Dear Holiday Park Families,
With great anticipation and excitement, welcome to Holiday Park Elementary School 2019-2020 school year for all fifth and sixth grade families. It is an honor to work with each student and family as well as help to carry out our daily mission of "Work Hard, Dream Big."
This school year promises to be another exciting and productive experience for each student. Our professional and dedicated teachers and staff have been preparing for your arrival. In addtion, our administrative assistants have organized the biuilding as well as custodial staff thoroughly cleaning-shining each classroom. Finally, our PTO is prepared to welcome all families as well as provide plenty of fun activities and family volunteer opportunities.
Each school year brings about positive change to your childs experience, please see several changes listed below:
Staff:
Mrs. Szymczak and Mr. Weisz will combine to be Fifth Grade Team (Pod) 5D
Mrs. Taormina will join the Sixth Grade Team (Pod) 6D with Dr. Pivirotto, Mrs. Lynch, and Mrs. Hartley
Ms. Moriarty will serve as substitute speech teacher for Mrs. Polons
Schedule:
All Fifth and Sixth Grade students will be 1:1 personal device with Chrome Books
All Fifth and Sixth Grade students will have Library as a Special Area class
HP will now operate off a 5-Day Special Area Schedule
All Fifth and Sixth Grade students will now have opportunity to select a different Discovery Club for Fall-Winter-Spring session
Team (Pod) Names:
HP students have spoken! Prior to ending last school year, our current fifth and sixth grade students were polled as to how to name each grade team (pod). Students voted to name each grade team after animals. Once the school year has begun, each team of students will vote as to what specific animal the team will be known as. As soon as complete, information will be shared to our families.
Campus Arrival/Dismissal Procedures:
The HP/AEO campus has implemnented new campus arrival-dismissal procedures. Please visit our school webpage
to see visual map of the changes
CLICK HERE. All campus visitors are to adhere to campus safety procedures.
Please continue to visit our Holiday Park School webpage (https://www.pbsd.net/holidayparkelementary_home.aspx), follow us on Twitter (@HPEPBSD) as well as down load the PBSD App. I am looking forward to meeting each student and family. Together, we can make for a positive, productive, and rewarding school year. Please contact me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Fran Sciullo, Ed.D
Principal