Today only–DonorsChoose.org match opportunity!

Today (Wednesday) only, your tax-deductible donation to a classroom project at HMCRA will receive a 50% boost from DonorsChoose.org and the Gates Foundation!  DonorsChoose.org is a fantastic charity that allows families to fund essential classroom supplies.  Check out the awesome HMCRA classroom projects that need your help https://www.donorschoose.org/school/harvey-milk-civil-right-acad/4416/?active=true.  With this match opportunity, your $20 donation becomes $30, $50 becomes $75, and $100 becomes $150.  Be a hero to a HMCRA classroom, and support our students and teachers today!

Summer Break

We wish you all a wonderful summer!

Upcoming event this summer
  • Kindergarten Summer Playdates
    • Saturday, June 23 at 11am: Mission Playground (Valencia Street)
    • Saturday, July 14 at 11am: Douglass Playground (26th Street)
  • Kindergarten Information Night, Thursday, August 16, 5pm – 6pm
  • Back-to-School Picnic, Saturday August 18, 1pm – 3pm

First day of school is August 20

Staff Appreciation Week

Monday May 7 – Friday May 11

Week of May 7 is National Teacher Appreciation Week. We changed the name to include the whole amazing staff at HMCRA.

If you like to contribute, there’s still a few spots left to sign up to donate breakfast, lunch and treats to treat our wonderful HMCRA staff all next week. This is our chance to show our gratitude to everyone who does so much for our children every day of the school year!

Order Your Yearbook

It’s time to order your 2017-18 Harvey Milk Yearbook! For the first time in a decade, we are offering yearbooks for purchase. The cost is $22, with an option to contribute more for others.  Order forms went home with your child(ren) last week or you can order online at the link below.

https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectJob

Yearbook code: 13517018

Cash/checks must be placed in the Lifetouch envelopes and returned to the PFC mailbox in the office. Make checks payable to Harvey Milk PFC. Deadline is extended for online ordes to May 18!

Welcome New Families!

Welcome to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy! You’re about to join a great little school in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood.

Kindergarten is coming closer and it’s time to register at your assignment school. Registration period for round 1 is March 19-23 and April 2-6. Our school office is located on the main floor in room 106.

You are invited to our Annual Spring Carnival Saturday April 21, 11am-4pm! Join us and take the opportunity to meet our principal, Mr Machado, and our two Kindergarten teachers. Enjoy a fun day at HMCRA while talking with current parents and meeting fellow kindergarten families at the school. We will host a special welcome for all of our new students and have information to share about the upcoming school year.

For more information go to our Welcome New Families! page.

Read-a-thon Results

Congratulations on a great school Read-a-thon! Harvey Milk students logged over 95,000 minutes of reading in under two weeks and received 45 gift cards to local bookstores during our daily Read-a-thon raffles.

The Top Readers in each classroom received award certificates at today’s Morning Circle, and our Top 3 Reading Classes–Rooms 100, 202, and 205–will soon be receiving class prizes. Click on harveymilk.com/read-a-thon/ to see the full list of winners, and to see a video from Morning Circle click here!

We are especially grateful to these fantastic neighborhood bookstores for sponsoring our Read-a-thon raffle. Please help show our thanks by shopping local and supporting them with your patronage:

Joint SSC/ PFC Meeting

Tuesday, March 13
Dinner at 6:15pm; Meeting starts at 6:30pm

Please join us for a special joint meeting of the School Site Council and the Parent Faculty Club, where we will review data from our recent parent survey and discuss our community priorities, goals, and budget for the 2018-2019 school year and beyond. Free childcare is provided. Parking on the school yard is available starting at 6pm.

Come early at 6:15pm for a nourishing, vegetarian dinner prepared with love by our very own HMCRA student chefs!

You can find agendas and minutes for all SSC meetings here and for all PFC meetings here.

Coming Up in February

Reminders for February month

  • PFC Meeting, Tuesday 2/13, 6:30-8:00pm, Cafeteria – agenda
  • PFC Meeting – Recap of 2/13 meeting, Thursday 2/15, 9:35-10:30am
  • Book Study with Mr MacBurney & Mr Swick, Thursday 2/15, 6-7:30pm
  • Last day to submit Parent/Family Survey, Friday 2/16 at midnight
  • No School – Lunar New Year, Friday 2/16
  • No School – President’s Day, Monday 2/19
  • Read-A-Thon, Tuesday 2/20 – Thursday 3/1
  • Black History Dinner and Honor Roll Celebration, Friday 2/23, 5:30-8pm
  • SSC Meeting, Tuesday 2/27, 5:30-6:30pm, Room 213 – agenda