Dear Parent(s);
Thank you for your support in Harmony School of Nature & Athletics. Due to limited space for the upcoming year, we ask each parent/guardian to fill out the attachment form completely and return it to the front office. This form is designed for currently enrolled students. The closing date for this application is January 27, 2012. Applications received unsigned, incomplete, or after the closing date may not be considered for next year.

Re-enrollment Form

Application features:

Harmony School of Nature & Athletics is accepting applications for grades K through 10th for
the 2012-2013 academic year. Application deadline is March 15, 2012.

Parents interested in applying to Harmony Public Schools may submit the attached application by mail or fax. You may also submit your application online.

If you want to learn more about our schools and educational programs, you may attend one
of our open house sessions. Please see below for open house times.

On January 13, 2012, Ms. Milla Perry Jones, an active supporter of education, particularly charter schools, visited our very own Harmony School of Nature and Athletics. As she visited classrooms, she received a rose from one of our Kindergarten students as well as information about our programs. With a background in Chemistry, she was very excited about our Independent Lab Studies course, discussing with Mr. Kandir the importance of hands-on activities to engage students in science and in the natural world. She, along with Mr. Fatih Ay, Harmony Dallas Superintendent, Mr. Nihat Bayhan, Harmony Fort Worth Superintendent, Mr. Basoglu, Principal, and Staci Reimer, Dean of Academics, sat down to lunch and discussed issues and education as well as information about Harmony Schools and the Nature Campus in particular. At the end of her visit, she wrote in our guest book, “Thank you for the education!”

To those students and parents who have signed up for the trip (and for those still interested – we have slots available!): we will have an official trip meeting on Tuesday, January 31 at 5:00 pm in the library.

Our Close Up representative, Sara Walkup, will be here to give an overview of logistics, information about payment deadlines, and she will also answer any questions you have regarding the trip.

If you need paperwork or have any questions about the Washington, D.C. trip, please contact Miss Goldblatt.

Are you ready to order a purple spirit shirt? Now would be the correct time to get your order in. Spirit shirts will be ordered on Friday, February 3 and should arrive about February 16th. Click here for the order form (sizes are available to try on in the office).
Thank you,

Click here to download order form.

Special Issue 2011

As Harmony Public Schools, we decided to share the most important highlights of 2011 with our Harmony community. You can also treat this Newsletter as end-of-year report.

Once you go through these highlights of 2011, you will witness what our students, parents and staff have accomplished within a year at Harmony Public Schools. Read more . . .

On Thursday, January 12, we held our second annual Scripps Spelling Bee Competition. After over 25 rounds where students from grades 5-8 demonstrated their wonderful skills, our winner emerged victorious!

Congratulations to Braelyn Bowles of fifth grade, and to her English teacher, Ms. Carter! Braelyn will represent our campus at the Dallas County Spelling Bee on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 at the University of Texas at Dallas

Dear Parents;

A friendly reminder that we are in close quarters and the flu spreads easily. Please keep all students who have a tempeature at home until the fever clears for at least 24 hours . Below are some tips to prevent FLU.

*Wash your HANDS
*Before, during, and after preparing food
*Before eating food
*After using the toilet
*Before and after caring for someone who is sick
*After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
*After touching an animal or animal waste
*After touching garbage
*Before and after treating a cut or wound

A new testing journey begins with the launch of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR™ in the 2011–2012 school year. The standardized testing program includes tests for students in grades 3–12. The new rigorous program will focus on readiness for success in subsequent grades and courses and, ultimately, for college and career. Please click here for more information.

High School Testing Program-STAAR EOC

The new end-of-course assessments will only assess the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for a given course, unlike the high school TAKS tests that cover material
from multiple courses. The questions on the new STAAR will be deeper and more complex than TAKS. For STAAR - End of Course brochure please click here

Harmony School of Nature & Athletics successfully organized the Second Annual Science Fair on Saturday, December 3, 2011. Students diligently worked on their projects from the beginning of the school year and proudly presented their work to the judges. A team judges including engineers, scientists, and college professors evaluated qualified projects and came up with the winning list. HSNA sincerely appreciates all participants and congratulates the winners.

2011 Science Fair Winners

Dear Prospective Students/Parents,

As enrollment season approaches, we would like to share a couple of reminders with you.

1 - The application period for Harmony Public Schools is between January 10 and March 15 for the 2012-2013 school year.
2 - All applications prior to January 10, 2012 will be considered for the 2011-2012 school year.
3 - Any application received after March 15, 2012 will be placed on the waiting list in the order of the date in which the application is received.
4 - The Lottery will be drawn during the last week of March 2012.
5 – Selected students will be announced by the end of the 1st week of April 2012.

Please note that any application received is only considered for one school year. If your child is not selected for enrollment, a new application must be submitted for each year.

Harmony Public Schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or disability in providing educational services, activities, and programs, including vocational and career technology programs, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, (as amended), Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended).

Please review our campus' highly qualified teacher report for 2011-2012 school year read more…

Parent Notification Letter

Notificación a los Padres

The Texas Education Agency publishes a School Report Card for every campus. The School Report Card provides a small subset of the information available in the AEIS (Academic Excellence Indicator System) reports. To download the report for Harmony School of Nature & Athletics please click here . You will need Adobe Reader to open the file.

We are looking forward to raising money through Box Tops again this year! You may always bring Box tops and put them in the mail box labeled "Box Tops" just outside the front office or if your child's in grades K-5 you may take them to your homeroom teacher. Please put your Box tops in a baggie or an envelope with your homeroom teachers name, grade and section. The homeroom that collects the most box tops, will have an ice cream party. Please bring your box tops in by 2-17-2012.

So save your box tops! Box Tops may be found on many household items that you already use such as flour, biscuits, cake mixes, cereals, yogurt, Ziploc bags and many other items.

DISTCO 2012 is part of a series of “Digital Storytelling Contests".

Harmony School of Nature & Athletics rated exemplary by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) based on its 2010-11 school year performance. Congratulations to the students, teachers, staff and community for a job well done..

It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...