Welcome to the Gryphon Bulletin , American Renaissance School's Weekly Newsletter for Families.

October 14, 2024

Safe Schools Week October 21-25

October is safety month.  We will be practicing our tornado, fire, bomb threat, security alert and lockdown drills this week.  Parents please talk with your child and ensure them that these are just practice drills.  It is important for students to know what to do in any emergency at school if one should arise.  We are fortunate to be a downtown school, where we have support from the Statesville Police Department, Sherrifs Department and Fire Department all within one block of the school to ensure our school is safe at all times.  

• Monday- Security Alert

• Tuesday- Tornado

• Wednesday- Fire Drill

• Thursday- Bomb Threat

• Friday- Lockdown 

Staff Spotlight!

Elementary School News

Book fair is here!  Each classroom will preview the books and have a day to purchase books.  The book fair will be open during Fall Festival from 4:45-7:15 at the elementary building!

Our K-3 Book Character Costume Parade will take place at 9:30am on October 31st, 2024.

• Students will parade in their costumes through downtown.

• Students may wear costumes to school that day and are encouraged to choose costumes that reflect a favorite book character. No violent costumes, face paint, or masks are allowed. 

• Parents are invited to watch our parade from the sidewalk. We will begin with Kinder. We recommend that you arrive early and watch from the first block on East Broad Street or Center Street so that you do not miss any of the students.

• Some of the younger classes may use a shorter route by taking East Broad to turn left onto Center and walking straight down to the middle school if needed. 

WALKING ROUTE: 

K-3 Students will leave from the front door of the Donovan Cook Center on East Broad Street and take a left. At the corner of East Broad Street, we will turn left onto Center St. and use the crosswalk close in front of Andrea's Ice cream to cross over. (We are going to use these crosswalks with NO stoplight. Staff members will be in the crosswalks with stop signs to stop traffic.)

We will turn right on Center Street, go back down to the corner at East Broad and take a left to walk straight down East Broad to the Upper Room. Here, we will turn left onto Meeting St and go down one block to the corner at the Children's Museum. 

From the museum, the parade will turn left and walk straight up Court Street, using the same crosswalk to cross back over Center Street. We will turn right to walk down past our middle school. Past our middle school we will turn left on Front str, our students will walk up Cooper Street and return to ARS. 

We are looking forward to this fun ARS tradition!

Congratulations to our Red Ticket Winners!

Eric Thibou, Sofia Marquez Ramirez, Tobias Hinojosa, Serenity Muntz, Ethan Hernandez, Braeley Dawson, Jamir Roseboro, Henry Piland, Palmer Fox, Jay Janvrin, Jamie Zambrana, Lily Setzer, Eleanor Case, Adalynn Gomez-Villafuerte, Julian Sexton, Sebby Valois, Izzy Quintero Flores, Bronwen Baker , Evie Bauer, Hadley Leonard

Intermediate and Middle  School News

Book fair is here!  Each classroom will preview the books and have a day to purchase books.  The book fair will be open during Fall Festival from 4:45-7:15 at the elementary building!

Tryouts for middle school basketball will be u

Congratulations to the students that were picked as the Gryphons of the month. The core value for the month was 

RAP News

Renaissance Association of Parents- Interested in volunteering?  Click here to see all the ways you can be part of RAP!  

ARS uniform order form for spirit wear, ice cream Friday, magnets and more available here! 

Clothes Closet is in need of donations!  

ARSYAA Game Schedules