HSA-Plano Wednesday Mail!!
February 28, 2018
Friday March 2nd will be a school holiday!!! Teachers will be in training. Enjoy your three day weekend!
Special Announcement: No Saturday events this Saturday. Construction crews will be on site. No Saturday tutorials or dentention March 3rd!!
Please join us THIS SATURDAY for our first Parent Academy, which will take place at Harmony School of Business on March 3rd, between 8:30 AM and 12:00 PM. This academy will have helpful information about education, health, civil engagement, and more:
Student STAAR testing
Healthy Parenting
Anti-Bullying
Voter Registration for 2018 Election
Literacy Help and Reading Levels
Using Skyward, Clever, and other Harmony Applications
English as a Second Language and Gifted and Talented Info
Middle/High School College Readiness
Some sessions will be in Spanish, and Child Care is available for children 3-10 who are potty trained.
Please sign up and save the date!
PTO On the Move
Since last week's PTO meeting was canceled for weather, the agenda minutes are here.
PTO will be selling snacks after school Friday March 9th for fundraising!
Science Fair Season has begun!
Important dates:
Monday, March 26th: Science Fair projects due
Thursday, March 29th 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Public viewing of projects, winners announced
Saturday, April 7: Winners from each grade level can compete in the Regional Science Fair
Accountability Ratings
Spring Break will be the week of March 12th - March 17th!!!
We will have both Pre-Kindergarten and 6th grade at HSA-Plano next year.
We are happy to offer both Pre-Kindergarten and 6th grade for the 2018-19 school year. Enrollment is through our website. Click here to apply.
For Pre-K, there are certain requirements for enrollment. Please click here for those requirements.
If you would like a campus request for 6th grade, please contact the front office.
Traffic update
We appreciate your patience with our traffic plan. When you exit, there have been some delays when exiting Talbert and turning onto Mapleshade. It will help the delay if all parents do two things:
1. When turning onto Mapleshade, it will greatly help if everyone turns right. There is a U-Turn very close where you can easily turn around and drive back to Coit.
2. If you must turn left onto Mapleshade, make room for cars behind you to turn right. You can veer left and make a second lane to go left, and there will be room for parents to turn right. This will help the exiting line move faster.
We also ask that you DRIVE SLOW while on campus!!
Thank you!
Clubs and Tutorials have begun for Spring!
Dismissal for clubs and tutorials is at 3:45 PM.
All students should be picked up no later than 4:05 PM.
Please visit the front office to make your Spring Club payments.
Here is the Club sign up form for Spring. Forms are also available at the front office.
Here is our full list of clubs and tutorials for the Spring!
Rafael Cornelia - WINNER (5th grade)
Olive Adams - 2nd PLACE (4th grade)
Nutritious meals are available daily for a price of $1.70 for breakfast, $3.00 for lunch, and $0.50 for a la carte milk. Each student is provided a lunch account onto which money may be deposited. Households are also encouraged to create an account in School Cafe (www.schoolcafe.com). From here, parents may apply free or reduced price meas. check account balances, make meal payments, set up automatic alerts, and set automatic payments. If you need your child's ID number, please call the school and ask to speak with the Lunch Clerk.
Should a student's meal account balance fall below $0. he /she will be allowed to charge up to -$10.00. One the negative meal account balance limit is reached, the student will receive an alternate meals consist or cereal, fruit, and milk for breakfast; and for lunch, a sandwich, vegetable, ad milk. If a student is later approved for free meals, they will begin receiving meals immediately. However, the household is still responsible for paying the negative account balance. For more information regarding the meal charge policy, please visit our website at: www.hsaplano.org, click on the "Meal Charges" link.
Some Health Reminders....
Flu season Guidelines
- Seasonal flu vaccination is recommended for 6 months of age and older unless they have a specific contraindication to flu vaccine.
- Stay home when you are sick. If possible, stay home from work and school. Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
- When you sneeze: Cover your nose and mouth, wash your hands often.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.
- Clean and disinfect surfaces or objects. Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill.
Items to school: Medicine and allergic foods
Medicine: Parents, please remember students should never bring any medicine with them to school, including itch cream and cough drops. If a student needs to bring any medicine to school, they must be taken to the nurse with a doctor's note.
Healthy hair and lice
As we begin 'indoor' season, it is important that every parent protects against the spread of lice. Please check your students each day and treat if needed. It also helps to pull back long hair. Thank you!
In the News....
Contact us! All staff contacts
This link contains all teacher and HSA-Plano staff contacts. We know that our database Skyward is still not showing some of the information you need to contact us. Until then, please use this sheet to email or call us anytime.
Lunch reminders
Please also see our lunch payment policy for 2017-18. After a negative balance of $10.00, we will call and email parents to remind them to keep a positive balance on their lunch account.
Our new Volunteer Portal
Highly qualified status of our teachers
Please like our Facebook Page!
We will use our Facebook page to post announcements and share our good news. Please "like" it to receive updates on your feed!
Our school website
http://harmonypublicschools.network/hsaplano/
Skyward database, where you can view your students gradebook and attendance
VOLY, our parent volunteer portal
School Cafe, where you can fill out a free lunch application
Wednesday Mail and other news
Harmony Science Academy-Plano
Website: hsaplano.org
Location: 600 Data Drive, Plano, TX, United States
Phone: 972-596-0041
Facebook: https://facebook.com/HSAPlano/