Upper Nyack Elementary School SCOOP

We would like our UNES DIVERSITY MURAL to make our community proud and represent the magic that is Upper Nyack. The steps leading up to this stage in the creation of our mural mockup included surveying staff, students, and parents, in addition to having our building equity team gather, review and provide their insights into the artwork. That feedback was provided to the artist and he synthesized that information to create the mockup below. After taking a look at the pictures below, please take a moment to provide positive and constructive feedback in this survey. CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY

The mural is set to be painted by our students in grades 3-5 from June 12-16. It will be painted on plywood and installed on the large blue wall in the back of the All Purpose Room. The mural is designed to be 8 feet high and 32 feet wide. If you look at the pictures below, the top picture is a close up view to get a sense of the details, while the bottom picture is the same but shows how it will look on the blue wall.

In order to provide feedback to the artist and allow for time to adapt, please provide feedback BEFORE THIS FRIDAY, MAY 26.

Please mark your calendars that the Nyack Public Schools will be closed on FRIDAY, MAY 26.

The district sent out the following message:

Please be advised that Nyack Public Schools will now be CLOSED on Friday, May 26, 2023 due to unused Snow Days in the 2022-23 school year.

The Music Department happily invites you to our Spring Concert for Grades 4 and 5 on Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 9:30 AM at Upper Nyack Elementary School. The performance will be in the multi-purpose room and will be in person. Please remind children to dress in black and white.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER SENT OUT TO FAMILIES

The fifth grade Spirit Committee has requested a few more spirit days before the end of the year. Specifically, they will occur on June 1, 2 and 5. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER. Please share this info with your students.

Please join me in congratulating our new PTA Executive Board who were elected last Wednesday night.

• Cynthia Bing - President
• Denise Charles - Co-VP
• Meghan Donovan - Co-VP
• Audra Jones - Communications Secretary
• Sean Hundtoffe - Treasurer
• Patti Hill - Recording Secretary

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE GOOSETOWN FLYER. We hope to see you there!

The staff and students of the Upper Nyack Elementary School would like to invite you to join us on Friday, June 2nd for our annual Field Day. (Rain Date - Monday, June 5) We ask that you send your child to school that day wearing their designated team color which will be communicated by teachers when the date approaches. You are invited to come and watch your child compete in events at the upper field behind the school.

The schedule is as follows:

• 9:00 AM Opening Ceremonies & Parade
• 9:30 - 11:00 AM Events for students in Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades
• 11:15 - 12:00 PM Lunch for grades K, 1, and 2
• 12:05 - 12:50 PM Lunch for grades 3, 4, and 5
• 1:00 - 2:45 PM Events for students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A LETTER REGARDING FIELD DAY.

Please be aware that we are planning kindergarten moving up on June 14 at 9:30am in the gymnasium. We will be holding 5th grade graduation on June 16 at 9:30am in the gymnasium.

Due to space limitations, we will only be able to accommodate 2 people per student at these events. Soon, you'll be receiving two tickets to your child's event in backpack mail. We are sorry that we cannot accommodate more people, but space simply will not allow us to exceed two tickets per student.

As we know that sometimes grandparents and other loved ones wish to see the ceremony, we are working hard to make arrangements to livestream the event. More info to come soon.

For those of you looking for summer camp opportunities, my staff has pulled together some options that might be of interest to you to check out. PLEASE CLICK HERE for a list of local camp opportunities compiled by our FRC program coordinators. Also, check out the links below for some tech focused options curated by Mr. Gianakouros, our STEAM Teacher.

St. Thomas Aquinas STEAM Camps

Challenge Island

Mad Science Camps

Camp Invention

iD Tech Camps

Camp Invention

JCC Camp (STEM)

Virtual Camps

IMACS

id Tech Camps Virtual

Our technology department will be collecting student Chromebooks at the end of the year. For your future planning, on Friday, June 16th - Students will stop taking home Chromebooks so that they can be collected the following week.

There are archives of my community newsletter on the UNES WEBSITE - CLICK HERE, as well as on the UNESPTA Website (coming soon). If you can't find the old newsletters and are looking for info - you can find that info in these two places.

• Tuesday, May 23 - Busy Bridge Presentation in gymnasium @ 9:15 (K-2 ONLY)
• Thursday, May 25 - Grades 4 & 5 Concert
• Saturday, June 3 - African American Day Parade and Festival
• Tuesday, June 6 - 2nd Grade Trip to Bear Mountain
• Tuesday, June 6 - SENIOR CLAP OUT 9-9:15am
• Tuesday, June 6 - 5th Grade Greatest Showman Talent Show @ 6:30pm in APR
• Wednesday, June 7 - Grade 4 Learning in the Parks field trip to Hook Mountain
• Thursday, June 8 - 5th Grade DARE graduation in the gymnasium @ 9:30am
• Friday, June 9 - Grade 3 Concert in APR at 9:30am
• Saturday, June 10 - Goosetown Block Party
• Sunday, June 11 - Rockland PRIDE parade
• Monday June 12 - Grade 5 Field Trip to Kruckers
• Monday, June 12 - Fractured Fairytale Performance for grades K-2 in APR
• Tuesday, June 13 - Fractured Fairytale Performance for parents in APR

Building bridges for today's students to cross into tomorrow's world with equity, innovation and optimism.

Email: cdreves@nyackschools.org
Website: https://un.nyackschools.org/
Location: 336 North Broadway, Upper Nyack, NY, USA
Phone: 845-353-7260
Twitter: @NyackPrincipal