Our first week of the 2023-24 school year went off without a hitch—and now it's time to party! We're looking forward to bringing the Northwest Academy community together this afternoon for our 4th Annual Back to School Block Party! See you all there!

Our inaugural 9th Grade Seminar class started the year by creating vision boards sharing their hopes, dreams, & inspirations for the school year. Sharing the boards was a fun way to build community & find shared interests among these new-to-high-schoolers! #findyourpeople

Interested in learning more about Northwest Academy? Come find us at the #PortlandIndependentandPrivateSchoolFair on Wednesday, October 11 at @OMSI! #OMSI #PIPS #portlandprivateschools #independentschools

Northwest Academy has been a part of Portland's downtown community since the beginning, and there's nowhere else we'd rather be! Our black and white photography students bopped down the street to take advantage of the action in the downtown Portland Farmers Market market this week!

It's visiting writer season!!! The middle school kicked off the VW program with Laura Gao ☕️, author of Messy Roots! Laura spoke with the middle school and visited our 7th grade English class...she also held a comics workshop for the crew! Thanks for coming by, Laura!

Check out the student work that's being made in our Arts After Hours elective program. Our AAH program offers Performing, Visual, Media, and Literary Arts electives taught by experienced art teachers and professional artists.

Last Wed–Fri, we embarked on our annual fall retreats where students and teachers go to bond. 6th graders remained on campus; 7th graders went to Molalla Retreat; and 8th graders went to Anderson Lodge. All of our high schoolers were together at BB Camp in Lincoln City!

It's #BannedBooksWeek—not sure it's something to celebrate, but we at Northwest Academy love books, even the banned ones! What's your favorite banned book?!

Check out highlights from our Arts After Hours program! We have a new Drawing Lab course as well as an Arts Happening course where students get to visit local galleries. And our popular photography class took advantage of the weather and took more photos downtown!

Check out highlights from our Arts After Hours program! We have a new Drawing Lab course as well as an Arts Happening course where students get to visit local galleries. And our popular photography class took advantage of the weather and took more photos downtown!

Our high school Visiting Writer program kicks off today with a special appearance from a very important writer, Anis Mojgani, the #OregonPoetLaureate! He came by yesterday to teach a master class to our creative writing students, too! Thank you for visiting us Anis Mojgani!

Don't forget to come find us at the #PortlandIndependentandPrivateSchoolFair on Wednesday, October 11, at @OMSI

Happy #IndigenousPeopleDay to the Indigenous communities of the Pacific Northwest whose land we sit on and to all the Indigenous communities of this country. We look forward to celebrating Indigenous People's Heritage Month in November!

A little color theory for you on this gray day, courtesy of our 7th-grade visual arts class.

It's Spirit Week at Northwest Academy! So far, we've had pajama day, decades day, and students dress as teachers/teachers dress as students day. We love the looks so far and can't wait for the dress like a celebrity day and heroes vs villains day looks!

The 7th-grade Project Citizen class finished one of our favorite projects in the Food Justice unit—writing a letter of appreciation to a person or organization doing good work around food activism, food access, culture, or resilience, spreading joy & appreciation far and wide!

Last weekend, our high school music students got to show off their skills at local music venue, Revolution Hall! Great job to all of our student musicians; we look forward to more performances this year!

Join us for an Information Session to learn more about what makes Northwest Academy so great! Head to our website (link in bio) to sign up for a session! At Northwest Academy, you can do it all. Find your people. Find your passion. Find yourself at Northwest Academy!

Join us on Thursday, November 9, from 5 to 9 pm for the Night of Wine & Art at the Loft @ 8th Avenue. All art and wine will be available for purchase with a percentage of sales benefitting the school. Tickets: ow.ly/t5zz50Q2PxK This event is for adults only (21+).

Our first Improv event of the year is tomorrow! Get your tickets and join us at The Judy for our High School Improv show! Get tickets here:ow.ly/iesZ50Q39IR