News

HVCA Summer Projects

We, at HVCA, have an extremely busy summer in the works and this is your opportunity to sign up to help. Here are items that will need to be completed this summer and if you see something you are interested in, please call the school at 215.947.6595 or email me at rbianco@myhvca.org and give us your information. The list includes: building of a reading loft in the 1st/2nd grade classroom (June), painting of 3 classrooms (June/July), painting of gymnasium (June/July/August), build-ing of storage cabinets for gym stage (June/July), preparing field for community garden outreach program (June/July/August), painting of bridge (June/July), marking nature path for plant identification and mileage (June/July/August/September), moving of computer lab (June/July), moving of Kindergarten classroom (June/July), dismantling, painting, and redesigning library into a new classroom, and much more. As you can see, there is so much to do and very little time to do it. Please prayerfully consider helping out HVCA this summer with one or more of these projects. Thank you so much for your attention on this matter.

Teacher Appreciation Week

Next week is the annual Teacher Appreciation Week. I would love to en-courage all of you to find time to write that special teacher that is in your child’s life a little note of thanks for the countless hours they pour into your child. I know it would mean a lot to every teacher that you know.

Kinder-garten Roundup Day

On Thursday, May 17th, we will be holding our Kinder-garten Roundup. You may be asking what a Kindergar-ten Roundup is? It is a day when you can bring your prospective Kindergartner or 1st grader to HVCA to “experience” what a day at our school is like. The stu-dents can be dropped off at 9:00 AM and will need to be picked up at 12:30 PM. Your child will experience the wonders of Mrs. Estriplet’s and Mrs. Bianco’s class-rooms in great detail. We want your child to have an opportunity to see what an HVCA day is like and to help you make your decision about the impact Christian edu-cation will make in your child’s life. Lunch will be pro-vided that day for visiting children. Please contact us at 215.947.6595 or email me at rbianco@myhvca.org to reserve your spot. Spots are limited and we will only reserve them on a first come, first serve basis.

A Woman's Place

HVCA is in the final stages of its toilet paper/paper towel drive to help the organization A Woman’s Place with their supplies. This is a tremendous organization that helps women who are dealing with or have dealt with domestic violence. Currently we have 23 rolls of paper towels and 31 rolls of toilet paper. Can we set our goals higher? Let us hit 50 rolls of paper towels and 100 rolls of toilet paper. Please be sure to send in your wrapped roll of toilet paper or paper towels by the end of next week (May 11). Thank you so much for your consideration of this worthy cause.

2012-2013 Registration

Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy is now registering for the 2012-2013 school year. If you register before April 27th, you will receive a $80 discount off the registration fee. You will also be eligible for a $400 tuition discount cour-tesy of the HVCA Home and School Associa-tion. The drawing for this discount will be done live at the 8th Grade Graduation/10th Grade Farewell on May 24th. Please call the school office at 215.947.6595 to register now. We are expecting big things for the 2012-2013 school year. Be a part of it.

Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration

Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy will have two lower division classes for the 2012-2013 school year. We are accepting applications for our 4 yr old Pre-K class and also our 5 yr old Kindergarten class. Demand is very high for these two classes, so please do not wait to register your child or loved one as soon as possible. The number of slots available for these classes is extremely limited. Please contact the school at 215.947.6595 to have your application sent to you immediately. This is a tremendous opportunity for your child to be a part of something special at Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy. Won’t you join us?

HVCA Open House

HVCA is having an Open House on February 23rd, 2012 from 4:30pm – 7:00pm.

HVCA is having an „Open House‟ on Thursday, February 23rd for new prospective students. If you know of anyone who is interested in being a part of our school, please invite them to come to our Open House. The times will be from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM and all of our teachers and many of our Board members will be there to answer any questions you may have. Tours of the classrooms will be available and more importantly, “one on one” time will be available with each teacher for any questions or comments they may have. We will also have new registration packets and applications ready to go on that date as well.
If you have a student already enrolled this year, you can help HVCA tremendously be extending a warm invitation for them to visit us at HVCA. If you are a supporter of HVCA and believe in Christian edu-cation, please extend an invitation for a prospective parent to come. Even if the parent doesn‟t feel they can afford HVCA, have them come and we can see what options are available to them. With God in-volved, I believe nothing is impossible. Please share the news!!!!!!

HVCA Robotics

The HVCA Robotics club is very actively getting ready for their Pennsylvania Con-ference Robotics League Challenge on April 1st at Blue Mountain Academy. Students have to build the robot, program the robot, and have the robot perform the functions needed to solve each challenge. It has proven to be a blast watching them come up with the solutions on their own. We hope that you will continue to sup-port our robotics team in the future. Will we see you at BMA on April 1st?

"Church in a Box"

We are starting a new HVCA traveling church program called “Church in a Box”. The students will be highly involved in the church service during those dates.
“Church in a Box” is a tremendous opportunity for our young people to lead in the worshipping of our Lord and Savior together. We are asking each of our students to commit to at least two of the churches we are tak-ing “Church in a Box” to. We highly encourage you to make it a point to join us on the following dates for “Church in a Box”.

~March 3-Lansdale SDA (887 Troxel Rd, Lansdale, PA

~March 31-Chestnut Hill (8700 Germantown Ave, Phil. PA)

~April 21-Boulevard (8441 Roosevelt Blvd, Phil. PA)

~April 28-Bucks County (10 Greene Rd, Warminster, PA)

Children’s Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia

Do you think you can’t afford Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy? Do you know someone who would like to send their child to HVCA but needs some help financially? Do you live in the city of Philadelphia? Will your child be in any grade between Kinder-garten to 8th? We may have a solution for you. Children’s Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia is committed to giving an additional 2000 scholarships this school year. Depending on eligibility, you could receive up to $2100 in aid to support sending your child to Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy. The awards are allotted through a lottery system and the deadline to get your application in is March 1st. There is not much time. The easiest way to sign up is to go to http://csfphiladelphia.org/ and click on the “Apply Now” button on the right side of the webpage. After you have completed the application, you will be given a confirmation number. This number lets you know that your application has been received. You will be notified in late March/early April if you were selected to receive the away and how much your received. HVCA will be notified as well of your award. It is that easy. If you would like to fill out a paper application, some will be sent home with the Connections and also with the next invoice for school. If you need one sent to you (in English or Spanish) please call the school at 215.947.6595. If you are having problems filling out the application and need some help, please do not hesitate to call the school. If you don’t have a computer at home and want to fill out an appli-cation online, you can come to HVCA and we will allow you to use our computers to fill out this important document. Do not miss out on this tremendous opportunity to support Christian education and to change a young person’s life. Let’s make it a goal of HVCA to get 50 of these new scholarships coming to our school. With each of your help, we can do this.

The Blue Mountain Academy Aerial Aires Gymnastics Team

The Blue Mountain Academy Aerial Aires Gymnastics Team will be coming to HVCA, the Lansdale SDA Church, and back to HVCA again on January 27 and January 28.
The team will be at HVCA to put on a clinic for our students on Friday, January 27th. They will be a part of the Lansdale Church Service on Sabbath, January 28th. They will be hav-ing a gymnastics show on Saturday evening at 6:30 PM at the HVCA gymnasium. This is a terrific opportunity to see some incredible gymnastics from one of our most esteemed institu-tions, Blue Mountain Academy.
Please make plans to come out and support these awesome young people and the skills they show. Yes, HVCA has alumni on the team, come and see who they are and root for them too.

Piano Lesson Available

Are you interested in your child learning piano? HVCA has a few spots available if you are interested. The price is $25 per lesson. Your child will be taught by Mr. Eldon Blackman who is currently working on his doctoral level degree in music. If you are interested or would like to have more infor-mation, please contact us at 215.947.6595

Goodsearch

A few years ago, Mrs. Smith (thank you Mrs. Smith) signed HVCA up with the search engine GoodSearch. This search engine pays HVCA for all the searches one does through their portal. If you do any online shopping and go through the GoodSearch portal, we receive a portion of that sale as well. How cool is that? Almost all of us uses search engines in our lives on a daily basis and by using GoodSearch, you can help HVCA raise much needed funds.
What do you have to do? That is easy. Go to www.goodsearch.com. Once you are there, there is a place where you put in our school name “Huntingdon Valley Christian Academy” under the cause you would like to support. That is all you have to do. If you want to sponsor HVCA even further, you can register by using your google or Facebook login and when you do your online shopping, if you go through the GoodSearch portal, you can raise up to 20% of your purchases towards HVCA. This includes sites like Amazon.com, Macys, Buy.com, Office Max, PetSmart, iTunes, WalMart, Target, and tons of others sites. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at school. Thank you for your support.

Volunteers

Are you interested in volunteering at HVCA? If you feel like you have some-thing you want to share with HVCA, please give us a call and we will try our best to get you involved at our school. Thank you in advance.