A Note from Headmaster Scott

Dear Archway Trivium West Families,

At Great Hearts, we celebrate with a purpose. Rather than indulge in mere amusements, we celebrate significant aspects of the human experience. Today, we celebrated our literary and historical figure day. Our faculty, staff, and scholars all took on the character of someone significant in our curriculum. We formalized the selection process in hopes that scholars would be more reflective in their consideration of a character. My hope is that this deeper consideration has made this experience more formative than it has been in the past. For my part, I became Theodore Laurance, from Little Women. Here is was I shared with the scholars.

Hello! My name is Theodore Laurance, but my friends call me Laurie. I was orphaned at a young age, and so I live in a large house with my grandfather. He is wealthy, but quiet and unassuming, though he can also be stern. Across the way, live the March family. My best friend is Jo, short for Josephine. She enjoys my sense of humor, even when I get into mischief, though she does not approve of such things. She is always telling me to take my studies more seriously and to read books. Jo and her sisters always have books around. I guess, if I want to be honest with myself, I would have to admit that I would rather spend time in the March home than in my own. Grandfather is a good man and he gives me whatever I need before I ask, which is why Jo sometimes calls me “spoiled.” However, in the March home, even though they have few possessions, there is a feeling of warmth and life that can only exist when a family genuinely loves each other. As we grow up together, this influence will help me to develop into a strong, reflective, and morally good man. I hope that each of you can learn, like I did, the value of strong family relationships and good friendships. I further hope that you can sanctify those relationships through the development of virtue and the practice of self-sacrifice. Doing so will help you have a happier life…that’s a promise!    

Heartily Devoted,

Clay Scott

Headmaster

Archway Classical Academy | Trivium

Student Pledge Leaders: Luna R., Priya C., Kadar'e W., Owen B., Natalie S. 

Here are a few important reminders about upcoming events at Archway Trivium. Please visit our website, www.archwaytrivium.org, for more information.

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Upcoming Events:

The PSO Snowstorm is underway, now through November 18! Snowstorm is an easy way to show love to our teachers during the holidays. Families who contribute to Snowstorm by November 18 will have their scholar’s name printed in a holiday card presented to teachers and staff during a special holiday breakfast in early December.

Each year at the holidays, our community joins in the collective giving spirit in a tradition known as Snowstorm. In lieu of gifts for each of your scholar’s six teachers, show your appreciation by giving an offering of thanks to be divided among Archway Trivium West faculty and staff. This year, we are asking families to consider a gift of $50 per scholar to help us reach our $10,000 goal. This would mean a holiday gift of $175 for each full-time staff member! Snowstorm is a unique opportunity to show support to our wonderful community and is a beloved tradition here at Archway Trivium West. A donations of ANY amount is greatly appreciated, after first giving to Community Investment.

Follow the steps below to help us Fall into a Snowstorm!

Families who have not already given are asked to first give to Community Investment before giving a Snowstorm Holiday Gift. Please consider giving to help us reach our goal!

First, Give to Community Investment

Then, Give to the PSO Snowstorm

Academy Giving

You won't want to miss the PSO Ren Faire on Saturday, November 5 from 4-8 PM and Vendor Market from 12PM-Dusk!

Prices:$10/adult, $20/child 3years+, Free/2 and under). Free tickets for Archway Trivium and Trivium Prep faculty/staff and are available only during the early bird period.

Hear ye, hear ye! Please join us for mesmerizing entertainment, fantastic feasting and an evening of merriment! Be sure to dress in your finest revelry if you wish to enter the costume contest! Ye olde Headmaster Scott will surely excite with a surprise unveiling for the kingdom of Archway Trivium. Make haste and order your tickets today!

Admission Includes:

Bounce castles, rock climbing, jousting, live entertainment, fairies, trebuchet launches, rock climbing, face painting, balloon artists and more! 

Usborne Book Fair Preview Night

Families attending the Ren Faire can shop our upcoming Usborne Book Fair! 

Food Trucks - Available for purchase at the event

Kingpin BBQ Menu - Includes turkey legs!!

Taco Taco AZ Menu

What's Poppin Kettle Corn and Mister Softee Desserts!

For latest details, visit www.archwaytrivium.org/events 

All wristbands purchased through 11/1 will be delivered to the oldest scholars' classroom by 11/3. All wristbands will be at will call at the Ren Faire entrance located at the gate between the MPR and the new building.

*** Please note that this is not a drop-off event. Children must be accompanied by an adult with a paid ticket.***

Enter the Costume Contest

Come to the Renaissance Faire dressed in your best time period costume to try and win your category prize! Each grade K-5 will have a winner! Additional categories include teachers/staff and parents/volunteers. Please sign up each participant from your family in their respective category. We will be checking in costume contest participants at the entry gate, so please sign up! All participants must have a ticket to the Faire. Contest will be held in the courtyard beginning approximately 6:15pm the night of the Faire.



Sign-up for the Costume Contest

Ren Faire Community Market

A Free, Outdoor Vendor Market sponsored by the Trivium Prep PSO

Saturday, November 5

12 PM to Dusk

Currently Accepting Vendor Market Applications!

** Click Here to Apply **

Ren Faire Volunteers Needed!

 ** Volunteers Receive a FREE Adult Ticket **

There is always time to be part of building our community. If you are available, please sign up for a 1-hour Shift to help set up on November 4th or during the event on November 5. 

Click Here to Volunteer on 11/5

The Usborne Book Fair will be held in the school library the week of November 7. Parent volunteers are needed to help this run smoothly! Set up is on Friday, November 4 in the morning and the book fair will be open for parent shopping during the Renaissance Faire! Classroom visits are indicated on the sign up so you may volunteer for the time block when your scholar’s classroom comes.

Volunteer to Support the Book Fair

You can also pre-purchase Book Fair Money for your student by following the link below. Any remaining balance from these pre-purchased funds will be donated to the library for new books. 

Pre-purchase Book Fair Money for your Student

The 2022-23 Archway Trivium yearbook is on sale now! Reserve your yearbook today! Save $5 with early-bird pricing until January 13, 2023. Yearbooks will feature both in-person and distance learning students. This year's book has been expanded to 100 pages. Don't miss out on the memories!

Yearbook Pricing (through 1/13/23):

Softcover- $32.00

Hardcover- $38.00

Personalization available for SOFTCOVER ONLY. (Add your scholar's name and portrait to the front cover for $5).

Click Here to Order your Yearbook

Join us on Saturday, November 19 from 3PM -5PM for our annual self-serve PHOTO SHOOT event to benefit Snowstorm for teachers! We will have Fall and Winter scenes this year along with a Hot Chocolate Bar and Holiday Card making station for charity! You WILL NOT want to miss this fun event! 

Watch for sign ups next week!

Join us for the Middle School Musical Theater's production of "Seussical Jr." on the Trivium Stage!

Tickets are CASH only at the door: $5 for students and $10 for adults. Children 5 and under are free. Concessions and Fan Mail will be available for purchase before the show and during intermission. 

The production is open seating and will be presented outdoors in the Accomazzo Quad. There will be chairs set up, and there's a small area up front for sitting on blankets (no lawn chairs up front please). Lawn chairs permitted in the raised grass area to the side of the stage.

• Thursday, November 17 - 6 PM (Doors Open at 5:30 PM)
• Friday, November 18 - 7 PM (Doors Open at 6:30 PM)
• Saturday, November 19 - 7 PM (Doors Open at 6:30 PM)

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Winter Concerts. This year, our Archway concerts will be held on campus in the Trivium Gym. Scholars wear Concert Attire (as described below). This is a wonderful celebration of our music program at Archway Trivium West. We look forward to seeing you there!

Winter Concert Dates

Monday, December 5

Kindergarten, 5 PM (arrive 4:30 PM)

1st Grade, 6 PM (arrive 5:30 PM)

2nd Grade, 7 PM (arrive 6:30 PM)

Thursday, December 8

3rd Grade, 5 PM (arrive 4:30 PM)

4th Grade, 6 PM (arrive 5:30 PM)

5th Grade, 7 PM (arrive 6:30 PM)

Concert Attire: Boys wear white collared dress shirts with black pants and black dress shoes. Girls wear a white blouse with a black skirt or black dress pants, or a solid black dress, and black dress shoes (open-toed shoes and reasonable heels are permitted).

Our teachers need your help making copies! Sign up for a day (or more!) and not only will you be helping our teachers and scholars, but you will have the opportunity to connect with our fantastic parent community! Your littles are welcome to come!

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered for the Copy Program thus far. Your time and effort has helped our teachers so much! We'd love to have you sign up again!

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Typically, Tuesdays we make copies for Kinder-2nd grades and Fridays we make copies for 3rd-5th grade. We'd love to see you there! Thank you!

All Copy Program volunteers must have Raptor clearance to participate. 

Volunteer to Support the Copy Program 

Reminder: No Student Drop-off/Pick-up from Neighboring Businesses

Parents - You may not use the parking lots of neighboring businesses for student drop-off/pick-up. We have received multiple complaints from the Southwest Kidney Institute. Per the City of Goodyear police, this is considered trespassing and citations may be issued.

School Office Hours

As a reminder, the Front Office open at 7:30 AM each morning and closes at 3:30 PM on regular school days and at 1:50 PM on Wednesdays. If you need to stop by the office, please plan to do so during Office Hours. Thank you!

Open Enrollment is Coming! Great Hearts Open Enrollment for new families is coming November 7-December 9, 2022. This enrollment is primarily for students applying for in Kindergarten in 2023-24 and 5th grade students applying for 6th Grade enrollment at Trivium Prep in 2023-24. Current K-4th grade students DO NOT participate in Open Enrollment. Re-enrollment for Kinder-4th Grade families will take place in March 2023. More information to follow.

Family Handbook Signature - PAST DUE

Families who have not yet signed/returned the Family Handbook must complete and return the paper form sent home with your scholars. Please reach out to the front office with questions.

2021-22 State Test Results

If you did not receive your child's state test results during conferences, they are now available in the front office. This only applies to current 4th and 5th grade students who attended Archway Trivium West. If your student did not attend Archway Trivium West last year, you will need to contact your former school for test results. 

Health Policy Reminder

As a reminder, scholars must stay home from school if they have:

• a fever of 100.0 degrees or higher
• vomiting and/or diarrhea
• a wet, productive cough and/or nasal drainage that is not clear in color
• difficulty breathing or uncontrolled coughing
• mucus or pus draining from the eye
• an undiagnosed, new, and/or untreated rash or skin condition
• live lice

Students may return after 24 hours without fever and without use of fever-reducing medications, and 24 hours since the last incidence of vomiting and/or diarrhea. If a student returns to school prior to 24 hours without these symptoms, he or she will be sent home.

Donation Requests

Our Health Office is looking for donations of the following items to support our students:

• Size small uniform shirts
• Cases of water bottles
• Boy/Girl Underwear - all sizes
• White Socks 
• Lysol sanitizing wipes

Parents, if you would like to donate these items for our nurses to use in emergencies, this would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be left in the front office labeled for the Archway Trivium nurse. Thank you!

If your child was sent home with a loaner uniform, please wash and return it to the nurse's office as soon as possible.

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 multiple Trivium 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.

Click Here to Order Lunch

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. 

Volunteer in the Lunch Room

Sign up as a volunteer to help distribute lunches and receive free lunch from My Hot Lunchbox! (Raptor Clearance is required to volunteer). We will be awarding a $5 a day/per person credit to each school. All credits will be applied at the end of each month. Please email us at info@myhotlunchbox.com if you have any questions regarding the credits. Thank you for helping to make the lunch program a success at our school!

Click Here to Volunteer

Additionally, we ask parents to help serve in the lunchroom to assist our 1st-5th grade classes and keep the lunchroom running smoothly. Younger siblings are welcome to serve alongside parents as a "Lunchroom Buddy." Clearance through Raptor is required for all lunchroom volunteers.

Click Here to Volunteer as a Lunchroom Helper

With the expansion of Archway and addition of the new building, there are significant changes to the traffic flow for the upcoming school year. Please carefully review the new 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. 

Carpooling Update: Our east side pick-up lane has had a faster track and will now be our designated carpool lane. 

If you have 2 or more Archway ONLY pick-up cards, you will be guided into this fast-track lane for a faster pick-up. Please be sure to have your pick-up cards ready to show our traffic controllers that you are carpooling so they can guide you to the appropriate lane. To maintain the flow of pick-up, others may be directed to the fast-track lane, but carpools will be given priority. Please do not enter the carpool lanes until you are directed to do so.

As a reminder, if you are picking up Middle School students DO NOT ARRIVE to campus before 3:15 PM. This creates significant delays. If you arrive before 3:15, we will ask you to go back into our pick-up lanes and try again. 

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*

We are looking forward to welcoming volunteers back to campus this year! All Archway Trivium volunteers must have Raptor clearance before volunteering on campus. Raptor clearance must be renewed annually, so if you were cleared last year, you must complete the clearance process again for the 2022-23 school year.

Additionally, volunteers must complete a school-specific one-time-only Mandatory Volunteer Training.

Follow the link below to complete your Raptor clearance. The cost is $5 and it only takes a few minutes.

Click Here for More Information or to Register

Join us in wishing "Happy Birthday" to the following Archway Trivium faculty and staff with recent/upcoming birthdays! Faculty Favorites lists are available on our PSO Community page.

Nicole McMahon - Counselor - November 4

Alecia McCormick - Asst Office Manager - November 5

Guadalupe Navarro - 5E TA - November 5

Saylor Cordova - KD TA - November 7

Kim Semenza - 3D TA - November 7

Kristina Archambault - Asst Office Manager - November 8

Caleb Kirk - Specials-Latin - November 8

Laura Bader - 4A TA - November 15

Michael Garcie - 4D Lead - November 16

Sara Sutter - 2D TA - November 21

Amanda Schwamburger - 4E Lead - November 26

Rocio Leisinger - 3-5 Floater TA - November 28

Christie McLendon - 5B Lead - November 30

• Book and Supply Lists
• Uniform Information
• 2022-23 Academic Calendar
• Upcoming Events Calendar
• Extracurricular Clubs/Early Drop-off Club
• Traffic Flow for Student Drop-off/Pick-up
• Order Extra Pick-up Cards (2/$1)
• Order Hot Lunch
• Raptor Volunteer Approval
• Mandatory Volunteer Training

Archway Trivium West Main Office: (623) 414-4883

Attendance Line: (623) 565-5490

Website: www.archwaytrivium.org

2022-23 School/Office Hours: 

Opt in for Important GH and Trivium Text Messages

Parents and Guardians can take advantage of Great Hearts Text Messaging Service. Our school utilizes the SchoolMessenger system to deliver text messages straight to your mobile phone with important information about events, school closings, safety alerts, and more.

You can participate in this free service just by sending a text message of "Y" or "Yes" to our school's short code number, 67587. You can also opt out of these messages at any time by simply replying to one of our messages with "Stop".

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.