PTA and SLT Election Results

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Halsey’s PTA conducted its elections for the 2018-2019 school year on Tuesday, June 12th. The entire Executive Board was voted on as well as 4 parent seats to be filled. Here were your winners:

Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

Co-Presidents
Vicky Barshai & Katarina Jokic

Vice-President
Michelle Kiliski

Secretary
Cynthia Cohen

Treasurer
Raquel Hagen

School Leadership Team (SLT)
Elena Aminova
Ariana Palacio
Feliks Kiliski
JJ Rowe

They will be joining our current SLT which consists of:

Mr. Suraci – Principal
Ms. Sussman – Guidance Counselor – UFT Rep
Vicky Barshai – PTA President
Mrs. Hoffman – Faculty
Mrs. McGibney – Faculty
Mr. Trainor – Faculty
Mrs. Karlic – Faculty
Ms. Sussman – Faculty
Mrs. Corda – Faculty
Robert Plass – Parent
Ricky Cheng- Parent

We would like to say thank you to Robert Plass and Victoria Preys for their hard work and commitment to the 2017-2018 PTA Executive Board

Thank you to Eileen Mullin for her work with the PTA and for updating all our social media pages and Web site.

We would like to say thank you and farewell to our parents from our SLT and PTA who are leaving us this year. You will be missed dearly.

Emily Ades
Thommie Retter
Martin Haberstumpf
Stephanie Zevon
Emily Strong

NYSSMA Winners

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Congratulations to three students here at Halsey who have made Halsey history! Halsey sent three students to perform at the NYSSMA Solo and Ensemble festival in Corona last week. The girls played their flute trio and earned a perfect score! This is the first time Halsey has sent a small ensemble to NYSSMA.

Arianelle Arroyo, Lianne Leslie, Ann Hsieh

Congratulations! We are all very proud of you!!!!

Family Fitness Night

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Family Fitness Night was a HUGE success! We had an excellent turnout. There were a number of activities for the families to participate in. Thank you to Ms. Butera and the rest of the Halsey staff who helped make this night one to remember.

Check out the pics:

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Spring Hackathon Winners

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On Saturday, June 2nd, we held our Spring Hackathon. Students were introduced to App Lab in order to create Mobile Apps. The problem presented to them was to create an app for a phone that would be helpful to their community. We had a fantastic time despite the heat!

1st Place (apptastic – highly original) – Katie Ng and Abigail Chang – created an app entitled, Digital Community Center

2nd Place (social impact-raises awareness) Gryphon Lee, James R and Gabriel Paredes – created an app to help raise awareness for Recycling.

3rd Place (complexity) – Tejas Modi, Matan Luzon and Emile Romero – created an app for users to create music with various different sounds, Quicksound

4th Place (Presentation) -Lucas Tsang and Shaurya – created an app to identify animals by taking a picture – using image recognition software, Animal discovery

Special thanks to Ms. S. Shikowitz and Ms. J. Pignataro for their help.

Special Education Culminating Dance Event

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Our wonderful special education students, under the tutelage of Bam’s Dance Africa Sawabun, put on a beautiful performance this morning. The students practiced for months and made everyone here at Halsey very proud of them. Thank you to Mrs. Ador, Mrs. Whalen, Mrs. Skow, and Mrs. Simkhayev, all the para’s, Mr. Suraci for his support, and of course all our students. Check out the students below:

 

The Pen Pal Project

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Ms. Gallagher’s seventh grade ELA classes received a letter from a seventh grade student from Cinco Ranch Junior High School in Katy, Texas. This student wanted to learn more about NYC! 706, 722, and 724 wrote formal letters and sent them all the way to Texas! We are eagerly awaiting a response!

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Garden Beautification Project Progress Update

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Mr. Weiss has been working hard on the Garden Beautification Project that is being funded by our PTA. Along with some Halsey students, Mr. Weiss has built 5 raised flower beds for the front of the school and has begun building the greenhouse located in our garden on the side of the building. Last weekend the students met up with Mr. Weiss and Ms. Butera who came to help. When students began to arrive they got right to work on building the greenhouse, removing a pair of tree stumps and pruning back some of our more “unruly” plants.

We will be out there this Sunday at 10:00 am weather permitting. Come on out!

If you would like to get involved on the Green Team please contact Mr. Weiss at CWeiss6@schools.nyc.gov

We are asking for donations to help purchase the flowers, plants and trees we are going to be planting. You can use this link to donate:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZUVLZ25CTEXRG

Parent Engagement Trip to the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum

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Saturday, April 28th 2018 – 15 spots remaining
Saturday, May 5th 2018 – 11 spots remaining

We are excited to continue our 2017-2018 “Involved Parent = Successful Student” Initiative. Our next parent/student/staff trip will be to the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum located at Pier 86, W 46th St & 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036.

You may select ONLY ONE DATE. We encourage students and their parents to join us in this amazing opportunity.

We will be traveling together by school bus to and from the Intrepid Museum. The bus will leave from Halsey Junior High School at 10:30 am. Parents please arrive no later than 10:00 am.

There is still plenty of space left to sign up for one of the two remaining trips to the USS Intrepid Museum.

Click here for the Intrepid Permission Slip

ALL STUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY ONE PARENT/GUARDIAN!!!!