ExtraCurricular Activities

Crocheting Club

Students in grades 6, 7 and 8 are welcome to join the Academy Crocheting Club. This club teaches students basic stitching skills and encourages them to practice on their own. Each year the goal is to help students crochet their own square and then attach the individual squares into a prayer shawl, which incorporates a ministry aspect to the club.

Crocheting has been noted to have a multitude of health benefits for all ages including improvement in hand-eye coordination, anxiety relief and building self-esteem. And, most importantly, our students find this club to be fun and rewarding!

School Newspaper

The RA Times is the academy newspaper written and published by our very own 7th and 8th graders. The paper is supervised by our Music and Computer Teacher, Ms. Heal.

Each month the newspaper group meets virtually via Zoom to discuss topics that will be covered in the upcoming issue. Throughout the rest of the month, students collaborate virtually and work with Ms. Heal to make the publication possible. Some of the topics covered in our paper include:
- current events
- school news
- student of the month
- movie and book reviews
- digitally drawn student comics
- jokes, facts, horoscopes and much more
Download our April 2021 edition here.

Bakers & Shakers

Bakers and Shakers is an enhanced curriculum where the students engage in interactive ways of cooking that reinforce literacy, science, and math skills. The process of cooking, baking, and preparing food is essentially an applied science. The students learn new skills in measuring, cooking chemistry, and exploring as they create foods from scratch. Students who participate in this program work in teams; this improves their sharing and socialization skills and as a team they discuss how to develop healthy eating habits. They learn to read the nutritional values of what they eat, as well as knowing what to look for in a food label - a future skill they will utilize for years to come.