Hello there,

I am am excited to meet some new faces and see some familiar faces this week as we start Enrollment Meetings. I also wanted to send out a few reminders. I especially want to make note of the Back-to-School ice Cream Social on August 15 at 5:30. This is a great time to meet new families and see some familiar faces and reconnect!

 

*Enrollment Meetings August 3-9 

Monday, August 15- 5:30pm- Ice Cream Social

*August 16- Parent Orientations

*Office Hours- August 18-26

*Start Blended Resource Center- August 16

*Aug 29- 4th-8th- Start Resource Center

*August 30- TK-3rd- Start Resource Center

*September 13- 9am Parent Networking Meeting- Parent Resource Center

 

For meetings this week and next, please bring a current proof of residence with your physical address. We can no longer use driver’s licenses and need a currently dated medical or utility bill, car registration or insurance,  or an investment or bank statement.

 

All families should come in 10-20 minutes early to the Arete office to collect the 2022-2023 Enrollment packets AND complete the forms BEFORE your meeting. Click here if you would like to view and/or print the documents.

Parent Documents 2022-2023

 

If you are new to Arete this year, please attend a Zoom meeting to learn valuable information about forms and policies and have all of your questions answered.

 

August 5- 11-11:30am Coffee Talk with Director (Zoom and In Person in the Arete Library)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://prsd-us.zoom.us/j/4817950151?pwd=U2JJY29rZlRQblczTmozV1cwZmp3dz09

Meeting ID: 481 795 0151

Passcode: GoAreteGo

 

August 16- 8-8:30 Coffee Talk with Director (Zoom and In Person in the Arete Library)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://prsd-us.zoom.us/j/4817950151?pwd=U2JJY29rZlRQblczTmozV1cwZmp3dz09

Meeting ID: 481 795 0151

Passcode: GoAreteGo

 

During your enrollment meeting, you will also be working with your Educational Advisor on planning the first month of lessons for your child(ren) and starting to plan the budget of how you will allocate their Instructional Funds for the year. Your curriculum will be ordered after we turn in the Budget Planning Form. Here is a list of approved curriculum. There are hundreds of other curriculums out there so if you would like to see a different one approved, please send the direct grade level link to the Director, Sarah at [email protected]. Arete Approved Curriculum 2022-2023

Enrichment Activities with approved vendors can begin on September 1. Here is the list of last year's vendors. We anticipate they will all sign on again and we are adding a few new interesting ones. Arete Vendors 2021-2022

We will have a number of orientations and family trainings scheduled for the first day of school, August 16. We are still formalizing that list so please look for more information coming soon! 

The Arete Resource Center will begin classes on Monday, August 29 at 9am for 4-8th grades. K-3 students will begin on Tuesday, August 30 at 9am. 

If you have not already done so, please complete the Google Form sharing your plans for whether or not your child will attend the Arete Resource Center this year.

Arete Planning for the 2022-2023 School Year

If you have a 2nd-8th grader, click below to sign up for Fall Testing. TK and 1st grade parents can ignore. Blended Middle School kiddos will test at school!

Fall NWEA Math and Accelerated Reader Testing

Hi families,

You should be hearing from your Educational Advisor in the next day or two, if you have not already. I had originally sent out the correct link for the Resource Center Sign up earlier this month, but accidentally likes last year's in the email I sent to the teachers. If you received that one in error, I apologize. The biggest difference in the Sign up for this year is that we have no indication that masks will be required (like the 21/22 said). So sorry about that. Below is the correct sign up for the 2022-2023 Resource Center and the 2nd-8th Testing Sign Up (please read that CAREFULLY) before you sing up. Thanks everyone!

 

If you have not already done so, please complete the Google Form sharing your plans for whether or not your child will attend the Arete Resource Center this year.

Arete Planning for the 2022-2023 School Year

If you have a 2nd-8th grader, click below to sign up for Fall Testing. TK and 1st grade parents can ignore. Blended Middle School kiddos will test at school!

Fall NWEA Math and Accelerated Reader Testing

Happy Summer!

Correction- *The garden will be open this Thursday, July 7th at 8:30am!

Good evening,

We are so excited that Arete Charter Academy will be part of your family’s educational journey for the 2022-2023 school year. 

*The garden will be open this Wednesday, July 6th at 8:30am. We are looking for donations of landscape fabric to help us keep the weeds in our walkways at bay. We will also need it for our new orchard area once we’ve built the fence. If anyone has fence experience or connections for purchasing supplies, please let us know!

*The Arete Library will be open to families on July 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21  from 8:30am-11:30am. Mary might be working back in the library so come in and call out "Hello!" All currently enrolled students in good standing (nothing overdue or owed to the library or Arete) may check out books. Unfortunately, we cannot check out books to new families who have not signed contracts yet, but you are welcome to hang out here and look at books!

*Arete Planning for the 2022-2023 School Year- Thank you for choosing Arete Charter Academy as your children's school. We are so happy to have you! Please complete a separate form for EACH child. Please complete this form so we know you received it and have made a decision. Otherwise we do not know if you received it and we want to prepare teachers and staff for the school year. Thanks so much! 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1D394LwK4-GjP7KlYzHi_rM12OidNCR8BycmB9hATnzw/edit?fbclid=IwAR14BhraIW78Qr6hhmXfcUVONEtN-_OOF1MoLmkmrPRRhljA_EqT_E_Tt2E

We are so excited to be planning for next year and all of the new adventures we will be having including new field trips and enrichment instructors and classes. We also will be building a new fence and planting an orchard. We also will be returning to many of our educational practices that Arete had before Covid as all mandates have been lifted. These are all outlined in the Master Agreement and Parent Handbook that you will be signing in August. Here are some updates/reminders of what those practices are.

*All district and state testing will be in person. We did not have distance testing before Covid and the state and district are finding that results are much more accurate when testing is completed on campus. The district and state returned to this for the past school year and Arete will be implementing this for the coming school year.

*All district and state testing is still required if your child attends Arete. Opt out options are for students who attend the school in their district of residence. Arete is a school of choice and our charter renewal is dependent on all of our students testing and showing growth towards grade level standards. The state is clamping down on those requirements more and more every year and charter and home schools are being especially closely watched. Arete’s goal is to provide students with the most individualized and comprehensive education we can, and we can only do that if our charter is renewed and we get to stay open. (We have different requirements than public schools).

*All speech and specialized academic services for students with IEPs will be returned to in person only.

*Enrollment meetings and 20 Day Meetings will be in person. We are updating and streamlining our Assignment and PE logs and this will be a great time for Educational Advisors to review and support families with these. There may be an opportunity for families who hold their meetings on time with their Educational Advisor and turn in all logs and work samples on the day of their meeting, to move to Zoom meetings after the first trimester if it is effective for both the family and the Educational Advisor. If the Educational Advisor, student, parent team is approved to move to Zoom meetings, the parent and student will need to be present in the meeting and all documents and logs will need to be scanned to the Educational Advisor at least 24 hours before the meeting.

*There are requirements from our audit by the state that we need to show we are meeting. This is what we have been requesting this year and will be requiring for the 2022-2023 school year.

-Please bring all student work from the 20 days of instruction to showcase, and the Educational Advisor will choose two samples for each subject from what is provided.This way the team has a real picture of the progress your child is making.

-All samples must have one sentence per grade level. K students can label with letters and words or dictate to parents. 8th grade must have EIGHT sentences, etc.

-Math samples should have at least eight problems or more (we understand this will look different from kinder than 8th grade).

-Samples should be two separate samples and not a second page of the same sample.

-First grade on up should be in the kiddos own writing, unless they have an IEP in which case,  start expecting that by 3rd-4th grade.

*Assignment Completion Log- Must be filled out in detail with specific lessons/topics of study or percentages (online curriculum only). 

This may sound like a lot of changes at first, but please remember that everyone at Arete is on your kiddos’ team, and your Educational Advisor will be there to support your family and that EA’s will work with families as a team to assist with these requirements. 

Dates for the 2022-2023 School Year

*Enrollment Meetings August 3-9 

*Ice Cream Social- Monday, August 15- 5:30pm

*Family Training- August 16 & 17

*Office Hours- August 18-26

*Start Blended Resource Center- August 16

*Start Resource Center- Aug 31- 4th-8th

and Sept 1- TK-3rd

*September 21- 5:30 Family Reading Game Night

*October 26- 5:30 Family Math Game Night

*December 7- Arete Christmas Party- 5:30

*May 31- 4-8th Field Day

*May 30 or June 1- TK-3 Field Day (Depends if we use Emergency day or not)

*June 7- 5:30pm 8th Grade Promotion

Also, we are so excited to bring chickens on our campus that we are starting the planning now. Please complete this brief survey so we can gauge people's interest. https://forms.gle/hdgVTdLvN38k2tGU7

If you received this email, you are registered on our website, Edlio, to receive all Arete updates. You can also request to be in our private Facebook page titled Arete Charter Academy Family Group.

We are so EXCITED for the adventure of a new school and hope you have an amazing summer!

Reminder that yearbooks are here! We moved them to the MPR where Mary is doing the non consumable check in so we can try to give them to you when you come for that!

 

Happy Sunday,

So fun to have a rainy weekend and then such hot days expected this week. What a wonderful school year we have had and it feels that it has come to a close so quickly. If your family will not be returning to Arete next year, we are happy for the time we had with you and wish you well. For those of you who are staying, we have lots of fun new things planned including chickens and an orchard. Here are a few details for the last week of school.

 

*We are taking sign ups now for our Blended Middle School Program for next year. Click on the link to let us know if your middle schooler will be attending and if so, what electives they want. All of the details about the program are in the Google Form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1E9wak1d0Nf3OvZnbLTr5sgicYSibQSb9J5DOFIDc0ig/edit?ouid=100476871323664414610&usp=mail_response_notification&urp=gmail_link

 

*Thanks to all of the families who have turned in their non-consumables so far. A HUGE thank you to those who keep the appointment they scheduled and come on time. This is incredibly helpful to us. Here is the link if you need to sign up or change your sign up. All non consumables must be collected or paid for by Friday, June 10, 2022. Also, please be prompt in completing your 20 day meetings with your EAs so they can start their summers on time. (They have worked hard this year and deserve their break)! We have to check through all 230 binders and organize and store the records and it's VERY helpful if you attend the meetings you signed up for with your EAs and turn in all logs and samples on time. Thanks!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4eaaab29a6fe3-2022

 

*June 10th is also the date we need you to update your PRSD forms to secure your spot for the next school year. We will be having a lottery on June 15 for available spots. Please complete those forms this week!

Click on this link https://psprsd.org/public/home.html and update all of the information in Forms A-K under PRSD Enrollment Forms. Email [email protected] for assistance. If you have previously told us your child will be attending Arete next year and your plans have changed, please email us ASAP so we can open that spot for another child. 

 

*Our Kindergarten Family Social is this Tuesday, June 7th from 11:30-12ish. This will be an informal Kindergarten picnic for families to connect and exchange phone numbers, etc to be able to set up playdates and park or swim meet ups in the summer. *Chelsea ordered one cap and gown for people to borrow to take pictures in and Chelsea will bring Otter Pops. *All families who want to attend should meet outside on the grass from room 3. Please RSVP at [email protected] so we know how many families to expect!

 

*We are so excited for our 5th Promotion Ceremony for 8th graders on Wednesday, June 8th. Please bring a picnic and blanket or chairs. We will start decorating at 4:30 and families can come on campus and start eating at 5pm. The ceremony will begin at 5:30. There will be cake! If your family is arriving for the ceremony only, please have your 8th grader there by 5:20 as we start on time.

 

*Arete Parent’s Club- We are looking for a head parent that would facilitate the communication for this informal group. We are thinking they would meet monthly in the Parent Resource Center. There would not be official officers yet, unless the group decided they wanted that. Please let me know if you would be interested in being the Communication Lead.

 

Important Dates (These dates are always listed at arete.prsd.us on the main page and under events. Normally I will include the dates for the week in the Sunday update.) Here is the exact link for the dates through the rest of the year) https://arete.prsd.us/apps/news/article/1477643

*Monday June 6th 12:15-1:15 -4-8th Soccer fun for FREE

*Tuesday, June 7th from 11:30-12ish- Kindergarten Social Picnic

*Tuesday June 7th 12:15-1:15 -TK-3rd Soccer fun for FREE

*Wednesday, June 8- 5:30 Arete 8th Grade Promotion

*Friday, June 10- Last Day of School

*To secure your child’s spot for next year, we need you to complete their PRSD registration for the 2022-2023 school year. This is a yearly update to their records. Please log into your Parent PowerSchool account by clicking on this link https://psprsd.org/public/home.html and update all of the information in Forms A-K under PRSD Enrollment Forms. This must be done in order for your enrollment with Arete to be processed for another year. We are hoping to have these completed by June 10 so we know how many spots we have open for our June 15 lottery. If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Schwartz at [email protected] or Andrea Magda at [email protected]

 

Hi there,

Please do not stop in and drop off materials without an appointment. These are our last few days with students, and the focus needs to be on our time with them. We have a process of how we check materials in and and we are not ready yet. Our office staff is very nice and if you ask them to their faces, they will say yes because they want to help you, but then we are not getting done the part of our jobs that we need to do when students are here. Here is the link to sign up or if none of those times work for you, please email Mary at [email protected] to schedule an additional time. Thank you for your patience!

 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4eaaab29a6fe3-2022