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ANDERSON UNION HIGH

Each will excel, achieving College, Career and Life readiness!

May 29th, 2025

LCAP Goal #1. Anderson Union High School District students will be college or career ready upon graduation.

Student Recognition

All-Star Seniors

The Shasta County Association of California School Administrators held their annual Student All-Star breakfast at Simpson University on May 22. The 2025 Anderson High Senior All-Stars are Marissa Oseguera and Owen Gerring. Mr. Safford was proud to present these two outstanding human beings. Both Marissa and Owen have been super involved in their school and community, they are both so kind, humble, and gracious to others.

AUHS Outstanding Students

The Anderson High Library was filled with high acheiving students and family members for our Spring Semester Student Recognition Luncheon. The AUHS FFA prepared and served a delicious meal as always, while Mr. Costa served as the Master of Ceremonies. Students were recognized for Attendance, Academics, and Citizenship.

Senior Awards Night

Senior Awards Night was held on Wednesday May 21st at 6:00pm in the PAC building. There were 54 students in attendance who were recognized for being CTE Pathway completers, Outstanding Musicians, seven semesters of 4.0 grade point average, and scholarship award recipients.

Spring Finals

Students and teachers are squeezing every last bit of learning and finishing up projects before next week which is Finals week. We will be on a Finals Schedule on June 3-5 with two final periods per day.

Leadership

AUHS student body crowned Mr. Long as the 2025 Staff King and Mrs. Lyford as the 2025 Staff Queen.

DISNEY LEADERSHIP TRIP:

Mrs. Wonder and Mrs. Weber took 17 leadership students to Disneyland as a reward trip for all of the hard work they've poured in the last few years. Students fundraised to make it happen and it was well worth the effort. Many of the seniors are second year leadership students and a group of them even helped at events their Sophomore year before joining Leadership class. This trip was a fun way to reward their commitment and contributions to our school.

Leadership is preparing for Senior events on May 30th:

Senior Farwell Rally, Senior BBQ, and Senior Sunset. FFA will grill at the pool for the Senior BBQ and students will come back in the evening to have some fun at Senior Sunset.

Counseling

Counselors are working on Summer School sign-ups, as well as evaluating students for the summer DSST.

Anderson FFA

Leaning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve

"FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education."

Happy Valley Cemetery Clean Up

On Saturday, May 24th, Anderson FFA Students headed out to the Happy Valley Cemetery where they used a variety of yard tools to clear the overgrown grass, clean headstones, and improve the accessibility for families coming to visit. Our students greatly improved the overall appearance of the grounds and we have future clean-up days schedule to maintain the cemetery.

Memorial Day Flag Display

On Monday, May 26th, Anderson FFA Students woke up extra early to head to the Anderson VFW Post 9650. Students arrived at 6 AM and began gathering flags and supplies to pay respects to the service members in the Anderson Cemetery. At each grave site, students placed a flag and poppy ring, students also assisted with placing the large flags around the driving paths. Students then arrived later in the evening to help take all the flags down and pack everything away.

Ag Science Anatomy Lab

Students in Agriculture Biology have started their Anatomy Dissection Lab this week. Students are exploring the internal organs, discussing their functions, and making comparisons between the fetal pigs and their own internals. This is the final culminating project for Ag Biology wrapping up all of what students have learned throughout the year.

Cub Connection

Making Connections

Cub Connection has had a couple of busy weeks! On Wednesday, May 14, 2025 we hosted our annual “Red Carpet” event. We recognize students for outstanding attendance, special staff awards, community service and involvement. We also take this opportunity to recognize the daytime staff who stay late and contribute to our students with tutoring, credit recovery, weight training, robotics and more. FFA cooked us a wonderful dinner and we had about 95 in attendance. We are looking forward to this special evening continuing to grow in the future.

With the school year winding down, we hosted a BBQ and pool party on the final Collaboration Day of the year. The students enjoyed hot dogs, chips and water and then spent the afternoon having a fun time in the pool. It has been a fantastic year and we are excited for what next year will bring!

LCAP Goal #2. Anderson Union High School District will provide a safe, orderly, and responsive learning environment for all students.

Cultural Day

The AUHSD Indian Education coordinator, Mr. Dylan Baker, successfully organized the Native American Cultural Day on May 21st. This was an annual event for many years in our district and it was great to see it come back this year. Students participated in the event during their English class and both Mr. Baker and the presenters were all very impressed with the level of attention, participation, and respect that our students displayed. With his first Cultural Day under his belt, Mr. Baker plans on not only continuing next year but providing event at WVHS and incorporating a few more elements.

Special Education

The two self-contained programs at AUHS that serve students with special needs are always active, learning life skills, being challenged, and having rewarding experiences. These amazing students have participated in a Career Fair, toured Shasta Dam, visited the Garden of Lights, perpared meals, worked at Kents Meats, Grocery Outlet, and Dairy Queen, and had outstanding performance at Special Olympics.

LCAP Goal #3. AUHS will develop and maintain a systematic method for partnering with parents, guardians and community members in the ongoing development of district programs and services.

PACE

The The AUHS Parent Advisory and Community Engagement committee held their May meeting on Wednesday the 29th, where they showed the videos that were submitted by their scholarship award winners. All of the winning contestants produced outstanding displays of how amazing they are for our communinty and our school. The meeting also served in information dissemination for upcoming events, sports updates, reorganizing their board, and planning efforts to continue supporting AUHS.

Graduates of Native Heritage

The 2025 Native Senior Honors ceremony was organized and lead by Dylan Baker on Tuesday May 27th in the AUHS Cafeteria. This is a meaningful district event for both West Valley and Anderson students and family members. There was great care taken in creating the graduation gifts, preparing the message, and decorating for the evening.

Board Member Visit

Board member, Mrs. Julia Rinauro, arranged a visit to AUHS with Principal Safford on Wednesday 5/29. Mrs. Rinauro and Mr. Safford toured the campus and talked about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Successes and Challenges. Mr. Safford greatly appreciates Julia taking the time to visit AUHS and converse about the school to gain a greater understanding of our school as it applies to governance. Mrs. Rinauro spent over two and a half hours asking terrific questions and providing helpful perspective and suggestions.

Athletics

Spring Football

Coach O'Connell and the AUHS Football Coaching staff held Spring Football practice from Monday May 19 through May 30. Athletes were consistently attending and enjoyed working with the new coaching staff.

Boys Basketball Summer League

Boys Basketball summer league play began this week on Tuesday May 27th at 7:00pm at foothill high school and Thursday May 29th at 5:00pm at Shasta High School.