Wednesday Mail - Harmony School of Achievement

Wednesday Mail
Week of September 21, 2015 – September 25, 2015
Chuck E. Cheese
Night TOMORROW
3-9pm
Read Across the Globe
(volunteers needed)
Mark your calendars for our first
Chuck E. Cheese Night! Students,
along with their families, can enjoy a
night of pizza and fun while raising
money to benefit our school. Come
join us at the Chuck E. Cheese at
6787 Hwy 6 North starting at 3:00 on
Thursday the 24th. Students will
receive free tokens for games when
wearing their Chuck E. Cheese
stickers. We look forward to seeing
everyone there.
Harmony is excited to announce an amazing opportunity to participate in
breaking a Guinness World Record! Nine Houston-area Harmony elementary
schools will participate in Read Across the Globe which will take place on
October 19th, 2015. Read Across the Globe is an initiative which began with
the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation and the Points of the Light
Foundation. The goal is to have over 300,000 children around
the globe read to in a 24 hour period. We will all read the
following book: Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline
Briggs Martin.
We need one parent volunteer from each class to read to the students. Every
class will begin reading at 9:00 AM. Readers will report to the campus
between 8:00am to 8:30am. If you are interested in reading for 30 minutes to
a class on October 19th, please email our Librarian Julie Prestigiacomo
at [email protected].
Pickup/Dismissal Reminders: Lunch Application
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Upon entering the school parking lot, parents dropping off/picking up
K-2 students will stay on the right and pick up/drop off in the back of
the building, behind the cafeteria.
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Parents of grade 3-5 students will drive in the left lane and drop
off/pick up in the front of the school.
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Parents who have children in both K-2 and 3-5 will pick up/drop off
with the K-2 students.
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Please display a sign with your child’s name on it in your car window
when picking up after school—this speeds things up considerably.
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For their safety, students must ALWAYS be escorted to their car by an
adult.
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Another safety reminder—please do not speed through the parking lot,
and refrain from using your cell phone while driving.
Friendly reminder, lunch
applications for free and
reduced lunch are being
accepted at the front office.
If you had free and reduced
lunch last year, it rolled over
for the first 30 days.
However you do need to
submit a new application
each year in order to
continue the program.
FRIENDLY REMINDERS from the SCHOOL NURSE
1. If your child is sick with Fever, Vomiting, Diarrhea, has an Unidentified Rash (especially if oozing), or StrepThroat.. Please do NOT bring your child to school until he / she is FREE of SYMPTOMS for a FULL 24
HOURS! We do not want to expose other children / staff to any communicable illnesses or risk your child's condition
worsening!
2. If your child starts a Rx Antibiotic for any reason, he / she Must Not attend school until a COMPLETE 3
DAYS (72 Hours) of that Rx Antibiotic has been administered outside of school.
3. (per HPS School Policy Handbook, page 25, under title 'Administration of Medication, #2.) "Medication brought to
school must be submitted to the School Nurse, along with a Medication Administration Directions
Form signed by the student's Physician and Parent." ... It will be stored in the Nurse's Offc. in a secure locked
cabinet.
4. Students are NOT allowed to have ANY MEDICATIONS OF ANY KIND (including Cough Drops) in their
possession, in any aspect, at any time on the School premises! ONLY the PARENT / GUARDIAN is to deliver and/or
pick up medication at the School. Please do NOT send medications in your child's backpack, clothes pockets, & etc. If a
student is caught with any form of medication in their possession, he / she will endure very strict disciplinary action!
5. (particularly for Grades K -> 2nd)... Please provide an extra change of School Uniform Appropriate clothes
for your child, in his/her backpack in case of acute situations that they may get soiled (i.e.: due to bodily fluids of any sort,
mud, or etc.). It's a good idea that will save lots of time & inconvenience on your part.
6. If your child has outgrown school uniform shirts / pants, PLEASE DONATE them to our HSA School Nurse to have
for other children that may have acute situations as stated in #5 above.
7. Please make sure your child's Immunization Record is Updated & Provided to the School Nurse, A.S.A.P.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!
Ms. A. Odom, HP-Achievement School Nurse.
Parent’s Night Out
Harmony School of Achievement will host a
Parent’s Night Out to help support the Senior/Junior
Prom at Harmony School of Discovery. The Event
will be at Harmony School of Achievement on
October 9th from 6pm-10pm and cost $20 per
child. Students will enjoy games, crafts, pizza, and
a G-rated movie.
Progress reports
will be sent
home this
Friday, 9/25.