FUN FAIR JUNE 5TH! BUY YOUR TICKETS ON CASH-ON-LINE
LOTS OF YEAR END TRIPS ARE NOW COMING UP ON LINE PLEASE CHECK FREQUENTLY FOR YOUR STUDENTS TRIP!
HTB YEARBOOK 2024-2025
Yearbook Orders 2024 - 2025 On sale now! Cash on line Last day to order May 29
Have you signed up to receive SMS Texts and emails from us? Donations of food and items will be sent via email and texts!
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.
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.
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
MAY
Link to May Days of Significance
MAY 8:20 am Breakfast Club 8:40 am School Begins
Try to be at school on time each day in May, You can do it! Try walking to school and meeting classmates on the back tarmac!
Swim to Survive Program for Grade 3 Students provides training in three essential skills needed to survive an unexpected fall into deep waters. There is no cost but the permissions are on Cash on line. There will be two groups:
Group 1 will be Ms. Stamp, Ms. Harrington
Group 2 will be Ms. Keir, Mr. Durksen, Ms. Casciato
May 8 NEW DATE Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
May 9 Swim to survive group 2 (9 am - 12 noon, be on time for the busses)
May 9 Spirit Day Anything but a backpack day - be creative in what you use to bring your things to school
May 10 Prom Project @ Collegiate HS EFN Niagara's Prom Project - Free Formal Wear Extravaganza for students! Held at St. Catharines Collegiate H.S
May 14 Kinders Trip to Collegiate ( all Kinder classes)
K1 & K2 9am - 10 am
K3 & K5 11:30 am - 12:30 am
K4 & K6 12:15am - 1:15 am
May 14 Pita Day (Cash online only)
May 15 8:30 am Intermediate Flag Rugby Boys Tournament - Brock University
May 15 Next year JK Open House 4 -6 pm (only for new JK starting Sept 2025)
May 16 8:30 am Intermediate Flag Rugby Girls Tournament - Brock University
May 16 Honour day (Wear something you’re proud of) Spirit Day
May 19 VICTORIA DAY -NO SCHOOL
May 20 HT Market Day
May 20 Track and Field DSBN Area Meet
May 21 Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
May 23 Spirit Day - Rainbow day
May 23 Grade 2 Year End Trip to Landmark Cinemas!
May 28 Submission Sub Day (Cash online only)
May 28 Shaw Festival Trip - Grade 3 (8:45 am sharp don't miss the bus)
May 30 Core Values Assembly and Kindergarten Concert at 2pm
NOTE: Grade 8 Grad Save the Date June 19 2025 @ Collegiate
School Year Calendar
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......
Does your child feel nervous and anxious about vaccination? Learn about the CARD System to help improve the vaccination experience!
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