Every year Harmony School Students go to Summer Leadership Camps. It is educational and fun. This camp happens last week of May.Do not be late to register your kids if they are current 6th grade and up.
Total amount is $300 and deposit deadline is March 23rd, 2012 and it is $100.

Please contact to Mr Fidan for any question ifidan@harmonytx.org

Electronic Application Form

Application features:

The applications to Harmony Public Schools for the 2012-2013 School Year have been started and it has already exceeded 15 thousand threshold! On the day we started accepting the applications (January 10), we received almost four thousand applications in 24 hours.The application deadline is March 15, 2012.

Attached is our Wednesday Mail for January 25th. Have a great week! read more . . .

Progress Reports for the 3rd Six Weeks of school will be sent home this week with the students.

If you have any questions or need a copy of the progress reports, please contact the school at 832-433-7001.

Mark your calendar. We will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair during the week of January 23rd - 27th in the library.

The book fair will be open at the following times:

* 7:30AM - 8:30AM
* During Library Classes
* 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Extended Hours on Thursday, January 26th: 3:30PM - 6:00PM.

If you would like to volunteer for the book fair, please contact Ms. Baca at mbaca@harmonytx.org. Thank you for your support.

We would like to congratulate all of the winners of our 2nd Annual Spelling Bee! We would also like to thank all of our participants, parents, and staff for their support with the bee.

Here are our winners:

* K & 1st Grade : Jade M. from Ms. Finateri's Class

* 2nd Grade: Kiera C. from Ms. Miller's Class

* 3rd Grade: Abeck N. from Ms. Anderson's Class

*4th Grade: Jessica B. from Mr. Mondragon's Class

*5th Grade: Breana H. from Ms. Collier's Class

*6th Grade: Andrew R. From Ms. Ngo's Class

*7th Grade: Genesis A. from Ms. Robinson's Class

*Our Grand Champion Winner: Genesis A.

Congratulations to all of our students!

The school's tardy policy has been developed to emphasize the importance of each student arriving on time to school every day. When a student is tardy to school, he or she is missing valuable instructional time.

Students should be inside the classroom by 8:00AM. A student arriving after this time must report to the front office and obtain a tardy slip. Tardiness to school will be unexcused, unless the student arrives to campus late for one of the following reasons:

*Personal Illness
*Doctor or Court Appointments

For a tardy to be excused, the student must present a note from the parent explaining the late arrival. The school may also require additional documentation such as a court order or a doctor's note.

Excessive tardiness may results in disciplinary actions such as morning detention or school suspensions. For additional information on the school's tardy policy, please see the Student/Parent Handbook.

Thank you for your support with this matter. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the school.

With the new year come new opportunities! Lego club is open for new enrollment. Space is limited, so sign-up this week before your student misses out on all the fun mind building. Please turn in all forms and payments to HSART's main office. If you have any questions you can find the contact information for the teachers on the flyer or you may email Ms. Bruner at cbruner@harmonytx.org.

If you need additional information, please read more . . .

Taekwondo Classes through Zenith is now opening up their enrollment for the 2nd semester.

Space is limited, so sign-up before your student misses out on all the fun mind and body/discipline building. Please turn in all forms and payments to HSART's main office. If you have any questions you can find the contact information for the teachers on the fliers or you may email Ms. Bruner at cbruner@harmonytx.org. For additional information, please read more . . .

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We will be hosting graduation ceremonies for our Kindergartners, 5th, and 8th Grade students in May.

• Kindergarten Graduation Date: Friday, May 18th at 9AM

• 5th and 8th Grade Graduation Date is Friday, May 18th at 5PM

Saturday School will begin on January 7th for students in need of additional Math, ELA and Science preparation for the upcoming STAAR assessment. Letters will be sent home to students that have been enrolled into the program. Classes will be from 8:00am - 12:55pm. Please have your child on campus no later than 7:55am. Dismissal will be at 1:00pm in the front of the school. Please contact Mary Averill (maverill@harmonytx.org) with any questions.

Dear Prospective Students/Parents,

As enrollment season approaches, we would like to share a couple of reminders with you.

1 - The application period for Harmony Public Schools is between January 10 and March 15 for the 2012-2013 school year.
2 - All applications prior to January 10, 2012 will be considered for the 2011-2012 school year.
3 - Any application received after March 15, 2012 will be placed on the waiting list in the order of the date in which the application is received.
4 - The Lottery will be drawn during the last week of March 2012.
5 – Selected students will be announced by the end of the 1st week of April 2012.

Please note that any application received is only considered for one school year. If your child is not selected for enrollment, a new application must be submitted for each year.

Harmony Public Schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or disability in providing educational services, activities, and programs, including vocational and career technology programs, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, (as amended), Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended).

DISTCO 2012 is part of a series of “Digital Storytelling Contests". DISTCO 2012 is an online contest where Students and Teachers in K-12 are invited to submit their original digital stories between November 28, 2011 and January 27, 2012. please check our website at distco.org for complete timeline and rules. The project has certain benefits for both students and teacher. It is a way of exposing and challenging the students in a competition where they can show their certain skills in multimedia, technology, researching, writing and creativity. DOWNLOAD DISTCO 2012 Flyer Here
Participants could win IPAD or INano from among the many rewards available this year. You could win an IPAD or IPOD Nano. SUBMIT YOUR DIGITAL STORY BY JANUARY 27, 2012!

A grandparent of one of our students commended us on doing a great job of teaching her grandchild and to show her appreciation, she signed us up with her company's matching gifts program where it matches employee contributions to charities and schools.

If your company has a similar program and you believed that we are also doing a great job of educating your child, then please support us by pledging your donation with your company. These contributions will go towards our activity fund account that helps support school extracurricular activities.

Your support and generous donations will be greatly appreciated.

Parents and students can now follow us on FACEBOOK and Twitter! Our Facebook page is the Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology (Red,White,and Blue School Logo). Our Twitter is HarmonyArts1. We will post announcements such as upcoming school events and activities on the accounts so follow us to get updates on exciting school news!

6th-8th grade students in need of Reading and/or Math assistance will begin being pulled out of elective courses 2 times per week on Wednesday, September 28th. Also, the second round of 3rd - 5th grade Math and Reading tutorials will begin as of 10/3. Letters will be mailed home today to all parents of students receiving these services. Please direct questions or concerns to Mary Averill (maverill@harmonytx.org).

Beginning in spring 2012, students will start a new voyage with the launch of the next testing program, called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR™.

What is STAAR?
STAAR is a more rigorous standardized testing program that will replace the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) for elementary, middle school, and high school students. The new STAAR program will emphasize “readiness” standards, which are the knowledge and skills that are considered most important for success in the grade or subject that follows and for college and career.

For more information read more . . .

Accelerated Reader is a program designed by Renaissance Learning to promote reading from kindergarten through 12th grade. The program offers personalized reading quizzes on thousands of books on every grade level. After finishing a book at their own pace, students take a short reading quiz. These quizzes help teachers and parents monitor each child's reading level and comprehension.

We are currently implementing the AR program at our school. To learn more about the program, please read more . . .

Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology is hosting a book drive to help stock our library. If you have books that your child no longer reads or needs, please donate them to our library. You can drop off your donation at the front office or give them to your child to turn in to their homeroom teacher. Thank you for your support.

Notice to our students' parents and visitors that the usage of a cell phone while driving on our school campus is prohibited. It is also against Texas State Law for any driver to be on their cell phone or any other communication devices while driving in a school crossing zone.

Also, our school speed limit is 5MPH. Please slow down when entering the school parking lot and watch out for students crossings.

Students' safety is a top priority for the Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology so please help us keep our students safe by following all traffic signs and signals.

Despite our efforts to wash our hands constantly, cover our sneezes and coughs, and sanitize the classroom, some illnesses still manage to get past our defenses.

Please do not bring your child to school if he or she has a fever, diarrhea, vomiting or any other symptoms in the past 24 hours. If your child is sent home from school with any of these symptoms, he or she will have to be symptom free for 24 hours without medication before returning to school unless a doctor’s note is provided.

Please be considerate of other student' health by keeping your sick ones at home. Thank you for your support!

Harmony Public Schools have released 2011 College Acceptance Report and 2011 SAT Report.

The reports clearly prove that Harmony Public Schools continue to provide high-quality education to Texas children. As Harmony Public Schools, we will strive to take this success to the new levels.

To take a close look at the reports, please click on the names of the reports above.

It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...