PTA/PTSA Reflections Tea

The 2017-18 Allen Park PTA/PTSA Council Reflections Finalists were honored on 1/10/2018 at the annual PTA Reflections Tea held in the Allen Park Center for the Arts.  The finalists are Ciara Miner and Jason Wilson for Literature, Kate Dmitruchina and Ethan Yuhaz for Photography, Abbey Skarbinski and Rachel Wisniewski for Visual Arts, and Emmy Wu for Film.  Congratulations to all our winners!

Happy Holidays!

On behalf of the entire Allen Park High School staff, we wish you a wonderful, joyous, and safe holidays.  As principal of APHS, I feel blessed to be part of this fantastic community and part of such a great, caring team.  The Toy Box Holiday Party and Adopt a Family programs helped many of our community members who needed some extra support during this holiday season.  25 families were adopted and over 75 children were helped.  Many people contributed greatly to these efforts, and I would like to especially recognize Ms. Karen Malett-Grozinski and her Creative Inspirations class for helping organize the many gifts, Mr. Jeff Goulasarian and his students for the wonderful shelves they made for the Toy Box Holiday Party, Ms. Amy West and the APHS National Honor Society and the Middle School Green Team for adopting families, the Jags hockey team for making gift baskets, Lindemann staff and the late Georgiana Asteriou for the many fleece blankets they contributed, the Lindemann fundraiser that contributed over $2,000, the Food Services Team for their many contributions, and all Allen Park PTSA groups for contributing.  This was truly a district and community-wide effort to help our own.  2017 has been a trying year in many ways, but this much care, love, and support in the community is a wonderful way to close out this year and bring in the next.

Yesterday, two former colleagues of mine stopped by to see the “magical” place they had heard so much about.  Both left truly impressed by the warm, friendly atmosphere they found in the school and the community and took particular note of how happy and friendly the students appeared.  I feel fortunate to experience this every day in this truly wonderful place.

Best wishes on behalf of the APHS Family.
John Kelley

PTSA Reflections Winners

The annual PTA Reflections program took place earlier this school year with the theme of “Within Reach”.  Our amazing high school students submitted 92 entries to be judged by the APHS PTSA.

Visual Art 30
Photography 6
Literature 55
Film 1
TOTAL 92
 Although it was difficult decision, the following students will be continuing onto the Michigan PTA Reflections program:
Name category grade
Abbey Skarbinski Visual Arts 12
Rachel Wisniewski Visual Arts 11
Emmy Wu Film 11
Kate Dmitruchina Photography 11
Ethan Yuhaz Photography 11
Ciara Miner Literature 12
Jason Wilson Literature 12

Congratulations to our winners!