Desert Heights Charter School
Coyote Chronicle
September 22, 2015
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE * INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER * SOCIAL AWARENESS
 Calendar of Events
September 24th
DH Preschool Night @ Peter Piper Pizza
4pm-9pm
 
September 30th 
2nd Grade Field Trip
 
October 1st 
4th Grade Field Trip to DHPA
 
October 2nd
Flag Raising Ceremony 8:15am
Breast Cancer Awareness Day-Pink out!
DHPA Homecoming Games @ DHPA
Jr High 5:00pm
Varsity 7:00pm
 
October 3rd
7pm-9pm Arrowhead
 
October 5th  Brain Cancer Awareness Day-Wear Gray
 
October 6th
HOWL Dress Down
 
October 7th  
Fall Picture Retakes
 
October 8th  Childhood Cancer Awareness Day-Wear Yellow
 
October 9th
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness-wear purple
 
October 12th thru 16th  Fall Break-NO SCHOOL
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Parents please be sure to login to your student's account! As a reminder, ParentVUE can be used to check the status of account balances for field trips, activities, transportation, Afterschool Clubs/Sports, DHPA aftercare and more. Additionally weekly email reminders are distributed Tuesday afternoon to notify families of outstanding accounts. If balances remain unpaid, please note that there could be a disruption in services and/or late fees assessed. If you have any questions regarding account balances, please access ParentVUE or contact the front office. We thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter!
Peter Piper Pizza Fundraiser
Be sure to join us Thursday night for our Preschool Fundraiser at Peter Piper Pizza located at 7525 W. Bell Road!  This event is taking place from 4pm-9pm.  A portion of all sales will be directed to our Preschool.  We hope to see you there
Safety in the Parking Lot
We cannot stress enough the importance of following all posted signs in the parking lot as well as around the vicinity of our campus.  The speed limit in the parking lot is 5mph.  When exiting both our parking lot and our back drive, there is NO LEFT TURN permitted.  We fully expect anyone driving through our parking lot to adhere to the STOP signs as well as our Crosswalk signs.  For those not adhering to these requests, we will communicate license plate numbers to the Glendale Police Department as the safety of our students, parents and staff are of the utmost importance to us.   Safety First!!
End of day Dismissal Requests
Parents, we are asking that if there is going to be a change to your child's dismissal that those changes to communicated to the front office NO LATER than 1pm.  So many people are part of our dismissal procedure and it is getting very difficult to communicate these changes when we receive them late in the day.  Please also keep in mind, any changes MUST be communicated to staff as sometime children get confused and relay the wrong information, thus the student not being where they need to be at dismissal time. We thank you in advance for your support. 
October-Cancer Awareness Month
October is Cancer Awareness month at DHCS.  Students will have the  opportunity to "Dress Down" in support of Cancer Awareness. We hope that ALL of our students will participate as ALL monies received from our Dress Down Days will be donated to TGen in support of Cancer Research.  Friday October 2nd is "Pink Out Day".  Students and Staff are encouraged to wear PINK in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.  Please see the flyer in today's Tuesday Folder for the specific dress down opportunities.  We thank you in advance for your support as we promote "Social Awareness" to our students.    
Lifetouch Picture Retake Day
For those students new to our school after August 19th, those that were absent on that date, OR those that are not happy with their original Fall pictures, please note that Picture Retake Day is on Wednesday, October 7th.  For those that are wanting retakes because they are not happy with their original pictures, please be sure to return the original picture package that was sent home last week. If you ordered pictures, but have not received them as of yet, please contact Lifetouch @ http://contact.lifetouch.com.
It's not too late to order pictures:
  1. Go to mylifetouch.com 
  2. Log in with your Portrait ID and Access Code located in your picture package
***Fall Break Dates***
 
October 12th thru October 16th!
Fall Break Camp
For those families that will be needing childcare during our Fall Break, please be sure to complete and submit the Camp Flyer to the preschool in order to reserve your child's space!    
Costco Night **Save The Date**
Be sure to stop by Costco @ Arrowhead on October 3rd from 7pm-9pm!  For every $75 spent, 1 ream of copy paper will be donated to DHCS!  Be sure to check out the flyer  in this weeks Tuesday Folder!   
The Perfect Touch Polo Shirts
For those families that would like to order DHCS polo shirts, please complete the order form and return it along with payment made payable to The Perfect Touch.  We do have sample sizes in the front office for your convenience.  
DHPA Athletics 
Want to come out and support our DHPA Athletics?  We are excited to announce that we have DHPA athletic passes available for students and families. If you plan to attend multiple athletic events, take advantage of this opportunity to attend at a discounted rate. We are offering passes for each individual season, and for the true Coyotes fan, we also offer an annual pass good for all seasons. Athletics passes can be purchased in the front office via cash or check only. Please make checks payable to DHPA Student Account. 
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