Sunland STEAM Academy

Sunland Families, we will host a family meeting at Sunland in the library on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 4:00 PM, just before Curriculum Night begins at 5:00 PM. District administration, contractors, maintenance staff, and site staff will all be present to provide updates and answer questions on HVAC. air quality, and water fountains for students.

Sunland Families:
Sunland STEAM Academy invites you to Curriculum Night
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
What to expect:
Curriculum & Assessment Overview
Understand teacher expectations.
Attendance Expectations
GLOW Behavior Expectations
TITLE I Presentation in the Library with
Principal Robles

Sunland Families:

Due to the rain, Volleyball games have been canceled for today. We will inform you as soon as we have an update.

Families, We were just notified that the volleyball games for today boys and girls volleyball matches at Valleyview are canceled. We have notified students practices are canceled as well.

Attention Sunland Families:

Boys and Girls Club has been canceled TODAY.
If your students attend Boys and Girls Club please plan on picking them up from school at Dismissal as there will be no transportation for them.

We Appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Thank you parents and families for attending last night's cafecito. We discussed the concerns parents have about cooling issues, school safety, behavior, interactions in the classroom, and office, traffic, bus safety, lunches and recess, social media safety, and we included a discussion about the positive behavior supports being implemented school-wide. The following items will be addressed and progress will discussed at the next cafecito: notifications about cooling being addressed in specific locations will increase, notifications to maintenance will continue to occur daily until all cooling issues are resolved, air quality report will be communicated as soon as possible, timeliness of callbacks from administrators to parents will improve; staff, teacher, student, and parent interactions will improve, traffic safety has improved and more signage will be provided, all students will receive and be provided adequate time to eat, students will have access to bathrooms and water stations during recess, additional safety precautions will be taken for buses and playgrounds, more students will be held accountable for their actions in the classroom, school and social media, positive behavior supports for students behavior will increase. Parent teacher association (PTA) will be meeting and parent volunteers will be helping around campus more often. We have a lot of work to do and your support is needed and always appreciated. Thank you!

Rainy day schedule being implemented for lunches and recess. Students will remain in classrooms or common areas for recess. Once the rain has led up in. It is safe to be outside. We will go back to normal schedule.

Parents today is Kona Ice day. Please DO NOT drop off money in the front office.

Thank you

Sunland families, Today is not a $1 dress down day. All students are expected to wear their school uniforms. The next dress down day is next Friday, October 3. We also have Scorpion Scholar that day. Thank you!

Reminder, Coffee with the Principal is September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM in the Library.

Sunland Families:

Today, September 23rd is Game Day!

Boys Flag Football 5:45 PM at Greenfield vs Irene Lopez
Girls Flag Football 4:45 PM at Greenfield vs Southwest

Boys Volleyball at 4:45 PM at Bernard Black vs Southwest
Girls Volleyball at 5:45 PM at Bernard Black vs Conchos

Parents and Families. Sunland PTA is looking for volunteers. If you are interested in joining, please see Ms. Veronica Arana de Vazquez, our Parent Coordinator. We will be having our first meeting soon, and we would love to have parent participation.
Thank you!

Parents and Families,
United Portraits is still accepting orders for pictures and add-ons through their online portal at www.UnitedPortraits.com. Please ignore the September 12th due date. If you need assistance with ordering, please contact the school. United Portraits is not accepting cash orders at this time.

Parents reminder today is not dress down day. Today is a school uniform day.

Thanks you Happy Friday

Sunland Families :

Reminder, Coffee with the Principal is September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM in the Library.

Sunland Families:

SCHOOL MUSICAL AUDITIONS

Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 are welcome to tryout
for this years Disney Kids Musical Production.
Friday, Sept. 19th
(right after school in 2nd /3rd grade building)

Sunland Families:

You are Invited to a Hispanic Heritage Month Literacy Event

TODAY, September 17 from 4:00 PM - 06:00 PM at
Irene Lopez Academy of the Arts, 4610 S 12th St, Phoenix, AZ

The first 200 families to attend will receive a signed book by award-winning author Karen Morales!

Sunland Families:

Today we are hosting Sunlands Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony!

Streaming will be through Sunlands Facebook Page.

FACEBOOK: Sunland STEAM Academy