Welcome to Florida Air Academy’s weekly  Summer Parent Newsletter. This newsletter is to keep you up-to-date on events at the school. I hope it is informative for you during the summer session. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at macton@flair.com. I hope we all have a successful summer!

Summer school at FAA includes many opportunities for students to visit local educational attractions. Each week, the parent newsletter will include a list of the week’s school field trips. Please contact your child’s teacher if you have any questions about the scheduled field trips. Students in 6th grade and ESOL will take one field trip per week.

6/22: Grade 6 will be visiting The Enchanted Forest

ESOL will tour the Melbourne Mall

6/26: Grades 6 through 8 along with SAT Prep, ESOL and high school English classes will visit the Brevard Zoo

ADMISSIONS:

Next Open House is July 8 at 12:00 noon. We will be located in the Dining Hall. If you have any friends or relatives with children who might be a good addition to the cadet corps of FAA, please invite them to this! Enroll now for the fall!

STUDENT REFERRALS

As alumni, parents and cadets know, FAA is an excellent choice for a high school education. If you refer a student to us and your potential cadet enrolls in the Academy and completes one semester, you are eligible to earn a gift card from Best Buy. Visit our website at www.flair.com and click on 'Refer a cadet' on the home page. The web site is simple and easy to navigate. Make a difference in a young person’s life!

GUIDANCE

The FAA 2007 Summer Session is off to a great start! The adjustment process for our new students has gone extremely well during the early and very critical days of this summer session. Classes are in full swing and a few of our students are still getting used to having daily academic work over the Summer!

Please be reminded that there is tutoring in Math and Reading available during the hour-long morning activity period when a student will not miss any of his/her core classes. Please contact your son's/daughter's Guidance Counselor listed below if you are interested in one of these programs for your son or daughter.

Also, please understand that each day of Summer classes is the equivalent of one week of class during the regular school year. Thus, unnecessary absences are a real detriment to the academic success of your son or daughter during our Summer Session.

Should you need to contact your son's/daughter's Guidance Counselor or the Guidance Office, please call: (321) 723-3211, ext. 30031. Fax: (321) 724-0805

LTC Reggie Bird, Guidance Director (Last names A - L) rbird@flair.com

Ms. Laura Zamjahn, Guidance Counselor (Last names M - Z) lzamjahn@flair.com

Ms. Bonnie Miller, Registrar Records bmiller@flair.com

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Welcome aboard, parents! Summer school is only six weeks long and every day is critical. If you would like your son or daughter to participate in any of FAA's special activities, please contact Accounting as quickly as possible.

Martial Arts has already started but we will accept late starts into our Tuesday/Thursday classes.

Driver's education starts this Sunday with a mandatory 4-hour class required for a learner's permit, with the regular classes starting on Monday, June 25th. No late starts allowed in this course, so please plan accordingly.

SCUBA will happen in July so there is still time to sign up and additional signatures will be required for that program.

Flight has openings for our 3:30 slots, after the school day, for the entry into the wonderful world of flight. Once again, more paperwork will be required to start flying but the first step is to contact the Accounting department.

Website:

Here is a link to the Daily Bulletin:

http://www.flair.com/plages/faaToday/bulletin/bulletin.htm

To find current sports schedules and rosters, refer to the site maintained by Jim O'Malley, our Athletic Director:

http://www.highschoolsports.net

For another link to the current weekly parent email newsletter, check this page which will be updated on a weekly basis:

http://www.flair.com/pages/faaToday/ParNewsLtr.htm

Link for homework assignments only. Parents do not have to log in.

http://www.homeworkhero.com/cgi-bin/aahero02/acceptit20/search.cgi?dir=fl_flair

Link to Netclassroom - Parents will need to login* to view grades:

http://web.flair.com/netclassroom7/Forms/login.aspx

*Email bkilfoy@flair.com for your User ID and password.

 

WEEKEND ACTIVITIES:

Friday: Movies for returning students

Saturday: Squadron Games

Pool Party/Cookout

Sunday: Beach