Good Evening AmPark Families,

What a wild and wonderful week it has been here at AmPark Neighborhood School!  Between our beautiful Doughnuts With Dads & Dad Figures Sing breakfasts throughout the week, the absolutely EPIC AmPark Spring Concert on Thursday at which, led by our incomparable Josh Joffee, every one of our AmPark Owls shone like the rockstars they are, and then our 5th graders camp adventure to Connecticut's Holiday Hill today, we are coming into this weekend exhausted and still smiling from all of the joy, music, fun, and celebration.  Thank you so much to all of you who have joined us for it!

On a less joyful note, Mother Nature has continued to amp up this spring of nearly record rainfall, and seems to plan for just a bit more for  tomorrow.  Given this weather prediction, we have sadly postponed our much anticipated RTS, PA, AmPark Carnival, which had been scheduled for (tomorrow) June 14th.  Please know that we do intend to reschedule the festivities for a later date and will happily share the news as soon as we've set it!  Stay tuned!

Next week, school will be closed on Thursday, in honor of Juneteenth.  Ahead of that, we are so excited to invite all of our 5th Grade and Kindergarten families to celebrate the milestones that their students are about to reach with the 5th Grade Graduation and Kindergarten Stepping Up ceremonies (AM and PM, respectively) on Wednesday, June 18th, in our Multi-Purpose Room.  Then on Friday, our ​PreKindergarten Stepping Up Celebration will kick off at Classic Playground, in Van Cortlandt Park (and for right now, believe it or not, the forecast shows that Mother Nature might just shine on our PreK kiddos and families for the occasion)!

In the meantime, to all of our wonderful AmPark fathers and father figures, we wish you a very happy and family-filled Father's Day!  Thank you! 

Good Afternoon AmPark Families,

We hope that this finds you all well on this long weekend for our students.  This Tuesday we had an absolutely AMAZING Career Day!  We want to say a huge thank you to our awesome parent volunteers for sharing of their time, and their professional brilliance with our Owls.  I heard more of our Owls talking about college and careers on Tuesday, than I ever have, and it made this AP's heart so happy.  A big thanks to Ms. Hanade Sarar, for organizing all of this inspiring career-minded magic for our community.  Please see a few shots of our parent presenters at work, below.

They say good things come to those who wait and at AmPark we know that's true because (finally!) our AmPark Spring Concert is this Thursday, June 12th!! Please remember that it will be in the PS/MS 95 Auditorium from 4pm-6pm.  Our AmPark students and families are invited to come through the PS/MS 95 main entrance, just down the block from our own, on Hillman Avenue.       

Also this week, we have our Donuts with Dads & Dad-Figures celebrations on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  Please note, as shared by teachers last week, that the 4th and 5th grade celebration will be on Tuesday, rather than Thursday so as not to overlap with our daytime Concert practice.  Thank you for your flexibility and understanding once again and we hope to see you there!

This Saturday, June 14th, will be the AmPark PA and RTS Carnival from 11:00am-2:00pm!  Please see all of the fun-filled details in the flyer below.  

With wishes for a wonderful weekend & Eid al-Adha Mubarak to all who celebrate!

Good Evening AmPark Families, 
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As the old saying goes, 'you can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather'.  Alas, we would have so loved to see you all tonight at our annual AmPark Spring Concert, but Mother Nature was being fickle and we erred on the side of caution.  Now we just have more to look forward to in June because our Spring Concert is ON!  The new Concert date is June 12th and it'll be a go this time whatever the weather because, as in years long gone by, it will be held in the PS/MS 95 AUDITORIUM!  While we love our tar beach in the yard, there is something singularly fabulous about the acoustics in the 95 Auditorium.  We cannot wait to hear our Owls amplified on stage, with all of you there to cheer them on, on the 12th! 

Please find our June events calendar and some wonderful upcoming events posted below.  In our busy 3-day week next week, we've got our all-school Field Day on Monday, Career Day on Tuesday, and the 5th Grade Dance on Wednesday!  Please be reminded that students are off from school for Eid al-Adha on Thursday and the NYC Schools Clerical Day on Friday.  

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!