APC

Just a reminder that Monday, October 14, is a Staff Development Day so there will be no school tomorrow. It’s hard to believe the first quarter of the school year has already come and gone. There is a tremendous amount of activity on campus this month with fall sports and performing arts’ events in full swing. We anticipate a tremendous amount of excitement next week too, as Acalanes welcomes the highly-regarded United States Marine Band for a concert on Wednesday. Finally, don’t forget to wear lavender to Friday night’s football game against Campo. Go Dons!

We are looking forward to the upcoming APC Dons Dialogue with Principal Bell on Friday. The agenda is jam-packed with some terrific information so it’s one you won’t want to miss. You’ll find more details in our APC in Action section below. Hope to see you on Friday. 

Dawn Brightbill & Sarah Cusumano

Hello Dons Families,

Welcome to October! We have enjoyed the first few months of school with your students.  September was busy with our Club Fair, blood drive, motivational speaker Mike Smith, athletic events, and Homecoming.  

Our Homecoming Week, “Battle of the Bands”, was packed with spirited events including Unified Soccer, hallway decorations, student dodgeball, lunchtime activities, a rally, tailgate, and Friday night football.  The Homecoming community service activity this year was to collect cans and food donations for the Contra Costa Food Bank. We are blown away with the outpouring of support with a donation of over 23,000 items this year!  Thank you to our Leadership class, Mrs. Walton, our parent liaisons, and volunteers for your encouragement and involvement in making this a memorable Homecoming for all Dons. Dons show up!

Be sure to check out our Acalanes website for our calendar of upcoming events and important dates.  Good luck to all of you on 2nd quarter.

Your Associate Principals,

Andrea Powers and Mike Plant

We hope your students enjoyed the past week full of Homecoming activities that led up to the Homecoming Football game & tailgate on Friday night followed by Saturday night’s Homecoming Dance. We can’t thank our APC Class Liaison Team enough for all they did to help support the class officers in making it a special week. The class liaisons, led by Co-Head Liaisons Gayle Burleigh and Traci Reilly, are some of the hardest working volunteers on campus. They work behind the scenes throughout the school year serving as liaisons between the class officers and our parent community. 

APC helps to manage the AHS Volunteer Service Awards program. Now is a great time to encourage you student to help out in the community and be recognized for their efforts at the end of the school year. You can find more information in the APC in Action section of the newsletter. 

Be sure to mark you calendars for upcoming Vaping Education Night as part of the APC Parent Education Speakers Series to be held on Tuesday, October 29, in the PAC. Parents and students are invited to attend. More detail in the Parent Education section. We hope to see you there!