Our graduation ceremony for the kinder, 5th, 8th grade students will be held this Friday, May 24th. It will be in the school's gym. Here are the times:

* Kindergartners @ 9:00AM

*5th and 8th Grade Students @ 5:00PM - Students need to be on campus by 4:15PM

Girls' Attire: Knee-length Dresses/Skirts or Dress Pants with Blouse. Jeans and shorts are not allowed.

Boys' Attire: Dress Pants with Button-Down Dress Shirt, Dark Colored Shoes. Jeans and shorts are not allowed.

If your child needs a cap and gown, please purchase one from the front office. The cost is $25. If you have an unpaid balance with the school for items such as lunch, graduation pictures, or fundraiser; please submit payment to the front office by May 23rd. Your student's official diploma will be withheld until the account is paid in full. Only a copy of the diploma with cover will be given to the student during the ceremony. The 5th and 8th grade parents that have RSVP to Mrs. Baca for seating will have seats reserved for them under their student's name. Please report to the gym by 4:50PM to claim your seats. At this time, parents who have not RSVP will have seats on a first-come, first serve basis. Seats are limited so please plan accordingly. We have 132 graduates and our gym can only seat 485 guests so we apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mrs. Baca at 832-433-7001 or via email at mbaca@harmonytx.org.

We are excited about our year-end BOGO book fair. Come and stock up on books for summer reading! We will be open 7:30 - 4:00, with extended hours for the family until 5:30 on Thursday.
See you at the Book Fair!
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Come one come all to the first Harmony School Play! Have you ever wondered what would happen if Dr.Seuss and Shakespeare met? Well wonder no longer, leave your Old English dictionary at home and bring your funny bone for this wacky rendition of Shakespeare's classic. Bring your friends and family! Performance will be on Thursday May 23rd at 6:00pm with seating beginning at 5:30.

Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology is required by law to request, at the time of enrollment, that the parent or guardian of each student attending a School campus discloses the student’s food allergies.

Please fill out the attached document and submit to Nurse Mitchell. If you have questions, please contact the school at 832-433-7001 read more . . .

On Friday, May 17, 2013, we hosted our bi-annual Magnet Arts Showcase. At this event the magnet students from both visual and digital arts classes had their works on display for parents and students to view. The performing arts students in Orchestra, Choir, and Drama performed as well.

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*May 15th:  Taekwondo Belt Test (2:30PM)
*May 16th:  4th & 5th Grade Science Fair
*May 17th:  Fine Arts Magnet Showcase*May 17th:  Moody Gardens Field Trip for 4th Grade and Kinder to Museum of Natural Science
*May 20th:  5th Grade Field Trip
*May 20th-May 24th:  Scholastic BOGO Book Fair
*May 21st:  Sport Banquet
*May 22nd:  Romero and Juliet Play (School Hours)
*May 23rd :  Romero and Juliet (Evening Performance)
*May 24th:  Kinder, 5th, and 8th Grade Graduation/the End of Year Award Assemblies
*May 27th:  Memorial Day (No School)
*May 29th:  3rd Grade Field Trip
*May 31st: Last Day of School/ Reports will be mailed

Due to inclement weather, the athletic banquet was been postponed.  
The new date for the banquet is Tuesday, May 21st at 6PM.

Here is our 2013-2014 school calendar. read more . . .

Here is our Wednesday Mail for April 24th.  If you have any question or concerns, please contact the school at 832-433-7001. read more . . .

All library books are due May 17th. Textbooks will be collected the last week of school. Please check around and send in any books that have a "Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology" barcode or stamp. Families are responsible for books not returned.
Thank you!!

The results from GT testing are in. All test scores as well as GT eligibility decisions have been sent home with your student(s) today (this applies to all students who were nominated and participated in this round of GT testing). If you have any questions regarding GT, please contact Mrs. Ngu at nngu@harmonytx.org.

In addition to the Harmony School of Ingenuity, 8th and 9th graders currently at HSART also have the opportunity to attend the Harmony Science Academy High School located near our central office. Students were given a presentation today about this school and some of the programs they offer. If you and your student(s) are interested, registration packets for this campus may be obtained at our front office. After completion, all registration packets should be turned into Harmony Science Academy High. If you are already enrolled to Ingenuity, you still have the option to register and switch to this campus if you are interested. For more information about this school or their graduation paths, please contact Megan Spears via email at mspears@harmonytx.org.

5th and 8th grade STAAR scores for Math and Reading have been received. All reports have been mailed out to the parents and should arrive early next week. Parents of students who did not perform satisfactorily on these tests have been notified over the phone. The additional supplemental instruction for these students will begin on Monday 4/29/13. Should you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Ngu.

Please see the official STAAR and EOC testing dates below. It is imperative that your students are present to school on these testing days.

*Monday, May 6th
-Algebra I EOC (8b & 9A)
-Geometry EOC (9A-Advanced)

*Tuesday, May 7th
-Biology EOC (8B & 9A)

*Wednesday, May 8th
-World Geography EOC (9A)
 

* Tuesday, May 14th
-5th and 8th Grade STAAR Math Retest

*Wednesday, May 15th
-5th and 8th Grade STAAR Reading Retest read more . . .

*Last day for ballet: May 6

*Last day for Robotics: TBA

*Last day for TaeKwonDo: May 17th

--Belt test: May 15

*Last day for Jazz/Hip Hop: May 30

We will place all "lost and found" items that were collected through-out the school year in the area by the back of the gym on Saturday, June 1st from 9AM - 1PM.

Parents and students can come and claim any lost items during this time. All unclaimed items will be donated.

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.

Harmony School of Fine Arts & Technology is seeking dedicated educators who are ESL & Bilingual Certified. To apply, please send a cover letter with resume to Mrs. Ngu at nngu@harmonytx.org.

Kindergarten, 5th and 8th grade graduation is scheduled for Friday, May 24th.

* Kindergarten: 9AM
* 5th and 8th grade: 5PM (RSVP Required)
(Students are required to be on campus by 4:30PM for
the ceremony)

Seats are limited for the 5th and 8th grade graduation so each student can invite up to 4 guests. However, if the additional guests are immediately family members, we will provide extra spots for those students. Please RSVP to mbaca@harmonytx.org the following information by May 3rd.

- Student's Name
- Grade and Section
- Number and Name of Guest(s)
- Parent's Contact Number

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

*Speed Limit is 5mph when driving on the campus.

*The speed limit for Crosspoint and Kirby when approaching the school is 20mph during the morning hours of 7:15AM - 8:15AM and during the afternoon hours of 2:15PM - 4:45PM.

*No cell phone usage when driving on school grounds.

Newsweek has announced America's Best High Schools where seven Harmony schools have made into the list.

Harmony Science Academy - Bryan/College Station, Harmony School of Advancement (Houston), Harmony Science Academy Fort Worth, Harmony Science Academy (Houston), Harmony Science Academy El Paso, Harmony Science Academy Dallas, Harmony Science Academy-North Austin are the campuses that made into Newsweek's list.

Newsweek has also identified Top 25 Transformative High Schools in which four Harmony Schools are also featured.

HAS Bryan/College Station, HAS El Paso, HAS Houston, and HAS Dallas became America's 25 transformative schools who did the most with the least resources.

In 2011, two Harmony campuses were also named as the Miracle Schools by Newsweek.

Washington Post has announced its Most Challenging High Schools list of 2012. Four Harmony high schools made the Challenge Index and three of them in the top 100 out of 1900 schools in the list.

The Challenge Index of Washington Post ranks high schools since 1998 based on the student achievement on IB, AP, and college level tests (SAT, ACT, etc.) and graduation rates. The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies (Subs. Lunch) and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career, called equity and excellence, (E&E). A (P) next to the school's name denotes a private school.

See the detailed list here.

A segment of the May 13 television news show 60 Minutes included references to Harmony Public Schools (HPS) of Texas that may have left some inaccurate impressions. Please note the following facts about Harmony Public Schools, all of which were shared with 60 Minutes before the show was broadcast: Read more at Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight

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From Superintendent Dr. Soner Tarim To the Harmony Public Schools Community: A disappointing article on charter schools in this week's New York Times attempts to put Harmony Public Schools in Texas in a context that is not accurate, necessitating this brief response. Many of us at Harmony Schools cooperated extensively with the Times on this story over the last several months, providing documents, interviews, tours and dozens of detailed responses to specific questions in good faith. But, as sometimes happens, the end result was not entirely what we had hoped. See the rest of Dr. Soner Tarim's response here: http://harmonytx.org/news/122/letter-to-stakeholders-on-ny-times-article/

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...