It is time for Wish Week! Make-A-Wish Colorado is all about making wishes come true for children who have been diagnosed with a critical illness. Student council has been working hard to plan a week full of activities, events, and competitions in order to fundraise as much money as possible to reach our goal of 5,000 dollars. Eagle Ridge Academy is featuring Wish Kid Peyton! Our whole week is centered around her interests and favorite thing to get the whole student body to truly connect and understand why this week is so important. All of the money we fundraise throughout the week goes to Make-A-Wish Colorado to fund wishes for kids like Peyton; her wish being to go on a Disney Cruise! 

To get to know Peyton, Student Councils spirit & assembly committee has created spirit days that reference her favorite things such as the color purple, the song ‘Ready For It’ by Taylor Swift, fancy French food, and more! Peyton will also get to see how much our council has done to personalize this week for her through pictures, videos, and even written letters to her! Our council is so excited to make her wish come true at the same time as bringing the school together through events we are hosting during the week of February 11th-14th. Some of these events include the Make-A-Wish assembly on Tuesday, Trivia night on Wednesday, Warriors Unite basketball game on Thursday, and the Valentines dance on Friday! The assembly will give students more information about Peyton and the week in general while the student council hosts fun games and activities to promote spirit and is one of many fundraising opportunities. Trivia night is going to be a blast, where families and friends come together and use teamwork to compete against each other for prizes! 

On Thursday this home basketball game will be held to support our Warriors basketball teams as well as bring the whole school together in one night to get prizes, fun wish week merchandise, as well as fundraising games to play during halftime! And last but certainly not least our council is holding a dance on that Friday night where girls ask your dates! Entry is $5 and it will be held in the cafeteria from 7-10 pm. All money made at this dance will go towards our fundraising goal to help support wishes for kids like Peyton. We will also be holding a restaurant night all day on February 11th at Red Robin in Brighton; be sure to mention Eagle Ridge Academy as you order.

All this being said, keep your eyes peeled for any advertisements coming from our school about more Wish Week information including the link to donate directly to Make-A-Wish! Eagle Ridge Academy’s student council looks forward to seeing families and the student body at the events throughout the week! 

By: Sophia Lucas 

UPDATE: Off-Campus Lunches

There is a change when it comes to off-campus lunches for our upper-classmen (11th & 12th graders) this year!  As many of you know, both 11th and 12th graders are given permission to leave campus for lunch.  This is not changing!  However, Eagle Ridge Academy will not have parental permission forms that go out at the beginning of the school year.  This privilege is given to all upperclassmen to enjoy off-campus lunch, and Eagle Ridge Academy will not deny any upperclassmen the privilege.  If parents/guardians do not want their upperclassmen to leave the campus, this must be communicated and enforced by the parents/guardians to their student(s).

Off Campus Food and Delivery Options

Off-campus privileges may be taken away by Eagle Ridge Academy Administrators due to any disciplinary, attendance, and academic issues that may arise throughout the school year.  Also, ERA will still use the 5 Star Students scanning system for a sign-in and sign-out policy as well.  This has proven to increase safety and security for our students that choose to leave campus during lunch.

Just a friendly reminder, the use of GrubHub, DoorDash, Uber Eats, or any other delivery service to drop food off at the school is not permitted.  This is a safety concern with random delivery drivers showing up to our campus unannounced.

Parents/Guardians are more than welcome to drop off food for their students at the front office.  We will make sure your student receives the food.  Also, the food should only be for your student.  Parents/Guardians are not authorized to bring food back for groups of students.  Since ERA is a federally funded school, and we operate under the "Competitive Food Service" under the Colorado Department of Education and United States Department of Agriculture we have to follow these guidelines.

Any food confiscated will be discarded.  Please have a conversation with your student about food delivery services at Eagle Ridge Academy.