Please explore our new Web site! There is all kinds of information available on here.
Lost and Found Are your children missing winter things? We have a lot of coats, snowpants, gloves, hats, boots and water bottles. Please have come and look or have your student look in the lost & found, please label items for your child. The shelves have spread to the tables. Items must be picked up by March 7 2025, after this date everything is donated.
Student Lates
Please be aware that due to the change in our Late Slip Process when you bring your student late there may be a lineup and wait for the late slip printer. All parents of kinder students must wait in line with their student until handed to a staff member who will run them to class. With 25 - 75 lates every day there is distruption to many classrooms. Please try to be at the school gates for the bell at 8:40 to avoid these lineups. There is supervision starting at 8:20 am. Breakfast Club at 8:20 am, so your students don't have to be late.
Please be kind and safe and do not park in the Bus Zone on Pleasant Ave! Please do not park in the handicap spots unless you have a permit. Please use the drop off/pick up Zone on Dufferin St. as a safe alternative! Thank you!
F YOUR CHILD WAS BORN IN 2021, TURNS 4 IN 2025, THEN THEY ARE READY FOR KINDERGARTEN!
If your child turns 4 years old this year, please register them for Kindergarten using the DSBN Link below.
Families who have registered will receive an email inviting them to the Kindergarten Open House during the week of May 12 -15 2025.
Kindergarten Registration Link open Now
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IS SEPTEMBER 2, 2025
Registration Link For All Grades
8:20 am Breakfast Club
8:25 am Supervision Outside Begins
8:40 am School Begins. Be at school on time each day in March! Continue the Harriet Tubman New Year Challenge.
March 5 Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
March 6 Little Caesars orders - Pick up times are 3pm-6pm - please note that we do no have space to store any leftovers, thank you!
March 6 Spirit Day: FAVOURITE COLOUR DAY! and Staff vs. Students Basketball Game
March 7 School Council Presents: FUN IN THE SUN DANCE A THON Wear Beach Clothes or School Colours
Schedule for the Dance by Class:
9:00 – 9:35 a.m. Kindergarten
9:45 – 10:20 p.m. Grades 1, 2 & 3
11:10- 12:10 p.m Grades 4, 5 & 6
1:30-2:30 p.m Grades 7 & 8
March 7 Hot Dog Fundraiser (grade 8 end of year trip)
March 10- 14 March Break (NO SCHOOL)
March 10 In honour of her courage, humanitarian efforts, heroism, and her life of service, March 10th was declared Harriet Tubman Day in St. Catharines, in 1990. In 2005, she was designated a Person of National Significance by the Government of Canada.
March 18 - Entrepreneurship Workshop at Collegiate 6/7, 7-1, 7/8
March 19 Grade 3 Trip to the Performing Arts Centre
March 19 Submission Sub Day (Cash online online)
March 21 - Rock your socks for World Down Syndrome Day! Wear your favourite socks or mismatched socks!
March 22 Earth Hour 8:30 - 9:30 pm
March 24 HT Market (Cash online only)
March 24 STEM Expo
March 26 Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
March 28 Spirit Wear Day - Dress in HTB wear or school colours
March 30 EARTH HOUR is from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
March 31 - Grade 7 Vaccination Day
June 19 2025 Grade 8 Grad
Breakfast Club is now open: any student may attend.
Open between 8:20 am & 8:40 am. Come and have breakfast with your friends.
Links
Niagara Region Child Care Registry, One List, Instructions Link
HTB SPIRIT WEAR Available now and all school year.
Harriet Tubman North Stars Class of 2023/24 Grad Hoodie -North Stars Logo
Harriet Tubman Spirit Wear (all grades)
link HTB SPIRITWEAR
DSBN’s Harriet Tubman’s School Ventilation and Filtration Measures: Link
THE OFFICE at Harriet Tubman is a very busy place especially at the beginning of the day and during break times. If you need to have a message delivered to your child before the end of the day please ensure that you call the school prior to 1:00 pm. We cannot guarantee that students will receive messages called in after that time as students often have rotary during the last instructional block of the day. Early pick up is by 2pm. Please label all clothing with your student's name.
Is Your Child Going To Be Absent?
Please call the school when your child is going to be absent. https://www.dsbn.org/safearrival/ An answering machine is available 24 hours a day.
If your child has COLD AND OR FLU SYMPTOMS when it is time for school, it is best that he/she/they stay home until they are symptom free for 24 hours. Nausea or vomiting symptoms must be clear for 48 hrs......
Have you signed up to receive SMS Texts and emails from us?
We send SMS messages to parents/guardians sharing important school information and reminders. If you are not receiving texts from our school & would like to, please send a text message to 978338 with "Yes" or "Y" to opt in, so you can start receiving text messages. Another way we communicate with our families is through email. When you receive the Student Verification Form to review, please ensure we have your correct email address so that you can stay up to date with our communication to families.
Cash online Instruction Link
About Harriet Tubman Public School
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer . Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world." ~ Harriet Tubman
In the spring of 2014, the DSBN Accommodation Review Committee recommended the building of a brand new kindergarten to grade 8 school to service the downtown area of St. Catharines.
The new school, to be built on the existing Alexandra School site on Henry Street in St. Catharines will accommodate children from the Maywood, Memorial, Alexandra and Queen Mary school communities. We opened on September 8th, 2015!
The DSBN Naming Committee announced that the new school would be named after famed freedom fighter, Harriet Tubman, who lived on North Street in St. Catharines for 10 years.
Harriet Tubman was important to local, Canadian and American history and has been named 71st on the Top 100 Most Influential Persons list. Recently, she was named as the new face of the US $20 bill. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, it is believed that Harriet journeyed from Virginia to St. Catharines over 17 times, bringing over 60 slaves to a life of freedom. Moving mainly at night, using the North Star as a compass and relying on safe houses marked with blue quilts, Harriet said, "I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger."
Future students of Harriet Tubman Public School will develop and exhibit the same character traits demonstrated by Harriet Tubman: courage, selfless, kindness, and perseverance.
We are very proud and excited about our new school!
If you are tired, keep going.
If you are scared, keep going.
If you are hungry, keep going.
If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
~Harriet Tubman