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 - on sunny days the Lost & Found will be at the school front entrance. The amount of hoodies and jackets is huge.
Are your children missing things? 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. Please try to be at the school gates for the bell at 8:40 to avoid these lineups. There is supervision starting at 8:25 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!
Kindergarten Registration - OPEN NOW
Registration Link For All Grades
Nov 12 Intermediate Boys Volleyball @ Lincoln Centennial for 5th place overall
Nov 12 Intermediate Girls Volleyball @ St. David's for 3rd place overall
Nov 13 Swiss Chalet Chicken Finger Day (Cash online only)
Nov 18 Intermediate Boys DSBN Volleyball Tournament @ Canada Games Centre
Nov 20 Pete's Pizza Day (Cash online only)
Nov 25 Intermediate Girls DSBN Volleyball Tournament @ Canada Games Centre
Nov 21 Progress Reports go home
Nov 25 - 28 Parent Teacher Interviews
Nov 26 Parent Council meeting @ 6pm all welcome - this is a VIRTUAL meeting
Nov 27 Submission Subs Day (Cash online only)
Nov 28 Core Values assembly
Nov 29 PD Day NO SCHOOL
Happy November, North Stars!
Save the Date in December, Whoville Dinner December 12th
Niagara Region Public Health Dental Program will be offering dental screening to grades JK, SK, 2, 4 and 7 on December 2, 3, 4, 2024
A registered dental hygienist will take a quick look in the child's mouth using a sterilized dental mirror and light.
The Healthy Smiles Ontario program may financially assist children who do not have access to dental care.
If you do not want your child(ren) to take part in the dental screening, you MUST complete the online School Dental Screening Opt-Out Form or call the Dental Health Line at 905-688-8248 or 1-888-505-6074 ext. 7399 each school year.
If your child(ren) is not in one of the grades listed above, they may have the opportunity to participate in the dental screening. If you would like your child to be screened, please complete the School Dental Opt-In Form.
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. 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