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Fall Festival!
The 2017 Fall Festival will be a combined D1, D2, and D3 event! The Festival is scheduled for Friday, Sept 8th, from 6-9 pm, at the D2 campus. This year’s activities will include jumping castles and slides, laser tag and archery tag, pony rides, face painting, and carnival games. A wristband will cost $7 in advance and $8 at the door. Dinner will also be available to purchase for just $5. Proceeds will go to funding FSO sponsored activities, band, SBO, and drama. Tickets are now available ONLINE! Yep! It is super easy to get your tickets… go to apaevents.blogspot.com. Tickets will also be on sale Tues-Fri (Sept 5-8), before and after school, at D2. We still need helping hands for set up, games, parking, and clean up. Get a jump on your volunteer hours and sign up! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a45abac23a1ff2-fall
Movie Night – August 14th!
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for a movie under the stars! Get to know our new APA families! Popcorn, snow cones, and candy available to purchase!
Administration Updates
A great big HELLO to our wonderful parents and students of our Draper 1 campus! We all hope that you are having a wonderful and restful summer. We would like to introduce our new families to our Admin Team and our returning families to some of the changes in our team.
Our Team:
Ms. Corbett: Administrative Director lcorbett@apamail.org
LouAnn Corbett studied Business Administration at Ricks College and Brigham Young University. She loves to learn and continues her education by taking courses on line and in the evening. She has held various office and project management positions. She comes to us from the ranks of APA where she was at WV2 Campus for one year and was with us at Draper 1 in the front office this last year where she has grown to love the children and families here. Ms. Corbett moved from Arizona two years ago and loves Utah and being out of the heat. She has two boys and three grand children. She loves hiking, camping, and traveling. She also enjoys playing games, reading a good book, cooking, and spending time with family, especially her grandchildren who brighten up her life.
Mrs. Mills: Academic Director 1st – 3rd kmills@apamail.org
Kelsey Mills has five years experience teaching at the elementary level and loves helping children learn. She received a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University Hawaii. She misses the beaches in Hawaii, but has fallen in love with Utah and the children she get to work with every day. She taught first grade at the West Valley 2 campus for four years before becoming director in 2016. She grew up in a small town in California with her parents and two sisters. She loves to travel and has been to 10 different countries. She would love to add Greece to that list soon. In her spare time, she can be found reading, learning to cook new dishes for her husband, scrapbooking, and playing games with family and friends.
Mrs. Mulcahy: Academic Director 4th – 6th mmulcahy@apamail.org
Michelle has been with APA since 2013. She previously taught in a fourth grade classroom at the Draper 2 campus before becoming the Draper 1 campus Academic Director in 2016. Previous to American Prep, Michelle taught 4 years in Utah Catholic Schools and also served as the Director of Advancement. She began working toward her degree as a scholar athlete at the California State University at Pomona, and received her degree in Elementary Education from the California State University of Sacramento. Michelle was born and raised in Southern California, and has lived in Utah with her husband and three children since 2006. All three children have attended APA. In her spare time she enjoys watching soccer, camping, boating, and reading. Michelle has always had a passion for educating children, and strongly believes that hard work and determination are the secrets to success!
We are looking forward to working with all of you and getting to know you and your children.
Please click on the link below for exciting things that are happening. We will continue to update you on other items as they become available. We are looking forward to a fun and exciting new school year. Please do not hesitate to contact any one of us if you have any questions. Enjoy the rest of you summer!
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Draper 1 Facebook Page
Draper 1 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/americanprepD1
School Lunch Update
School Lunch Update
Classroom Leaders this week 4th-6th grade
1st Place – Ms. O’Donoghue 2nd Place – Ms. Dahlin
3rd Place – Ms. Morris
We now have the menu up for the rest of the year. Please order as soon as possible from now until our last lunch day of the year Tuesday, June 6th. (Go to the “today” tab on the right top corner and press “>” to get to the new month.) We need to give our new vendor the lunch order 2 school days in advance – that means if you want lunch on Monday, you will need to order by Thursday at noon.
If you do not order by the deadline – please send a home lunch! We only receive the lunches that were ordered online.
Remember to go to the new APA link to order. http://apalunch.h1.hotlunchonline.net
Your email and password are the same! If you need to change them, DO NOT OPEN A NEW ACCOUNT.
To change email or password, contact Kristine Stevens kstevens@apamail.org or 801-839-3613 ext. 142
Early Release Day
Early Release, PROFESSIONAL DEV. DAY
Monday, May 8
1st dismissal will be released to the curb at 12:15 pm
AED, (2nd dismissal) will be released to the curb at 12:30 pm NO LUNCH SERVED-please bring a nutritious snack
HELP NEEDED!!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We are looking for parents to help out with the lunch recess. Details are in the link below. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f48aaac2da7fa7-lunch
Spring field trip drivers – 1st-3rd grades, May 5th (approx. 7-8 hours)Speech Festival – Tuesday, May 2nd
Fun Run – Friday, May 19th
Field Day – Wednesday, June 7th Cleaning Day – Thursday, June 8th Office Help – ongoing
Art – ongoing
Volunteer Hour tracking – TBD Fall Festival Planning Team – TBD
We are also holding a volunteer recruitment meeting on Thursday, April 20th, in the teacher lunchroom immediately following the assembly. You could get a volunteer hour just for attending the meeting! Thank you for all you do! We appreciate every hour our families spend helping our school be successful!!
Fun Run
We are excited to announce that D1 and D2 are joining forces for this year’s Fun Run!! Planning has begun. We will also be holding a silent auction at the Fun Run to help raise funds for D1 to replace the black tiles on the playground with a nice green turf. We are looking for volunteers and donation items, see the signup genius for details.
D1 & D2 Joint Fun Run
Friday, May 19th from 4:00-6:00pm
Wheadon Farm Park
13965 S. Bangerter Parkway, Draper www.SignUpGenius.com/go/30E0F48AAAC2DA7FA7-d1andd2
Fun Run T-Shirts!!!
Get your t-shirt for the Fun Run!! They can be worn on race day, Friday, May 19th and on future Spirit days. The order form is in your communication envelope and attached to the emailed version of our newsletter. Here are some items that are Draper 1 specific –
Checks are to be made out to APEF!!
Be sure to order your t-shirt before Thursday, May 4th!!
THANK YOU!!
Thanks so much for attending our Zupas Night. The turnout for our event was great! We will be receiving a check for $137.15! Congratulations and thank you again for all those families who came and supported us! These funds will be used to update our classroom emergency kits.
Volunteer Opportunities – Let’s finish strong!
Thank you SO much to all those who have already completed their 20-hour volunteer
commitment! If you are still working on completing your hours, or if you already have, but just want to go the extra mile :), below are the remaining volunteer opportunities for the year. Please let us know how you would like to help at draper1fso@apamail.org.
Achieving Academic Success and Developing Good Character
Sring field trip drivers – 1st-3rd grades, May 5th (approx. 7-8 hours) Speech Festival – Tuesday, May 2nd
Fun Run – Friday, May 19th
Field Day – Wednesday, June 7th
Cleaning Day – Thursday, June 8th Office Help – ongoing
Art – ongoing
Volunteer Hour tracking – TBD Fall Festival Planning Team – TBD
Field Trip Drivers Wanted
May 5th (1st-3rd)!
Field trips are a FUN way to take a break from your routine, get to know teachers and students, spend time with your child, and fulfill some of your volunteer hours! We need YOU! Please get certified to drive.
All APA field trip drivers must submit the following paperwork in order to drive our students:
- A current copy of your driver’s license
- A current copy of car insurance card-the one you carry in your car (must be updated beforeeach activity)
- A current auto insurance declaration page ($150,000 per occurrence minimum or 100/300kpolicy)
- Fill out the Employee/Volunteer Driver Acknowledgement form (available at the front office)
- Review the”Booster Seat Flyer”(available at the front office)All APA Driver Chaperones agree to the following guidelines:
- Younger siblings may not attend the field trip if you are driving a group of APA students.
- No additional stops may be taken on the way to and from the field trip (drive-thru,gas station,etc.) or spending time in gift shops buying for your child (or other students).
- Driver chaperones must bring their own lunch (rather than purchasing at the destination) sothat they can stay with their group.
- All students must have their own working seat belt.
- Students under age 8 or less than 57 inches tall are required to have a booster seat per UtahBooster Seat Law.
- Students may not be transported in vans that hold more than 10 passengers.
- Driver chaperones may not be alone with any single student.
- Driver chaperones must be available to stay with their group for the entire field trip.
- A week before each field trip,drivers need to verify their documentationShoe Drive
Our shoe drive continues. Check those closets for new or used shoes that you can donate to the bin in the front office. We currently have 498 pairs of shoes; we are halfway there!! Let’s get to our first 1,000. WE CAN DO THIS!
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Carpool Map
Please click on the link below and look to see if there are some carpools you can form. Remember, the more carpools we have, the fewer cars we will have in our carpool lanes. That
makes carpool go quickly and much smoother. Students may be dropped off each morning beginning at 7:45 am and MUST be picked up by 4:00 pm Monday, Tuesday and Friday and 3:00 pm Wednesday and Thursday.
https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=2106981#
School Lunch
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our wonderful lunch specialist, Crystal Adamson crystal.adamson@apamail.org or call her at 801-553-8500, leave a message with our amazing office staff, and they will pass on your message.
Draper 1 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/americanprepD1 Are you missing information from past newsletters? Please follow the link to find
ALL of our past newsletters. http://draper1.americanprep.org/newsletter/
Special Education Department
If you believe your child may have a disability that is affecting them academically, and they would benefit from Special Education, please call Ms. Cuddy or Mrs. Beale at 553-8500 ext. 47.
Draper Sports
Basketball Training
Draper APA is partnering with Grind Athletics for the most intense basketball training around! Please contact them directly and the classes will be held at Draper 2.http://www.grindathletics.com/draperpreregistration.html
Cheerleading
Are you interested in cheerleading? Join us for our cheerleading spring clinic, held on May 9th, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This clinic will be open to all APA students currently in grades 6-11. No previous experience is required and there is no cost to attend. If you are interested in participating, you must sign up before May 2nd. You may sign up on the Draper 2 Athletics bulletin board or email Coach LaJeunesse at llajeunesse@apamail.orgGolf!!!
Draper APA Golf at Mulligan’s! We are starting our Spring session of golf for grades 5th – 12th so check out the flyer to sign up!
“Wall of Thanks”
Recognize our SUPER STAR STAFF
on American Preparatory Education Foundation’s
“Wall of Thanks”
With a $5 donation to the Staff Appreciation Fund, you can honor a teacher/staff member
with a star from your family.
Donate as many times as you’d like.
Each $5 donation honors another teacher/staff member.
Many families have expanded their support of our SUPER STAR STAFF by joining the Builders Club.
We invite you to join the BUILDERS CLUB by becoming a monthly RECURRING donor.
Recurring monthly donors will receive
5 stars for the “Wall of Thanks”!
Please visit the website or donate at the front office.
www.americanprepfoundation.org/staff-appreciation All proceeds go directly to the Staff Appreciation Fund.