 After-School Activities Can Change a Child's Life!
If you missed last Friday's Clubs Expo, you still have a chance to learn about our school's 30 clubs! Just visit our website to learn more.
There is a mix of competitive academic teams, sports clubs, and recreational clubs. It's the most comprehensive clubs offering in Amana history!
Research has shown that after-school activities help youth develop social skills, improve academic performance, and help them build strong supportive relationships with adults other than their parents. Young children benefit especially from the social skills development and improved academic skills. This leads to improved conflict management and better school attendance. Middle-school aged youth who continue to participate in after-school activities are more likely to be engaged in school and attentive in class. Participation in after-school activities continues to be a benefit for students right through high school. Adolescents in after-school programs are optimistic for the future and have more interest in school than peers who are unsupervised after school.
Encourage your child to participate in a club today and contact the club organizers of your choice!
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| TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY - MOROCCO! |
Dear Parents of Middle School Students and Amana Graduates,
It is Amana Academy's unique privilege to offer our students Arabic world language instruction, and we are happy to announce that we will be partnering with a reputable tour agency to offer a safe overseas cultural experience of a lifetime for our middle school students and alumni. Our destination for this year will be the Kingdom of Morocco during Spring break.
T he trip would be available to Amana Middle School students and Middle School alumni only. If you are interested in learning more about this trip, please click here to complete an online interest form. Some of you have already completed the form, but may have done so before we edited it to include a space for your name and contact information. If you could resubmit the form with that information included, we'd greatly appreciate it.
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Amana is now proud to offer a line of Spirit Wear for students and parents to purchase. We have worked with a company called Big Frog Custom T-Shirts located in Marietta. They specialize in a process called "direct-to-garment" printing which allows them to print orders on demand. Once you order your Amana spirit wear online, they can have it ready within 24 hours.
You can either have it shipped directly to your home (for a shipping fee) or you can order it and someone from Amana will pick up orders once or twice a month and then send your order home with your child.
 
Currently there are four designs to choose from. All of them are available in youth and adult sizes, and in long or short sleeves, and prices range from $10-$15 per shirt.
Students will be given one opportunity per month, usually on a Friday, to dress down and wear their spirit wear. These dress-down days will usually coincide with an environmental or social awareness day. The first of these "spirit-wear" days is September 20, which is the Friday before Clean Up the World Campaign weekend. If you order spirit wear between now and September 13, it will be sent home with your child sometime during the week of September 16-19. They can wear it on September 20 to show their Amana Eagle Spirit.Questions about spirit wear? Email info@amanaacademy.org.
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| FAMILY DIRECTORY INFORMATION |
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We will be making the Family Directory available to all parents via our website towards the end of the month. It will be password protected and the password will be provided only to our parents. If you do not want to be listed in the Family Directory, please take the opportunity to log into your home access account to opt out of sharing your information. You can do so by clicking the registration page of home access and clicking on the FERPA information. Click here to see page 29 of the Home Access Center Slideshow for more information.
If you're still having trouble accessing Home Access, please email Sherryl Hale (shale@amanaacademy.org) directly and let her know that you'd like to opt out of having your information shared.
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| CARPOOL TAGS - FRIDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ORDER |
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For the safety of our students, please note that you MUST have a carpool tag to enter the building during Friday afternoon dismissal. All carpool tags were to be returned to the school at the end of last school year and were redistributed during Open House. The quantity returned to us, were returned to you. If you have lost your tag or need additional tags, this Friday, August 30, will be the last day to order additional/new tags. The cost is $5.00 per tag that must be paid in advance. You will receive a temporary tag upon payment until the order comes in.
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Absences:
Amana Academy has an attendance check system to provide an extra measure of accuracy for our students. Its effectiveness depends on the parents' cooperation of logging onto our website, and accurately completing the form for absences.
- Log onto the Amana Academy Website at www.amanaacademy.org
- Go to Quicklinks on the home page and click on 'attendance form'
- Click "Notify Amana" of an absence for your child
- Select the date of the absence from the calendar, and complete the online form.
- Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation. Please keep this for your records.
Please Note: A form must be completed for each day a child is absent and submitted within 3 business days of the absence. No absences will be excused after 3 business days. Only the reasons provided on the form are considered excused, and may require additional documentation. Any absence for religious reasons must be a recognized religious holiday. Any other reason for absence requires written approval from the grade level administrator.
Tardy:
School begins at 7:45 AM for middle school, and 8:00 AM for Elementary school. Please leave home early to allow for traffic or weather conditions.
- The only tardy that will be excused is if a student has a Dr., Dentist, or legal appointment. The parent must provide a note from the doctor in order to be excused. Please deliver the note to the front desk.
Per Fulton County Schools code, parents of students with excessive absences and/or tardies will receive written notification from the school social worker.
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| LOST & FOUND - LUNCH BOXES AND WATER BOTTLES |
| Lunch boxes and water bottles that are left behind in the lunch room (or elsewhere) will be placed on the shelves near the reception area in the front lobby. At the end of every week, lunch boxes that are not picked up will be discarded to avoid attracting insects and smells from rotten food left in the containers. |
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Dear Parents,
Home Access user names and passwords were given out during open house. If you did not pick one up, please go to the front desk. Please try your log in to ensure it is working correctly. If it is not, please email shale@amanaacademy.org ASAP, as a ticket will need to be submitted to Fulton County. Please be patient. The official roll out will be after Labor Day. Please read the following carefully:
- You must use Internet Explorer Only (not Mozilla or Google Chrome).
- You must put @fcs.org after your user ID
- If you mistype, it will remember the wrong information until you restart our computer
- Please go to the following page for help click here
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| GRANDPARENTS AND SPECIAL FRIENDS DAY - SEPTEMBER 27 |
On Friday, September 27, PIE will host Grandparents and Special Friends Day from 9:30 AM until 12:30 PM. Please encourage your child(ren)'s Grandparents and/or extended family and friends to join us for activities in the classrooms, a Community Circle presentation by one of our elementary grade levels, and a light brunch. Please RSVP by September 15 by clicking on this link and filling out the form .
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| RIVERS ALIVE - HELP PLANT A POLLINATOR GARDEN IN WILLS PARK |
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Join the Amana family in planning and preparing a pollinator garden at Wills Park on September 28. Volunteers will spread and rake soil for the garden. Children may also join in creating plant markers with educational information. This project ties in to the Monarchs Across Georgia initiative, which also produces curriculum material related to monarch butterflies. After preparing the garden, volunteers are invited to join a cookout at Rock Mill Park in Alpharetta.
We will be meeting up in the parking area behind the school on September 28 at 9:00 AM. Spots are limited. If interested, please RSVP with Samer Bashir at samer.bashir@gmail.com. Come in your Amana T-shirt, and bring along a hat, bug spray, gardening gloves, and a shovel or rake if you have one. Last year's Rivers Alive project was a huge success, and we hope to repeat it this year -- with your help!
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| YEARBOOK SALES NOW UNDERWAY! |
This year's hard-bound, full-color, professionally published yearbook will be approximately 70 pages in length and feature wonderful memories for your student to enjoy in the years to come. Available through 12/20 for a discounted price of $32! To learn more about our purchasing options, click HERE. For general yearbook information, please contact amanaacademyyearbook@gmail.com
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SIGN UP FOR AMANA TEXT ALERTS
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At Amana, we recognize and value the importance of timely information from schools. In an effort to better communicate school news and updates with parents we have signed up with Remind 101. This free service allows Amana to send text "blasts" to all subscribers.
Simply follow the directions below and you will automatically receive any messages sent to the Amana Academy community. This is a closed system. We will not have access to each others' cell phone numbers. You will not be able to text back. Our hope is to use the service to give updates and reminders regarding delayed openings, school schedule changes, report card distribution dates, conference dates and important community events.
It is our sincere desire that this tool will make it easier for you to do all the many things that are demanded of you as a parent and yet still keep you connected and up-to date with Amana. Please email info@amanaacademy.org with any questions or feedback.
To sign up to receive text alerts, simply text @amana to 404.941.8355. This is a voluntary service, and you can opt out at any time.
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 Do you want to keep up with all of the exciting things going on at the school? Did you know that you can sync Amana's web calendar with yours, and you'll get automatic updates anytime we add something to the calendar? Simply click on the word "Calendar" in the right-hand column of the Amana Academy homepage (www.amanaacademy.org) and then click on the ICAL icon at the top of the page. Now you've got access to all of the important goings-on at the school such as Field Studies, Test Dates, Community Circle, school holidays, and more. |
 If you ever have any questions or concerns, please contact your child's teacher directly, or any one of our Administrative team members. If your question was not addressed, then feel free to contact our Governing Board. Amana's main number is (678) 624-0989 and you may also find email contact information for all of our staff by visiting the Amana Staff Directory or by emailing info@amanaacademy.org On behalf of the Governing Board, the Amana faculty and staff, and the school Administration, thank you for entrusting your child's education to us. With your continued support, we will continue to mold the very best and brightest global leaders within our community! |
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