EVENTS & PROGRAMS

Christmas Tree Presentation

A significant part of the senior/first grade program and a time-honored GWA tradition, the Christmas Tree Presentation is held the first Friday of December each year. During this festive event, the entire GWA community gathers to kick off the holiday season with musical performances, and seniors present their first graders with a small Christmas tree decorated with the younger students’ favorite things. This highly-anticipated occasion concludes with a student body singalong of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Grand Day

Hosted annually, this event is open to all grandparents and special friends of GWA students in PreK3 through fifth grade. These lower school students show off their talents in grade-level performances that celebrate their love and appreciation of their special family members in attendance. Following the performances, additional festivities may include classroom visits, refreshments and activities in various locations across campus.

Grand Day is one of the most well-attended events GWA hosts every year, and all lower school students are encouraged to invite a special visitor to participate in the celebration. Lower school students are dismissed for the day following the festivities.

Field Day

Lower school students join our seniors for a morning of water games and relays in this enthusiastic show of sportsmanship and school spirit. Bulldogs big and small are sure to give out plenty of high fives and cheerful encouragement in this student favorite. All lower school students are dismissed for the day at the conclusion of the festivities.

Graduation

This is the day our students and their families have been waiting for all year! There are three commencement exercises that take place on campus as we congratulate the new graduates. In addition to the official GWA commencement, there is also a special graduation ceremony as our kindergartners graduate from “the Hill” and a more fun and casual event where our fifth graders graduate from lower school. Each of these ceremonies have one or more special twists that make them uniquely GWA events.