In observance of Memorial Day there will be no school Monday May 27.

Textbooks will be collected throughout the next two weeks. There will be a schedule established for each grade and section. Please have students bring them in to school so that they will be ready to be collected on their scheduled day.

Please refrain from bringing textbooks to the front office or the library on an unscheduled day.

HSE PTO has made it convenient for you to purchase school supplies for students from leading school supplies vendor, EPI. The kits you order online yourself will need to be ordered for their grade level in 2013-14 school year.

The kit will contain all the necessary supplies for each grade, however, teachers may ask for additional supplies related to their classes.

Please go to http://www.epipacks.com and use School ID: HAR085

Deadline is June 25, 2013.

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was created to ensure that children in low-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. It provides nutritious and free meals to children 18 and younger during the summer months. School districts and other eligible sponsors may serve as summer feeding program sites.

The Seamless Summer Option (SSO) was created by the federal government as a summer feeding alternative for schools that already participate in school meal programs and wish to continue meal service into the summer.

For a meal site near you:
* Call 211
* Visit summerfood.org
* Text FOODTX to 877-877

We'd like to thank all who participated in Saturday's Harmony-wide Name That Book Competition. Our 3rd-5th grade team placed first in their category!

Congratulations to all for their hard work!

Best Social Studies Digital Story in Grades K-5 "A Helping Hand" by Shonik Ganjoo.

Best Computers/Technology Digital Story in Grades K-5 "iPhone" by Mereddy Pranav.

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One of our 7th grade students, Magnus Sevcik, came up with the great idea to install a Little Free Library in his neighborhood.

The purpose of the little free library is to have a place for people to donate books they own for others to take and enjoy, "everyone can enjoy a good book simply by sharing what you already have".

Magnus got approval for the project from a local Homeowners Association by presenting a speech and handout outlining the project, fund raised and worked to earn $750 for the library, shipping and handling, organized the installation and wrote an article about the library for his community newsletter.

What an outstanding citizen!

The annual STEM Website and Movie Contest is hosted by Harmony Public Schools and open to Harmony and SST students in 8-12th grade. Teachers and students will be awarded by iPad Mini's. Students participated with movies and websites that feature projects in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and more!

Here are the links to choose winners for each categories:

• Physics Website Category
  
• Bio-Chemistry Website Category
  
• Techno-Engineering Website Category
  
• YouTube Movie Category
  

Nundini R. and Opal J. from 8th grade HSE participated in the 2013 BP MS150 bike ride from Houston to Austin and together raised over $800 towards finding a cure for MS!

They biked over 100 miles averaging 10 miles/hr for the entire trip! Way to go!

Harmony School of Excellence 2011-2012 NCLB Report Card is available through the following link below. read more . . .

Please review our campus' highly qualified teacher report for 2011-2012 school year click here.

HQ Parent Notification Letter … read more . . .

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...