What an amazing student orientation! The energy and buzz at campus is electric and we are excited for our first, full week of classes! Please take a moment to review the following updates:School Hours and Logistics
School Communications
School Pictures
Exhibition Events
School Hours and Logistics
A reminder that Animas High School’s campus is open daily from 7:15 AM to 5PM. From 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM, students are welcome to gather in the Lodge. Likewise, from 4:15 PM to 5 PM students are welcome to wait in the Lodge for their rides home. If students are still around post-5 pm, they will be encouraged to meet you at the Durango Rec. Center.
When you drop your student off at campus, please be sure to turn North (right) only out of the upper lot- NO LEFT TURNS- if you absolutely must head back south, (i.e.-turn left) please drop your student off in the alley behind school, continue out to 33rd and take a left from there back onto 550.
Animas High School has committed to following these pick-up/drop off rules and CDOT and the city are watching! Let’s all do our part in ensuring AHS’s future at 3206 Main Ave.
School Communications
Weekly updates from the school are sent out at the beginning of each week via email. The Parent Action Committee, (PAC) also distributes periodic updates via email blasts. The school also publishes monthly newsletters highlighting all the great things happening at AHS.
Additional information regarding AHS can also be found on our homepage, http://www.animashighschool.com/ and on the Head of School’s blog, http://www.animashighschool.blogspot.com/ Finally, don’t forget to check out all the exciting cyber buzz related to AHS on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
School Pictures
2010-2011 School Pictures will be taken this Friday at campus. Students should have brought home paperwork covering the different photo packages available. Any and all questions should be forwarded to Ms. Mcknight at roxy.mcknight@animashighschool.com or by calling the school’s Main Office at AHS-AHS4 and leaving Roxy a message. All students will be getting photographed for school ID’s regardless of the families want to purchase school picture packages! Say cheese everyone…
Exhibition Events
We are pleased to announce John Fisher's 9th Grade Humanities students will participate in their first exhibition in connection with the 2010 Durango Heritage event. The exhibition will take place in the Oak Room at the Strater Hotel from 6 - 8 PM on Thursday, October 7.
For this project, 9th graders at Animas High will be studying Durango, past and present, through the lens of sociology. Our students will study social norms and identity formation in 19th century Durango and its modern counterpart. Students will then imagine they are travelers from the 19th century, writing short magazine articles about the social norms they observe in today's world. The final magazine and articles will be exhibited along with the student identity masks and essays they complete through this project.
We hope you can attend this exciting event.
