God’s blessings are apparent in every aspect of our school- academics, athletics, student leadership, community outreach, and spiritual emphasis. The following is a selection from Dr. Wood’s State of the School address, highlighting a few of our accomplishments this year.
As with every year at EHCS, we have had a very active leadership program. Middle school students were represented by the Student Council, and a strong Student Government Association and Student Leadership Institute program continued to give high school students opportunities for involvement and development. Teachers received further training at the Association of Christian Schools International Annual Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Thank you for your prayers for safe travel and great learning opportunities!
In relation to this leadership development, the Student Council and Student Government Association have been active in community outreach. The two organizations are have planned for EHCS’s role in the national One Day Without Shoes event. The two organizations are heading up a Tom’s Shoes drive, where students are able to purchase a pair of shoes that they decorate, and then a second pair of shoes is shipped to a Third World Country. Another mission project that the upper grades have been involved in is collecting Coins for Costa Rica to support the mission work that is done by our students in the summer months to hold two consecutive Vacation Bible Schools. We have also participated in filling Christmas stockings for local foster children, and the response was overwhelming. Eighth grade alone filled enough stockings to meet the goal that we had put in place for the entire school.
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On Friday, March 4, East Hill Christian School hosted the district ACSI Spelling Bee. Students in grades 1-8 were represented in this event, and we had several visitors who attended as well. EHCS had 21 volunteers helping made up of board members, faculty members, and parents of students. After an opening ceremony the students dismissed to participate in their individual grade spelling bees. Ribbons were awarded to the top 4 contestants in each grade at the awards ceremony. The top 2 winners from grades 5-8 also advanced to the spell-off round after the awards ceremony for the opportunity to attend the regional spelling bee in south Florida. Thank you to all who gave of their time to help at the spelling bee and congratulations to the following students who represented EHCS this year:
EHCS. Mr. Ray was very complimentary of EHCS and expressed the utmost confidence in our future. He will return to EHCS with an ACSI Accreditation Team October 27, 28, &29th to conduct an official site visit of our school. Teachers, administrators, board members, and parents have been diligently working on a Self-Study Report of EHCS for the past year in anticipation of this visit. Accreditation is one of the most widely recognized ways of verifying the academic integrity of a school. ACSI is the largest Christian School organization and is recognized internationally for its mission and standards of excellence in education.