Academy at the Lakes » Academy Headlines http://academyatthelakes.org Premier North Tampa Private School Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sign up for Summer Camp! http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/05/sign-up-for-summer-camp/ http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/05/sign-up-for-summer-camp/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 15:48:35 +0000 Sapphire64 http://academyatthelakes.org/?p=11180 School is almost out! What are your plans this summer?

Summer at the Lakes, Academy’s day camp program, is a great way to have a summer filled with fun, adventure, sports, creativity, and friendships. Sign up today!

Download the full brochure and all registration forms here: Full 2013 Summer Camp Brochure

This summer’s camp offerings will include acting, archery, arts & crafts, baking, basketball, CampInvention, cheerleading, dance, field trips, football, math review, model rockets, music, photography, pottery, reading, recreational games, sewing, soccer, tumbling, video production, wild science, and writing skills!

Summer at the Lakes Day Camp will be open for 8 one-week sessions from June 10 through August 2, 2013. Camp hours are from 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Campers can enroll in either full or half day sessions. Extended care is available from 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

If you have any questions or would like to join our mailing list, please contact our camp director, Barbara Soulé, by e-mail at: bsoule@academyatthelakes.org. Summer at the Lakes is conveniently located near many of north Tampa’s suburbs, including Land O’Lakes, New Tampa, Lutz, Odessa, Carrollwood, and Wesley Chapel.

The full brochure and all forms are available for download. Click on the links below for:
Full 2013 Summer Camp Brochure
2013 Registration Forms Only
2013 Camps-at-a-Glance Charts
Credit Card Authorization

About our camp director: Barbara Soule comes to us with 26 years of summer camp experience. Previously, she built and ran one of the largest day camps in Tampa. Barbara’s love of children and her enthusiasm for day camp is evident to all who know her. Barbara has taught school for 39 years and has a master’s degree in education.

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Fourth grade students proudly presented their state projects this week to parents and classmates. Each student spent time in class and at home researching a chosen state. The culminating project allowed students the opportunity to integrate their creativity and technological skills to represent their state’s flag, map, historic timeline, state hero, facts, landmarks, postcard, and brochure. Sharing the significance of several state artifacts and a state food rounded out their dynamic presentations.

Submitted by: Jennifer Jorski
Photos by: Jennifer Falby

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The 2012 season was Christina’s first year riding at nationally recognized shows. Her trainer, Jan Uiterwyk, says Christina loves to jump, “She has the natural ability and the determination to go all the way in this sport”. Christina knows it takes a certain mindset to want to jump, “It’s thrilling to fly over a jump. My goal is to make it to Nationals within the next two years”.

That goal seems realistic based on her success so far in both school and jumping. She is an A student at Academy and was the 2012 Reserve Champion for the Central Florida Hunter Jumper(CJHJA) in Low Children Jumpers with her horse “Grasshopper”.

Christina’s mom, Kathleen, credits the flexibility of the teachers’ and staff at Academy to prepare and travel for shows outside of the local area, “They work with us whenever she has to miss a day and they know success away from school means a greater chance of success in school”.

This year, Christina is #1 in the state in her division with her pony “A Lotta Moxie” and she will be busy this summer trying to hold on to that position as she does what she loves best, JUMPING!

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Submitted by: Kathy Carley
Photo by: Shelley Grossbard

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Submitted by: Kim Frazier
Photo by: Jennifer Falby

]]> http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/05/sk-visits-honeymoon-island-2013/feed/ 0 In the News: Wildcats Heading to the Final Four – This Time in Softball! http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/05/in-the-news-wildcats-heading-to-the-final-four-this-time-in-softball/ http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/05/in-the-news-wildcats-heading-to-the-final-four-this-time-in-softball/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 12:57:01 +0000 Sapphire64 http://academyatthelakes.org/?p=10990 Academy Wildcats - Softball Regional Champ

Academy’s Softball Team is heading to the Final Four! The Wildcats beat Quincy Munroe yesterday 9-4 and earned their first trip to States.

Read Matt Baker’s article in the Tampa Bay Times here.

Be sure to check out the photos from the game on John Faith’s photo gallery.

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]]> http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/04/lower-divison-after-school-activities-session-5/feed/ 0 Students Playing Video Games In School? http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/04/students-playing-video-games-in-school/ http://academyatthelakes.org/2013/04/students-playing-video-games-in-school/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:57:00 +0000 jfalby http://academyatthelakes.org/?p=10888 Students playing video games in school? The answer is YES if it is a game they made themselves!

This week, the students in the Middle Division Advanced Technology class demonstrated video games that they designed and developed using Scratch. Scratch is a game development platform developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach kids about computer programming.

Even our Middle Division Director, John Pitcairn, got in on the fun.

Each student spent 2 weeks reverse engineering and recreating popular games such as Pong and Brick Breaker before they were given the opportunity to design and build a game of their own design. Students then took turns explaining their game strategy and reviewing their scripts with the class. They then got a chance to play each others games on the interactive touch screen TV in the computer lab.

If you pay a visit to Academy and the kids are playing games, you just might be watching the computer programmers of tomorrow.

Submitted by: Steven Burnley
Photos by: Jennifer Falby

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