Back-to-back-to-back December storms impacted class schedules and disrupted student activities at CWA last month, but they couldn’t cancel the annual candle-light Christmas Eve service or keep the school’s alumni away.  The largest crowd yet came to participate in and cheer on the 5th annual Hoop it Up alumni basketball tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright’s boys basketball team wasn’t expected to win the league championship last year but they put together a 22-6 season and won the state championship anyway.  Today the News Tribune predicted they’ll finish third in the league this year behind expected state championship contenders Vashon and Cascade Christian.  With that sort of competition in their own league, the Tarriers will have to work hard to make it back to the state tournament in Yakima, but exceeding expectations is quickly becoming a Charles Wright tradition and one the girls squad is clearly hoping to emulate.  Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright Academy made three big announcements this weekend.  The first, and most important in many ways, was that classes today were delayed two hours due to the weather.  The second, made at the Lower School Holiday Concert on Sunday and repeated at the All-School Holiday assembly today was that the choral music room in the new Language and Performing Arts Center will be named in honor of Judy Herrington.  The third announcement is that CWA has replaced Get Wright Online! with a new website for the families of enrolled students.  Click here to read more about the Judy Herrington Choral Music Room.  Click here to visit the new Enrolled Families section of the CWA website.

Charles Wright’s Upper School choral and instrumental music program will hold its annual winter concert tonight at 7:30pm in the Middle School Commons.  The concert will feature the school’s String Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Symponic Band, Chamber Singers and Academy Singers.  Read the rest of this entry »

At the end of the fall sports season, 17 Tarriers were named to all-league teams in recognition of their outstanding performance in football, volleyball and girls soccer.  An all-league team was not named in cross-country.  The boys tennis team will be named in the spring.  Read the rest of this entry »

Last month Charles Wright’s student newspaper, The Academy Times, became the second Washington state publication inducted into the National Scholastic Press Association’s Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the nation’s best student newspapers, yearbooks and literary magazines.  Inductees must have earned 10 All-American ratings from the NSPA within an 11-year span. The Academy Times newspaper has earned that rating a total of 14 times in the past 20 years. Read the rest of this entry »

The fall sports season wrapped up in early November and it was a very successful one for Charles Wright.  All but one Upper School varsity squad moved into the post-season.  The boys cross-country team captured second place at the state meet, five tennis players advanced to the quad-district tournament in the spring, and girls soccer and volleyball both competed at the tri-district tournament.  The volleyball team won the tournament’s sportsmanship award, demonstrating how well they represented the school.  Within the next few weeks, all-league honors will be announced and the Tarriers expect to do very well.  Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright’s Upper School students have organized the school’s first Clubs Film Festival on Friday, November 21.  The Gay-Straight Alliance and Diversity Club took the lead role in organizing the event and seven clubs are participating as film sponsors.  The student organizers hope that this multi-club event will appeal to a wide audience of students and parents.  Read the rest of this entry »

Headmaster Rob Camner attended the first grade’s Authors’ Tea and wrote about it on his blog.  Click here to read what Rob had to say.

Charles Wright’s girls soccer are volleyball teams have advanced to districts at King’s High School this weekend – a first in school history for the volleyball team –  while the boys and girls cross-country teams are headed to the state meet in Pasco.  Read the rest of this entry »