Upcoming Events

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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,

It is such a joy to be back together with you! I have the pleasure of driving along the Palm Valley golf course each morning on my way to school. There is something very distinct about a golf course in Arizona, and it has to do with the rough. The beautiful fairways and neatly manicured greens look inviting every day, even though I am not a golfer. The level of cultivation that goes into these living works of art is tremendous. Yet, today, my eye was drawn to the rough, the uncultivated part of a golf course. In places of greater moisture, the rough often includes long grass, trees, and other sundry foliage. In a desert golf course, there is nothing. There is no life at all. It is here that I though of our mission, “to cultivate the hearts and minds of students through the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.” Cultivating a heart and mind brings life to a human being in the same way a horticulturist can bring the desert to life. Thank you for trusting us with your most precious works of art, for allowing us to join with you in the honorable work of soul formation!

Heartily devoted,

Clay Scott, Ed.D.

Headmaster

Please join us for our K-5 Parent-only Curriculum Night on Tuesday, August 12. Parents will meet with teachers in the classrooms to learn more about the grade-level curriculum. Children should not attend.

This year, we are incorporating our Spalding Phonics/Singapore Math information session into Curriculum Night. Join us from 5:10-6:00pm for an overview of our phonics and math curricula. Parents will learn about the curriculum, walk through examples and have the opportunity to ask questions. 

There are two identical curricular sessions offered for parents with students in different grade levels. We hope you can join us for this event!

Tuesday, August 12 (Two Identical Curricular Sessions):

Curricular Session 1: 4:30-5 PM

Singapore/Spalding: 5:10-6:00pm

Curricular Session 2: 6:10-6:40 PM

Welcome to the 25-26 school year! We hope you had a fun and restful summer. A Family Giving Officer is an on-campus resource to support parent philanthropy through annual campaigns. My name is Aydin Martin, and I have the privilege of serving as the Family Giving and Community Engagement Officer for our school community. Let’s all support Tax Credit and Community Investment.

I want to thank all our families in advance for partnering with me throughout the school year to support our great academy. Please feel free to contact me at (480) 528-7013 should you need any assistance starting your school year. 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

Traffic Flow Updates

Thank you for helping to make our first week of school a success! 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

Return your Summer Reading Logs!

If your child participated in the Archway summer reading challenge, please bring the completed reading log to school this week. Please make sure your child's first and last name and classroom (once you know) are indicated on the form.

All participants will be rewarded with a popsicle and extra recess during the first quarter.

Join the Trivium 5th Grade Co-ed Flag Football Team!

Attention 5th grade families! Trivium Prep Athletics is hoping to restart our Flag Football program for 5th grade students. Practices will begin on August 18 with games beginning in September. If you are interested in learning more or participating, please complete the interest form:

5th Grade Flag Football Interest Form

Registration/Sports Physical must be complete before tryouts begin. See the Trivium Prep Athletics website for details. https://greatheartstriviumathletics.org/

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.

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.” 

Registration for our Wednesday, Quarter 1 and vendor-led clubs is now open. Additional fall-semester faculty-led clubs will be announced in the coming weeks. 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:

Wednesday - Quarter 1 Clubs

SportsKidz AZ - Co-ed Basketball (K-5) starts August 13

Play-well LEGO (K-2, 3-5) starts August 6

Young Rembrandts (K-2, 3-5) starts August 6

Fall Semester Vendor-led Clubs

"Buddy the Ball" Tennis (K-3), Mondays beginning August 25

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

Golf Squad (Grades 1-5), Fridays, beginning September 5

To learn more and register, visit:

www.archwaytrivium.org/clubs

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.