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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,

In my very first Friday Flash letter, I shared a brief selection from The Apology, one of Plato’s dialogues, wherein Socrates defends himself against charges of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. Ever the teacher, Socrates challenges Callias regarding the upbringing of his sons.

If your sons were colts or calves, we could find and engage a supervisor for them who would make them excel in their proper qualities, some horse breeder or farmer. Now, since they are men, whom do you have in mind to supervise them? Who is an expert in this kind of excellence, the human and social kind? I think you must have given thought to this since you have sons. Is there such a person?

Choosing a school for one’s children is no easier today than it was for Callias. We must wrestle with big questions, and we may not have answers even after much study. What are the “proper qualities" of a fully formed human? How are those qualities developed? Can they be taught, or need they be experienced? How do I know if someone is qualified to instruct in this manner? Is there such a person?

I don’t claim to model human excellence, nor do I claim that for this academy. I am too keenly aware of the many faults and imperfections, both personally and organizationally. Although not a model, I strive for human excellence nonetheless. It is through that striving, and building on the knowledge and lives of great individuals who have come before, that I feel confident in the direction and mode of the Archway Trivium pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

I wish to share how grateful I feel every day to be trusted to lead this academy. On behalf of our entire faculty and staff, I wish to express our gratitude. We are truly humbled that your answer to these big questions would lead you to us. It is a responsibility not to be taken lightly. As we begin this school year, you have my commitment to lead our shared pursuit with fidelity and tenacity.

Heartily Devoted,

Clay Scott, Ed.D.

Headmaster

The 2025-26 "Classics to Keep" consumable book list and grade-level supply lists are available on our website. Use the "Book & Supply Lists" Link under "Academics" on our website or follow the link below to learn more! 

Click Here for 2025-26 Book & Supply Lists

Please note that Math/Language Workbooks and Spalding supplies will be purchased directly through the school. See the links provided in the book list.

Information regarding our school uniforms and dress code is available on the Uniforms Page of our website. Additionally, you will find links to our uniform vendor, Lands' End School Uniforms and information about upcoming sales (when available). Please see the website for more information.

We are looking forward to our Meet the Teacher Open House on Monday, August 4. During the event times listed below families are invited to meet their child's teacher, visit the classroom and deliver books and supplies. Reminder: Students should come dressed in full uniform to our Meet the Teacher event.

Parents should plan to attend the Meet the Teacher based on the student's last name during the times below. Families will receive an introductory email from their classroom teachers by noon on the morning of the Meet the Teacher and class assignments will be posted at the event as well.

Meet the Teacher Times (by student last name):

A-L: 1:00-2:30 PM

M-Z: 3:00-4:30 PM

During Meet the Teacher, there will be a School Info Fair in the Archway Multipurpose Room (MPR) featuring representatives from our Parent Service Organization (PSO), the Hot Lunch program, after-school Athenaeum, the School Nurse, and front office staff to answer questions.

Families will receive their GREEN or ORANGE pick-up cards in the classroom of their oldest (or only) Archway student during Meet the Teacher night. The PSO will also have a Back-to-School Photo Spot where you can take your child's photo to celebrate the new school year!

Please note: Pick-up cards from last year are no longer valid. They cannot be used for student pickup.

The first day of school is memorable for students and parents. To honor this special moment for incoming Kindergarten students, Kindergarten parents will be able to walk their child onto the playground and spend a few minutes with their child on the first day of school, Wednesday, August 7, during the times noted below. Class sections will be communicated by email on Monday, August 4.

First Day of Kindergarten - Wednesday, August 6

Sections KA, KB & KC - 8:20-8:30 AM

Sections KD & KE - 8:40-8:50 AM

Kindergarten students who are dropped off (without a parent) before 7:50 AM will gather at a designated table in the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) with activities and supervision. Once our older students are in class, Kindergarten students will proceed to the playground for a special time of play.

Our Headmaster, Dr. Scott, along with the Kindergarten team and other faculty members will be on hand to greet you and your child on their first day of school. We are looking forward to sharing this memorable time with you and your child. Details regarding parking for this event will be emailed to parents prior to the first day of school.

Click Here for Full Details

Traffic Flow for Student Drop-off/Pick-up

Please carefully review the Archway Traffic Flow for Student Drop-off and Pick-up and reach out with any questions. Taking the time to understand these procedures will help to ensure the safety of our students/staff and a smooth traffic flow. 

IMPORTANT: Please follow the link below to review the DETAILED Archway Traffic Flow Plan and be sure to share this link with anyone authorized to drop-off/pick-up your children.

*View the DETAILED Archway Traffic Flow Procedures*

General Reminders:

• Morning Drop-off is from 7:20-7:47 AM. Parents who wish to drop-off earlier must enroll in Early Drop-off Club. 
• Parents in the drop-off/pick-up zone must remain in their vehicle. Faculty will assist students exiting their vehicles, however, faculty are not allowed to assist students with car seats, so parents are highly encouraged to practice prior to the start of the year so that students are able to do that independently.
• Please have your ORANGE or GREEN pick-up card clearly displayed on your dashboard during pick-up to help keep our process running smoothly. Pick-up cards will be handed out at Meet the Teacher in your oldest Archway child's classroom.
• Due to limited parking, there will be NO walk-up option for student drop-off/pick-up at this time.
• Parents with both Archway and Prep students, please review the pick-up procedure with your Trivium Prep students before the first day of school emphasizing the importance of arriving to the Archway Pick-up/Drop-off Zone promptly after school to be ready to load into your vehicle.

Archway students may not be dropped off/picked up in the Trivium Prep (6th-12 grade) traffic flow.

Palm Lane/Granada Parking Update

New this year: There is NO parking for students/families on Palm Lane/Granada south of campus where signs are posted. Parking is by permit only.

Return your Summer Reading Logs!

If your child participated in the Archway summer reading challenge, please bring the completed reading log to Meet the Teacher or on the first day of school. 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.

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.” 

Did you know that 5th grade students are eligible to join the Trivium Prep Middle School Cross Country team? If your child would like to participate, please plan to join us for Trivium Prep Fall Sports Info Night on Thursday, August 7 in the gym to learn more. Students must have completed registration through the Trivium Prep Athletics website (including a sports physical) before they can tryout/practice with the team.

Reach out to Coach Smith or Coach Jelinek with quesitons.

Parents are invited to join the PSO at Panera Goodyear from 8-9:30 AM on Friday, August 8 after student drop-off for our annual "Boo Hoo/Yahoo! Parent Social." This is a great way to meet other parents and celebrate the start of the school year! Coffee, tea and pastries will be provided and younger children are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there!

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

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.

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

If you need to drop off your child between 7:00-7:20 AM, Early Drop-off Club is available in the Archway MPR. For more information and to register, visit our website. Early Drop-off Club begins on the first day of school.

• Learn More
• Register for Early Drop-off Club

Parents needing after-school care may enroll for Athenaeum. For more details, please visit our website.

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

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!

Volunteers serving on campus must have a current Raptor clearance. Clearance is valid for one school year from July-June and volunteers must reapply each year after July 1.

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

Lands' End Summer Uniform Sale

Our new uniform vendor, Land's End, is having at summer sale! The earlier you order, the more you save.

June 28-July 4, 2025 - 30% Off (Code: Notebook, PIN: 4578)

July 5-July 18, 2025 - 20% Off (Code: SUPPLIES, PIN: 1754)

July 19-August 1, 2025 - 10% Off (Code: CAMPUS, PIN: 6876)

Visit the Lands' End School Uniform Website to Order

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 academic calendar for the 2025-26 school year is available on our website. Here is a summary of "Important Dates" for the upcoming 2025-26 school year. 

Meet the Teacher: Monday, August 4, 2025

First Day of School: Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Fall Break: October 3-10, 2025

In-service/Conference Days: October 13-14, 2025

Winter Break: Friday, December 19-Friday, January 2, 2026

Spring Break: March 6-13, 2026

Last Day of School: May 21, 2026

View Archway Trivium 2025-26 Calendar

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.  

• Marketing and Communications

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.

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

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 after August 4. Please reach out to Lisa Regan at Lregan@archwaytrivium.org with any questions.

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.