Awaawa Kula Luau
Valley Academy 2013 Spring Festival
March 2, 2013
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Click here for more information

The Turkey Trot is a highlight of the fall season at Valley Academy. Each first through eighth grade class makes a banner to parade around the field before their race.  The banners often feature every child’s name, combined with the teacher’s name and lots of alliteration.  The photo below shows Mrs. Mettes’ Mighty Mountain Lions and Mrs. Breshears’ Broncos.

The students are grouped by grade, class, and boys or girls, and the races are run in heats, so there are plenty of happy winners.  The final race is the much-anticipated showdown between the turkeys!

The action is commemorated for the yearbook by their photographers, to whom we owe photo credit.

The event’s guests of honor are two fully grown live turkeys who are on display all afternoon.  Giving the turkeys humorous names is also a tradition; this year’s turkeys were Lady Gobble and Snoop Gobble.

Watching the races is almost as much fun as running one. It’s a great afternoon in the beautiful Arizona November sun.  Congratulations to winners and participants alike!

 to our

Valley Academy families!

 
Thank you to VAPO for the beautiful bulletin boards in the hall and library. All the students had the opportunity to write what they are thankful for on a leaf or apple.

Read all the updates on the Facilities Page! Don’t miss out on any of the construction news.

The first step in the indoor construction was to open up the ceiling, which created a lot of debris. Once it was all cleared out, the serious work of trenching out the concrete floor was started. This series of pictures covers a three-week span of construction. Check back often to see our progress!
 

Visit Painted Rock Academy’s Construction Update  page for Details!

The Facilities page has links to all the updates.

Valley Academy welcomes Painted Rock Academy to the family of Reid Traditional Schools. Painted Rock Academy will open in August, 2012, and will continue in the Valley Academy tradition of excellence in education. Visit the Painted Rock Academy website for more information.

At left, trees shade the front entrance of the new Painted Rock Academy campus. For more views and further details about the facilities, click here.

Click to view Ticket Information and Raffle Baskets.

Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1286 into law in 2010. The new A-F letter grade accountability system was designed to give parents clear information that is easy to understand about how a school is performing.

The current AZ LEARNS accountability system uses students’ scores on the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) to determine a label for the school and school district. Labels are underperforming, performing, performing plus, highly performing and excelling. Of the five labels possible, the second from the lowest is “performing.” More than 90 percent of Arizona schools receive a performing or better label.

With the new A-F letter grade system, parents will see a system they are used to seeing several times a year when their children bring home those report cards.

The new A-F letter grade measures total academic performance by evaluating both academic results and academic growth. According to the Arizona Department of Education, the letter grades take into account the student demographics of each school, and the unique challenges they raise.

“A” is for excellent.
“B” is for above average.
“C” is for average.
“D” is for below average performance.
“F” will be given only when a school receives a D for three years in a row. Then that school will be put into an improvement program run by the ADE.