Join us for our 3rd annual Fuel Your Future event on Tuesday, October 8th from 6-8pm at the Soldotna Prep School Library.

It will be an evening of information about post-high school planning and opportunities for your student.

For parents & students grade 7th-12th

Our Soldotna Office will be closing at 5:30pm for this event on Tuesday, October 8th!

If you have not turned in your 1st Quarter Report to your advisor, they are due this week!

This also acts as any high schoolers ELIGIBILITY report.

Eligibility Check is 8:00am next Monday, so please get this turned into your advisor by this Wednesday, October 9th to ensure they have time to put it into PowerSchool ahead of the Eligibility check so it will not affect your students participation in their high school sport.

You can access the forms on the FORMS tab on our website or request them from your advisor.

The KPBSD Calendar Committee recently met to set the KPBSD calendar for the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 school years. As part of this process, the committee is seeking input from KPBSD stakeholders and the community regarding the timing of Spring Break. To balance the number of instructional days in the third and fourth quarters, the committee is recommending adjusting Spring Break to the third week of March. Traditionally, Spring Break begins during the second week of March and coincides with the UAA Spring Break.

Your feedback is important to us! Please take a moment to complete this brief two-question survey.

The survey will close on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 4:00 PM.

Click HERE to complete the survey.

Our Naturalist Club wrapped up their season at Burney Trail/Hidden Lake last week. Thanks to all those that joined for that week and all weeks during this Club season! We love sharing this time with our students and families out in Alaska's nature!

THURSDAY!

Have you wanted to learn how social media and the internet are affecting your children, what they are seeing and going through, and learn how to help them navigate this area of their lives?

Please join us for an important presentation with Lt. Ryan Browning of Homer Police Department on Thursday, October 10th from 6-8pm at the Soldotna High School Auditorium. This presentation contains mature content and is appropriate for Adults and teens age 12 and up only.

Childcare will be provided by The Boys & Girls Club of the Kenai Peninsula for children ages 3-11. They will have age-appropriate and hands-on activities. Children must be potty trained! If you plan to attend and will be utilizing the childcare, please RSVP HERE.

This event is open to the community, so please share and invite your friends and family!

Would you like a Connections hoodie, t-shirt, or other item to represent your school?

Heather & Heather Screen-Printing has created an online store for us! Click the link below to access and order directly!

Homer Connections did two Coastwalk Beach Cleanups with Center for Alaska Coastal Studies this year. They were great learning opportunities about Intertidal/coastal zoology and also in Marine Debris and how that can impact our local ecology. Two different locations led to some interesting differences in the debris found:

Bishop's Beach - 28 people recorded 126 items that weighed a total of 116 lb 13 oz. The top item by count was foam pieces with 161 recorded. This was followed a long distance off by plastic bottles at 10.

At Anchor Point beach- 7 people recorded 2,086 items (1271 being nails) with a total weight of 59 lbs 4 oz. the top items from this cleanup were:

1- nails 1,271

2- food wrappers 61

3- other plastic waste (plastic with no other category) 50

4- beverage cans 49

5- plastic pieces 48

6- foam pieces 38

7- cigarette butts- 36

Join us for our annual Family Movie Event on Thursday, October 31st from 1-3pm at the Soldotna Prep School Gym. We will be watching 'How to Train Your Dragon'!

Costumes are welcome!!

This year we will be having a contest for a Build Your Own Dragon or Viking Ship!

Over the next few weeks, take items from your home (cardboard, foam, totes, etc.) and create your very own Dragon or Viking ship to bring to the movie event. You can make it so you are able to sit in it while you watch the movie (like a drive-in movie 😃), or just bring it to share your creation with us!

Plan to bring other chairs, blankets, pillows, etc. to sit on for the movie!

Light concessions will be provided by our Connections Student Council & National Honor Society. Proceeds will go towards the Thanksgiving food boxes that they provide to our families in need.

There will also be donation boxes for canned & dry goods that they will use for the Thanksgiving boxes.

You may bring your own movie snacks if you like, but please only water for beverages.

We will be having these amazing sessions for students to learn more about different career paths!

Mark your calendars and RSVP today by clicking on the photo below.

We have dates, so mark your calendars and plan to attend! More information about signing up will be coming soon!

Advisors Kellie Davidson and Don Gaston celebrated Sterling Connections student, Alisson Murray’s, Quinceañera with her on Saturday, September 28th at the Sterling Community Center! In Latino cultures, Quinceañera is the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking her passage from girlhood to womanhood. The cultural practice emphasizes the importance of faith, family, and community in the life of a young woman.

We love to feature our amazing students!! If you'd like to share something fun your student is doing for school or in their extra-curricular activities, please send photos and short description to jlarsen@kpbsd.k12.ak.us.

Connections families that would like to utilize our local KPBSD pools have an option to get a Pool Punch Card through Connections to use at your preferred pool. Please see the steps to do so below:

1. Contact your local Connections office and request a Pool Punch Card for your student(s). A Pool Punch card form will be sent to you via email or filled out in the office. Forms are also available on our website on the Forms tab. Form must be signed (in person or electronically) for pass to be issued. Punch cards are Pool specific, so you will also need to let us know what pool you'd like a card for.

2. Pool Punch Cards are $55 which is good for 12 swims. The fee will be taken directly out of your students allotment. Each student will need their own card.

3. Your students Punch Card will then be sent directly to the designated pool through district mail. It may take up to a week to get there, so please keep that in mind when planning your swim time.

4. When you visit the pool, just let them know you have a Connections Punch Card.

5. When you need a new Punch Card, just start back at Step 1.

Few special notes:

*Parents or non-Connections siblings will have to be paid out of pocket.

*Pool Punch Cards are specific for the student, they are non-transferrable.

*Currently, the following pools are NOT available for open swim or Connections Pool Punch Cards: Skyview, KCHS, and Ninilchik.

Each of our locations have special events in their certain areas!

Be sure to click the link below for your area to see what each Connections location has coming up AND the community events for each area.