April 2, 2021

Arete Prep families, thank you! You have helped make this year a good one, even with all of the challenges. With eight weeks left, we still have funding gaps due largely to the additional expense of operating during the pandemic. If you haven’t made a gift this year, consider what amount you could contribute to Community Investment and/or make your Tax Credit to help fully fund this school year. We are only $20,734 away from Community Investment funding and $14,642 away from Tax Credit funding. It is going to take our collective community to finish out this year financially strong and healthy.

For families that have not completed the re-enrollment process, please check your email from Great Hearts for instructions.

High school parents! Please make the college counseling contribution for 9th - 11th graders HERE and senior contribution payments HERE.

The Senior Class of 2022 is having an Awesome April Raffle! With the purchase of each ticket, you get a chance to win up to 30 fabulous prizes including a RING Doorbell, grocery store gift cards, restaurant gift cards, a NEST outdoor security camera, tickets to Medieval Times, an American Girl Doll, Date Night packages, and much more....including a four-pack of Disneyland tickets! Check out the link to view the entire list of prizes and to purchase raffle tickets: https://areteprep.configio.com/pd/736/2022-senior-class-april-raffle-calendar-ticket

Order Honey Baked Ham gift cards for your holiday meals and support the 2022 Senior Class Trip to Washington, DC! CLICK HERE to order! Order now through April 10.

Dear Colleagues & Families,

We have received questions from parents regarding the Governor’s Executive Order (EO) from last week as to whether or not it included public schools.

The Governor’s office confirmed for us this week that the EO did not remove the mask mandate for public schools outlined in a previous EO.

To directly quote the Governor’s office, “The requirement for masks to be worn in Arizona public schools, as detailed in Section 5 of Executive Order 2020-51, remains intact and is unaffected by last week's Executive Order.”

This spring, Arizona is requiring public schools to test all students (whether online or in person) on campus and in person. These tests vary by grade level, but generally, they include the AzM2 (formerly AzMerit) test in ELA Writing/Reading, and Math, and the AzSCI test, which is required for all 8^th and 11^th graders this year. More information will follow after spring break. See schedule below.

Arizona Department of Health Services announced that it will open vaccine appointments to all residents aged 18 and older for those receiving the Moderna and Jassen vaccine and 16 and older for the those receiving the Pfizer vaccine. For more information on scheduling vaccine appointments, please visit: https://podvaccine.azdhs.gov/

The Academy for Classical Teachers provides online summer enrichment for all classical educators. You are your children’s first educators in the home, so you are invited as well. Learn more about the great authors that inspire our classical curriculum, like Boethius, Tocqueville, Shakespeare, Du Bois, Xenophon, and Aristotle. You can even learn Latin! To see all our course offerings and registration information, click here. 

ALL students will have an online day on Friday, April 16 and Friday, May 14.

Please DO NOT send your student to school if: 

Students should stay home when they are sick, as any one of the above symptoms can be COVID-19. Click here for additional information

When students return to campus after their quarantine is up or they have negative test results as indicated by Nurse Hodgkins, they must stop at the front desk before returning to class.

Please check our calendar for upcoming events

COVID-19 information is rapidly changing; for up-to-the-date information on COVID-19 visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

MIDDLE SCHOOL: There will be a cart OUTSIDE the front office doors from 10:20 am - 11:20 am for lunches, the cart will be moved to the courtyard at 11:20 for students to pick up lunches.

HIGH SCHOOL: There will be a cart OUTSIDE the front office doors from 11:15 am - 12:15 pm for lunches, the cart will be moved to the courtyard at 12:20 for students to pick up lunches.

PLEASE NOTE: there will be no supervision of the lunch cart and we will not be responsible for lost lunches. Door Dash/Uber Eats will need to be delivered onto the cart as we will not accept them in the front office. They can be delivered between 10:20 am - 11:20 am.

If you are attending in-person and borrowed an Arete Prep Laptop/Device, please hold onto the laptop until further notice. 

If your username or password does not work, please visit the Great Hearts Password/Login Help at https://theveeya.com/GreatHeartsFamilyHelp/

Great Hearts has changed the volunteer fingerprint process effective with the 2020-21 school year. The application is entirely online and available now. All volunteers must be approved through this new online procedure, including those with previously issued/non-expired Great Hearts badges, there will be no exceptions. Please note, when selecting the school, it will not differentiate between Arete Prep and Archway Arete, it will simply state Great Hearts Arete. The system will approve you for both schools.

Click here to apply. The cost is $5.00 per application per school year.

Please be aware that our preferred method of communication is via email, so it is vital that we have up-to-date email addresses on file so that we can keep you informed. Please email Beth Melvin with any updates to email addresses.