Weekly Update | August 21, 2026

Kindness and Determination

Our first week is wrapped, and we've been blown away both by the way our students have pushed themselves to be their best and by the kindness that they've shown each other. We wanted to share with you a few examples of what we've seen on our campus so far:

• A lower school girl made the conscious effort to sit with a new student who was alone at lunch.
• A student helped her classmate carry their school supplies when their hands were full.
• Many students pushed themselves to do more push ups or run a little faster in their PE class fitness tests.
• Students have volunteered to lead the Pledge of Allegiance during our schoolwide morning meetings.

Our students are showing that they are up for the challenge this year and that they want to bring out the best in each other.

Keep up the good work, Seahawks!

Faculty & Staff of Trident Academy

IMPORTANT DATES:

August 22: Trident Academy Spirit Night at the Charleston Battery
September 3: TAPA Meeting at 8 a.m.

Our tentative calendar for 2026-27

See all events on our school website calendar

SEAHAWK SCOOP:

Trident Academy at the Charleston Battery!

If your child wants to go on the field before the game for the high-five tunnel please plan to arrive to the Scoreboard Lounge by 6:50 p.m.

Join us on Saturday, August 22, as we gather to celebrate the start of the school year at the Charleston Battery game. It’s the perfect time to catch up, see familiar faces, and welcome new ones! We’ve reserved the Scoreboard Lounge again this year so our students and families can hang out and enjoy the game together. Purchase your ticket here.

Back-to-School Signed Forms Reminder

Thanks to all the parents who have returned their signed forms: field trip permission, handbook acknowledgement, and student information check-up forms. 

If you haven't done so, please check your email for the August 10 message titled Back-to-School: Information Review and Signatures Required. We appreciate your help with this!

TAPA Meeting - Thursday, September 3

Join us for our first TAPA (Trident Academy Parent Association) meeting of the school year on Thursday, September 3, at 8:00 a.m. in the Trident Academy lunchroom. We hope all of our parents can make it as we kick off the year and share the many ways TAPA supports our students, teachers, and school community!

Aftercare Schedule

Friday Extended Care and Homework Haven have not yet begun. We will send details soon about all afterschool programing, most of which will begin after Labor Day.

School Spirit Store is Open

Uniforms and Trident Academy gear can be purchased through our spirit store!

Our Dress Code describes the options and expectations for student clothing throughout the school year.

SEAHAWK SUMMER:

Our Lower School students took a trip to Roots and Shoots Nursery to explore native plants, spot monarch caterpillars, and collect seed pods. Back on campus, they planted our very own butterfly garden. We can't wait to watch it—and the pollinators—bloom!

Our fourth graders are loving these multi-sensory math strategies to master place value! By seeing, touching, and physically building each number, they are laying a rock-solid foundation for higher-level math!

Our middle school students practiced their pipette skills this week, building accuracy and muscle memory by transferring controlled drops from sticky notes down to smaller and smaller coins. This key lab technique sets them up for success as they begin biology lessons on cell structure, staining slides, and enzyme reactions.

Kyle Brown, Educational Technology Director at Trident Academy, recently attended Google’s exclusive, invitation-only Google Educator Group (GEG) Leader event in Atlanta!


As one of only seven Google for Education Certified Trainers within 50 miles of Charleston, Kyle collaborated with top leaders on how artificial intelligence (AI) can serve as an assistive tool for critical thinking but never as a replacement for s human.
  

At Trident Academy, we ensure technology enhances human-driven learning, keeping student creativity, passion, and thought at the very center of education.

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