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Project Grad 2008

Thursday, May 22nd @ Dave & Buster's at Desert Ridge Marketplace The All Night SAFE Graduation Party for Seniors!

This is a FREE and SAFE all night graduation party for PHS Seniors which provides a safe and substance-free celebration for graduating seniors. For more information click on the Parents of Pinnacle link below:

Parents of Pinnacle Website

Many Thanks Parents of Pinnacle!

The Pinnacle Faculty would like to thank our Parents of Pinnacle (POP) for the wonderful lunch and gift honoring Teacher Appreciation Week. It is so nice to know that we are a community working together to educate our children. The things POP did for National Teacher Appreciation Week was very much appreciated and we thank you for all you do for Pinnacle.

The PHS-ITC Garden Project

Have you heard? Pinnacle is looking to create a really great outdoor educational space. Discover our plan to provide a wonderful new and unique learning environment; the PHS-ITC Garden Project. This is more than just pretty plants; this is a multi-use area that is really an extension of the library, which will be available to all classes! The Garden Project includes an outdoor amphitheater, and much more. Click here to check out our website and find out how you can help.

Printer Cartridge Collection

If you are replacing your printer’s cartridge, bring your old cartridge to your school nurse. Every type is accepted.  These cartridges will be turned over to STARS Foundation.  This is a sheltered workshop for persons with various disabilities.  With your donation you are keeping the cartridges out of our landfills and providing valuable work for the STARS consumers.  If you have any questions, you can call your school  nurse Linda Moskowitz, RN at (480)419-4414 or Dr. Bast at (480)367-5813 at North Ranch Elementary.

Family Connection

Family Connection from Naviance, is a web-based service designed especially for students and parents to use for researching colleges, signing up for college visits, and getting involved in the planning and advising of their high school courses, colleges and careers. Family Connection is linked with Counselor's Office, a service that counseling can use to track and analyze data about college and career plans, so it provides up-to-date information that's specific to our school. Family Connection also let's us share information with you and your child about upcoming meetings and events, local scholarship opprtunities, and other web resources for college and career information. To view video on Family Connections simply select the link below.

Family Connections Video (You need iTunes to play it)

Pinnacle Makes Newsweek's Top 1,200!

Newsweek Magazine just released it's annual list of the top 1,200 public high schools in the United States and Pinnacle High School has joined the ranks of the top 1,200 for the first time coming in at #618! Congratulations to the staff and students at Pinnacle who make it count every day.For more information, click on Newsweek.

Online School Meal Payments Now Available

PVUSD parents now can manage their child ’s school meal account online through EzSchoolPay, a secure, online service which parents may register for using their e-mail address, a password, school name or ZIP code, a major credit card and their child ’s student ID number (if your child does not know his/her ID number, contact the PVUSD Nutrition and Wellness department at 602-493-6330). Parents can check the balance or add funds to the online meal account at any time. Each student listed in the family's account will keep a separate balance, and checks and cash will continue to be accepted in all school cafeterias for meal accounts.

EZSchoolPay.com charges a small service fee (4.5 percent), which is automatically added to the payment amount, not subtracted from it. EZSchoolPay web site

Pinnacle High School and Pinnacle Nissan have teamed together to provide students with perfect attendance the opportunity to win a BRAND NEW NISSAN VERSA!

Eligibility Rules: Students who have perfect attendance for the 2007-2008 school year will be eligible to place their names in a drawing to receive a car. Students must meet the following criteria: Perfect attendance is defined by not missing any period of any school day throughout the 07-08 school year. School-sponsored activities which incur an absence, as defined by PHS, are not included in the total. On or off campus suspensions, including suspensions from a class, are counted as a day of absence. All taxes, licenses, doc fees and any other fees incurred are the sole responsibility of the winner. Pinnacle Nissan is a sponsoring this event and will be providing the car to the winner on the last day of school. Names will be placed in a televised drawing on the last day of school. Students in the drawing that were not chosen will receive an incentive gift (valued from$50-100). The car is co-sponsored with PHS STUGO. Student government students will not be eligible to participate. Prizes are non-transferable.

The Paradise Valley Unified School District is grateful for the businesses that support our students through the bus advertising program. Thank you for your support.

Yearbook and Senior Photo Information Now Available Here!

Make it Count in Language and Writing

Pinnacle is pleased to present "A Concise Handbook for Language and Writing in all Subjects." Writing across all subject areas is an integral part of learning. Download your very own copy here.

Tax Credit Program  

A WIN-WIN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE

Here's your chance to make an important contribution to education at our schools and receive an Income Tax credit for the full amount you contribute up to $200 (or $400 per married couple).

Arizona Tax Law (A.R.S. 43-1089-01) allows taxpayers a tax credit* of up to $200 (or $400 per married couple) if they contribute to extracurricular activities in public schools.   Extra curricular activities such as sports, band, speech, and debate, or overnight field trips are generally not fully funded by school districts.   These programs depend on fees from students.

Click here for more information and a Donation Form

Pinnacle High School is an Excelling School as rated by the Arizona Department of Education!

Pinnacle Continues to Excel!

For the third year in a row Pinnacle High School has been labeled an EXCELLING school by the state of Arizona. The collaborative efforts of parents, staff and students that make up the Pinnacle community enable us to Make Every Day Count and continue this tradition of excellence. Congratulations on a job well done!

Pinnacle's Mission Statement:
Pinnacle High School is designed to serve as a safe, educational center for lifelong learning. We are dedicated to developing the potential of each individual, encouraging community awareness, and stressing the importance of academic excellence.

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