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Arbor Day - Friday, April 19th: St. George Civic Association will be planting two trees in front of our school building and NY Parks will be here to speak with students about Arbor Day. We welcome all families to join to watch the tree planting and learn ways our school community can work with the St. George Civic Association to beautify our neighborhood.  3K to 2d Grade planting will be at 9:00am and 3rd to 5th Grade planting will be at 9:45am

Summer Programs - Apply by 4/24: Make your summer iconic with STEM Matters NYC! Students entering grades 1-12 in September 2024 can apply now to attend enrichment programs with STEM Matters NYC. Get your hands dirty in the garden, encounter amazing animals, or design an art or engineering project. Students entering grades 1-9 in September 2024 can apply for weeklong camps. Students entering grades 10-12 in September 2024 can apply for multi-week programs. Choose from a wide range of programs offered at sites throughout the city!

Programs are offered at the NYC DOE’s Genovesi Environmental Study Center and NYC Center for Aerospace and Applied Mathematics; Billion Oyster Project; Intrepid Museum; Makerspace NYC; New York Aquarium; New-York Historical Society; Pellettieri Stone Carvers' Academy; Queens Botanical Garden; Queens County Farm Museum; Queens Zoo; Rubin Museum of Art; Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden; Staten Island Museum; UrbanGlass; and Wave Hill.

Students will meet and work with field experts in programs that feature real-world learning experiences. Don’t miss out, spots are limited and the application deadline is Wednesday, April 24. For rising grade 1-9 camps, lottery preference is given to students who attend Title I schools.   Download our flyer, learn more, and apply now.

NYC Public School Survey 2024: It takes only a few minutes to complete! Stop by the main office at drop off, pick up or afterschool pickup to fill out your paper survey OR complete online by: Log into your www.schoolsaccount.nyc or complete online at  www.nycschoolsurvey.org - Families: Please enter a lowercase f followed by your student's OSIS number-- for example, f123456789 

PTA & Title 1 PAC General Meeting Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 6:30PM on Zoom:  Sign in at www.tiny.cc/meet59pta. This month we will have guest speaker Alexia, Santana from New York Life, she will be sharing information on  Child Gifting with Custom Whole Life  and more.  

Spring Picture Re-take Day - Thursday, May 9th: All spring and senior picture packages have been distributed. On Thursday, May 9th Yearbook Innovations will be here for the final picture re-take day. (originally scheduled for 4/16 but changed due to scheduling conflict). Please complete this form (https://forms.gle/m5kVqy2wNC7PegAZA) if you would like to have your child picture re-taken or if you have issues with your picture package so we can follow up with Yearbook Innovation.

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:
    • American Academy of Dermatology - Head Lice: Hoe to Treat Video 
    • What Causes Head Lice? | Treatment For Head Lice | The Dr Binocs Show | Peekaboo Kidz
    • NYC Public School's Head Lice Information and Polices

The annual New York State English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics will be administered to all students in grades 3-8. Students in grades 5 and 8 will also sit for the New York State science test. These tests are required by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and are designed to provide important information about whether students are prepared to progress through school and graduate with the critical-thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning skills they need for long-term success in school, college, and careers, and to support students in their pursuit of economic security and a choice-filled life. 

Exam Schedule for 3rd and 4th grade students:

Exam Schedule for 5th grade students:

 2024-nys-grades-3-8-exams-faq-english.pdf 

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.