GreatHearts Arlington

Great Hearts Arlington Community,

I am excited to share news with all of you that our team has been smiling about throughout the week.

Due to the high level of interest in our newest campus, and especially the number of families enrolling students in Kindergarten, we are now in a position to open a 5^th Kindergarten section! We are celebrating this news because it will allow us to serve a greater number of students in our inaugural year who will be with us for many years to come. As we add these additional seats to Kindergarten, we encourage you to spread the news and alert parents in your network to this opportunity to join our community.

Another reason we are thrilled about this development is for the positive impact it will undoubtedly have on our older scholars as well. Expanding the number of students in our lower grades gives us the capacity to now run both 6^th and 7^th grade within a middle-school model – a much more effective and efficient approach in regard to students as well as teachers. The content for 6^th graders will not change, but they will now have a dedicated, departmentalized teacher that will focus specifically on their mastery of content. Middle school will have a dedicated math teacher, history teacher, Latin teacher, etc. We are so excited about this change as it will allow us to work with a greater number of students and be more intentional about our educational focus for our older grade levels. If you have any specific questions about how this could positively affect your child, please reach out to us!

Also, our team has been hard at work in creating parent information modules that will give you granular information about your child’s campus, services, content, dress code, and much more! We understand that the family handbook is cumbersome and although it has a wealth of information, it is not very easy to consume. Because of this, we have created orientation modules specific to key areas that you may have questions about. Each of our modules gives very specific information about key components of our school. Please go through these modules as it provides key information distilled from the family handbook and, as always, please reach out to us with all of your questions.

Our faculty is so excited to begin their work with New Faculty Orientation and Training this coming Monday and to continue building our culture, systems, and processes for your students in the near future!