STAR Academy’s Community is encouraged to attend, all or even part of the time, to meet and share ideas and views on your choice of subjects.  This meet and greet is the kick-off to several Community Meetings being held at various district school locations starting on 5 October (More on the scheduling and locations will be published in the near future).

Look forward to seeing you all!! 

Please note the new times:

Airport Campus K-3rd-

Breakfast- 7:15am

School Starts- 7:45am

School Ends- 3:15pm

Adams Campus 4th-8th-

Breakfast- 7:30am

School Starts- 8:00am

School Ends- 3:30pm

 We’re excited to announce that STAR Academy will be expanding our campus to include a second building in order to alleviate over-crowding and serve our growing number of students.

Effective with the next school year, STAR students in grades 4-8 will be served at the former Adams Elementary school at 2101 Manitoba St. Grades Kindergarten-3 students will continue their instruction at our current site at 2520 Airport Rd.

 The D-11 Board of Education voted Wednesday night to allow STAR to expand into the former Adams facility and occupy half of the building. The half of the Adams building which STAR will occupy includes a large site, playground, kitchen, offices, multi-purpose/gym room and 9 classrooms, which will accommodate 225 students. The other half of the facility is expected to be leased in 2011-12 to the Junior Achievement education program.

 This change will not only help us deal with over-crowding but it will also help us establish a true middle school program  (grades 6-8) at the Adams site. Because we will not have rental expenses for the Adams facility this will also help alleviate budget pressures, assuming that we are able to add approximately 150 students to our current total enrollment.

 Other announcements regarding staffing and other items regarding the STAR facility will be forthcoming.

 This is an exciting time for STAR academy and the surrounding community- YOU HAVE A CHOICE where you send your child to school, and we appreciate you choosing STAR Academy!

 Please share this information with all your friends, family, and community members.

Friday, June 11th @ 9:30am

Students Last Day Of School

Friday, June 11th, 2010

This will include the following:

8:00-9:00am- Registration and Breakfast (no cost)

9:00-11:30am- Visit to the State Capito (no cost)               

                                   Meet your school’s elected officials and educate them about the importance of charter schools and school choice (we will set up the meeting and provide all the talking points.)

12:00-1:45pm- Networking Luncheon (cost of lunch $35)      

                      Hear from education policy and movement leaders while networking with hundreds of charter school parents, leaders, and other supporters.

2:00-5:30pm- Breakout Sessions Designed for Parents/taught by Parents (no cost)                                                                                                                          

    Hear from other parents and charter school supporters about important topics such as:

-Clearing up public mispercetions about charter schools.

- Advocating for charter schools.

- getting involved in your school to help your child succeed.

 STAR Academy is seeking a parent, retired educator, or community member volunteer to help us in the Library. We need a consistent/reliable/committed person to manage and operate our library to include book check-in/out, shelving books, and introducing research/library skills. We are looking for someone to serve 8-15 hours per week. If you are interested, please contact the front office at 638-6554.

In the time preceding the winter holiday break, our students have been learning the Paragon Holiday Guide, a curriculum supplement focusing on the wisdom traditions, specifically those of the world’s primary religions as rich and diverse as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Kwanzaa, which is not a religion, but a winter festival that honors the past and reaffirms the future. In the guide are general lessons that provides a look at the winter celebrations. Beyond the factual accounts of other cultures and diversities throughout our world, another very important part of your child’s education is having an awareness and understanding of our core belief that we are all a part of a world community. This is the foundation of the Mosaica program, and what we strive as teachers to inspire at STAR Academy. Through this culture awareness, we hope to pass on the valuable lessons of tolerance and acceptance, for this is what frees our world, hopefully, of violence, judgment, and global “dis-harmony.”During this joyful holiday season, we invite you to a very special Holiday Festival on our last day of school before our winter break on December 18th at 2:00 pm. Everyone will gather in the gym, whereupon all grades will present their celebrations from around the world. We encourage parent and community involvement at this splendid time of joy, unity and coming together in comm-unity. We wish you a joyful holiday jaunt around the world! Please join us in the celebration.

Happy holidays!

STAR academy