January 28, 2022

Canta Bella Choir: Sun, Jan 30 @ 3 pm; Chandler Center for the Arts. Our choir is singing music of ABBA and there will be more great music. The concert is free, RSVP HERE.

9th Grade Coffee Shop: Tues, Feb 1 @ 8:30 am - meet in the front office

In-Service Day: Fri, Feb 4; NO SCHOOL

Great Hearts College Symposium: for 10th and 11th graders on Sat, Feb 5 @ 9 am (Virtual Event). An email with details was sent to all 10th and 11th grade families with an email on file. Please contact Lead College Counselor, Ms. Arguello, rarguello@areteprepacademy.org if you have questions or need to RSVP

8th Grade High School Preview Night: Mon, Feb 14 @ 6 pm via Zoom CLICK HERE for more info

7th Grade MIM Field Trip: Wed, Feb 16; CLICK HERE for payment; a permission form is required, contact Dr. Savic for more info.

President's Day: Mon, Feb 21: NO SCHOOL

Senior Trip: March 2 - 6

11th Grade Charger Camp: Mar 2 - 4

Rising Senior Night (juniors only): Mon, Mar 21

CORRECTION: 10th Grade Charger Camp: Mar 16-18

When: January 29, 2022, from 9am - 12pm

Where: North Phoenix Preparatory Academy, 14100 N 32nd St, Phoenix, AZ 85032

Representatives from all Arizona academies, Special Education, the Athletics Department, Athenaeum, Nursing, and Human Resources will be present at the fair. This is a great chance for interested candidates to meet with school representatives and learn more about opportunities available for the 2022-23 school year. Please reach out to friends and family you believe would be valuable additions to one of our academies and invite them to attend this event. Interested candidates may register using this link.

* Certification is not required for general education teachers. 

Great Hearts is seeking two families (an individual/couple from both archway and prep) to represent our academy on the 2022 Great Hearts Gala Committee. The Great Hearts Gala raises funds to benefit the Teacher Excellence Fund, which is distributed to our faculty as bonus compensation on an annual basis. Arete Prep received $23,446 in December 2021 from this initiative. The 5^th annual Gala will take place on September 24, 2022 at Chateau Luxe and a full description of the position can be found here. If you are interested in serving on the committee, please contact Haley Kucharo at hkucharo@greatheartsaz.org. 

While the best incentive for raising funds for a school is knowing that every dollar raised truly impacts our students and their development as humans directly, a little extra incentive doesn’t hurt!

This year local businesses in our community, families and teachers have partnered with Arete Prep to bring you rewards for hitting our goals. We are 42% to goal and would like to see our families hit a participation rate of 100%!

In addition, if you’ve already given your credit, please consider asking your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors to do the same. It takes an engaged community to make what we do at Arete Prep possible. Not to mention, you’ll get additional entries in the drawings.

Congratulations to the first 2 drawing winners – The Rattan and Kassebaum families – thank you!

Tax Credits are a simple way to provide support to Arete and be involved – at no cost to you – since you get the credit back when you file your AZ state taxes! There’s something about knowing where your hard-earned money is being spent by the government – directly at your school and in your community! Not to mention, being entered to be drawn for some awesome gear, gift cards and even event tickets is unobjectionable!

You can take the credit and enter for weekly drawings here or contact Brittani Greve, Academy Giving Manager at bgreve@areteprepacademy.org or 480.699.5283

Grand Canyon University offers free tutoring for grades K - 12. The tutors are GCU students and they have online, phone and in-person availability. CLICK HERE for more information.

Great Hearts has updated our COVID mitigation plan. The primary change is the isolation period for those that have tested positive, it has been changed from 10 days to five days. Day one is the first day following the onset of symptoms or a positive test (whichever comes first). Students and employees can return on the 6^th da after the onset of symptoms or a positive test, but must wear a mask on days 6-10 or will need to continue quarantining for this period. As always, if your child has any cold or flu-like symptoms, please keep them home and call the front desk to report the absence. For further direction, please consult the COVID mitigation plan or contact Nurse Hodgkins. 

Attention student drivers that do NOT have a paid parking spot on campus! There is FREE parking across Baseline Road next to Auto Zone. Do NOT park in the archway parking lot, at Wedgewood, INSPIRE, the medical facilites (across the street) or in the neighborhoods. Those locations are private property. If you park in the private parking lots, they may have you ticketed or towed.Thank you for helping to be good neighbors to those around us!

Arete Prep would like to implement the text messaging system for important information about events, safety alerts and more.

You can opt out any time by replying to one of the message with "Stop."

CLICK HERE for all Arete Prep Athletic info.

Visit our College Counseling webpages and resources HERE.

High School Students are invited to attend College Presentations during lunch and after school through this semester. A list of upcoming presentations (on-campus, off-campus and virtual events) can be found HERE.

Contact Lead College Counselor, Ms. Rebecca Arguello with questions.

2021-2022 UPDATED Family Calendar: CLICK HERE for the calendar

Booklist: CLICK HERE for Arete Prep Booklist.

Middle School Lab Notebooks: All middle school students need a Labbook for class: CLICK HERE to purchase. Students can pick them up in the front office after the purchase is made.

Uniforms: Purchase uniforms from Anton Uniforms, CLICK HERE for website info.

Dress Code: CLICK HERE for the Dress Code.

Lunches: Click here to for instructions and order. Volunteers are needed for lunch periods, sign up HERE. No children may accompany volunteers. Reminder: there are no microwaves available for students. Snacks are for sale during lunch.

Volunteers Needed: Arete Prep volunteers must have a security clearance to volunteer; CLICK HERE for clearance instructions.

Prep Students with Archway Siblings Drop-off and Pick-up: For drop-off: drop your prep student with the archway student at the archway double doors. Prep students need to walk around the front of the admin building and enter the prep building on the east side of the campus. Prep students are not allowed in the archway side. For pick-up: have prep student walk to archway MPR for pick-up with archway sibling. Prep student will need to walk around the front fo the admin building and the west side of the MPR. Prep students are not allowed in the archway playground or in their building.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: There will be a cart inside 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 inside 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. Middle school can be delivered between 10:20 am - 11:20 am and HS can be delivered between 11:15 am - 12:15 pm. BE SURE DELIVERY PERSON HAS YOUR STUDENTS NAME ON THE ORDER. We are not responsbile for lunches not marked with students names.