Harrisburg Elementary School

The HART Community Center and Lola’s Coffee + Brunch is partnering with the Marine Corps for Toys for Tots. Deadline to register is November 28th E Centro Comunitario HART y Lola’s Coffee se están asociando con el Cuerpo de Marines. La fecha límite para registrarse es el Noviembre 28th

Happy Wednesday! The kitchen has a menu change for today's breakfast. BISCUITS and GRAVY! Yum Tomorrow's breakfast is Banana Bread, pears and a cheese stick. Tomorrow's lunch is Pork tacos, salad bar. Let's make it a great day! ¡Feliz miércoles! La cocina dispone de cambio de menú para el desayuno de hoy. ¡Galletas y salsa! mmm El desayuno de mañana es pan de plátano, peras y una barra de queso. El almuerzo de mañana son tacos de cerdo y barra de ensaladas. ¡Hagamos que sea un gran día!

Last call for the annual Harrisburg School District Thanksgiving Food Drive. Accepting donations through Thursday 10/19/23.

Say “hello” to parent-teacher chat in the HSD app! The same district app now offers class streams, class announcements, and parent-teacher chat. Download for Android http://bit.ly/39hXRb7 Download for iPhone https://apple.co/39mDFol

The HES Open House will be on Thursday, September 21st from 5:30-7pm. We will begin in our cafeteria followed by the opportunity to visit two different grade level sessions. This is a great chance to learn about what's expected for students and their families this school year. We hope to see you there.

Harrisburg School District is on a two-hour delay for Tuesday, February 28. Bus routes will be on a two- hour delay as well. All staff should report on campus by 9:30 AM.

2 Hour Delay

New school year Our campuses are full of students and staff excited to kick off the 2022-23 school year. It is wonderful to see everyone’s smile as students move about their perspective campuses. Over the summer some areas were painted while deep cleaning took place in every building. The old furnaces in the elementary school classrooms were replaced over the summer using federal funds. The new units provide heat and air condition which is greatly appreciated as the temperatures are in the upper 90’s this week. The school district provides one-hour weekly for professional learning community (PLC) time. The Harrisburg School District will have late start every Monday. Everything will begin one hour later. There are two weeks during the school year when there is a holiday on Monday, Labor Day and Memorial Day. The late start will move to Tuesday. This is true for next week when Monday, September 5 is Labor Day holiday. We will have late start on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. If you have daycare issues and need to get to work, you may drop your child off at the elementary or middle school at the regular time. We will provide a safe place for all k-6 grade students who cannot stay home one hour. Building principals will provide staff who will oversee the K-6 grade students who arrive during the PLC time. We welcome parent involvement and I would encourage you to support the Harrisburg PTA. There are ways to support your schools through site councils and booster club. Contact the building principal if interested in supporting your son/daughter’s school.

Hello everyone, I want to provide an update for the 2022-2023 school year. Currently, the district allows one hour a week, on Wednesdays, for staff to engage in professional Learning Communities (PLC’s). The goal of these PLC’s is for staff to work together for school and learning improvement. Part of this work entailed sending staff and building principals to White River School District for an up close look at a school district whose PLC process is efficient. One of the takeaways from that trip was the time and day for PLC’s to take place. The team came back recommending we change our PLC time from an early release on Wednesdays to a late start on Mondays.This means that, on Mondays only, students will arrive at school an hour later than usual. The district understands that many of our families will have daycare challenges that will result in a late start. If you have a K-6 student you will be able to drop your student off at their respective school at the normal time on Mondays. The district will be happy to provide a safe environment for all K-6 students who arrive before school on Mondays. Building principals will provide communication on the new late start time. This hour of time is very beneficial for our teachers to discuss their instruction while examining data collected each week from agreed upon student work. The Harrisburg School Board of Directors gave us the time to improve learning and our professional practice by doing the work of a PLC, layered under the four critical questions of learning; What do we want students to learn? How will we know if they have learned? What will we do if they don’t learn? What will we do if they already know it? Each team has identified essential standards, learning targets, instructional strategies and student engagement and unit pacing. Please contact your building principal for specific details concerning late start Mondays.

1-27-21 Dear Families, This has been an unprecedented year with many new and different ways of doing things. This will be, yet another, 'new and different' for you to be thinking about. On February 11th, we will celebrate Valentine's Day here at school. However, we are still under all of the same protocols and parameters that we have been. This means we cannot have items coming in and out of the school and going in and out of students' homes. If you have received other information, please disregard. We cannot have Valentine’s or other goodies coming into the school or going home with other students. Instead, this is an opportunity for our staff and students to get creative. We have already ordered mini-cupcakes, one for every child, and Valentine pencils, one for every child. Our teachers and staff will work to make our celebration here ultra-caring, kind and fun day; we can and we will. Valentine's, if exchanged, must be created in class and set aside and pre-sorted for students for a week before going home. Some classroom teachers may make "mailboxes" but they cannot be left out on desktops. Any class-made tokens will be put into them by staff to go home to be opened at home. Our new normal is that there is no normal. I appreciate the understanding and ongoing best foot forward for our children! Each celebration may look different but we strive to make these special and memorable for all children. Thank you for your continued support.

If we have inclement weather closure for the school district, we will notify through Flash Alert, robocall and this website. Our notices will go out at 6 a.m. Please make sure you are signed up for Flash Alert. If we have to close, we plan to make the day up later in the school year.

First full week of K-2 on-site down in the books! We can’t wait to see our third graders on Monday!