Weekly News & Announcements

Make Vaping History: Students and Parents Learn About Risks of Vaping and Tobacco Use

APC Parent Education Speaker Series event presents along with AUHSD:

Make Vaping History: Students and Parents Learn About Risks of Vaping and Tobacco Use
Tuesday, October 29 from 7:00 to 8:30pm
Acalanes High School Performing Arts Center

Learn up-to-date information on e-cigarette/vape pen products, adolescent use rates, impact on young people, prevention strategies, how to support current users, and more.  Register for the event here.

Healthy Tech for Teens, Managing Social Media

Acalanes Unified High School District (AUHSD) is sponsoring the following event for parents. Sign up below and mark your calendar to attend.

Healthy Tech for Teens, Managing Social Media
Wednesday, October 23 from 7:00 – 8:30pm
Campolindo High School

Learn more and register to attend here.

Drama Dons In Action! The LARAMIE PROJECT

October 23-26 at 7pm in the Acalanes Little Theater 

Don’t miss the DramaDons production of The Laramie Project, the true story of Matthew Shephard who was savagely beaten and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming.  Shephard’s name quickly became a grim rallying cry for those speaking out against hate crimes committed against gays. The Laramie Project explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.  A more detailed synopsis of the play as well as information on tickets can be found here. 

Click here to watch a short PSA video produced by AHS Leadership about about the play.

Ready to be onstage?!

Beginning this year, all students are welcome to participate in the school musical! There will be an informational meeting in the Drama Room during Academy on October 18. Information about audition sign ups as well as rehearsal information will be communicated at this meeting.

Thank you LPIE business partners!

A BIG thank you to LPIE business partners for supplying the swag for the LPIE spinning wheel at the 2019 Lafayette Art & Wine Festival: Martin Homes, Cobain Orthodontics, Julie Del Santo and Tina Frechman from the Dudum Real Estate Group, Dana Green from the Dana Green Team, and the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.

Be sure to stop by the LPIE booth—generously sponsored by Lewis Asset Management—after the Reservoir Run on Sunday, October 20, to learn more about LPIE and to decorate pumpkins. 

If you own or work at a local business and would like to learn more about LPIE, we are proud to host the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce Mixer on Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30-7pm. Please contact us with any questions at office@lpie.org or 925-299-1644 or if you would like to know more about our LPIE Business Program for parents and local businesses.

With gratitude,

Laura-Kate Rurka & Rachel Berkowitz
Acalanes LPIE School Chairs

Co-Associate Principals’ Messsage

Hello Dons Families,

Welcome to October! We have enjoyed the first few months of school with your students.  September was busy with our Club Fair, blood drive, motivational speaker Mike Smith, athletic events, and Homecoming.  

Our Homecoming Week, “Battle of the Bands”, was packed with spirited events including Unified Soccer, hallway decorations, student dodgeball, lunchtime activities, a rally, tailgate, and Friday night football.  The Homecoming community service activity this year was to collect cans and food donations for the Contra Costa Food Bank. We are blown away with the outpouring of support with a donation of over 23,000 items this year!  Thank you to our Leadership class, Mrs. Walton, our parent liaisons, and volunteers for your encouragement and involvement in making this a memorable Homecoming for all Dons. Dons show up!

Be sure to check out our Acalanes website for our calendar of upcoming events and important dates.  Good luck to all of you on 2nd quarter.

Your Associate Principals,

Andrea Powers and Mike Plant

Dons Show up at Homecoming!

Talk about a week of our Dons Showing Up for each other!  Homecoming hallway decorating, skits, games and activities all take a ton of work. Our Dons could not have done it without their classmates. Check out Blueprint’s amazing video re-cap of last week’s homecoming festivities. Thanks to student Oliver Lane for capturing the excitement across campus. 

We need our Dons to Show Up

We need our Dons to Show Up for a few more things! Juniors, Sophomores and Freshman need help and are asking parents to please take a fundraising concession shift at the home football game versus Campolindo on October 18. Please see your class page to sign up.

The 1st quarter is coming to an end this week!

To support students, encourage them to attend “stressbusters” at lunch on Friday, October 11 in the front quad. 

6th Man Jersey: Two more days to order!

Order a personalized 6th Man jersey by Tuesday, October 8  to wear to any athletic event including basketball! Jerseys can be customized with last name and graduation year on the back. Check them out-they are awesome!

Week of 10/7 Update

Oct 9     Academy - Essay Workshop
Oct 11   Academy - Essay Workshop
Oct 12   Mock ACT 9am - 12pm ($30 fundraiser for AAUW) Sign Up Here
Oct 15   AUHSD Military Career Night @ AHS Gym 6:30p-8p
Oct 19   PSAT (registration now closed)
Oct 23   SAT/ACT Info Night @ AHS 6:30p-7:30p
Oct 28   SFSU Tour

SFSU Campus Tour for Seniors The College & Career Center (CCC) is offering a tour of SFSU for Seniors on Monday, October 28, 7:30am - 2:00pm. To register, print out a permission slip from the website and return it by Friday, October 21 along with a check (to pay for bus) for $10 made payable to “Acalanes High School". We are partnering with Campolindo High School so space is limited.

College Rep Visits Coming This Week:
Mon      Stonybrook, Arizona State
Tues     Brown, Dartmouth, Tulane, SMU, Northern Arizona, Purdue
Wed     UDenver, UFlorida, Columbia College (Chicago), Notre Dame de Namur
Thurs   Depauw, UKansas, Boston College
Fri        Western Oregon

For times and sign up visit Naviance. These visits are for junior and senior students. Please pick up passes before school, during brunch or lunch.

Wendy Reicher
wreicher@auhsdschools.org

Seniors: Official Transcripts Reminder

 A reminder to pay for official transcripts for your college apps on the Web Store.  Registrar Mrs. Finn will make sure they get sent right away or let your counselor know that transcripts are ready to send along with other documents.