Congratulations to your son/daughter on being selected to play in the 2019 Fall Sports! There will be an informational Mandatory Meeting for all parents and athletes on Tuesday August 20th in the gym from 5:00-6:00pm. We will be discussing the following: Expectations for athletes and parents Practice times and location Game Schedule Sports Fee ($50) Athletic Handbook Sports Equipment needed to play General Questions For additional questions please contact: Mr. Sandoval gsandoval@azcharter.com Mr. Rios jrios@azcharter.com

Join us for our first Peter Piper Pizza- ACA Family Fun Night! It's fun AND it's a FUNdraiser for the school! 15% of all food, beverage and token sales benefit ACA. Join us for a variety of games, contests and other activities! We look forward to seeing you there! When? Friday August 30th 4-9pm Where? Surprise Location 12851 W Bell Rd. #20 Surprise, AZ 85374

Calling all nominations! The Surprise Independent is taking nominations for Teacher of the Month to be featured in the papers education section. They want to "celebrate the great achievements that teachers are doing inside the classrooms". The selected teacher will be featured in the Independent and receive a special treat bag. To nominate one of our many amazing ACA teachers please email the Independent no more than 500 words on why your teacher is deserving to be recognized as the teacher of the month at WVnews@newszap.com If you remember, our wonderful Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Allen received 12 news Teacher of the Week and you can read all about that HERE.

Hello Parents, We are always working to refine and tweak to first ensure student safety and then to of course always strive to be the most efficient in our processes. With that being said, please keep the following in mind: Morning Drop-Off -Our campus does not open up until 7am every day. There are no staff on campus prior to this time, so please do not begin to drop students off until 7am or after. There is no way to for us to ensure student safety prior to 7am. -As long as your child is able to independently get out of their seat and open and close the car door without needing any assistance, you are free to use either our queuing lane or elementary dismissal gate for drop off. -We strong

August 13, 2019 Dear Member of the School Community, We are asking our school stakeholders to complete a survey as a part of our participation in the “Safer Schools in America” grant project. The project is designed to support our efforts to ensure that our school is as safe and secure as possible for our students and staff. Vital Insight™ Inventory is an assessment that will help us better understand our collective knowledge and experience so that we can determine the best ways to reach our goals. Your feedback will help determine which new safety technologies we will be able to implement free of charge for three years. We expect this survey to take approximately 15-20 minutes of your time.

We are a week into our new school year and things are already running smooth, students are learning and teachers are pumped for our strong start! In case you missed the welcome letter that was mailed home to all students here are a few highlights: New Dean of Students In addition to our new staff we have added a full-time Dean of Students to our administrative team. Mr. Sandoval has come onboard as the Dean of Students and is so excited to get to know the students. Mr. Sandoval has his Administrator Certification from the Arizona Department of Education and has years of experience as both a school administrator and a teacher. Fun fact, his wife used to teach at ACA before I was here! He i

We encourage all ACA parents to consider joining our Bulldog Parents Committee! Next meeting is Tuesday August 13th 3:15-4:15pm. We We Are? A group of parents whom are trying to bring to life the idea/suggesstions that our parents are coming up with (ie: daddy/daughter dace, mother/son dance); however, we can't do it without you! We are currently meeting once a month for an hour with an agenda and ideas! How do you join? Email: Sheri Haberkorn at shaberkorn@azcharter.com How do you remember? We send out a reminder a few weeks before the meeting in the weekly bulldog bulletin. We also send out remindes through the Remind app. To get the remind app to our group text the number 81010 and text t

Hi ACA Families, We’ve reached record breaking numbers in our dismissal times for just the first week of school! Check these numbers out: Kinder only dismissal: down to 8 minutes! K-5 dismissal: down to 25 minutes! Middle School with siblings dismissal: down to 18 minutes! Thank you so much for your help! Please continue to arrive at your designated time and you will flow quickly through the line! See you next week!

We wanted to make you aware during morning drop off, as long as your child is able to independently get out of their seat and open and close the car door without needing any assistance, you are free to use either our queuing lane or elementary dismissal gate for drop off. Both drop off gates are open for your use. This should help move our morning drop-off line along quicker. Thank you as we continue to tweak and improve our processes while always keeping student safety at the forefront of everything.

Middle School parents with pink and lime green dismissal dashboard cards. If you are picking up a Middle School student, we are truly asking from the bottom of our hearts: Please do not show up to pick-up your child until after 3:25. At this point as we refine our process, if you show up in line before 3:25 we will ask you to leave the line and loop around or park elsewhere since we are very congested and busy dismissing all of our K-5 families. Please continue to follow all other dismissal procedures and rules. Thank you as we continue to keep the safety of our wonderful ACA students the top priority.

What an amazing first day of school we had! We're excited to have students and ACA families back in the building with our new building updates and of course our wonderful solar panels providing all that SHADE!! We just wanted to touch base on a few items after our first day: Fire Drill: We had the fire alarm go off twice today caused solely by humidity in the system.We are actively working with the fire people to ensure our fires system is working at full capacity. There are no fire issues at all we are working with all parties involved. But we must say, teachers and students handled them PERFECTLY! Dismissal: We love our new shade!!! We are happy to say dismissal for all K-8 students lasted

PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR - STAY COOL and YOUR KIDS ARE IN THEIR CLASSROOMS with AC Kindergarten ONLY - Pick up at 2:35 Kindergarten through 5th Grade ONLY - Pick up at 2:45 PLEASE if you have a STUDENT in 6th - 8th DO NOT COME UNTIL 3:10 6th through 8th ONLY (No siblings) - Middle School Queuing Lane 6th through 8th grade AND if you have a Elementary Sibling - 3:10 in the back Elementary Parking Area (Students take about 5 minutes to get from building) If you decide to park to pick up your child please anticipate up to an hour wait, due to safety you will be required to sign in, drivers license etc. We have LIMITED staff and our priority is the safety of the dismissal. Most of all remember t