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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It
is time now for our community connection right here on
Gay one, the one you trust, and we have a
familiar face in here today. I used to call him
Coach Cloud. Now I'm Superintendent. How are you doing, Superintendent?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm doing just dandy. You got a little bit of
a new office, Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, yeah, Actually we're transitioning offices and remodeling right now,
so I'm I'm just kind of setting out in the
hallway right now.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But yeah, we're I do have a little bit of
a new job.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And it's been about the last three weeks and it's
been it's been interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh and uh, Superintendent Cloud, You've been at Wesley and
Christian off and on for a good many years, so
you know where everything is, even though it's expanding.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do know where everything is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I've been associated with the school off and on since
two thousand, so my kids started going to school there,
my wife started working there, and I came on in
two thousand and two and this is my seventeenth year
of employment coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Wow, We've got a whole lot of students coming in
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Don't we Yes, we do, we do.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We're last year, we ended the year about three ninety
and if everybody, if everybody was to come that has inquired,
we'd be about five hundred, but we anticipate four fifty probably.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wow, right around there.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's a pretty significant milestone for the little school that cut.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It is it is.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We just now added our last two classes, the second
section of our last two classes. We have two kindergartens
and two fifth grades next year for the first time,
which gives us two sections of every class that we
have in the school. So it allows us about forty
(01:53):
forty average of forty per class.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So now, with all these people finding out the great
quality education and opportunities available at Wesley and Christians School,
are you are you a little nervous about space?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, we are, but you know, we've done some creative things.
We built out to some activity an activity center, to
a couple of classrooms. We're utilizing some other buildings on
campus for a couple of high school classrooms. We have
the high school kids kind of spread out a little
bit and traveling all over campus, but we are are
(02:28):
managing and still good space. We have great security on campus.
This next year, and we are really looking forward to
what the year has for us.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
My goodness, it's a beautiful campus that you have there. Yeah,
it's very nicely laid out, and even with all the
creativity that's come into play, no one would know that
you've gone, you know, and modified a few things. It
looks like it came there kind of factory, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it does. So they've done a great job.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We've had local architects help us design those things, and
we have big plans for the future and we're hoping
to build out our shop building in the next couple
of years and put add two or three more classrooms,
get some the kids a little more consolidated in the
same in the same facility, and gives us a little
(03:19):
bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right now, we have people officing.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
In It seems like small spaces, like closet spaces, but
it's working and everybody's everybody's excited about our future.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
They should be one building that gets one part of
the campus, it gets a lot of use. Is your
multipurpose building, and that's your gym, that's your stage, that's
your graduation.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When you say multipurpose, boy and it's always in use.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It seems it is always in use.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It seems like seven days a week. We keep a calendar.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And and we have to reserve that and we use
it almost all day long. And if it's raining outside,
we have pe or a recess in there. Of course,
we have pee in there all day long. They we
use it every Sunday for church service and you know,
graduation and music concerts and plays and musicals, and yeah,
(04:19):
we use it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I had the privilege of walking in on a volleyball
tournament that was there. Well, you had people moving.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we have courts.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That first day of the volleyball tournament, we have two
courts going sideways.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And yeah, it's quite a spectacle to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But you know, it really works, and we're.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Excited to have that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know, in the first my first eight of nine years,
we didn't have that. We borrowed gyms all over town
and that was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Work and effort.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So we're just feel blessed to have what we have now.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Superintendent Cloud, we're coming up on a big market fiftieth
anniversary coming up this year.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The school started in the church basement in nineteen seventy
six as a pre k in kindergarten classroom, and it
slowly expanded to a full daycare and an elementary school.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And in nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Seventy eight I think they built the CEC on top
of the hill and they expanded to a full elementary
And in nineteen eighty they built the other building, the annexes,
which is where the middle school will be next year,
but they expanded to K through eight along the ride
around in there. And then in two thousand is when
(05:38):
we started our first high school class. We had nine
freshmen that first year in two thousand. I wasn't actually there.
I was down the road at Oklahoma westleym but my
wife was a teacher there, and it's exciting to go
from we have nine in high school then and this
year we're looking at one hundred and twenty five hundred
and thirty kids in high school.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Into sakes, and this is just incredible. What is it
about Wesley and Christian School that makes it such a
good choice for students and for parents in your.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Estimation, well, you know, it's always good people.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We get a lot of people that grew up maybe
in a rural area sometimes and they like to go
to a smaller school, and so the small atmosphere, you know,
the more one on one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is always great. But you know, probably not.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Probably the most important aspect of Wesley and Christian School
is the Biblical integration, and we are teaching the Bible
and integrating that into every aspect of the education. We
don't just have a school that has chapel once a
week in Bible every day. All of our teachers are believers, and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're integrating.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That into every aspect and we you know, our mission
is to come alongside parents and help them train their
kids biblically. So that's the most special part to me
is that we are affecting lives and kids and families
for eternity.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's awesome. Another thing I hear from some of the
students who've graduated is that the instructors are not teaching
at students. They're working with students, coaching them. If you
will not only be a better student, but just a
better individual, yeah, better citizen.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We have absolutely the best staff. And of course I'm prejudiced,
but we have a great staff. We have a lot
of tenured teachers that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Have been there.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think we have four or five teachers that have
been there over twenty years, and we have some high
school teachers that have been there right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
At fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And we have tremendous staff, fully certified, fully accredited, state recognized,
and we have a tremendous staff and they do a
great job.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So how does it feel now three weeks into the job, Superintendent?
Feel pretty good?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It does.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It feels busy, and there's a lot of decisions and
at times it feels like you walk in the door
and everybody wants a piece of you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But that's just part of what it is. I've done
it for.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Six years at another school, and I kind of knew
how it fell, and so it'll be a good year.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think a lot of people are excited for the
new year. And also having you a familiar pace being
at the Helm. This is going to be, I think
really going to be something special here. I'm kind of
looking forward to this new era.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, we're looking forward to it as well.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And if people are curious about the school, what's the
best way that you could recommend them to to learn
more about Western christ.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, you know, we have we have a website Western
Christian School dot com. You can see a lot of
stuff about our our teachers and our faculty and staff
on that website.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
What we offer, the programs that we offer. You know,
we have sports programs. In the fall, we have cross country,
girls volleyball.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We have almost sixty kids playing girls volleyball from fifth
grade all the way to twelfth grade. This next year
we have four four volleyball teams. We have high school
in junior high football eight man we play in the
os A A. In the winter time, we have basketball.
I was telling you before, we have eight basketball teams,
(09:43):
eight fifth and sixth grade, Junior high, seventh and eighth grade, JV,
and high school. And so we're having over one hundred
kids play basketball. And in the spring we have soccer programs.
Middle school was first first program we start last year
for soccer. Next year we're hoping to have high school.
We have a track program, we have trap shooting. We
(10:08):
have absolutely the best music and drama director in the
city of Bartsville. She does an outstanding job with these kids.
So they have a fall play they put on in November,
and we have a musical we put on every March,
and we give three performances. Last year they had over
(10:28):
a thousand people attend. So yeah, we're really excited about
not only the academics and the biblical aspect, but just
the full, well rounded education that we offer at WCS.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, if someone said, why honestley in Christian School,
I'd have to say, after that, why not?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I want to thank you very much for being here
a superintended cloud, and I want to wish you all
the success in the world at the wonderful school you
have out there, and you produce some pretty darn wonderful
young people that go out into the world.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, thank you, and I appreciate being here already.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
OK, you've been watching and listening to us here on
Community Connection
Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It
is time now for our community connection right here on
Gay one, the one you trust, and we have a
familiar face in here today. I used to call him
Coach Cloud. Now I'm Superintendent. How are you doing, Superintendent?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm doing just dandy. You got a little bit of
a new office, Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, yeah, Actually we're transitioning offices and remodeling right now,
so I'm I'm just kind of setting out in the
hallway right now.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But yeah, we're I do have a little bit of
a new job.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And it's been about the last three weeks and it's
been it's been interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh and uh, Superintendent Cloud, You've been at Wesley and
Christian off and on for a good many years, so
you know where everything is, even though it's expanding.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do know where everything is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I've been associated with the school off and on since
two thousand, so my kids started going to school there,
my wife started working there, and I came on in
two thousand and two and this is my seventeenth year
of employment coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Wow, We've got a whole lot of students coming in
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Don't we Yes, we do, we do.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We're last year, we ended the year about three ninety
and if everybody, if everybody was to come that has inquired,
we'd be about five hundred, but we anticipate four fifty probably.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wow, right around there.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's a pretty significant milestone for the little school that cut.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It is it is.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We just now added our last two classes, the second
section of our last two classes. We have two kindergartens
and two fifth grades next year for the first time,
which gives us two sections of every class that we
have in the school. So it allows us about forty
(01:53):
forty average of forty per class.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So now, with all these people finding out the great
quality education and opportunities available at Wesley and Christians School,
are you are you a little nervous about space?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, we are, but you know, we've done some creative things.
We built out to some activity an activity center, to
a couple of classrooms. We're utilizing some other buildings on
campus for a couple of high school classrooms. We have
the high school kids kind of spread out a little
bit and traveling all over campus, but we are are
(02:28):
managing and still good space. We have great security on campus.
This next year, and we are really looking forward to
what the year has for us.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
My goodness, it's a beautiful campus that you have there. Yeah,
it's very nicely laid out, and even with all the
creativity that's come into play, no one would know that
you've gone, you know, and modified a few things. It
looks like it came there kind of factory, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it does. So they've done a great job.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We've had local architects help us design those things, and
we have big plans for the future and we're hoping
to build out our shop building in the next couple
of years and put add two or three more classrooms,
get some the kids a little more consolidated in the
same in the same facility, and gives us a little
(03:19):
bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right now, we have people officing.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
In It seems like small spaces, like closet spaces, but
it's working and everybody's everybody's excited about our future.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
They should be one building that gets one part of
the campus, it gets a lot of use. Is your
multipurpose building, and that's your gym, that's your stage, that's
your graduation.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When you say multipurpose, boy and it's always in use.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It seems it is always in use.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It seems like seven days a week. We keep a calendar.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And and we have to reserve that and we use
it almost all day long. And if it's raining outside,
we have pe or a recess in there. Of course,
we have pee in there all day long. They we
use it every Sunday for church service and you know,
graduation and music concerts and plays and musicals, and yeah,
(04:19):
we use it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I had the privilege of walking in on a volleyball
tournament that was there. Well, you had people moving.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we have courts.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That first day of the volleyball tournament, we have two
courts going sideways.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And yeah, it's quite a spectacle to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But you know, it really works, and we're.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Excited to have that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know, in the first my first eight of nine years,
we didn't have that. We borrowed gyms all over town
and that was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Work and effort.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So we're just feel blessed to have what we have now.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Superintendent Cloud, we're coming up on a big market fiftieth
anniversary coming up this year.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The school started in the church basement in nineteen seventy
six as a pre k in kindergarten classroom, and it
slowly expanded to a full daycare and an elementary school.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And in nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Seventy eight I think they built the CEC on top
of the hill and they expanded to a full elementary
And in nineteen eighty they built the other building, the annexes,
which is where the middle school will be next year,
but they expanded to K through eight along the ride
around in there. And then in two thousand is when
(05:38):
we started our first high school class. We had nine
freshmen that first year in two thousand. I wasn't actually there.
I was down the road at Oklahoma westleym but my
wife was a teacher there, and it's exciting to go
from we have nine in high school then and this
year we're looking at one hundred and twenty five hundred
and thirty kids in high school.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Into sakes, and this is just incredible. What is it
about Wesley and Christian School that makes it such a
good choice for students and for parents in your.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Estimation, well, you know, it's always good people.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We get a lot of people that grew up maybe
in a rural area sometimes and they like to go
to a smaller school, and so the small atmosphere, you know,
the more one on one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is always great. But you know, probably not.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Probably the most important aspect of Wesley and Christian School
is the Biblical integration, and we are teaching the Bible
and integrating that into every aspect of the education. We
don't just have a school that has chapel once a
week in Bible every day. All of our teachers are believers, and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're integrating.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That into every aspect and we you know, our mission
is to come alongside parents and help them train their
kids biblically. So that's the most special part to me
is that we are affecting lives and kids and families
for eternity.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's awesome. Another thing I hear from some of the
students who've graduated is that the instructors are not teaching
at students. They're working with students, coaching them. If you
will not only be a better student, but just a
better individual, yeah, better citizen.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We have absolutely the best staff. And of course I'm prejudiced,
but we have a great staff. We have a lot
of tenured teachers that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Have been there.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think we have four or five teachers that have
been there over twenty years, and we have some high
school teachers that have been there right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
At fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And we have tremendous staff, fully certified, fully accredited, state recognized,
and we have a tremendous staff and they do a
great job.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So how does it feel now three weeks into the job, Superintendent?
Feel pretty good?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It does.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It feels busy, and there's a lot of decisions and
at times it feels like you walk in the door
and everybody wants a piece of you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But that's just part of what it is. I've done
it for.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Six years at another school, and I kind of knew
how it fell, and so it'll be a good year.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think a lot of people are excited for the
new year. And also having you a familiar pace being
at the Helm. This is going to be, I think
really going to be something special here. I'm kind of
looking forward to this new era.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, we're looking forward to it as well.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And if people are curious about the school, what's the
best way that you could recommend them to to learn
more about Western christ.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, you know, we have we have a website Western
Christian School dot com. You can see a lot of
stuff about our our teachers and our faculty and staff
on that website.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
What we offer, the programs that we offer. You know,
we have sports programs. In the fall, we have cross country,
girls volleyball.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We have almost sixty kids playing girls volleyball from fifth
grade all the way to twelfth grade. This next year
we have four four volleyball teams. We have high school
in junior high football eight man we play in the
os A A. In the winter time, we have basketball.
I was telling you before, we have eight basketball teams,
(09:43):
eight fifth and sixth grade, Junior high, seventh and eighth grade, JV,
and high school. And so we're having over one hundred
kids play basketball. And in the spring we have soccer programs.
Middle school was first first program we start last year
for soccer. Next year we're hoping to have high school.
We have a track program, we have trap shooting. We
(10:08):
have absolutely the best music and drama director in the
city of Bartsville. She does an outstanding job with these kids.
So they have a fall play they put on in November,
and we have a musical we put on every March,
and we give three performances. Last year they had over
(10:28):
a thousand people attend. So yeah, we're really excited about
not only the academics and the biblical aspect, but just
the full, well rounded education that we offer at WCS.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, if someone said, why honestley in Christian School,
I'd have to say, after that, why not?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I want to thank you very much for being here
a superintended cloud, and I want to wish you all
the success in the world at the wonderful school you
have out there, and you produce some pretty darn wonderful
young people that go out into the world.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, thank you, and I appreciate being here already.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
OK, you've been watching and listening to us here on
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