All winter CWA’s Jumping Jaguars have wowed the crowds at half-time during Upper School varsity basketball games with jump roping skill and their stage presence.  This week they will make their last on-campus performance of the season on Friday during a Lower School Town Meeting.  The Jaguars will be helping kick off the CWA Winter Olympics for the Lower School.  The squad has 18 rope jumping members in this, their 14th season at CWA. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright Academy is gearing up for a big celebration of Homecoming 2009 this weekend.

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In the last few weeks, three Charles Wright Tarriers have made headlines around the region – English teacher and director of soccer Tony Chursky was honored by the Sounders, alum and former CWA English teacher Erika Kreger ’88 published a new book, and Sophomore Brian Gula brought now the house as a member of an ensemble celebrating the Tacoma City Club’s 25th anniversary.

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There’s a new way for Charles Wright parents, particularly the parents of Middle and Upper School students who spend less time volunteering in the classroom, to get involved.  The Arts Guild is a newly reconstituted group organized to support and promote CWA’s arts programs.  Initially the group is focusing its efforts on Middle and Upper School performing arts.   Read the rest of this entry »

The #1 fundraising priority of the CWA Board of Trustees is the Annual Fund. Do you know why? Check out the new Annual Fund website to learn more from faculty, parents and alumni how the Annual Fund works.  You can even make your gift online today and you’re guaranteed to never get a phone-a-thon call during dinner this year!

You can also learn more about the Board of Trustees by reading their bios here on CWA website.

On Saturday, September 12, two sell-out crowds of students, parents, alums, teachers and many more friends packed the Donn Laughlin Theater to watch the very first show produced in the new Language and Performing Arts Center.  Laughlin himself was on hand to cut the ribbon and he and his wife watched from the front row. Read the rest of this entry »

Forty years ago this week, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 stepped onto the moon and into the history books.  Just two years later, CWA got its own little piece of space race glory – a visit from Stuart Roosa, command ship pilot for Apollo 14, shortly after he returned from the moon in 1971.  Apollo 14 was NASA’s third mission to the moon.

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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 »

John Munn ’84 is well known in the Charles Wright community as an alum, entrepreneur and member of Challengers of the Improv-ssible, an improvisational theater group led by drama teacher John Forier.  He has directed more than 35 productions and acted in more than 100 plays, including playing a improv role in CWA’s 50th birthday celebration last fall.

Munn is also the owner of Comic Book Inc, a full service comic book store located in the brand new Johnsborough Station at the east end of Tacoma.  His store has been nominated as one of the best in the region by Evening Magazine’s “Best of Western Washington” program on KING-5 TV.  You can show your Tarrier pride by voting Munn’s shop the best comic book store on KING-5’s website.  Just click here! Read the rest of this entry »

Last night Charles Wright Academy did something unprecedented in KIRO-TV’s High School Football Game of the Week competition: we won the online voting contest twice in one season. The Seattle TV station wanted to know why a little school in the South Sound had so much school spirit so they sent a reporter down. Click here to watch the video on KIRO’s website and find out why our students love this school so much. Then be sure to come to tonight’s football vs Vashon at CWA at 7pm. The cameras will be rolling and rain or shine it’s going to be a great game!