At Home
Weekly Updates - 4/7/2025
Hello Harbor View School Families,
We hope you all have a wonderful and restful break. This is a great opportunity for students, families, and staff to recharge and enjoy some quality time together.
Spring Recess Dates:
- Start: Monday, April 14, 2025
- End: Friday, April 18, 2025
Classes will resume on Monday, April 21, 2025. We look forward to welcoming everyone back refreshed and ready for the final stretch of the school year.
PTA / Title 1 PAC Meeting Update: We are happy to announce that Mr. Mercado and Ms. McBean have been elected as our new members of the school leadership team. We look forward to their contributions and leadership in shaping the future of Harbor View School.
School Offers from www.myschools.nyc
- Kindergarten Offers were released on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
- Middle School Offers were released on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
- Summer Rising Offers will be released on Thursday, April 24, 2025
- 4K School Offers will be released on Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- 3K School Offers will be released on Tuesday, May 20, 2025
You will be notified by email to log in to your MySchools.nyc account to view the offer and any waitlists your child is on (if applicable), along with information on next steps. To learn how offers are made, visit schools.nyc.gov/MS and schools.nyc.gov/K.
New York State Exams: Below is our state exam schedule and here are a few key reminders to ensure our students are ready for exam day:
- Arrival Time: Please ensure you arrive at school on time. The test will begin promptly at 9:00am. Latecomers may not be permitted to enter the testing room.
- Rest Well: A good night's sleep is essential for optimal performance. Make sure to get at least 8 hours of rest the night before your exam.
- Healthy Breakfast: Start your day with a nutritious breakfast to fuel your mind and body. Hot Breakfast is served everyday to all students from 7:45am to 8:00am in our school cafeteria.
- Positive Attitude: Approach the exam with a positive mindset and confidence in your abilities.
English -Language Arts (ELA):
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- 3rd Grade: April 29th & April 30th
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- 4th & 5th Grade: April 23rd & April 24th
Math:
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- 3rd Grade: May 7th & May 8th
- 4th & 5th Grade: May 6th & May 7th
Science:
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- 5th Grade: May 13th
Learning Shares and Family Events:
- Kindergarten Learning Share: TBA
- 1st Grade & Room 209: April 24th at 12:45 PM.
- 2nd Grade: April 25th at 12:45 PM.
- 3rd Grade: TBA
- 4th Grade & Room 304: TBA
- 5th Grade: TBA
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.
April Field Experiences
- Kindergarten: Genovesi Environmental Science Center
- 1st Grade: Historic Richmond town, Garibaldi Meucci Museum
- 2nd Grade: NY Skyscraper, SI Zoo
- 3rd Grade: Staten Island Museum
- 4th Grade: Hudson River Park, Governor’s Island
- 5th Grade: Urban Ecology
Please remember:
- All students are to wear their PS 59 School Shirt on every experience.
- 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/XCgCtf5XVuSrPwGo9to 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.
School Spirit - Every Friday is School Spirit Day! Remember to wear your PS 59 School Shirt.
Class of 2025 Families:
- Senior Activities: A message was emailed, texted and backpacked home to our Class of 2025 families with information regarding student activities and fee schedule. Please visit our graduation page for latest information, www.theharborviewschool.org/graduation.
Community Events (shared by school partnerships and families):
** If you have a community event you would like us to share, please email message and flyer to Ms. Kristen, KDruda@theharborviewschool.org)
School Calendar
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Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers
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Memorial Day, schools closed
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Eid al-Adha / Anniversary Day; schools closed
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Clerical Day; no classes for students
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Juneteenth, schools closed
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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/XCgCtf5XVuSrPwGo9) 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.
Health, Safety & Wellness Corner
Here are a few updates, resources and reminders now that the colder weather is approaching!
- Schoolyard: For the safety of our students and families please refrain from driving into the school yard during arrival and dismissal times.
- Clothing: What to wear? Now that the colder weather is here, we recommend that students come to school dressed in layers. Some of our classrooms are warmer than others, then once the students go outside it becomes much colder. 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.
- Flu: The flu spreads easily. You can spread it to others before you know you're sick. It can cause serious illness in infants and young children. Getting the flu vaccine is the best way to prevent flu and its complications. The vaccine is recommended for everyone 6 months and older every year. Here is information from New York City health Department on how to fight the flu and stay healthy: Flu Family Letter english.pdf Flu Family Letter spanish.pdf
- 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?
NYCID After-Care
NYCID: Serving grades 4K to 5th. Registration for 2024-2025 in NOW Open!
The After Care program will begin on the 1st full day of school and will follow a school calendar operating from 2:20PM-6:00PM (closing promptly at 6:00pm).
*New Monthly After-Care Fees
Kinder to 5th Grade: 1st Child $275 2nd Child $225 3rd Child $200
Pre-K - Monthly After-Care Fees for $325 ($75 Discount if sibling enrolled in K-5 After Care)
Registration: If you already have access to the NYCID Parent Portal please log in and click the “Enroll” tab. If you are new to NYCID’s Online Registration system, go to www.nycid.org click What We Do then select Youth Development and then After School and Summer Programs- scroll down to forms and resources and click New Parent Registration. Fill out form. After you submit your registration, please log into the Parent Portal. Our (Free) NYCID Advantage After School Program funding has ended. If you are in need of After Care for the upcoming school year, you may be eligible for a Voucher that would pay for the program at no cost to you. In order to see if you are eligible you must apply ASAP. It can take up to 4 weeks to receive your voucher so you must act quickly to begin After Care in the Fall. The application is online only. The steps to apply are below or you can come to the school on July 29th or July 30th from 10am- 1pm to get assistance with the online application.
- Please copy and paste the below link into your browser: http://mycity.nyc.gov/
- Click on Check eligibility and apply for child care assistance under Child care, then click on Apply now under Apply for child Care.
- Select Child Care Voucher under New Child Care Voucher, then create an account, Once an account is created you can start the process to see if you are eligible for a voucher.
Goodhue After Care
Goodhue: Serving grades Kindergarten to 5th, LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE - Registration is now. Call 718-447-2630 or email avindigni@childrensaid.nyc.org