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Draper 2 Campus

An American Preparatory Academy School

Fall Festival!

The 2017 Fall Festival will be a combined D1, D2, and D3 event! The Festival is scheduled for Friday, Sept 8th, from 6-9 pm, at the D2 campus. This year’s activities will include jumping castles and slides, laser tag and archery tag, pony rides, face painting, and carnival games. A wristband will cost $7 in advance and $8 at the door. Dinner will also be available to purchase for just $5. Proceeds will go to funding FSO sponsored activities, band, SBO, and drama. Tickets are now available ONLINE! Yep! It is super easy to get your tickets… go to apaevents.blogspot.com. Tickets will also be on sale Tues-Fri (Sept 5-8), before and after school, at D2. We still need helping hands for set up, games, parking, and clean up. Get a jump on your volunteer hours and sign up! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a45abac23a1ff2-fall

Weathering the Storm!

A crazy weather event happened today right as carpool was starting.  A very strong localized rainstorm produced lots of heavy rain and some marble-sized hail! Students waited under the eaves for as long as possible before going to the carpool curbs at the tail end of the storm.  Considering the weather delay and it still being only day #3, we completed the entire afternoon pick-up 5 minutes faster than yesterday!

student holding hailstones hailstones students under awning

 

Celestial Happenings

What a great and interesting start to our school year.  The solar eclipse celestial event was celebrated throughout the school today.  We had many parents, students and staff enjoying the event many different ways.  Some had special glasses, some had an extra pie plate to keep their glasses on and other parents brought in special telescopes to reflect the event onto a board to view safely. Thank you to all the parents that came in with the special viewing boxes!

student with eclipse glasses

Movie Night

As the summer comes to an end, we got to enjoy a movie night in our courtyard. Sponsored by our Family School Organization and the American Prep Education Foundation, or Friends of APA, many of our new and experienced families got to spend time socializing and getting to know each other.  A special thanks to our operations team, especially Philip Miner and Mitch Benson for getting everything set up for this first time event!

 

movie night in courtyard

Asphalt!

The asphalt crew is busy paving our new parking lot and our driveway.  Our expanded parking and new driveway is a welcome addition to our campus.

asphalt crew

Jr. High Orientation

It is a very exciting time of the year and our 7th and 8th grade students coming to the school for their orientation were greeted by our fabulous Ambassador leaders, Camden Stewart and Braelyn Proctor. It was great to see all of our Jr. High students dressed for success and with all their energy.  Looking forward to a great year.

 

students welcoming committee

Staff Luncheon!

Our Fabulous Family School Organization provided our staff a wonderful lunch today.  Providing the meal takes a lot of work and help and we appreciate what Jen Hardy and crew did for our staff today.  THANKS!

 

Preparing LunchLunch

Movie Night – August 14th!

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for a movie under the stars! Get to know our new APA families! Popcorn, snow cones, and candy available to purchase!

More Parking!

We have been busy this summer adding more parking in front of the school!  We are excited about this expanded parking capacity and the prep work is being finished before the asphalt and curbing can  be started.

Getting Ready for the School Year!

Getting Ready for School Year!

 

There are a lot of people we don’t always get to see that help make our schools clean and comfortable. A Big Shout Out to AJ Carpet Cleaning & Service, Amador, Anthony and Juan for all their hard work cleaning the carpets in our schools! Taking care of our schools is a big job and with all our help Juan and his crew won’t have to work as hard next summer.