over Christmas break. This year GHCA alumni are invited to join us at Hodgdon High School on Saturday January 7 as we host the Southern Aroostook Warriors, varsity girls will play at noon and the boys' game will follow at 1:30.
Come on out and cheer on the Eagles! For a full schedule click here for junior high and here for varsity.
WE WILL REMEMBER.....
In observation of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies, students in grades K-8 participated in a special ceremony on Friday, September 9. The student body gathered outside near the flag pole for a brief ceremony and dedication for the Academy's Tree of Hope, which was planted next to the flag pole. Local law enforcement and safety personnel also attended.
Students, Alex Stanley, Grace Graham, and Olivia Winslow read personal letters and poems they wrote during the moving memorial, as students displayed their art and craft work commemorating the solemn occasion. Before students planted the Balsam Fir, Abby Angotti offered a prayer of thanks. The Tree of Hope will live and grow on the Academy campus as a reminder of the hope inspired in America by the many heroes of 9/11 and the ultimate Hope Americans have in the Redeemer of man.
A picture of this event is further down the page.
Learn more about our teachers
You can learn more about our teaching faculty by visiting the Teacher Feature section of our website. You'll learn all about our currently featured teacher as Mr. Zimmerman interviews him / her about various pastimes, interests, and other such things. The majority of our teachers now have a feature, accessible via the list of names on the menu bar on the Teacher Feature page.
You can also learn more about our teachers via their blogs. BLOG is short for "web log", and it's a very common way in the 21st Century for individuals to communicate their thoughts, plans, and in our case, what's happening in the classroom. Blogs are used by our teachers to keep parents in the loop. Please check our blog pages on a weekly basis to see what's new in your child's school life! If you have time, give your teacher some feedback on what he / she is sharing. Enjoy!
Lots of stuff happening - find out more
There is all sorts of exciting things happening these days at or related to GHCA, so much that we can't possibly put it all here on the homepage! Please check our Calendar Page and our Facebook Events Page to see what exciting events are planned for the coming weeks. If you have a GHCA-related event you'd like on the calendar, please contact the office.
Calling International / Foreign Students
GHCA has hosted a number of foreign students over the years, including students from Germany, Brazil, Korea, and Japan. To make the process easier for prospective foreign students who are seeking enrollment, we have a new International Student Page that provides links to the forms you'll need, details of our programs and the area, and even a photo album that details the activities of previous foreign students who have attended GHCA. If you are an international student and you are interested in what GHCA has to offer, check out our new page just for you!
GHCA is NEASC and ACSI Accredited
Last year we received the exciting news that accreditation has been granted to the Academy for a ten year term by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), making it only the second Christian school in the state to become accredited. NEASC is the nation's oldest accrediting association and is the organization that accredits public and private schools in the New England area. We later received our ACSI accreditation, making us dual-accredited!
To learn more about the process, the results, and the importances of accreditation, please read our Head of School's blog. We also encourage you to watch the 2 minute news story that aired on the WAGM evening news on Tuesday, March 2nd. The video is located on our fan page (click the link to view).
GHCA is State Approved
State approval makes more options available to the school such as our teachers being able to satisfy state certification requirements in-house instead of having to go outside our school. State approval means a school is meeting certain basic standards of curriculum, safety, etc., but it does not in any way affect our ability to maintain our Christian distinctives, including the teaching of Bible, for example.
Following on the heels of the recent accreditation of the Academy, this is yet another affirmation to our parents and community that GHCA is a school parents can have confidence in. While we know the school has not "arrived" in any sense, we will continue to have a relentless focus on improvement. We can be grateful for God's blessing on the hard work of so many staff and families over the years.
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