November 5, 2021

NO SCHOOL: Veterans Day, Thurs, Nov 11

JR Practice ACT: Sat, Nov 13 in the prep building; sign up with Ms. Arguello

12th Grade Coffee Shop: Tues, Nov 16 @8:30 am

Charger Chat: Thurs, Nov 18; 8:30 am @ Kneaders on Baseline & Higley; all parents invited

Winter Concert: Thurs, Nov 18 @ 7pm on the Open Stage in the courtyard

Thanksgiving Break: Wed, Nov 24 through Fri, Nov 26

Studio Art Night: Wed, Dec 1

High School Social: Fri, Dec 3

If you haven’t given yet, there is still time! Every dollar matters! For more information, contact Academy Giving Manager, Brittani Greve, at (480) 699-5283.

Buy your holiday ham and buy a gift card here to support the class of 2022!

Arete Prep needs a parent volunteer to lead the design and creation of the 2021-2022 yearbook.Contact Mr. Narish for more info or if interested.

Parents of Exceptional Children (PEC) is a support group for ESS/504 parents and Great Heart’s staff only or are in the process of acquiring an IEP/504 plan. Archway Arete and Arete Prep parents, Darin and Priyanka Miller, have worked with Tom Doebler, National Director of Exceptional Student Services, to make this a successful endeavor. For more information contact Darin or Priyanka Miller.

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Special Education records are destroyed five (5) years after a student has withdrawn, transferred, graduated or been exited from enrollment at Arete Preparatory Academy. This year, records will be destroyed for students who left the school or exited services in the 2016-2017 school year or earlier. If your student exited or graduated prior to 2016-2017 school year, files will be destroyed on 12/17/2021. If your student exited or graduated in May 2017, your files will be destroyed on 5/27/2022. If you are a parent or student and need a copy of your student’s special education records for any reason before they are destroyed, e.g., social security benefits, please contact Meaghan Jimenez in the Special Education department at 480.222.4233.

Attention student drivers that do NOT have a paid parking spot on campus! There if FREE parking across Baseline Road next to Auto Zone. Please do NOT park in the archway parking lot, at Wedgewood, the medical facilites (across the street) or in the neighborhoods. 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!

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.