Pinnacle Academy

Welcome Pinnacle Academy Families!

I hope you survived a very hot summer and enjoyed the vacation!
I’m very excited to start the new school year because we have a lot of wonderful activities to look forward to this year. To start with, we have been sprucing up our school by painting the whole campus, and we are currently installing a wonderful, brand new playground for the lower elementary students. 

 May 11th was Pinnacle Academy’s 2010 2nd Annual Talent Show. It was in the auditorium, and started at 4:00 pm. Every class got to show their talent on stage, including class plays, songs, and shows. There were also individual acts like Emre Demiroz, who recited 100 digits of Pi, And Nurbanu Simsek from 7th grade who solved the Rubik's Cube in about 3 minutes. Everyone had fun and it was the best talent show ever! The talent show gave every single student a chance to show their talents on stage. There was a lot of people, and it was a huge hit.

On Saturday April 24th, Pinnacle Academy had an international children’s festival. Children and parents came to watch, and show us cultural dances. Kids from kindergarten thru 7th grade performed. There was face painting, moon bounce, popcorn, cotton candy, and a bake sale. There was Pinnacle Academy’s Folk dance group Arvin, and Pinnacle Kolbasti attended in the dance show. The second graders performed a play called “The 12 Angry Sheep.”  There was African dance, Indian dance and more. It was a very fun time for kids!!

The 2nd Turkish Language Olympiad Washington, D.C., took place on Sunday with the participation of many American students who put their Turkish skills to the test in the various categories of the event.

7th Grade student Selin Altintas was awarded first place and student 7th Grade Nurbanu Simsek was awarded third place by the jury in the Turkish as a native language poetry competition and a team called Pinnacle Kolbasti was awarded second place in the same category's folklore competition. The team performed a folkdance from Turkey's Black Sea region.