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PNA Admissions Dates Set
PNA has scheduled its Admissions Open Houses and other key admission dates for the current school year. We offer individual tours on a daily basis, but Open Houses are also a great opportunity for prospective families to get to know the school.
September 1st Beginning of Kindergarten and Early Kindergarten Application
Acceptance Period for 2010-11 School Year
September 14th-March 17th Individual School Tours Available
Tuesday, January 26th, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. PNA Open House
Friday, February 5th, 5:30-8:00pm at the office of PNA parents RUchard & Kristi Fuller at 1007 West Third Ave; more information below
Saturday, February 20th, 11:00 - 3:00 p.m. Independent School Fair at BP Energy Center
Tuesday, February 23rd, 6:30-8:00 p.m. PNA Open House
Thursday, March 17th Early Application Deadline
Saturday, March 20th, 9:30-11:30 a.m. ADVENTURE DAY - (A fun and engaging day for us to get to
know our student applicants and their parents.)
Friday, March 26th Acceptance Letters Mailed
Wednesday, March 31st 4:30-6:00 p.m. PNA Open House
Applications received after March 17th are processed on a rolling basis, and individual tours continue to be available. Please help spread the word and encourage early application.
PNA Sponsors a First Friday Art Opening
PNA's Salvador Dali lithographs will be on display and available for purchase during the February 5th First Friday Art Walk from 5:30-8:00pm at the offices of PNA parents Richard & Krisit Fuller at 1007 West Third Avenue. PNA founder Dr. David Beal generously donated to PNA Dali's fifteen lothograph series, Don Quixote of La Mancha. This numbered, authenticated series includes such works as "The Impossible Dream" and "The Heart of Madness". Salvador Dali, the Spanish surrealist painter who lived from 1904 to 1989, is best known for this incorporating striking bizarre images.
In addition, Dr. Beal has donated the painting "Connected Through Music" and the limited edition serigraph "Preservation of Love" by Yuri "Yuroz" Gevorgian. Yuroz has recently become prominent for his work "The Light of Compassion", which was commissioned by the pope in honor of Saint Arcangel Tadini. These two Yuroz works will be available at PNA's gala auction on February 20, 2010.
PNA Hires New Early Elementary Faculty
- Abbey Morrison has been hired as Early Kindergarten Association Teacher. She graduated summa cum laude from Freed-Hardeman University with a BA in Elementary Education. She taught fourth and fifth grade in Missouri, and spent the past year as a special education teacher's assistant in the Anchorage School District.
- Kathleen Waddell-Bruce has been hired as Kindergarten Associate Teacher. Kat has spent the past four years teaching grades two through five in the Lower Kuskokwim School District. Kat also has previous independent school experience, having done some of her student teaching at The Royal Wolverhampton Academy in the UK. She graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota, Morris with a BA in Elementary Education.
- Gretchen Garoutte has been hired as PNA's First Grade Teacher. Ms. Garoutte is originally from Alaska and earned her BA in Elementary from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her educational background includes having been valedictorian at Ninilchick High School and having spent a year of her college career as an International Exchange Student in the United Kingdom at the University of Sussex. She has taught second grade for the past two years in a South Portland, Main public school and also has independent school experience from working as a substitute teacher at Waynflete School in Maine. Ms. Garoutte comes to PNA with a commitment to our active learning philosophy and already experienced in the Six Traits and Lucy Calkins Writing Programs. She is also trained in and has used at her current school the Responsive Classroom approach to building positive and respectful classroom communities.
PNA Enrollment Increases 37%
as an EK-8 school, which now enrolls 133 students.
Service Day in the News
PNA's All-School Day of Service was held on December 17. Staff members and volunteers worked together with mixed-age groups of children to make scarves and hats for the homeless, fleece blankets for Salvation Army Cares for Kids, thank you cards for soldiers and more. The Anchorage Daily News created a slide show with audio to capture the spirit of the day: http://www.adn.com/slideshows/.
Land Lease Opportunity
Pacific Northern Academy is seeking land lease proposals for portions of its 9+ acre campus at 550 Bragaw Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Paved and unpaved portions are available, and electrical service is available. There is excellent access from the Glenn Highway. Contact Head of School Mark Niedermier at 907-333-1080 for more information.
PNA Military Scholarship Program Begins
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