at tca

By Audrey Bryant

WINTER:

New sports, snow days here and there, and after a nice Thanksgiving break, everyone is anxious to sprint through the three weeks before Christmas. As motivation to make the final stride to our 14 day vacation, students are allowed to wear fun Christmas socks along with our uniforms. In the lower school, students have themed dress up days and get to wear fun holiday clothes and accessories during the final week of classes. But one of the most fun winter activities that goes on at TCA is the middle school lip-sync battle. Students from each house enter to be drawn for a team, and the lucky chosen few create a performance. Days of rigorous practice are spent in order to create a entertaining lip sync and dance that is performed to a song in front of the rest of the middle school. And finally, right before spring break, upper schoolers attend the country-themed Sadie Hawkins dance where the girls ask the guys (it’s always a surprise).

When summer is finally here again, we can all reflect on the awesome school year we had—no matter our grade level!

SPRING: The final stretch—trimester three. After a spring break full of skiing or swimming, we all return for our last three months of the year. Juniors begin sign ups for The Bridge, which is a welcome event for 8th-graders and new students entering the next year’s freshman class. Existing freshmen and sophomores at TCA work to help the leading juniors create a fun night full of games and a color war, along with getting to know incoming students. When they aren’t cramming for AP tests, juniors and seniors get ready for prom all while listening to the High School Musical 3 soundtrack, and elections are held for the next student body president. Lower-schoolers have Field Day, where they do fun activities like tug of war and sack races.