Please explore our new Web site! There is all kinds of information available on here.
Newsletter - The newsletter will be fluid with news being added throughout the month Please check frequently if your child is in sports or has trips. Thank you for your help during the website changes
Lost and Found
Are your children missing winter things? We have coats, snowpants, gloves, hats and boots. Please have your student look in the lost & found, please label items for your child. We have so many items on the shelves.
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
Happy New Year January 2025 Events
HTB students, Start the 2025 year off Great! Be at school on time each day in January and start a NEW YEAR tradition!
Jan 6 First Day of 20225 Back to School - 8:20 am Breakfast Club - 8:25 am Supervision Outside Begins - "8:40 am School Begins
Gymnastics - Tryouts for the 2025 Gymnastics Team will begin next week. If you are in Grades 3 to 8 and are interested in trying out for the team, please sign up on the stage side gym doors. Tryouts will be next Tuesday, January 14th at 7:30 am for Grades 3 and 4 and on Thursday, January 16th at 7:30 am for Grades 5-8.
Intermediate Basketball Boys & Girls teams - schedule is in the calendar on the HTB website
HTB students, Start the 2025 year off Great! Be at school on time each day in January and start a NEW YEAR tradition!
Jan 10 Spirit Wear Day - wear your Spirit Wear or School Colours today!
Jan 14 7:30 am Gymnastics Try outs Gr 3 & 4
Jan 15 Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
Jan 15 Kinder Trip To Walker Living Campus K2 & K5 (Permission Form on Cash on line)
Jan 16 7:30 am Gymnastics Try outs Gr 5 to 8
Jan 17 PD Day NO SCHOOL
Jan 21 Kinder Trip To Walker Living Campus K4 & K6 (Permission Form on Cash on line)
Jan 22 Swiss Chalet (Cash online only)
Jan 23 Parent Council 6:00 pm
Jan 24 Kinder Trip To Walker Living Campus K1 & K3 (Permission Form on Cash on line)
Jan 24 Spirit Wear Day - wear your Spirit Wear or School Colours today!
Jan 29 Pita Day (Cash online only)
Register for Workshop: “Funding and Supports for Children with Physical and/or Developmental Disabilities.”
The Mental Health & Well-Being and Special Education Teams are excited to once again offer the parent workshop: “Funding and Supports for Children with Physical and/or Developmental Disabilities.” This workshop provides valuable information about funding, supports, resources, and grants available within the community for children aged 0-18 with physical and/or developmental disabilities.
Parents and guardians will gain an understanding of:
- Available services within the community,
- Eligibility criteria for supports,
- The process for accessing these services, and
- Practical tips for connecting with community service providers.
Please share the following Registration Link with your school community. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, February 5th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.
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