Congress authorized a new, permanent Summer EBT program as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.
LEARN-AT-HOME
Weekly Updates!
Dear Harbor View School Families,
We appreciate your valuable time taken to complete our family feedback survey. We received great information on how we are doing and ways we can improve. Over the next week we will be sending out invitations for our family focus groups and Ms. Kristen will reach out to schedule one-on-one meetings with families who requested.
Thank you,
Hanin Hasweh & Valerie Sanchez
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Join us for one, two or all of the exciting events happening over the next few weeks.
[We kindly ask for families to RSVP so we can prepare the correct number of materials for each event.
May 23rd - Grown Up & Me Day - 3rd to 5th Grade
Get ready for a morning of sharing and making memories! Please RSVP to select your special activity:
May 24th - Grown Up & Me Day - 3K to 2nd Grade
Join us for a fun morning of music!
May 28th - Title 1 PAC "Escape The School"
Can you escape the school? Do you have what it takes to make puzzles, clues and riddles? We hope so!
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Upcoming Events for May
We hope you can attend one or all of the following family events in May:
Please RSVP, so we can prepare materials.
Save The Dates for June
- 6/6: Chancellor's PD Day - No school for students
- 6/7: Clerical Day - No school for students
- 6/15: PS59 Dance Crew performance at 3rd Annual Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival, Tappen Park
- 6/17: Eid Al-Adha - School Closed
- 6/18: 5th Grade Celebration - Class of 2024
- 6/20: Marine STEAM Day, 1st to 5th grade
- 6/22: PS59 Dance Crew performance at 4th Annual Largest Juneteenth Freedom Festival, Snug Harbor Cultural Center
- 6/24: 3K, 4K, K107, K108 & KB1-115 End-Of-Year Celebrations!
- 6/26: Last Day of School
Grade Directory
School Calendar
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Memorial Day, schools closed
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Escape The School - PAC Event!
Do you have what it takes to solve puzzles, clues, and riddles?
We hope so, because that’s what you’ll need to “escape” the school on
Tuesday, May 29th at 5:30pm
Light refreshments and raffles will be available for purchase by our Class of 2024!
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Anniversary Day / Chancellor's Conference Day for staff development; students do not attend.
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Clerical Day; no classes for students
PS 59 (31R059) - The Harbor View School -
Save the Date - Juneteenth Celebration
PS 59 (31R059) - The Harbor View School
Health, Safety & Wellness Corner
Here are a few updates, resources and reminders now that the warmer weather is here!
- Schoolyard: For the safety of our students and families please refrain from driving into the school yard during arrival and dismissal times. Also, we currently have the ferry side of the building walkway closed as the house next door is having repairs.
- Clothing: What to wear? Now that the warmer weather is here, we recommend that students come to school dressed in layers. Some of our classrooms are colder than others, then once the students go outside it becomes much warmer. To help them regulate their body temperature during the day we suggest always having a sweatshirt or light sweater available. In addition, many students like to run around outside during recess, please keep this in mind and have your child wear comfortable closed toes show to prevent them from falling or scrapping their toes.
- School Bus Lane and crosswalks: please refrain from parking in front of the school building or in crosswalks during arrival and dismissal. When cars are stopped or parked in these locations it creates a safety hazard for our students as they are trying to arrive and leave from our school building.
- Lice: The presence of head lice in institutions such as schools is an uncomfortable fact of life. Together we can help ensure these occurrences do not become a greater problem. We encourage families to notify the main office if they detect head lice in their child's hair. When a student is found to have lice, notes are sent home to members of the child's class.
- What are head lice?
- Head lice are small insects with six legs usually the size of a sesame seed (the seeds on burger buns).
- They live on or very close to the scalp and don’t wander far down the hair shafts for very long.
- They can only live on human beings; you can’t catch them from animals.
- Nits are not the same thing as lice. Lice are the insects which move around the head. Nits are egg cases laid by lice, stuck on to hair shafts; they are smaller than a pin head and are pearly white.
- If you have nits it doesn’t always mean that you have head lice. When you have got rid of all the lice, the nits will stay stuck to the hair until it grows out.
- You only have head lice if you can find a living, moving louse (not a nit) on the scalp.
- Anybody can get head lice.
- Head lice infections are caught from close family and friends in the home and community, not from the school.
- Spread of head lice requires direct head to head contact. They can’t swim, fly, hop or jump.
- Here are a few tips to help prevent the spread of head lice:
- Check your child's hair on a regular basis.
- Because head lice need close head-to-head contact to spread from one person to another, to reduce the spread of head lice, teachers will discourage students from activities which may involve head to head contact.
- To reduce your child’s risk of getting head lice, make sure that long hair is tied up and discourage children from sharing their brushes and combs and having head to head contact with others.
- Remember - Anyone can get head lice – they have no preferences for cleanliness, hair color, hair type, ethnicity or age.
- Here are some resources to learn more about lice and treatments:
- What are head lice?
Summer 2024 EBT Information
- To request a replacement P-EBT card, follow these instructions. If your address has changed since you received your original P-EBT card, or if you do not have the PIN for your original P-EBT card, call the P-EBT helpline at 1-833-452-0096.
- For general information on P-EBT, please visit the NYSOTDA P-EBT FAQ.
- If you need assistance or have questions that are not answered in the resources linked above, please email info@hungersolutionsny.org.
Field Experiences!
Field experiences are an important part of our curriculum and your child’s education. The experiences are used to enhance the units of study. We will plan many experiences for the calendar year. Some experiences are planned well in advance and other trips have a shorter information turn around period.
- Our Field Experiences are a mandatory part of our curriculum.
- Family chaperones will be selected by lottery for each experience. Please complete this form ( https://forms.gle/XkgodfiBZ1V9Sqe68 ) to be entered into the lottery.
- Our school requests a traveling NYC DOE school nurse to attend every experience, but unfortunately, they cannot always accommodate our requests. If your child has a 504 please see the main office for further information on our policy for when a school nurse cannot attend.
- Regardless of the type of experience, it is not permissible for students to meet at or be dismissed from a site other than the school..
- Please see our Family Handbook for more details regarding field experience expectations and chaperone requirements.