Family Winter Dance

Please join us for our second Family Dance this Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 6:00 PM. Light refreshments and a live DJ will provide an evening of family fun to celebrate the holiday season.

Admission is a ream of paper per person or $5.00 each. Contact Ms. Corley for tickets.

Thank you.

Barnes and Noble Night

Dear Families,

We are very proud to announce that the Holliswood School is sponsoring our annual Barnes and Nobles Fundraiser! The fundraiser will begin on Monday, December 5th and end Saturday, December 10th at the Fresh Meadows store on Union Turnpike. This in-store event was extremely successful last year because so many of you came out to support the school. Your participation was extraordinary and the Fresh Meadows store responded in kind by sharing a generous percentage of the total sales that were made during last year’s event with the school.

To further motivate the students to take part in the excitement, our staff has volunteered their time on Monday night from 4:30-6:30 p.m., to read aloud to the students and interact with the parents in a more social setting. Attached you will find the voucher that must be presented when you are making your final purchase if the school is going to benefit from your generosity. Please come, do some holiday shopping and share in what promises to be a truly enjoyable event.

We look forward to seeing you there!


Sincerely,



Jason Chin
Assistant Principal
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We are proud to announce our annual Barnes & Noble Bookfair will be taking place at the Fresh Meadows location on Monday, December 5, 2011. You will also have an opportunity to support us by shopping online from Monday, December 5, 2011 through Saturday, December 10, 2011. A percentage of your purchase made through www.bn.com/bookfairs will be contributed to our Bookfair. Here’s how:

• Be sure to use the web address above (www.bn.com/bookfairs) to do your online shopping.
• When you’ve finished selecting your purchases, click on your cart and begin the check-out process. On the payment page, there will be a section at the bottom that states Check Here If This Is a Bookfair Order. When you check the box, type in our bookfair ID number 10564912 in the required entry field.
• If you already have a BN.com account with a default payment method, you will only see a Checkout Summary screen. To add the Bookfair ID to the payment page, you will need to click on the Change button on the right-hand side of the Payment Section. This will take you back to the payment page, where you can enter our bookfair ID number 10564912.
• After placing your order, you can log back into your Order Summary Confirmation to check to see if the Bookfair ID number is listed on your order (10564912). If it is, everything was done correctly!
• If you do not see a Bookfair ID number (10564912), or if you realize that you placed your order without using our Bookfair ID number, please call Customer Service at 800-962-6177 as soon as possible. Provide your order number and our Bookfair ID number, and the representative will manually add your order to our Bookfair sales total.
• Please note that the purchase of some items such as gift cards, textbooks, magazines, etc. is excluded from Bookfair sales totals. For more information, check the FAQs on the www.bn.com/bookfairs home page.
Please feel free to forward this letter and our bookfair vouchers to any family and friends who would like to support our Bookfair as well.

Thanks again for supporting our Bookfair!

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Holiday Concert - December 8, 2011

SAVE THE DATE

The Holiday Concert
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 6:00 PM

Featuring performances by:

The Elementary Chorus (The Young People’s Chorus of NYC @178, Grades 3-5)
The Middle School Chorus (The Young People’s Chorus of NYC @178, Grades 6-8)
conducted by Sheldon Ogbourne of YPC
The Holliswood School Band, conducted by the All-Borough Band Director, Jennifer Schecter

Performance attire: White top, black bottoms (Musicians)

Guests, please enter through Avon Road (tickets: $3.00 each now on sale)
Performers, please enter through Radnor Road

October 25, 2011

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Monday, October 31, 2011 is Halloween. Traditionally, Halloween is a time of fun and excitement. However, we need to take precautions in order to have a safe Halloween experience.

Below, we have listed some helpful guidelines to consider, in the event that your children go out Trick or Treating.

1. Go Trick or Treating in a group with a responsible adult.
2. Wear a costume that is fireproof and can be seen when it is dark.
3. Do not eat any unwrapped candy or fruit.
4. Parents should inspect all treats before permitting children to eat them.
5. Only go Trick or Treating to friends and neighbors. Do not knock on
strangers' doors.
6. Do not go Trick or Treating late in the evening.
7. Do not play any tricks that can hurt anyone or that can damage property.

As a reminder, Halloween costumes are not permitted in school. However, children may wear a costume to the PTA-sponsored Fall Festival on October 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Very truly yours,


Jennifer Ambert
Principal

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Dear Parents/Guardians:

You are cordially invited to our November Parent-Teacher Conferences. Both afternoon and evening conferences will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Conferences are scheduled for 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM in the afternoon and 5:30 PM to 8:00PM in the evening. During these times, you will have the opportunity to confer with your child’s teacher about his/her academic and social progress. Please feel free to bring an English Language translator with you to the conference. We will also have translators available.

Elementary Families will receive scheduled appointment times. Please complete the tear-off form, which will be distributed on 10/21, to indicate your availability. The teachers will send you a reply. Middle School Families will meet with individual teachers through a sign-up sheet, which will be posted outside classrooms during conference hours. This will enable you to meet with the various teachers who instruct your child in a timely manner.

Reminder: Due to Parent-Teacher Conference on the afternoon of Tuesday, 11/15, students will be dismissed at 11:30 AM. Please make sure to make arrangements to have your child picked up at 11:30 AM that day. Pre-K and Kindergarten students will be dismissed at 11:15 AM. If your child rides a bus home from school, please arrange that there is a responsible adult at the bus stop. Please sign the tear-off and return it to your child’s teacher by October 26, 2011.

All PS/IS 178 After-School Programs will be cancelled on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. The Samuel Field Y and Kuei Luck Programs will also be cancelled.

• Elementary report cards (Grades 1-5 only) will be distributed on November 9, 2011 via backpack.
• Middle School report cards will be distributed on November 7, 2011 via backpack.

Thank you for your cooperation. I look forward to seeing you.

Holliswood in the News

Please view the article in the Queens Gazette:

http://www.qgazette.com/news/2011-10-19/Features/PS_178_Celebrates_Six_Decades_Of_Service.html

Thank you.

Parent Workshop on 10/7/11 Cancelled

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Please be advised that Ms. Corley's Parent Workshop, entitled "Respect for All" (First Friday Second Cup), has been cancelled. The workshop was originally scheduled for this Friday, October 7, 2011. Ms. Corley will re-schedule this meeting at a later date.

If you have any questions, please call Ms. Corley.

Thank you.