Alpharetta High School
Week of February 6th
Upcoming Dates
February 6 or 7 - February Faculty Meeting
February 8 - Severe Weather Drill
February 8 - Mr. AHS, auditorium, 7 PM
February 9 - Anchor Time begins
February 9 - 5 minute Advisement before Anchor Time
February 9 - Band Concert
February 15 - Balance Night
February 16 - 5 minute Advisement before Anchor Time
February 16 - Fire Drill, after the last bus leaves
February 17 - No school (inclement weather make-up day, if needed)
February 20 - No school
February 22 and 23 - ACCESS testing (ELL students)
February 23 - Middle School Transition Night
February 28 - 6 week grade reports issued in 5 minute Advisement before Anchor Time
March 6 or 7 - March Faculty Meeting
March 6 - Middle School Tour
March 10 - Work Day
March 13 - District PD Day
March 14 - PIE day - PTSA
March 15 - Balance Night
March 16, 17, 18, 19 - Spring Musical
March 20 - 24 - Remedial Testing
March 30 - Senior Games - afternoon
April 20 - 5 minute Advisement before Anchor Time
April 22 - Prom
Congrats to David Boyd - 2017 AHS Teacher of the Year!
Six Reasons Why Students Are Unmotivated (and what teachers can do)
2017 Professional of the Year - Laura Smith - Congrats!
February Drills
An adjustment to our drill schedule has occurred:
February 8th - We will have a severe weather drill at the end of 2nd period.
Severe weather awareness week is February 6-10 and February 8th is our Statewide PrepareAthon.
February 16th - We will have a fire drill after the last bus leaves.
Please mark these dates on your calendars.
Our varsity boys are moving on to post session games!
Vertical planning with Webb Bridge Middle World Language teachers
Accelerated Algebra students in Mr. Cohen’s 1st period exploring exponential functions using Skittles!
School Governance Council - Teacher spot open!
Teachers, are you looking for an opportunity to shape the strategic direction of our school? If so, you should consider running for an open seat on our School Governance Council. Interested teachers must visit the following website to submit their candidate declaration forms (SGC Candidate Nominations ) by Feb 17th.
Location of AEDs in our building
In case of an emergency:
We have added an AED and relocated another.
Here are the locations of the AEDs at AHS:
Front Office
Clinic, Room 1260
Men’s Physical Education Office, Room 6137
Home Dugout at the Baseball Field
Visitor side Stadium Training Room
Administrative Office, Suite 1330
Fine Arts Building, outside room 7225 - Alarm Box (if this box is open it will alarm – the alarm will silence once the door is closed)
Theatre students working hard on the set for the upcoming musical
Mike Schiefflee masterfully hosted Signing Day Ceremony
Senior Athletes honored on Signing Day
Need help from a custodian?
If you need something from our custodial staff, please complete this quick form:
https://goo.gl/forms/BPbVSH3wQEy7cnR13
If it's something urgent, email Rebecca: perkinsr@fultonschools.org
Faculty Parking Hang Tags
If you are in need of a new faculty hangtag, please let Derek Wright know, and he will put a new one in your mailbox.
Varsity winter guard rock their Gatsby-inspired routine
Thank you to AHS staff for representing us against our amazing basketball team
Four AHS Chorus students were selected for and participated in the Georgia All-State Reading Chorus this past weekend.
Need to entertain a crowd?
The Media Center has the perfect equipment for meetings and large groups. Are you using the cafeteria for a large audience? Do you need to use the Media Center for a large meeting? Do you need to speak to a crowd outside?
The Samson sound system is a lightweight and and battery powered sound system with Bluetooth connectivity. This system can be used indoors and outdoors. You can stream audio from your smart phone, tablet, or computer. Speak to a large crowd with the wireless microphone. This PA system has 20 hours of battery life.
See Pam Kelly & the Media Center for details to check-out this system.
Swim and dive students out February 2nd and 3rd
Please be advised of the list of athletes attached to this week's newsletter who will be representing our school at the State High School Meet at Georgia Tech on February 2nd and 3rd.
Divers will be absent from school on Thursday February 2nd and Swimmers will be absent from school on Friday February 3rd. Please excuse these absences!
Mr. Binford's students participate in a "blood" splatter lab
Students who will be attending Georgia Governor’s Honors Program this Summer
Five members of the AHS Vanchise team unpacked the data from our device rollout
TAG - CISS Process
Teachers, as a reminder the CISS window opens next Monday, January 30, and runs through February 10. Rosters of non-TAG students will be in your mailboxes later this week and Frank Fortunato will share out with both the PowerPoint from January’s staff meeting and additional supporting documents to help with the process. If you have any questions beforehand, contact Mr. Fortunato directly (fortunatof@fultonschols.org). There will also be a Help Session for teachers who would like assistance on Thursday, February 9, after school at 3:45pm in the Media Center Project Room.
Transition Night
Our rising Middle to High School Transition Night will be held on 2/23/17 from 6-8p.m. The Activities Fair will be held from 6:50-8p.m. (after the School Overview Session) in the cafeteria. We hope to make this fair the best yet! Please sign your group up and if you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Amy Longstreth.
Activity Fair Sign Up 2017.xls
February Birthdays
Clair Greenaway 1
Erin Rose 2
Rodney Floyd 9
Cheryl Solan 9
Michael Cox 11
Dottie Davis 12
Jeanette Scott 13
Mary Farr 19
Becca Michael 24
Kendall Smither 26
Whitney Decaminada 27
Kathy Hubbard 27
Students participate in a gallery walk, evaluating group projects on population growth in math
Frank Fortunato and new baby Liam Anthony
Musical Theatre - student-led choreography in differentiated groups
Quote for the week
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communicable Diseases
Just wanted to remind you to notify the clinic if a student or staff member has a potential or actual communicable disease. These include, but are not limited to:
- Strep Throat/ Scarlet Fever
- Fifth Disease
- Influenza
- Impetigo
- Gastrointestinal Diseases (noroviruses, E Coli, giardiasis, shigellosis, salmonellosis, etc.)
- Scabies
- Pneumonia
- Chicken Pox
- Mononucleosis
- Hepatitis (A,B,C)
- Meningitis (bacterial or viral)
- Tuberculosis
- Measles (of any kind)
- Mumps
- Whooping Cough
If you are not sure about an illness, please let the clinic know, and we will discuss it with our cluster nurse.
Send a copy of any parent notes or emails to the clinic to help in our documentation.
*Please encourage frequent hand washing and proper coverage for sneezing and coughing.
Raider "Balance Days" for 2017 - mark your calendars!
We want to create a community filled with more balanced lives. The School Governance Council proposed a solution, and the Instructional Leadership Team agreed; thus, we have declared two nights a semester during the 2016-17 school year as "Balance Days."
February 15th
March 15th
The nights above are Wednesday nights the week of the 17th (to celebrate the class of 2017), and on these nights there will not be any homework assigned, no assessments will occur the next day, and no AHS meetings will be scheduled.
The idea is that Raiders will go home right after school and work to create balance in their lives. Staff members and students alike will take a night off. Club sponsors and coaches and directors may hold meetings and practices and games as needed. We feel students release stress through these extracurricular activities.
Please plan to enjoy yourself and work your assessments around these dates this year.