Chorus Performs World Premiere Of VOYAGE Composed By Johnny Serafino!

Varsity Girl Volleyball Team Reaches Final Four!

Student And Staff Celebrate Red Ribbon Week To Spread Awareness About Drug Abuse

The English Department's "Pumpkin And Potluck!"

The English Department celebrated "Pumpkins and Potluck" with tomato soup, chili, and grilled cheese sandwiches! It was great time of fun for members of the English Department.

AP Statistic Students Review Vocabulary Playing "Heads Up!"

Dylan Merell Wins "Player Of The Week" for Recruit Nation

Student's Meet With Hillary Holley Of The Fair Fight Interest Group

Students in Mrs. Ivey's and Mr. Crump's 4b classes met with Hillary Holley from the Fair Fight Interest Group on 10/24. Students enjoyed learning about the techniques used by interest groups and learning more about the mission of Fair Fight.

Cafeteria Celebrates Atlanta United FC Soccer Team

The Alpharetta High School Foundation Raises $21,000 For School Funding

As many of you are aware there have been some significant budget reductions to Fulton County schools, including our very own AHS. In response to the county cuts, leadership at our award winning high school requested assistance from the Foundation. After several meetings and detailed discussion, it was decided to make a contribution of $21,000 to offset decreased funds coming from Fulton County Schools.

While the mission of the Foundation is not to fund normal, ongoing operations of the school, the Foundation felt this was an opportunity to assist in keeping AHS a vibrant and productive educational institution. By helping AHS overcome the county budget shortfall this year, we are sustaining not only subjects like art & math but school supplies as well. This donation is a move toward short term success while as a community we come up with more means to raise funds for any future budget shortfalls.

Below is a list of the funds requested from AHS leadership and provided for by the Foundation donation mentioned above.

• Tools and hardware for Art department
• Printers for Counseling office
• Supplemental books/resources for IB department
• Printing supplies for ID and IRR
• New books for Language Arts department
• Calculus and Statistics materials for Math department
• Digital content subscription for Media Center
• Sheet music Band, Chorus and Orchestra
• Pallet of paper for general usage
• Hot water bath, spectrophotometer and supplies for Science department
• Printer repair, novels and resource books for World Language

In closing, we are grateful to be serving such an excellent institution education at AHS and the strong leadership team. We are continually seeking innovative means to raise supplemental funding and welcome anyone who would like to be involved in challenge of supporting the high quality education AHS parents expect for their students.

We encourage anyone looking to get involved and make a donation to contact the board anytime about membership initiatives, donations and roles. Let's continue to be the community that cares and steps up in uncertain times. We need you and your support to keep AHS a top state, regional and national high school.

Professional Photographer Meets With Ms. Flowers' AHS Yearbook Staff

Mr. Glenn Prince, a professional photographer, presented AHS Yearbook Staff with valuable tricks of the trade to sharpen their knowledge in photography. Yerds enjoyed two hours of learning from Mr. Prince. He explained camera settings, aperture, operating in manual and automatic modes, adjusting ISO (effects and camera settings), and provided hands-on instruction with the cameras.

Yerds are more prepared than ever to now take great shots on the field or court. Thanks to Mr. Glenn Prince!

Ms.Ramsey's AP Calculus Students Study Together In The Focus Room

AP US Government Classes Meet With Representative Karen Handel

On October 17th students in Mrs. Ivey’s first and second period AP US Government classes, and students in Mr. Crump’s first period AP US Government class, had the opportunity to meet with Representative Karen Handel. This was a great opportunity for our students to learn from an elected politician about what it’s really like to campaign and serve in Congress. Mrs. Handel spoke about campaigns and elections, as well as answering some thoughtful questions from our students.

Accelerated Pre-Calculus Present Trigonometric Graphing With Biorythms

The accelerated precalculus classes presented posters showcasing what they learned in their trigonometric graphing unit. Students could choose to model their biorhythms for October/November or find the line of best fit using temperature data from a city of their choice.

Textbook Re-scanning Project

Alpharetta Marching Band Attend Tarpon Springs Outdoor Music Festival

Hello Raider Band Family,
Our marching band travelled to Tarpon Springs, Florida, this weekend to compete in the Tarpon Springs Outdoor Music Festival with other high school marching bands from the southeast. The band had an amazing performance and received the following accolades:

In the 5A class...

• 1st in Music
• Best Soloists
• 2nd in Visual Ensemble Performance
• 1st in Color Guard
• 2nd in Percussion

Overall Placement and Ranking...

• 1st in Color Guard
• 1st in Music
• 2nd in Percussion
• 2nd in Visual Ensemble Performance
• 3rd in Band Performance

The marching band gives a special thanks to the Band-Mom chaperones, Assistant Principal Clair Greenaway, and to everyone who supports them.

This is an awesome accomplishment. We are very proud of our students and look forward to wrapping up our competitive season on Saturday, November 2, at the White Columns Invitational hosted by Milton High School.

AHS Color Guard Overall 1st Place at Tarpon Springs Competition

"The Cohenficient of Determination and Dotty the Super Scatterplot!"

"Mr. Cohen and Ms. Davis are statistic super heroes to their students: The Cohenficient of Determination and Dotty the Super Scatterplot!"

The Statistic Olympics

Ms. Davis' students collect data during the Statistics Olympics.

"Slightly Less Rowdy Raiders" Team Up To Support The AHS Volleyball Team

Medical Emergency First Responders For Team Of The Month!

L-R: Jessica Kirk, Leslie Cole, Pam Kelly, Robert Bennett

Not Pictured: Trish Connolly, Sharolyn Ketchup, Carolyn Vezeau, Allie Kornegay

Sunny Wright For Professional Of The Month!

Lacey McLemore For Teacher Of The Month!

Mrs. Bostick Language Arts Class

Students are “Mining for Quotes.” Next week students will have a graded discussion. Students have been reading Cry the Beloved Country and focusing our annotations, graphic organizers, small discussions on the 3 power standards for the unit: analyzing theme, complex characters, and structure choices. Tiered reading groups are cycling through 5 topic stations (the topics are also aligned to one or two of the power standards) where they can discuss the topic in order decide their position and then help one another find quotes and put them on note cards. Students won’t know the specific questions before the discussion but all questions fall under the umbrella of the topics. They will already have some ideas of what they think and will have gathered relevant text to support their opinions. The discussion will primarily be students debating their ideas, using text and analysis to create logical and valid arguments where the text is ambiguous.

Audio, Video, Technology, And Film Department Win Gold From Student Television Network

Landis Ross At The FCS Wellness 5K Representing AHS!

Marching Raider Band Compete at the Valhalla Classic at Northgate High School

This past Saturday the Marching Raider Band competed at the Valhalla Classic in Newnan at Northgate High School. The band had an amazing performance and won first place in every caption of their class. The band also received the second highest score of the entire competition. Congratulations to the Marching Raider Band and their impressive start to their competitive season. In two weeks the marching band will travel to Tarpon Springs Florida to compete against other marching bands throughout the Southeast.