Good Evening families!

*We have an opportunity for vaccinated Middle Schoolers to join the PRSD Comedy Club. “So you think you’re funny?  Ever think about being a stand-up comedian?  Join the Middle School Stand-Up Comedy club.  Club activities will include joke writing, practicing material, and performing.  We will be meeting on November 2nd, 9th, 16th, 30th, and December 7th from 3:20 PM-4:45 PM in A5/A6 at Magnolia Intermediate.  Parent(s)/Guardian(s) will need to provide transportation.  The comedy show is TBD.” Mr. Walsh 

Stand-Up Comedy Permission

Resource Center Starts Tomorrow!

Please drop off kiddos between 8:55-9am and doors will be opened at 9am. If you signed up for breakfast and lunch, they will be served promptly from 8:55-9:00am and 11:55-12:00pm. Pick up promptly at 12:00-12:05. Please either pull all the way up in the pick up line and we will load the kiddos into your car OR park in the parking lot and walk over to get your child and walk them back across the driveway. Watch the pick up video here...https://arete.prsd.us/apps/video/

Students should bring a healthy snack and water bottle everyday. Other helpful items for their cubbies (please label with student's name in black permanent marker) are scissors, a glue stick and markers, colored pencils, or crayons. See you soon!

Please remember that we are a NUT FREE school as we have several students with severe nut allergies. Kiddos may enjoy nut free granola bars and spreads on their sandwiches and all the nut free favorites when away from Arete. Thanks!

Dear Prospective Middle School Band Parents,

My name is Joshua Horton; I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to introduce myself as PRSD’s newest music teacher. I am writing to invite your child(ren) to join the Concert Band. Having started the school year just a week ago, we are prepared to welcome additional students to join our ensemble. Whether your student has played before or not, we would love to have them play with the group during 1st period daily. 

We have many ‘new-to-band’ students currently, and band is one of those activities where “the more the merrier” truly applies. We would happily accept new students on flute, clarinet, trumpet, or trombone. For additional information or the possibility of exceptions, please reach out to me directly at [email protected]. 

I wish you the best in this fall season and hope to meet many of you soon. 

Sincerely, 

Joshua Horton

Note from Sarah- 1st period runs from 9:43-10:29 on Mondays, 9:05-9:59 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays and 9:05-9:39 on minimum days.  Students need to attend every day of the week and must be fully vaccinated or have a valid medical waiver from after 2016 from a medical doctor who has not been disciplined. $350 out of Students Funds will be charged for each trimester. Please email Sarah with questions at [email protected].

Dear Prospective Choir Parents,

My name is Joshua Horton; I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to introduce myself as Magnolia’s newest music teacher. I am writing to invite your child(ren) to join Bella Voce Choir, which is currently an all-girls chorus with a proud history inside the Pleasant Ridge Union School District. Having started the academic year just a week ago, we are prepared to welcome additional 6th- 8th grade students to join our ensemble. Whether your student has sung before or not, we would love to have them join voices with us during 2nd period daily. 

We have many ‘new-to-choir’ students currently, and singing is one of those activities where “the more the merrier” truly applies. For additional information, please reach out to me directly at [email protected]. 

I wish you the best in this fall season and hope to meet many of you soon. 

Sincerely, 

Joshua Horton

Note from Sarah- 2nd period runs from 9:05-9:59 on Mondays, 10:02-10:54 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays and 9:42-10:15 on minimum days.  Students need to attend every day of the week and must be fully vaccinated or have a valid medical waiver from after 2016 from a medical doctor who has not been disciplined. $350 out of Students Funds will be charged for each trimester. Please email Sarah with questions at [email protected].

*CHESS CLUB is BACK!!!

We will start Friday, September 9th from 12:30-1:10. All ages are invited, the club is FREE and chess sets are provided. Please RSVP to [email protected] so we have an idea of numbers. Mr. Walsh is our District
Psychologist is our fearless leader and he is passionate about bringing chess to kids! He recommends  kids sign up on chesskid.com and put [email protected] (his email) as the guardian.  Our district bought dozens of Gold Memberships that are not being utilized and they are free to Arete students. This is a super fun, mulitage club!

*Arete T- Shirts are for sale in the front office- We are excited to announce that we will have kid and adult sized Arete red t-shirts for sale with our dragon logo on them for $10 and half of the proceeds go back to the chicken/garden/library/orchard fund. Here is a note about t-shirts and the sizes we will have. “We recommend not drying in high heat. Low heat or, even better- hang dry.” You will be able to order additional t-shirts and sweatshirts at a later date. We take exact cash or checks made to PRSD.

Youth sizes:

S, M, L, XL

Adult sizes:

S, M, L, XL, 2XL

*We only have two days left of NWEA/AR Testing for students 2nd-8th grade from 9:30am-12pm. There are openings tomorrow, and Thursday is full. This is MANDATORY. Please send them with a snack, water bottle, and book to read of lessons to do. All students must attend in person testing on one of these. If a chromebook is checked out to your family, please bring it charged and ready for your testing day. The extra Chromebooks we have are reserved for the students who do not have a Chromebook. Please come early to check those out from the office. Please do not sign up for a spot and then forget to come as other kids couldn't take that spot and then we have to find another spot for you kiddo. (Thank you also for not bringing your sick kiddos) You can check the sign up below and Sign Up Genius will send you a reminder two days before. If you need to cancel or change your sign up, please log back into your account on a computer and make the change. Check or edit your sign up here…

2nd-8th Grade Fall NWEA Math and AR Reading Assessments 2022-2023

 

School Safety- Nevada County Superintendent of Schools has partnered with Nevada Joint Union High School District to host a Safety Summit for the Nevada County community.  Local law enforcement officials, fire service, and Office of Emergency Services personnel will present a Safety Summit at the Bear River High School Theater on Monday, September 12, 2022 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and at Nevada Union High School, Don Baggett Theater on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. There will be resource tables available at each event with additional agencies represented.  Please help spread the word.

 

*Supply and Curriculum Orders are starting to go out to families. Thanks to those who are coming in and picking up boxes so we can make room for the new curriculum coming in. We have hired extra staff and have had wonderful parent volunteers helping. Thanks Team for all the hard work!

 

*Sign up for our Arete Charter Academy Family Facebook Group here...

Arete Charter Academy Family Group

 

*We are so excited to announce the release of an unprecedented amount of amazing enrichment classes being offered this Fall. The sign up is in ABC order. BMS students receive electives as part of their program, so if parents sign them up here, they will need to pay out of pocket. Reminder that these are the only items that DO Not need to be added to an Arete budget form as we can track them on the Sign Up. Please, do not schedule a series class and the individual classes for the same day. If you do, we will cancel the individual classes as you cannot be double booked. Fall Enrichment Sign Ups are HERE

 

We are SO excited to see you all this week!

 

Dates for the 2022-2023 School Year

*August 22- 9:30am-12pm NWEA/AR Testing- Room 1, 2, 9

*August 25- 9:30am-12pm NWEA/AR Testing- Room 1, 2

*August 29- 9:30am-12pm NWEA/AR Testing- Room 9

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

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

*September 5- Labor Day- No School for Students

 

 

 

Hi there,

What a wonderful Family Orientation we had today. Thanks to all who came and joined in the Educational Fun!

 

*I just added more slots to Fall Assessments. If you have a 2nd-8th grader, please sign them up for a slot. All assessments are due by August 29. Thanks!

 

 

 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Type-of-Resource/Printables/Price-Range/Free

Families,

Due to the large influx of orders being delivered, we will be prioritizing academic curriculum first for processing. Also, for the next week or two, we will be placing curriculum orders only and will postpone office and art supply orders until later in the month. Please do not call or email to ask if your order is complete. That pulls someone away from processing orders. We are bringing in extra staff this week to help speed along the process. If you have a spare couple of hours and want to volunteer some time checking off books, we would love to have you. While you are waiting for your order to arrive, review the strategies I sent out last night or reach out to your EA for ideas. We are excited to offer so many curriculums this year, but it does bog down the system. Thanks for your patience!

Good Evening families!

Welcome to the FIRST official Sunday Update for the 2022-2023 School Year! 

*Tomorrow at 5:30pm is the Back-to-School Ice Cream Social- We are excited to announce that we will have kid and adult sized Arete red t-shirts for sale with our dragon logo on them for $10 and half of the proceeds go back to the chicken/garden/library/orchard fund. Here is a note about t-shirts and the sizes we will have. “We recommend not drying in high heat. Low heat or, even better- hang dry.  

Youth sizes:

YS-5

YM-5

YL-5

YXL-5

Adult sizes:

S-5 

M- 5

L-5 

XL-5 

2XL- 2

You will be able to order additional t-shirts and sweatshirts at a later date. Also, we are accepting donations for some of our extra programs that night. Can’t wait to see everybody!

*This week the Blended Middle School starts classes Tuesday- Thursday from 9am-2pm. BMS students who signed up for bussing will catch Magnolia bus 27 around 8:40 or so and head to Arete. Remember there is no afternoon bussing and students should be picked up promptly at 2pm.

*All families are invited Tuesday for the Family Orientation. We have so many fun classes offered. We did have a change in some of the teachers who are leading the classes and the room number so please review the link below. Also, new parents who have not already attended a Coffee Chat with me should do so at home via Zoom or in person at 8am Tuesday morning. There will be lots of useful information.

 

Arete Family Orientation Sign Up

Arete Family Orientation August 16, 2022

August 16 is the first day of instruction for the 2022-2023 school year and Arete is so excited to offer a Family Orientation with a variety of educational and fun options on that day. Read carefully through the descriptions and sign up for the ones that best fit your families’ needs. Children are invited and we will have staff to supervise school aged children in a classroom or on the playground when they are not needed in a training. Children under four should be kept with you. 

We are asking that all new families attend one of these orientations and many of you came last week. Thanks for that! The last one is…

August 16 from 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

We are hoping all families will attend Education Through Music (ETM) training from 10:25-11:25. Several of our staff have gone through these training sessions and we implement these practices in Resource Center Classes weekly. ETM trains teachers all around the United States to bring music to the classroom and PRSD is paying them to come to Arete!  At Education Through Music, we believe that every child, at every school, deserves access to high-quality music education. It is part of a well-rounded education, essential for students’ social and emotional well-being, and a critical tool for establishing equity and access.   

*Thursday morning we start NWEA/AR Testing for students 2nd-8th grade. All students must attend in person testing on one of these. If a chromebook is checked out to your family, please bring it charged and ready to your testing day. The extra Chromebooks we have are reserved for the students who do not have a Chromebook. Please come early to check those out from the office. Check or edit your sign up here…

2nd-8th Grade Fall NWEA Math and AR Reading Assessments 2022-2023

 

*We are so excited to announce the release of an unprecedented amount of amazing enrichment classes being offered this Fall. The sign up is in ABC order. BMS students receive electives as part of their program, so if parents sign them up here, they will need to pay out of pocket. Reminder that these are the only items that DO Not need to be added to an Arete budget form as we can track them on the Sign Up. Please, do not schedule a series class and the individual classes for the same day. If you do, we will cancel the individual classes as you cannot be double booked. Fall Enrichment Sign Ups are HERE

 

We are SO excited to see you all this week!

Dates for the 2022-2023 School Year

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

*August 16- Parent Orientations First Day of School for Students

*Office Hours- August 18-26

*August 16- Start Blended Resource Center

*August 18- 9:30am-12pm NWEA/AR Testing- Room 1

*August 22- 9:30am-12pm NWEA/AR Testing- Room 1, 2, 9

If you are new to Arete and have not been receiving them, it's because I made a mistake and was posting to our old account which we updated in June. So if you were at Arete last year, you can ignore this long email. If you are new this year, here are all of the emails you were missing. So sorry for the error and thanks to awesome Tech Director, Rob Thompson, for figuring it out!

 

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*We are excited to announce the garden will be open Fridays, June 17th and 24th from 8:30-10am. All families are come to help out!

 

*The Arete Library will be open to families on July 6, 7, 20, 21, 27, and 28 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!

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. 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, se 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 9th Grade Promotion

Many of you have completed your PowerSchool A-K forms (or simply updated them for returning students). THANK YOU! We need all families to complete those by June 10 as we have a lottery on June 15 and need to know how many spots we will have open.  If you have not already done so, 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.  If you need assistance with this, please contact  Andrea Magda at [email protected]

 

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 are no longer planning on having your child attend Arete, please email Sarah at [email protected] so she can release their spots. Thank you!

Stay tuned for more news about garden work/harvest veggie days, summer library hours, and orchard work days or sponsoring a fruit tree as a family.

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