Home School Connections

School Supply Lists

Here is our general supply wishlist, most items can be easily found at back to school sales or from Back to School Giveaways. We realize you may not be able to get everything on the list, and that is okay. If you need help getting your child’s backpack and individual supplies, please contact our Parent Coordinator, Kristen Druda at kdruda@theharborviewschool.org. We look forward to seeing everyone at school soon! School Starts September 5th!  School Supply List SY 24-25.pdf 

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.

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Goodhue:  Serving grades Kindergarten to 5th, LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE - Registration is now. Call 718-447-2630 or email avindigni@childrensaid.nyc.org 

Summer School
Each May and June, New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) teachers assess students’ progress using multiple measures to determine if they are ready for the next grade level. Families of students who have not yet made sufficient progress will be notified via letter in mid-June. If your student is in grade 3–8 and is not promoted in June, they will be required to attend summer school. If your student did not receive a Summer Rising seat, then they will attend the academic portion only. Detailed instructions on date and time will be on the letter. At the end of summer school, schools will make a final decision about students’ grade levels for next year. Students in grades K–2 and 9–12 may have the opportunity to attend summer school as well. For more information, please visit schools.nyc.gov/summerschool. 

Summer Meals

When school is out, students can still enjoy free breakfast and lunch through NYC Public Schools! Our 2024 Free Summer Meals Program is available all across New York City, and is totally free for anyone 18 years old or younger. From June 27 through August 30, you can find these meals at select NYC public schools, community pool centers, parks, and libraries. You don’t need to sign up in advance or provide identification to receive these meals. Just head to a Summer Meals location and enjoy a meal. For more information, please visit schools.nyc.gov/summermeals. All dates, times, locations and menus are subject to change.

• Dates of Operation: Thursday, June 27–Friday, August 30, 2024
• Breakfast Service Hours: 8–9:15 a.m.
• Lunch Service Hours: 11 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
• There is no service Thursday, July 4, 2024 (Independence Day)

Summer Reading
Reading is like any skill: it takes practice! Over the summer, reading together can help your child
continue to develop their literacy skills and avoid any learning loss that might occur over their
time outside of the classroom.

Our Summer Reading Guide—available online at schools.nyc.gov/LiteracyResources—is a great first
step on your family’s next reading adventure. It contains tips for reading at home, recommended
titles for students in all grade levels, resources where you can find books, and more. In addition
to the guide, our Literacy Resources webpage also features at-home activities and other recommended
reading lists that will help foster a lifelong love of reading and learning.

This summer, we also encourage you to use our Citywide Digital Library, Sora. Sora is the quickest
and easiest way for NYC students to access thousands of e-books and audiobooks in multiple
languages. You can log in to Sora using your NYC Public School credentials at soraapp.com/library/nycschools.

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

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.