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Field experiences are an important part of our curriculum and your child’s education. The experiences are used to enhance the units of study. We will plan many experiences for the calendar year. Some experiences are planned well in advance and other trips have a shorter information turn around period.  

• Our Field Experiences are a mandatory part of our curriculum. 
• Family chaperones will be selected by lottery for each experience. Please complete this form (https://forms.gle/XCgCtf5XVuSrPwGo9) to be entered into the lottery. 
• Our school requests a traveling NYC DOE school nurse to attend every experience, but unfortunately, they cannot always accommodate our requests. If your child has a 504 please see the main office for further information on our policy for when a school nurse cannot attend.
• Regardless of the type of experience, it is not permissible for students to meet at or be dismissed from a site other than the school.. 
• Please see our Family Handbook for more details regarding field experience expectations and chaperone requirements. 

Here are a few updates, resources and reminders now that the colder weather is approaching! 

• Schoolyard: For the safety of our students and families please refrain from driving into the school yard during arrival and dismissal times. 
• Clothing: With the warmer weather upon us, we want to remind you of our school's dress code and safety guidelines to ensure all students are appropriately attired for school activities. If a child is wearing inappropriate footwear or clothing, parents/caregivers will be called to bring a change of footwear or clothing. An example is flip flops, any open-toe shoes, heels, or heelies, as these items tend to cause safety hazards when students are engaged in activities. As always, your child's safety is of the utmost importance. If there is any question regarding the appropriateness of a student's attire, the principal will make the final determination. Thank you for your cooperation and support in keeping our school safe and conducive to learning.
• School Bus Lane and crosswalks: please refrain from parking in front of the school building or in crosswalks during arrival and dismissal. When cars are stopped or parked in these locations it creates a safety hazard for our students as they are trying to arrive and leave from our school building. 
• Lice: The presence of head lice in institutions such as schools is an uncomfortable fact of life. Together we can help ensure these occurrences do not become a greater problem. We encourage families to notify the main office if they detect head lice in their child's hair. When a student is found to have lice, notes are sent home to members of the child's class.
  • What are head lice?
    • Head lice are small insects with six legs usually the size of a sesame seed (the seeds on burger buns).
    • They live on or very close to the scalp and don’t wander far down the hair shafts for very long.
    • They can only live on human beings; you can’t catch them from animals.
    • Nits are not the same thing as lice. Lice are the insects which move around the head. Nits are egg cases laid by lice, stuck on to hair shafts; they are smaller than a pin head and are pearly white.
    • If you have nits it doesn’t always mean that you have head lice. When you have got rid of all the lice, the nits will stay stuck to the hair until it grows out.
    • You only have head lice if you can find a living, moving louse (not a nit) on the scalp.
    • Anybody can get head lice.
    • Head lice infections are caught from close family and friends in the home and community, not from the school.
    • Spread of head lice requires direct head to head contact. They can’t swim, fly, hop or jump.
  • Here are a few tips to help prevent the spread of head lice:
    • Check your child's hair on a regular basis.
    • Because head lice need close head-to-head contact to spread from one person to another, to reduce the spread of head lice, teachers will discourage students from activities which may involve head to head contact.
    • To reduce your child’s risk of getting head lice, make sure that long hair is tied up and discourage children from sharing their brushes and combs and having head to head contact with others.
    • Remember - Anyone can get head lice – they have no preferences for cleanliness, hair color, hair type, ethnicity or age.
  • Here are some resources to learn more about lice and treatments:
    • American Academy of Dermatology - Head Lice: Hoe to Treat Video 
    • What Causes Head Lice? | Treatment For Head Lice | The Dr Binocs Show | Peekaboo Kidz
    • NYC Public School's Head Lice Information and Polices