Vista Nueva High School

This week we would like send a BIG THANK YOU to our AMSD Custodial Team who keep our schools running smoothly, looking great, and always working to take care of both our students and staff. We appreciate all that you do for our Aztec Tiger Community!!!

Good Morning Vista Family, Next week, on Wednesday, October 12th, we will be administering the PSAT 10 test to our sophomores. 10th grade students need to be on campus at 8:00 AM. Testing will run through about 12:30 that day and then they will be dismissed. All other grade levels will have a remote learning day and will not be required to be in the building. Students will be able to take home their Chromebooks on Tuesday, October 11th so that they may complete the remote learning assignments. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns. Dreher

Good Afternoon Vista Family, We are working on establishing our School Advisory Committee for the 22/23 school year and are asking for parent volunteers to join in this work. This group with have one formal meeting during each quarter of the school year and will be comprised of students, staff and parents. Our work will encompass everything from feedback and input on major school initiatives to basic fundraising and information awareness. If you are interested in joining us, please click on the link below. https://forms.gle/61SdkJT1xh94hKFT8 Have a fantastic holiday weekend! Dreher

Good Afternoon Vista Family, For any of our students taking Drivers Ed at the high school, class begins tomorrow in rooms 403 and 407 at 7:00 AM. There is a transfer bus that will leave the high school at 7:50 to bring those students over to our campus. Good luck tomorrow! Dreher

God Morning Vista Family, On Monday, we would like to invite all of you to our open house. We will begin with a brief gathering in the atrium (front entrance area) at 5:30. From roughly 5:45-7:00, teachers will be in their classrooms to visit with parents. You are highly encouraged to start with your student's grade level advisor. Mrs. Rebekah Deane, our counselor, and I will be up front for the duration of the evening to answer questions about internships, our Parent Advisory Committee, volunteer opportunities, or anything else you may have questions about. We look forward to seeing you on Monday! Dreher

Good Evening, A few more pieces of information for the week. We will have activities outdoors every day this week. Water bottles and cooler clothing are encouraged. On Thursday we will be heading to Tico Time at 9:00 from the school and returning at 2:00pm. Students will be able to order a sack lunch for the day. Liability waivers went home with students today. Please make sure to return them by Wednesday if your student wishes to join our trip to Tico Time. Any student wishing to opt out will not have any consequences as this is a non-academic, community building event. As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns. Dreher

Good Afternoon Vista Family, Just a few important announcements before we kick things off tomorrow. Breakfast and lunch are free to all students this year. Students will need to sign up with their lunch order before 9:00 am at the front desk every day. On Thursday, we will be taking an all school field trip to Tico Time River Resort. Students will come home tomorrow with a liability waiver. If that waiver is not returned by the end of the school day on Wednesday, students will not be able to attend the field trip on Thursday. Lastly, we will be holding our open house on Monday, August 29th, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on campus! Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns, Dreher

Good Afternoon Vista Family, We have received tons of questions over the last two weeks about what to expect this year at Vista Nueva High School. Here is your lengthy list of items that will hopefully answer a lot of questions. Supplies: Students do not have a supply list for VNHS. Some paper, pens, pencils and a few folders should do the trick. Start date: All students in all grade levels will begin at VNHS on Monday, August 15th, at 8:00 AM. For our new students, do not worry, we will be here to help you find your way to your first class of the day. “Harmony Week” - At VNHS we feel very strongly about the value of building our school community. What this means for students is that our first week of school is centered around this idea. Students will be participating in a variety of activities in small groups and as a whole school. On Monday, August 22nd, we will have our first “Internship Day”. Regular academic classes will begin on Tuesday, August 23rd, at 8:00 AM Internship days: Internships or Work-Based Learning experiences are now a requirement for graduation from Vista Nueva High School. Current seniors will have the option to participate in the internship program. Current Juniors will be required to complete a minimum of one internship experience and a minimum of 120 hours of internship. The graduating classes of 2025 and beyond will be required to complete a minimum of two internship experiences and 240 total hours for graduation. Each 60 hour segment is equal to .5 credits toward high school graduation. In addition to the credit earned for their internship experiences, all students will be enrolled in a “Career Exploration” class on Mondays for the duration of their time here. More information on internships will be forthcoming in the following weeks. Schedules: Students will work with Mrs. Deane, our counselor, to finalize their schedules throughout the first week of school. Food Service: We have a new food vendor in Aztec and we are very excited to see some of the new offerings that will be available to our students. Breakfast and lunch will be available to all of our students for free this year. Breakfast will be served in the cafeteria from 7:30 - 9:00 am every day. Lunch will run from 12:20 - 1:00 pm Monday through Thursday and from 11:55 - 12:35 on Fridays. Off Campus Lunch: Juniors and Seniors are eligible for off campus lunch. Freshmen and sophomores will be required to stay on campus. Advisory Class: All students will begin their day with their grade-level advisory. Annamarie Duesnberry will be working with our Freshmen. Jonathan Dobbs and Tamera Klohn will be working with our Sophomores. Our new science teacher, Aubri Workman, will be taking over our Junior class, and Alicia McClung will be working with seniors this year. Advisory is an academic weight bearing course, we have a lot to do during this class period and students need to be prepared to participate in advisory every day. Dual Credit: Students in New Mexico are required to complete a dual credit course for graduation. Mrs. Deane will be meeting with juniors and seniors next week to discuss enrollment and course schedules. Open house: We will send out an announcement about open house later this week. Due to the number of new initiatives we are introducing this year, we would like a few weeks to get things running so that we will have as many answers to as many questions as possible. We are very excited for the future of this school and to get to know all of our new family. See you all very soon! Dreher

Registration is Live! Follow the link below to get your student registered for the school year. If you have issues, please feel free to call the school, or stop by for help this week! https://aztecnm.sites.thrillshare.com/page/registration

Welcome Vista Families! We have received many phone calls and messages about the upcoming school year with a lot of nervous excitement. I wanted to share a few important pieces of information. Registration this year will be online and the website will go live on Monday, August 1st. I will send out a message Monday morning with the link for registration. Any families that need assistance with registration are welcome to stop by the school Monday, Wednesday, or Friday of next week. All VNHS students will be attending school on Monday, August 15th. We have a very fun filled week planned for our first week back. If your student is new to VNHS, tell them not to worry as we will guide them where they need to go on the first morning. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns! 505-599-4393 See you all very soon! Dreher

Good evening Vista Family, As you have hopefully seen from the school district, we have fulfilled requirements for the 21/22 school year. While the school will be open the next two days, I would like to ask that we consider tomorrow our last day of school for students. This would provide us as a staff the opportunity to do some much needed planning for next year. We have many exciting new things to get ready for and we need all of the time together we can get! Thank you for a great first year! Have a wonderful and safe summer, Dreher

Good Afternoon Vista Family, Just a reminder, tomorrow is our computer return day. Technology will be here at 9:00 tomorrow morning to collect all computers, mice, headsets etc. Any students not returning their district issued computers can be responsible for fines upwards of $200. Please have your student here tomorrow so we can take care of this return in a timely fashion! Thank you for assistance in this matter, Dreher

Aztec Municipal School District will be hosting a “Summer Industry Convening” on June 16th from 8:30 -11:30 am at Aztec High School. The district has many exciting developments to share and we would like to partner with our local industry to help redesign and dream of what is possible in providing career opportunities and career training for the students of Aztec. To learn more and register please go to tinyurl.com/aztecindustry

Hello Tiger Community, our calendar for the 2022-2023 School Year can be found here: https://5il.co/1as2h

Good Afternoon Vista Family, Next Wednesday, May 18th, is our graduation day! We will be having a virtual day for all freshmen, sophomores and juniors in order to run multiple graduation day activities with our seniors. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns. Also, congratulations to all of our graduating seniors for persevering through unprecedented hurdles to achieve their goals! Graduation will be at 7:00 at the Lions Wilderness Amphitheater, all are welcome to attend. Dreher

Good Morning Vista Family, After constant and continued advocacy from our students, we have decided to extend the opportunity to all Vista Nueva students to participate in off-campus lunch. However, because this is a change in our school policy, we will require signed permission slips for your student. Students will be provided these permission forms to bring home with them today. In addition to a signed permission form, we will also be reaching out for verbal confirmation in order to avoid any misunderstanding. Thank you for your time and consideration, Dreher

Aztec High School Students! San Juan County is again hosting the “Summer Enrichment Internship Program” and will place students in paid internships throughout the county. Current high school students or graduates of the classes of 2021 and 2022 are eligible and must be at least 16 years old before this summer to participate. Student participants must provide their own transportation to their internship locations. Spots are limited and the application deadline to apply is May 26th. Internships will begin the week of June 20th and will go for six weeks until July 29th. Students will participate in industry internships with local businesses and receive employability workshops for a total of 20 hours a week and will be paid $12 an hour. The application can be found at www.sjcounty.net under apply now and the position is titled “2022 Summer Intern.” Thank you to the NMPED and San Juan County for making this amazing learning experience available to our students

Aztec Businesses! Do you need some help this summer and would like to mentor local students in your industry? San Juan County is again hosting the “Summer Enrichment Internship Program” this summer and will place students in paid internships throughout the county. If you are interested, please email Tara Martinez at tamartinez@sjcounty.net with your business name, contact information, how many interns you would like to place at your business, a brief description of the industry, and a brief summary of the learning opportunities and work experience the students will gain. Thank you all for always supporting our Aztec youth!

Great News! Our Partners with Curative will be available starting tomorrow April 27, 2022 to provide COVID testing at VNHS for students or staff participating in Test-to-stay or weekly testing. Parents, to sign your student up simply scan the QR code in the link below and complete the sign up. English: https://5il.co/19fjs Spanish: https://5il.co/19fk0

Good Morning Vista Family, Tomorrow, our Junior class will be taking the SAT Reading and Math Examinations. All Juniors need to be at school by 8:00 with their chromebook and charger. Students will meet in the math classroom for testing. All other grade levels will be in remote learning for the day. Assignments will be posted to google classroom and we will resume regularly scheduled classes on Thursday. Additionally, we do not have school this Friday, April 15th. Good luck to our Juniors and enjoy the three day weekend. Dreher