Clubs
Clarksville Academy encourages students to participate in extracurricular activities such as clubs and athletics. CA offers a wide variety of clubs and service organizations.
Over 92% of our children participate in community service. We help not only locally but all across the globe. Many Clarksville Academy clubs and organizations perform community service on a regular basis. This includes both Middle School and Upper School.
Over 85% of our upper school students participate in one or more sport. Extracurricular activities encourage time management and foster relationships with fellow students and the Clarksville community.
Civic
Academy students are offered a variety of ways to give back to their school, community, and world throughout the year. Clubs, organizations, Challenge Based Learning groups, classroom or school-wide drives or simply volunteering on their own provide a few of the ways students are able to perform civic acts. For more information on how Clarksville Academy gives back visit our Challenge Based Learning and our Clubs pages.
Clarksville Academy is a Green Certified business.
Extracurricular Clubs and Organizations
Builder’s Club
Builder’s Club is a community service organization that encourages students in 5th-8th grade to give back. Students will build camaraderie and pride within themselves as they help others. Hours are recorded and turned into the Presidential Volunteer Service Award Organization at the end of their 8th-grade year. Students that receive over 50 total hours in one school year receive a reward. Builder’s Club is a subsidiary of Key Club and the Kiwanis Club.
Chess Club
Chess Club is open to Lower & Middle Students who play chess or are interested in learning to play chess. All skill levels are welcome. Membership is open, which means weekly participation is not mandatory and is thus accommodating to a student’s busy schedule.
Middle & Upper School Choirs
Concert Choir is a class that takes place Semester I of each school year. In Concert Choir, fundamentals of singing are taught and built upon. The group learns and performs music for Veteran’s Day and a variety of Christmas performances. The Christmas performances include the Courthouse Christmas Tree Lighting, Spiritfest held in downtown Clarksville before the Christmas Parade, and the Clarksville Academy Christmas Concert.
Show Choir is a class that takes place Semester II of each school year. In Show Choir, dancing and acting is added to singing. The Annual Evening With Friends is the main performance of the semester. The group also sings for graduation.
Many members of the group choose to remain in the choir for all four years of upper school. There are some members who begin with Middle School Choir and remain in choir for seven years.
Cougar Choir
The Concert Choir is offered before school to all students in grades third and fourth who are interested in expanding their musical talent. Students practice twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday prior to the school day. Students perform in a variety of shows including, but not limited to: Veterans Day, Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at the Courthouse, Annual Christmas Program, and Steak Dinner. There is no fee for Cougar Choir, but students are required to purchase a performance shirt.
Middle Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Anyone in grades 5-8 may attend. FCA meets before school every Wednesday in Coach Trent’s room. Club Huddle Campus Groups are certified ministries, which are initiated and led by student-athletes, sponsored by coaches, supported by staff, and meet on a weekly basis. Both Middle and Upper School Huddle Groups are open to everyone, not just student-athletes.
FCA VALUES: Our relationships will demonstrate steadfast commitment to Jesus Christ and His Word through Integrity, Serving, Teamwork, and Excellence. There is no fee to participate in FCA.
US Fellowship of Christian Athletes FCA
Students in grades 9-12 may attend FCA and these meetings are not limited to student athletes. Club Huddle Campus Groups are certified ministries, which are initiated and led by student-athletes, sponsored by coaches, supported by staff, and meet on a weekly basis. Intermediate and Upper School Huddle Groups are open to everyone, not just student-athletes.
FCA focuses on various service projects throughout the year such as taking cards and fruit baskets to local Nursing Homes, adopting several Angel Tree families and supplying them with needed items for the holidays, sponsoring at least one cleft surgery through the Smile Train, donating food, personal items and more to the Salvation Army, sending care packages to various soldiers, and sending bios and, water filters, chickens, goats, bibles and more to Asia. We also pray weekly for student prayer request which include community and national people and events.
Each year we grant a $1000.00 FCA scholarship in memory of Wesley.
Girls On the Run
Girls on the Run is an after-school activity that inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using an exciting, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. We can have up to 12 girls per Huddle in grades 3rd-5th. We meet twice a week for an entire semester. At the end of the semester, the girls will be trained to complete a 5k (3.1 miles)! Each Huddle, we bring a core value to life and center our daily focus around that core value….all while running and participating in fun games. Girls On The Run envisions a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.
Interact Club
The Interact Club is a high school branch of Rotary Club International. Interact Club is open to any community service-minded student in grades 9-12. The students work with the Clarksville Sunrise Rotary Club at their events and also assist at Manna Café. The club has 4 community service events per semester and the annual club dues are $10.
Junior Classical League (JCL)
All students in Latin at CA are required to join the Junior Classical League. The Junior Classical League, or JCL, is a national organization sponsored by the American Classical League and dedicated to encouraging student interest in the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and to bestow an insight of what our own culture owes to Classical antiquity. At the school level, the organization is working to become more active in the community. At the local level, the students are invited every year to compete with other students in the area.
Key Club
Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through service to others. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build themselves as they build their schools and communities. Examples of previous years activities by the Clarksville Academy Chapter included collecting soft drink tabs and laundry detergent to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Nashville, donated Jeans for Teens to benefit local needy children, food collection of the FUEL program, bringing art supplies to local hospitalized children, volunteering at all school sports games, Angel Tree adoption through the Salvation Army, volunteering at Rivers & Spires and Riverfest and collecting items for Operation Homefront. Members are required to earn 40 service hours a year.
Model United Nations
Model UN is a fall semester high school program sponsored by the YMCA of Tennessee. Students learn about how international politics work. The program culminates in a three-day state conference held in Murfreesboro, TN during the month of November. In the fall of 2020 Middle School MUN was introduced.
National Jr. Honor Society
NJHS recognizes student academic achievement and interacts with the community through required service hours and projects. Students are invited to join NJHS in their eighth-grade year after receiving a 3.5 GPA or higher.
National Honor Society
Membership in National Honor Society is by invitation, based on the 5 traits held in high esteem by the society. These traits are scholarship, character, leadership, citizenship, and service. Each member is required to maintain a 3.5 GPA, attend meetings, pay dues, and complete 5 hours of community service each school year. For the fall semester, members are juniors and seniors. In February, all sophomores and juniors/seniors (who are not members) are considered for membership by the faculty council. Those being considered must have a 3.5 GPA, meet all traits of the society, and have been enrolled at CA for at least one year. Approximately 75% of our students are involved the full three years.
Robotics Club
Robotics is an after-school club for 4th and 5th graders participating under the FIRST LEGO LEAGUE guidelines. It focuses on Core Values that are life-applicable, an innovative Project, and Robotics competitions including coding. Teams compete regionally and at the State level.
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
SADD Club focuses on peer-to-peer education. SADD fosters a sense of belonging and promotes resilience, leadership, and advocacy skills so that young people make positive decisions that will carry them throughout life.
Student Council
Student Council members are elected yearly by the student body 7th-12th grade. The three officers from each class and four slate officers serve the student body in many ways, from leading the charge on planning and implementing events such as homecoming and field day to reporting to the sponsors with questions, concerns, and ideas from their peers. There is no community service element to SC, but members have mandatory monthly meetings.
Youth In Government
Youth In Government takes place in the spring semester and is the YMCA companion program to the Model UN. In this program, high school students learn about how politics work at the state level. This program culminates in a four-day conference held in the state capital facilities in Nashville. In the spring of 2021 Middle School YIG was introduced.