This week, CCA students enjoyed a mini spirit week to celebrate their upcoming spring break. From Sports Day to Decade Day, they participated in themed dress days and fun activities. On Thursday, middle and upper school students played the coaches in a competitive basketball game. Cape Cod Academy will hold its "true" spirit week in late April when we can have more activities outside and socially distance properly.

Re-enrollment contracts need to be returned to Cape Cod Academy by Friday, March 26. Admission decisions for the 2021-2022 academic year will be made by the end of March based upon the number of spaces available after re-enrollment contracts have been returned. Interest in Cape Cod Academy is incredibly high this year, so please return your contracts as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Katie Newhall at email: knewhall@capecodacademy.org.

Cape Cod Academy is pleased to announce that a variety of summer programs will take place on our expansive campus this summer. Plans are underway to provide various recreational, academic, fitness, and wellness offerings. Specifically, we will have swim programs, swimming lessons, science camps, tutoring, and various sports offerings. Details will be available in the coming weeks. You can check our website for updates.

As part of this initiative, some students have been raising money for the American Heart Association. To date, they have raised $709. 89! If 50% of our students sign up to take a challenge and at least $500 is raised collectively, CCA will receive $500 in US Games gift certificates to purchase more PE/recess equipment to keep our kids active. Click here to register: CCA Heart Web Page.

Students Take on The Fluor® Engineering Challenge

CCA students from kindergarten to grade 6 participated in the 2021 Fluor® Engineering Challenge this week. This was the fifth year that CCA participated. This year's challenge was to build as tall a tower as possible out of just paper and tape and balance a can of food on it for sixty seconds. The fewer sheets of paper they used and the taller their tower, the higher their score. They had a great time.

Last Friday, CCA’s second-graders presented their research on the New England states.

As we begin term three and approach warmer days and milder weather, we have decided to return to the advisory structure that was in place prior to the pandemic. Advisory groups with students from each grade in the middle school will allow us to conduct meetings and lunches that provide students the freedom and comfort to participate in activities and foster new relationships while navigating the challenges ahead. We realize it has been difficult for the students not to have the traditional advisory, and we firmly believe this modification will have a tremendous positive impact on the middle school students. In the coming weeks, we will share details about activities and onboarding events that will launch the return of our advisory program as it previously existed. 

Today, a group of CCA sixth-graders produced and performed a student-created adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's novel, Tuck Everlasting, the story of a young girl who stumbles upon a magic spring of immortality and is faced with a difficult decision. This production was entirely student created: Elise Soule wrote the script, and the rest of the cast and crew managed the sound, scenery, costumes, props, and direction. They worked very hard! 

A group of CCA middle school students have been meeting to play as part of the Middle School Rock Ensemble. Listen to some of their latest music here.

Although they are currently in another country, our international students in China are carrying out their commitment to CCA’s Community Service Organization (CSO). This is the first project that connects CCA CSO to Chinese communities. This is a large step forward because it shows that CSO projects are not only meaningful and beneficial for Cape Cod communities, but also for communities in other parts of the world.

On their day off from school last Friday, Adam Hanna '22, Hunter Kadra '22, and Aidan Peck '22 participated in the M3 Math Modeling Challenge. They worked for 14 consecutive hours to create mathematical models that address the cost, needs, and distribution of high-speed internet in the US.