Announcements

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Progress Reports will be released on Monday December 6, 2004. Sorry for the brief delay.

Public Policy Class needs your help in raising $5.00 per family for our Holiday Gift Drive. Please help.

We need your assistance. The school is beginning the process of another five year school improvement cycle with the North Central Association. As you may know, NCA is the accrediting body that sanctions colleges and schools in seventeen states across the country. We need your help in two ways. First, we will be asking parents and students to serve on our new site based committee that will oversee the new plan. Second, we need you to fill out the new evaluation forms we handed to your children today. Please fill them out and get them to us by December 7, 2004.

Another Friendly Reminder that the Nutcracker at the Orephum Theater will be on 12/10/04 at 10:30. Chaperones are welcome and needed.

We are also ascertaining interest in a trip to Washington DC and New York City at the end of the school year. It is for 8-10 days and students who go may receive a 1/2 high school credit for school work. The cost of the trip (not including individual out of pocket expenses) is $1,000. Please let us know by December 15 who is interested in going.

It is that time of year when schools ask families if they would like to donate money to their favorite schools for tax credits. Single parent families may receive up to a $200 credit and married parent families may receive up to $250. If there are any questions, you may contact me at 480 233 3622.

THE STAFF AT GRAND CANYON IS VERY HAPPY WITH SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THIS FIRST SEMESTER. PUBLIC POLICY STUDENTS PRODUCED A GET OUT THE VOTE TELEVISION COMMERCIAL THAT AIRED ON MTV AND COMEDY CENTRAL. SCI FI STUDENTS ARE WRITING STORIES AND POEMS THAT WILL BE SUBMITTED FOR POSSIBLE PUBLICATION IN THE FRANK LITERARY MAGAZINE. STUDENTS AT OUR SCHOOL HAVE RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. FINALLY, WE HAVE FOUR STUDENTS WHO ARE SLATED TO EARN AT LEAST FOUR HOURS OF COLLEGE CREDIT IN A DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM. WE WANT TO USE THESE SUCCESSES TO BUILD ON THE FIRM FOUNDATION THAT HAS BEEN LAID.