By Ray Dent
Lakehill Preparatory School, Director of Development and Alumni Relations
If asked about their favorite day, many would pick Saturday or perhaps Sunday. After all, there is no school. Additionally, in most families, on those days one can do a lot of fun things or just relax.
My favorite day is Wednesday and, no, it has nothing to do with a camel. On that day the Lakehill Lower School has a morning assembly entitled Wonderful Wednesday. For me, those gatherings have transformed a lackluster middle of the week so-so day into a refreshing, recharge your low batteries, don’t ever want to miss it day!
Each Lower School student gets to have their own “Special Week” at some point during the school year. On the Wonderful Wednesday of that week the student presents a project he/she has created to help the teachers, classmates and guests at the assembly better know the student. The projects start with Kindergarten students who make a picture poster about themselves and proceed through fourth graders who create a Power Point presentation about their accomplishments and things of which they are proud.
The assemblies are always fun and go by quickly because Mrs. Brooks, Lakehill’s Lower School Coordinator, sequences everything with the skill of an air traffic controller directing a beehive of jets around an airport. In addition to the Special Week Student presentations, within twenty minutes we pledge our allegiance to the flag, sing happy birthdays, highlight whole classes of students “caught doing something good,” read from small strips of colored paper on which Lower School students have written about a classmate doing something nice or being helpful to another person, salute special accomplishments of students or teams, and listen to impressive recitation of memory work from each grade. Finally, we all sing together the Lakehill Alma Mater to close the assembly.
Should the middle of your week ever get to be a drag, go to the Lakehill Lower School Assembly and find out just how Wonderful a Wednesday can be!