February 4, 2022

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

10th Grade Coffee Shop: Tue, Feb 8 @ 8:30 am; meet in the front office

UPDATE: ALL Middle School Student Life Night: Fri, Feb 11 @ 3:45 - 5:30 pm

UPDATE: 8th Grade High School Preview Night: Mon, Feb 15 @ 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

UPDATE: Rising Senior Night (juniors only): Mon, Mar 28; details coming soon

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

Suns Tickets Giveaway: ALL tax credit gifts entered by Monday, February 7 at midnight will be entered into a random drawing for two Phoenix Suns tickets for the Suns vs. Pelicans game on February 25! Want more chances? If you get your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers to give their credit on behalf of you and your student and enter the student names in the referral line, you will get additional entries in the drawing! If anyone you know doesn’t have a public school to give their tax credit to, have them give it to Arete Prep!

Where your tax credit money is spent: Did you know that Arete Prep’s athletics and extracurricular courses, such as Heart for Others, Choir, Mentor/Mentee, Art Club, Horticulture, Women’s Fitness, and more are made possible by our families giving their tax credits to the school! Our goal is to provide high quality programs at a low fee for our students and families. You can help continue our mission to provide a truly comprehensive education that extends beyond the classroom walls, by donating your tax credit – and it really is no cost to you! There is no catch involved. If you pay taxes, you want to take this credit! 

How it works: You give your tax credit via this link, save your emailed receipt, file it with your taxes (form 322) before or on Tax Day and will be credited by the state of Arizona at 100% for what you gave. For example, if you gave $400, you would get a $400 credit on your state income taxes – you can either reduce your liability (ex: you owe $1,000, subtract the $400 and now owe $600 instead) or you can increase your refund if you don’t owe anything! For more information, please contact Brittani Greve, Academy Giving Manager at 480.699.5283 or bgreve@areteprepacademy.org

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 day 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.

Junior students and 1 guest can now RSVP for the Great Hearts Day at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. If you are interested in ASU and would like to know more about an honors education, sign up to tour Barrett here à https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094BA4AB2CA2FF2-great1

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 lab notebook 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.