Turning Up the Volume

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Emotions ran high during our final week of school, March 14-18.

The sights and sounds of the week included screams as the kids cheered on their teams during the all-school sports fest and tear-filled eyes as classmates said goodbye to Cuatro Christian School’s first-ever graduating class.

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Our 225 students celebrated the end of the 2010-2011 school year with three eventful days of cultural Filipino games, basketball, soccer, badminton, relays, and artistic and academic competitions. If the sound volume is any indicator of the fun had, then the time was a resounding success for the kids and teachers alike.

On top of the fun and sports fest activities, our teachers were frantically finishing up grades, handed out to parents at our last parenting seminar.

In recognition of the year’s accomplishments, a day of moving-up ceremonies were celebrated, and then finally, graduation day—a day marked with proud smiles and wet eyes.

At the pre-elementary level, proud parents accompanied the 21 prep students who will be advancing to the elementary department next year.

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Then, as the culminating event, CCS hosted its first grade-six graduation for nine of its accomplished students, including one of our young adults from New Faith Family Children’s Home. These students will be leaving CCS to attend high school next year, a milestone for these kids who if not for CCS likely would not have received an education.

The students, parents and staff have loved their experience this year at CCS and many lives and families have been changed for good. We thank God for you as sponsors and God's provision to allow this school to influence these families through education.

To find out how to sponsor a student’s education at CCS, email John at dorrell.john@gmail.com.

—Kim Courtright, CCS Schoolmaster