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Contact Information

Archway Trivium Main Office: (623) 414-4883

Attendance Line: (623) 565-5490

Website: www.archwaytrivium.org

2025/26 School and Office Hours:

A Message from the Headmaster

Dear Archway Trivium Families,

I would like to try something new this year with the Friday Flash. We talk often of our pursuit of the three transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. When we do, we talk in a very general sense. About once a month this year I will dedicate this portion of the Friday Flash to The Transcendental Report, a place where I share an observation of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from that week.

The Transcendental Report

Truth

This week I witnessed kindergarten students learning phonograms. These basic components of written language will last these children a lifetime. In the spirit of promoting human flourishing, there is nothing more human than language, which makes observing these scholars grow in this specific way all the more joyful.

Goodness

During a specials class, one child who has difficulty attending to lessons and little social awareness was struggling more than usual. Rather than grow impatient with his distractions, or annoyed by the volume of his voice, this young scholar diligently stood by his side. She possessed no training or even understanding of his internal struggles, but she did know how to be a friend. She affirmed and encouraged with every bit of her tiny self. It didn’t make any difference. The loud distractions continued. Her friend did receive the support needed from the teachers, and throughout the whole process he had a friend by his side.

Beauty

My observation of beauty is actually manifold. Our teachers walk a delicate line when setting up the aesthetics of their classrooms. Too much on the walls is distracting to scholars, but too little feels cold. Each room has at least one piece of classical art, as well as a few minimal learning supports. Color schemes are muted, because brighter or livelier schemes can be overstimulating. Furthermore, a muted scheme does more to present a formal and elevated space that promotes respect for learning. Our teachers have done fantastic work in creating beautiful classrooms for our scholars to daily engage in their own pursuit of the transcendentals.

Heartily devoted,

Clay Scott, Ed.D.

Headmaster

Pledge Leaders: Elijah C., Deacon C., Luis A., Savanna W., Brooklyn G.

Registration for our faculty-led clubs is now open. Additionally, there is still space available in select vendor-led clubs. Registration is offered on a first come, first serve basis, so don't delay! If a club is full, please join the Wait List to be notified should additional spots become available.

Offerings include:

Cheer Clinic (K-5)

Crafts Club (3-5)

Squire Squad (3-5)

Young Crafters (1-2)

Fall Semester Vendor-led Clubs

Chess Emporium Chess Club (K-5), Tuesdays beginning August 26

"Buddy the Ball" Pickleball (K-3), Thursdays beginning August 28

Mad Science (K-5), Thursdays beginning August 28

To learn more and register, visit:

www.archwaytrivium.org/clubs

Volunteer Opportunities

Many hands make light work! There are many ways to support the mission at Archway Trivium. Please follow the links below to volunteer. As a reminder, volunteers must renew their Raptor clearance annually (beginning July 1) in order to serve on-campus. Visit the Volunteers page on our website to compete a Volunteer Application.

Current Opportunities:

• Library Volunteer - Quarter 1

• Hot Lunch Server - Daily

• Lunchroom Helper - Daily

• Fruit Basket - Weekly, Mondays

• Hearing and Vision Screening, September 3-8

• Coming soon! Copy Program, Mondays/Fridays, 8-10am

Required: Complete the 2025-26 ESEA Form beginning August 18

On Monday, August 18, the 2025-26 ESEA form will be available in your enrollment parent portal to complete. Please complete the ESEA form for each student for the 2025–2026 school year. Your participation—regardless of eligibility—helps secure funding for:

· Tutoring & academic support

· Technology upgrades

· Teacher training & facility improvements

Instruction on how to complete this form will be sent on Monday, August 18, 2025. All information is confidential. Thank you for your support!

Join us for PSO Popsicles in the Park on Saturday, August 23 from 9-11 AM at Goodyear Community Park (3151 N. Litchfield Road, Goodyear). Get to know other Archway Trivium families and kick off the new school year! Popsicles provided! Wear your swim suits and remember your sunscreen, water bottles, towel & park blanket or camp chair.

K-5 School Picture Day is Tuesday, August 26

Archway Trivium is partnering with Grads Photography for our school pictures and yearbook. School Picture Day is Tuesday, August 26. Students must wear their school uniform and follow dress code on Picture Day. Follow the link below to pre-order online.

Pre-order School Pictures Online



If you would like to serve as a parent volunteer on Picture Day, please sign up in Membership ToolKit. You must have current Raptor clearance to serve on campus.

Audition for the Trivium Talent Show - August 29

We will be hosting a Talent Show in the gym on Saturday, September 13 at 4 PM. Students in Grades 4-12 are invited to audition a talent to share at this fun, community event! Auditions will be held on afternoon of the half day, Friday, August 29, from 1:30-2:30pm (parents must pick up their student at 11:50am and return for auditions). Please sign up below if your student would like to participate. We can't wait to see our scholars shine!

Reach out to Aydin Martin with questions: amartin@triviumprep.org.

Audition for the Trivium Talent Show

This year any family who gives their tax credit by 8/31/2025 will have one scholar’s field trip fees waived for the year. Please visit our website to support our school through community investment and tax credit.

Support Great Hearts Archway Trivium, Serving Grades K-5

Membership ToolKit is our one-stop shop for volunteering and connecting with other families through the schoolwide directory.

New families are welcome to begin creating accounts now! Detailed instructions to set up your account are included here.

Returning families will need to login to update your child(ren)'s teachers for the 2025-26 school year. Please reach out to Lisa Regan at Lregan@archwaytrivium.org with any questions.

Our first Archway Spirit Day is the half day, Friday, August 29. Students at Archway Trivium are encouraged to wear Spirit Wear on this days.

25-26 Spirit Wear Guidelines:

Archway scholars may wear one of the following shirts:

Archway Trivium Spirit Wear, a Class t-shirt, an Archway athletics t-shirt, a Run the Virtues 5K t-shirt, Trivium Prep spirit wear, any previously purchased Archway Trivium West/East spirit wear, or a solid t-shirt in school colors (blue, white, gray, or black). This is optional and a uniform shirt can always be worn. All other uniform components should be worn according to our dress code. Show your school spirit!

Did you know the PSO runs an online shop, so you can order Spirit Wear all year round?! Order your favorite gear in the colors and styles you love. Shipping is a breeze--items ship straight to your doorstep! Students can wear Spirit Wear shirts on Spirit Days and at other school events, so order today! Our first Archway K-5 Spirit Day will be the half day, Friday, August 29.

Shop Archway Trivium Spirit Wear

My Hot Lunchbox is excited for another great year of delivering school lunch!

Online ordering is now available at: ordernow.myhotlunchbox.com/. If you are a first-time customer, visit the My Hot Lunchbox website to create your free account. Families with students at both Archway Trivium and Trivium Prep schools should create only ONE account per family.

Important Note: You will need to update your profile with the student's grade for the current school year in the "My Profiles" section before ordering.

If you have any questions, please review the Parent Lunch FAQ or contact My Hot Lunchbox at (888) 894-8295 or by email at info@myhotlunchbox.com. Ordering is easy! Follow the link below to get started or visit the PSO Lunch page on the school website for more information.

Order Hot Lunch

Fall 2025 Vendors include:

• Monday – Raising Cane’s
• Tuesday – Red Robin
• Wednesday – Olive Garden
• Thursday – Chick-fil-A
• Friday – Streets of New York

The Trivium Lunch Program is entirely managed and distributed by our Parent Service Organization volunteers. This program is open to all students, faculty, and staff at Trivium. 

The Archway Trivium PSO invites parent volunteers to help in the Archway Trivium Lunchroom! Parent volunteers can assist in serving the food, helping the younger children in the lunchroom, ensuring the lunch room remains clean and lunch period runs smoothly. You can sign up to volunteer once a month, once a week, or every day. It’s a very important volunteer role that also makes for a fun view into your scholar’s life at school!

All volunteers MUST be verified through the Great Heart volunteer application (Raptor) and have completed the Archway Trivium Volunteer Training prior to serving. The Raptor clearance must be renewed each year on/after July 1.

Ways to Participate:

Volunteer as a Hot Lunch Server 

This role is responsible for organizing the lunches by grade and distributing them to the students as they come in for lunch. Please plan to be there from 10:30am-1:00pm. Volunteers will receive a lunch account credit with My Hot Lunchbox. The credit is $5 per person per day, and the volunteer must be registered to MHL with a matching email to receive the credit. The credits will be tallied monthly and credited to your account within the first 2 weeks of the following month. Please email psolunch@archwaytrivium.org if you have any questions regarding the credits. Children are not permitted to help with this volunteer position.

Volunteer as a Lunchroom Helper

This role was created to assist our 1st-5th grade classes and help keep the lunchroom clean and running smoothly. Please plan to be there from 10:45am-1:00pm. Younger siblings are welcome to serve alongside parents as a “Lunchroom Buddy.” 

Restaurant Night at Old Chicago - September 17

Save the date for our PSO Family Night at Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom on Wednesday, September 17 from 4-9 pm. Present the flyer and 15% of your you total check will support our school. Also, don't miss the interactive trivia at 5:30 PM to find our "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" See you there!

Traffic Flow Updates

We appreciate your patience and kindness during student drop off and pick up, as we know it is an adjustment at the start of the school year.

Here are a few reminders that will help our traffic flow run smoothly:

• You must have your PHYSICAL ORANGE or GREEN pick-up card clearly visible during pick-up. We do not accept a photo of your card on a phone. If you forget your pickup card, you must go to the front office.

• Please keep pulling forward to eliminate gaps in the traffic flow. This helps relieve traffic back-ups on Encanto Blvd.

• Parents in the drop-off/pick-up zone must remain in their vehicle.

• Follow the directions of staff on duty.

• Parents picking up both Archway and Prep students use the Archway driveline. Prep students do not use pickup cards and should be ready and watching along the sidewalk north of the gym to get into your car. Remind your Prep students to arrive promptly to the pickup area after school. If they are not present when you reach the sidewalk, you will be asked to loop around and re-enter the driveline to keep traffic moving. As Prep dismisses after Archway, do not arrive to the driveline before your Prep student's pickup time.

• Archway students may not be dropped off/picked up in the Trivium Prep (6th-12 grade) traffic flow. Please use the Archway traffic flow to drop-off and pickup your Archway & Prep students.

View the DETAILED Archway Traffic Flow Procedures and Maps

Volunteers serving on campus must have a current Raptor clearance. Clearance is valid for one year and volunteers must reapply annually.

Additionally, new volunteers must complete a school-specific one-time-only Mandatory Volunteer Training.

Click Here for More Information

For a snapshot of current volunteer opportunities, log into Membership ToolKit to view the calendar.

Hearing and Vision Screening Volunteers Needed - September 3-8

Our Health Office looking for volunteers to help with annual hearing and vision screenings. The screening dates are September 3-8. Volunteers must have current Raptor clearance in order to serve on campus. Follow the link below to volunteer:

Volunteer for Hearing & Vision Screening

The PSO has partnered with LabelDaddy to give our school community a solution for all those lost jackets and water bottles! LabelDaddy offers high quality vinyl name labels that are ultra durable and washable (both laundry and dishwasher!). Shop using our link and LabelDaddy will donate 25% of each purchase back to our school. Share our link with friends and family!

www.labeldaddy.com/atpso

2025-2026 Asthma, Allergy, and Seizure Action Plans

Action plans & medication consent forms must be renewed each school year. Please visit https://arizona.greatheartsamerica.org/academy-life/health-office/ for 2025-2026 documents to provide to your scholar's health care provider. All emergency medications must accompany an action plan. 

The Parent Service Organization (PSO) is looking for passionate volunteers to round out their team this coming school year. If you are interested in leading an event, sharing your ideas, participating in a committee, volunteering in any supportive role around campus, or if you'd simply like to get more involved and you're not exactly sure how, contact us to find out more! 

We have a lot of volunteer opportunities for the upcoming school year:  

• Library Help 
• Lunchroom help 
• Copyroom help
• Dad's club (reading to scholar's and/or playing at recess) 
• Weekly Staff Fruit Basket 
• Help with on campus events (School dance, Art portfolio, Teacher Appreciation events, and many more!)

Be part of the PSO board! We have a few openings this year and would love to have new parents be part of the board. Below are our open board/lead positions.  

• Secretary
• Marketing and Communications
• Dad's Club Liason

View all Volunteer Opportunities

All volunteers must renew their Raptor clearance annually AFTER July 1.

Have questions or want to learn more? Reach out to Megan Douglas at psopresident@archwaytrivium.org.

Join us in wishing "Happy Birthday" to the following Archway Trivium faculty and staff with recent/upcoming birthdays! Faculty Favorites lists are available on our PSO Community page.

Betsy Bennis-Steele - 1B Assistant - August 1

Christine Caloviras – 3D Lead - August 3

Jane Richards - 4B Assistant - August 3

James Sones – ESS Interventionist - August 6

Ricardo Gil – ELL Coordinator - August 17

Deeann Guymon – SLP - August 23

Registration for after-school Athenaeum for the 2025-26 school year is now open. Visit our website for more information and to register.



Learn More about Athenaeum in the Athenaum Newsletter

Young Hearts Preschool is a nurturing and enriching educational environment for preschool and pre-kindergarten children, located on the Great Hearts Roosevelt campus in Buckeye. They are enrolling now for both summer and school-year programs! Visit their website to learn more: https://younghearts.greatheartsamerica.org/.

• Book and Supply Lists
• Uniform Information
• 2025-26 Academic Calendar
• Upcoming Events Calendar
• Traffic Flow for Student Drop-off/Pick-up
• Extracurricular Clubs/Early Drop-off Club
• Volunteer Approval Process
• Mandatory Volunteer Training
• Membership ToolKit - Volunteer Opportunities/Family Directory

• Order Spirit Wear (ships directly to your home)
• Shop Label Daddy and Support Our School

Archway Trivium Main Office: (623) 414-4883

Attendance Line: (623) 565-5490

Website: www.archwaytrivium.org

School Messenger Communication

Great Hearts and Archway Trivium continue to utilize the system School Messenger for emails, robo-calls, and text messaging to inform families of campus related academy emergencies and other communications. SchoolMessenger has a new automatic opt-in for text feature. During the registration/re-enrollment process families confirmed their wish to participate in text communications. Great Hearts will now automatically opt in contact information given during the registration/re-enrollment process with the options you selected. You will notice at the beginning of July you will be opted in for text messaging. If you would like to opt out of text messages simply reply STOP to the text from 67585. You can also enter the code 67585 with the message STOP to block any text messaging. Please note, if opting out, you will not receive texts regarding emergencies on campus.

Email Communications

If you know of parents who are not receiving these communications, please ask them to check their junk/promotions email folders, and then email bmcdonald@archwaytrivium.org for assistance. 

You can also find ALL school-wide communications on our website on the Latest News page.