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Our WCS Concert Band, Madrigals, Dynamics and Festival Choir all received "I" Superior ratings at the 3A State Large Group Festival this week! We are so proud of these Spartans and the amazing teachers that prepared, encouraged, and cheered them on to this awesome accomplishment! #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether
Last week our counseling team organized and hosted a Mental Health Panel. We are so grateful to the counselors from each division who make advocating for student mental health a priority. Facilitating conversations for our own families by bringing in some of the area's leading experts on the topic is going to make for a healthier future for all of our Spartans!
Yesterday over 700 students from Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma showed up to the highly competitive Pitt State Math Relays. We took 35 students and came home with 29 medals (1st- 3rd Place) and 71 top 10 placings! What an impressive and dominant showing by our Spartans!
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On Wednesday our middle school students participated in their annual Community Impact Day. Through the Institute for Community Impact, each grade level educates themselves and invests in a community theme throughout the year. The 5th grade focuses on homelessness, the 6th grade focuses on immigrants and refugees, the 7th grade focues on veterans, and the 8th Grade focuses on poverty. These special community impact days are dedicated to learning from local nonprofit leaders, serving the community we love, and working to make a difference. #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #CultivatingCARINGSpartans #SpartansLoveWICHITA
We walked around bright and early before classes started for the day! As always, our campus was bustling well ahead of the first bells ringing, with our middle and upper school students in tutorials, lower school students greeting their classmates and doing Green Team work, and early childhood students putting away their things and heading to their meeting rooms before being picked up by teachers! Seeing how responsible the kids are from the moment they step on to campus always impresses us! #WCSWalkaroundWednesday #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #WalkaroundWednesday
The 5th and 6th grade choir and band concert was amazing from the opening song to the final number! A stage overflowing with students and a standing-room only audience showcased the incredible support our community shows our thriving Fine Arts program! It was another great day to be a Spartan! #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #SixtyYearsofSpartans #WichitaFineArts
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Last week a group of Great Beginnings students got to visit Mrs. Zarei’s Kindergarten room for some cross-level learning! The kindergartners loved the opportunity to be mentors to their young friends, and our Great Beginnings students expanded their horizons in a new environment. They focused on art, fine motor skills, and ended the lesson with a yoga exercise in emotional regulation. What a great day! #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #SixtyYearsofSpartans
The Shoaf Lower School was filled with famous faces last night for the annual Wax Museum. With the addition of a fun concert, the night was dynamic from start to finish. From researching and writing their paper to crafting their speeches, the pride these kids felt after seeing their hard work come to fruition was palpable. There is no doubt their futures are bright! Who knows...maybe someday a future Spartan 3rd grader will be dressed up as one of THEM! #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #SixtyYearsofSpartans #FutureChangeMakers
Our swimmers took 2nd at STATE!!!! In a stacked state meet where all schools in the 5A-1A classes compete against each other, our Spartans shined. Not only did the team finish as the state runner up, we had multiple swimmers nab idividual honors, including Derek Yang being awarded Athlete of the Meet! Both Derek Yang and Nathan Lynch were named First-Team All State and Luke Cremin, Harry Ling, and Paul Mines were named Second-Team All State. We are also excited to announce that Coach Kamren Hall was named Coach of the Year!
We clinched titles in four events, including the 200 Medley Relay (Karim Sandid, Nathan Lynch, Derek Yang, and Paul Mines), 50 Yard Free (Derek Yang), 100 Yard Butterfly (Derek Yang), 100 Yard Breaststroke (Nathan Lynch), along with many other impressive finishes. Way to go, Spartans! #WCSSpartanAthletics
STATE CHAMPIONS!!! Our Scholars Bowl team won the state title today in dominating fashion. This incredible group didn’t drop a round all day, ending with a 400+ point differential. The tournament was hosted by Wichita Collegiate and the win on their home turf was extra special. This team has had the most impressive season and we can’t wait to celebrate them and all of their accomplishments in front of their classmates later this week. WAY TO GO, SPARTANS!!! #ProbaTeDignum #AtTheHighestLevels #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #SixtyYearsofSpartans
This morning we welcomed James Chung, WCS Class of 1984, as our Mentor Day breakfast speaker. Mr. Chung, founder of Reach Advisors and co-founder of StratoDem Analytics, gave an inspiring talk to our seniors. He shared four pieces of advice that will benefit them as they head off to college. While there were many wonderful takeaways, two stood out to us. First, he charged our seniors to remember to "send the ladder back down." Mentorship is important as a student and rising professional, but it is just as important once you have climbed the ladder to the top. Remembering to "send the ladder back down," is a vital part of the process, offering similar opportunities to others as a way of paying it forward. And in his final remarks he reminded the Class of 2024 that "the environment they are in right now is special. Don't forget to bring others along."
Mr. Chung, thank you for your words of wisdom. We are certain our students left inspired not only to go seek out their own opportunities, but to bring others along on their journeys to success! #WCSMentorDay #SixtyYearsofSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #CultivatingCuriousSpartans
We always encourage our students to dream big and with this particular project it has been so fun to see them put those dreams on display! The 1st and 2nd graders have spent their Fridays over the past two months working on this exciting Dream School project in their science and technology classes. From the initial brainstorming phase to actually bringing their ideas to life in the engineering and building process, we have loved seeing how each class creatively collaborated. Maybe the most heartwarming part is that as big as they dreamed (one school even had a vet clinic on campus!) they also clearly love where they are. Each dream school has bits and pieces of Wichita Collegiate inspiration built right in and we feel so honored to be a small part of some of their biggest dreams! 💛💙 #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #CultivatingCollaborativeSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether #SpartansDreamBig
We ❤️ the USO Dance! The live band, Cool Blue, put on a great show last night and the 7th graders barely left the dance floor. It is always the perfect way to end the World War II Unit! #CultivatingCuriousSpartans #SixtyYearsofSpartans #SpartansThriveTogether
From exciting new projects like making stop motion videos, to fun partner work and individual work, we love seeing our early childhood students thrive at school!
The state's top band and orchestra students (All-District Performers) gathered in Salina on January 13th to audition for the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) All-State Band, Jazz Band, and Orchestra. Through an intense, live, audition process, Eight Wichita Collegiate students were recognized at the All-State Musician level!
*Junior Shouvik Dev, 1st Chair Oboe (1234A All-State Band)
*Senior Paul Mines, 1st Chair Timpani (1234A All-State Band)
*Senior Sam Cline, 2nd Chair Tuba (1234A All-State Band)
*Senior Mona Bagai, 7th Chair Trumpet (1234A All-State Band)
*Sophomore Peter Todorov, 11th Chair 2nd Violin (All State Full Orchestra)
*Sophomore Cooper Winters, 18th Chair Clarinet (1234A All-State Band)
*Sophomore Carter Chance, Alternate Euphonium (1234A All-State Band)
*Freshman Joshua Lee, Alternate 2 Oboe (1234A All-State Band)
This is an incredible achievement and well-deserved recognition - Bravo! These students will perform in the All-State Concerts on February 24 at Century II Performing Arts Center.
Complete All-State Results Available Here:
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https://ksmea.org/hsorchestra/rosterfull/
We have some new STATE CHAMPIONS in the building!!! In the 2-Speaker tournament, all four WCS teams advanced to quarterfinals for the third straight year. Then, for the first time in school history, and the first time statewide since 2003, the teams of Ayaan Parikh and Will Meyer, Sam Ngunjiri and Cassilda Njeri, Andrew Porter and Sam Brittain, and Ingrid Lampton and Elizabeth Timsah, all WON their quarterfinal rounds. At the conclusion of quarterfinals, our 4 teams in the 2-Speaker tournament were named Co-Champions!! Their impressive performance results in these 8 incredible students sharing in the state title!
In addition to that, our 4-Speaker team of Charlie Gentile, Hayan Raffi, Colton Jenkins, Cooper Miller and alternate Max Timsah took 3rd place in the 4-Speaker tournament, compiling an 8-6 record and battling a tough field to come out in 3rd place at the end of the weekend. We are so proud of all of you! Way to go Spartans!
Our swim team had a great showing at the Andover Meet this weekend, coming in 3rd overall! We had several top finishers, including taking 1st in the 200 yard medley relay (Ling, Lynch, Yang, Cremin), Derek Yang took 1st in the 50 and 100 yard free style, Nathan Lynch took 1st in the 100 breaststroke, the team took 2nd in the 200 free relay (Hart, Cremin, Ling, Yang), and Harry Ling took 3rd in the 500 free. Way to go, Spartans! #WCSSpartanAthletics #SpartanSwim
