Victory Christian Academy is a part of the Middle School Sports League and the North Bay CIF Sports League. Our Athletic Director Mr. Joe Mitten, along with one our Board of Director overseeing Athletics, Kevin O'Malley put together an amazing program last year, and we look forward to another great program.

We desire to explicitly bring glory to Jesus and disciple children in His ways. Jesus Christ is Lord over all. We have weekly chapels to worship and praise Him and get together to pray and lift each other up.

VCA offers TK - 6th grade elementary classes with small class sizes for one-on-one personal attention to each student. Our teachers get to know your child and understand exactly what gifts your child has and where they can be encouraged to explore more.

As a Christian school, our loving and nurturing ways go a long way to support your child through these critical foundational years, preparing them for Junior High and High School.

Our elementary students have access to a multitude of additional learning opportunities: a weekly Robotics class (2nd-6th), Elementary Band, Art, and sports teams through the Middle School Sports League (5th-6th) - just to name a few!

What an inspiration our teachers and staff are! One of the most important gifts a teacher can provide to their students is inspiration. Motivating, passionate, positive, intentional, our teachers' influence being a role model goes above and beyond academic achievement.

The beauty of a Christian school is that you'll find kindness everywhere! The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate is on the playground, in the classroom, in athletic competition, on fieldtrips, from students to staff, it's overflowing.

Kindness is a type of behavior marked by acts of generosity, consideration, or concern for others, without having an expectation of praise or reward.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

At VCA, we offer music for students in every grade! We have music classes, band, including elementary band, and choir.

Our principal Mrs. Wendy Cunningham has a BA in music instruction and is passionate about using the gift of music to the glory of God! Aside from teaching music, band, and choir, to VCA students, you will also find her singing for Chapel along with other guest singers, and playing the keyboard.

ACSI, Association of Christian Schools International, of which we are a member, hosts an event called Musicale, which is a two-day choir festival where choirs memorize 6 combined songs chosen by the guest conductor. Musicale also features adjudications for chamber choirs, large ensembles, small ensembles, sacred classical solos, and gospel solos. VCA sent a choir last year to Sacramento and looks forward to many years of participation.

We hosted our 1st ever Christmas band performance and it was amazing!

Here are 20 reasons why music is important in schools (borrowed from an article published by the National Association for Music Education):

1. Musical training helps develop language and reasoning: Students who have early musical training will develop the areas of the brain related to language and reasoning. The left side of the brain is better developed with music, and songs can help imprint information on young minds.

2. A mastery of memorization: Even when performing with sheet music, student musicians are constantly using their memory to perform. The skill of memorization can serve students well in education and beyond.

3. Students learn to improve their work: Learning music promotes craftsmanship, and students learn to want to create good work instead of mediocre work. This desire can be applied to all subjects of study.

4. Increased coordination: Students who practice with musical instruments can improve their hand-eye coordination. Just like playing sports, children can develop motor skills when playing music.

5. A sense of achievement: Learning to play pieces of music on a new instrument can be a challenging, but achievable goal. Students who master even the smallest goal in music will be able to feel proud of their achievement.

6. Kids stay engaged in school: An enjoyable subject like music can keep kids interested and engaged in school. Student musicians are likely to stay in school to achieve in other subjects.

7. Success in society: Music is the fabric of our society, and music can shape abilities and character. Students in band or orchestra are less likely to abuse substances over their lifetime. Musical education can greatly contribute to children’s intellectual development as well.

8. Emotional development: Students of music can be more emotionally developed, with empathy towards other cultures They also tend to have higher self esteem and are better at coping with anxiety.

9. Students learn pattern recognition: Children can develop their math and pattern-recognition skills with the help of musical education. Playing music offers repetition in a fun format.

10. Better SAT scores: Students who have experience with music performance or appreciation score higher on the SAT. One report indicates 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math for students in music appreciation courses.

11. Fine-tuned auditory skills: Musicians can better detect meaningful, information-bearing elements in sounds, like the emotional meaning in a baby’s cry. Students who practice music can have better auditory attention, and pick out predictable patterns from surrounding noise.

12. Music builds imagination and intellectual curiosity: Introducing music in the early childhood years can help foster a positive attitude toward learning and curiosity. Artistic education develops the whole brain and develops a child’s imagination.

13. Music can be relaxing: Students can fight stress by learning to play music. Soothing music is especially helpful in helping kids relax.

14. Musical instruments can teach discipline: Kids who learn to play an instrument can learn a valuable lesson in discipline. They will have to set time aside to practice and rise to the challenge of learning with discipline to master playing their instrument.

15. Preparation for the creative economy: Investing in creative education can prepare students for the 21st century workforce. The new economy has created more artistic careers, and these jobs may grow faster than others in the future.

16. Development in creative thinking: Kids who study the arts can learn to think creatively. This kind of education can help them solve problems by thinking outside the box and realizing that there may be more than one right answer.

17. Music can develop spatial intelligence: Students who study music can improve the development of spatial intelligence, which allows them to perceive the world accurately and form mental pictures. Spatial intelligence is helpful for advanced mathematics and more.

18. Kids can learn teamwork: Many musical education programs require teamwork as part of a band or orchestra. In these groups, students will learn how to work together and build camaraderie.

19. Responsible risk-taking: Performing a musical piece can bring fear and anxiety. Doing so teaches kids how to take risks and deal with fear, which will help them become successful and reach their potential.

20. Better self-confidence: With encouragement from teachers and parents, students playing a musical instrument can build pride and confidence. Musical education is also likely to develop better communication for students.

Obedience is not a scary word for Christians. Obedience is what we pray for, and are asked to do. We understand the importance of obedience.

In Philippians 2:8 Jesus showed obedience to death and death on the cross. Jesus also tells us in John 14:23 that in the same act of love for him, we must comply with whatever God has commanded for it is our duty to do so.

We can show obedience to God by immersing ourselves in His word and keeping our thoughts pure. This means to spend time with the bible and pray daily, avoid gossip and negative situations, stop watching, reading, or listening to things that don't align with His principles, memorize scripture, and whatever else God tells us to do when we listen to Him.

In a school setting, the benefits of teaching obedience as an overarching virtue are abundant. Here are just 2 of those:

1. Respect for Authority

When you follow the rules at school, you show that you understand the importance of rules and you respect the governing authority. We are faced with numerous rules not only in school but in daily life, and obedience to those rules shows we care about those who create the rules, whether it be a principal, teacher, police officer, or government official. Obedience to school rules also shows your teachers and principal you trust their decisions even if you don't understand the purpose behind a specific rule.

2. Personal Safety

Rules are intended to protect you. Specific rules, such as "Don't go into the boiler room" or "No students allowed on campus after dark" are written to protect against dangers. When you follow the rules at school, you demonstrate an awareness of the rules and show you believe your personal safety is important. Taking risks with your personal safety on the school campus can have dangerous consequences for you personally but also creates a liability for school administration. Safety rules are not arbitrarily written. Just as a hot stove is hands-off for a child, making sure you follow campus safety rules can keep you from getting burned by potentially dangerous settings.

Obedience is a virtue that teaches us to be humble. The spirit of obedience helps us to shed our ego and our pride. The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat those who are charged to exercise it with respect, and with gratitude and good-will.

Being quiet is not only part of how we obey and glorify the King (Job 36:10-12), it is also how we bless others as we are lovingly quick to listen and slow to speak (James 1:19). Silence is thus an unspoken virtue: part of the church’s vocation and the Christian’s delight.

Borrowed from an online article (linked here https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/5-reasons-to-be-silent/) :

Five Biblical Reasons to be Silent

1. Obedience - Simply put, you can’t obey if you are not silent to listen.

2. Self-control - The silence linked with obedience also manifests self-control, a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23).

3. Wonder - We honor God when were are in awe of him. We are made in his image and therefore bring him glory in our humble silence.

4. Rest - As a parallel to wonder in light of God’s salvation, silence is a blessed product of the rest that we have in him. Knowing that God is our God prompts us to “be still” (Ps. 46:10). Even in the face of uncertainty and suffering, the psalmist can say, “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation . . . for my hope is from him” (Ps. 62:1, 5).

5. Wisdom - Silence as a form of wisdom is frequently encouraged in Proverbs.

VCA students proactively and gladly serve those around them. They understand how they are uniquely suited to positively shape and influence their neighbors and their society.

This is also one of our expected student outcomes.

This photo is from a clothing drive where our students and families collected truckloads full of clothes for those in need.

We are unwavering in our Faith and Christian values. We trust God with our lives more than we trust ourselves. It means that we trust His timing even when we might be running out of patience. We know His ways are perfect. As Christians, we are at peace knowing God is in control. We teach those Christian values to our students each and every day.

As Christians, we worship God in order to thank Him for His love, and grace and mercies, to ask for forgiveness for our sins, and to listen and hear what God wants from us, so that we might obey Him. We sing our praises and show our appreciation to God for sending his only son, Jesus, to give the ultimate sacrifice in order to save us. We give our all to Him who gave His all for us.

Worship is essential to us and offered in our weekly Chapels for both elementary and secondary levels.

Yearning is a wistful or melancholy longing.

We yearn for the Lord.

We yearn for years of continued growth of Victory Christian Academy in Santa Rosa.

We yearn for students to be Grounded in Christ and Ready for the World.

We yearn to be physically together again in a classroom soon.

We yearn, and our prayers will be answered.

For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:8