Beginning July 1, 2017, parents are encouraged to complete the "Application for Free or Reduced Price Lunch" on-line for the 2017/2018 school year. Visit www.myschoolapps.com and complete the form as soon as possible! You may use one form for all siblings in the NYC DOE system grades K-12. Completing the form on-line will ensure free lunch status from the first day of school if you qualify and it will also help us as we will have fewer paper applications to send out and collect. We are looking for 100% completion, even if you know you do not qualify or you do not plan for your student to eat school lunch, as these forms are used to determine federal funding for our school. You will receive a confirmation letter of your lunch status within the first days of school or a paper form if you did not complete it on-line. Thank you.
Visit this page to search for sites for free meals for children 18 and younger in our area, including our wonderful Bay Ridge Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library and more!
http://www.opt-osfns.org/schoolfoodny/sch_search/summermeals.aspx
Applications for the September 2017 - June 2018 HeartShare/St. Vincent's After School Program are expected to be made available on-line this summer. Date to be announced and link posted here in lateJuly. Applications will also be available in the MAIN LOBBY 9/5, 9/6, 9/7 and 9/8/17. The lottery will be held at 6 pm on 9/8/17 and the program will start the following week. Thank you.
Bring your family to the garden this summer ready to work, have some fun and hopefully harvest and bring home some herbs, flowers or veggies to enjoy. Any changes due to the weather will be posted here. Bring your own snacks/drinks and bug spray or sun screen as needed. RSVP to MElliotSheri@schools.nyc.gov if you are pretty sure you can attend - this will help me prepare for activities, but you are also welcome to just stop by. Each day will have a theme & goals. We will meet from 9am-1pm on each of these days:
Friday July 7 - Bug Out - Worms and Compost & identifying garden pests and beneficial insects.
Thursday August 3 - Planting seeds for fall harvest. How and when to plant seeds & seedlings.
Wednesday August 30 - Fall Cleaning - spruce up our garden and tree beds to get ready for a new school year.
Join staff in supporting the American Cancer Society. Visit www.relayforlife.org and find our Team " PS 102" page to donate or join the team. Parents and students are welcome to come out during the day to show their support in person. This year's relay will be held at Poly Prep on Saturday June 17th.
Seed Starting - plant seeds for veggies to harvest in the fall AND plants some herb seeds to take home.
Fall Cleaning - get the garden and tree beds ready for the new school year.
Our 2017 - 2018 PTA Executive Board Members:
Tamara Stern, President
Gihan Said, Vice President
Cristina Guglielmetti, Treasurer
Rana Abu-Sbaih, Recording Secretary
Olga Boiaryntseva, Corresponding Secretary
We have a large and active PTA that works hard all year to support our students and staff. Come out to our first meeting on September 14, 2017 at 8:45 to find out what we do and how easy and rewarding it is to get involved. Thanks !
June 3 - PS 102 Fun Walk/Run. Our PE teachers can use help bringing things from the school to the pier at 9:30 a.m. Please contact Ms. Lurie or Ms. Stornaioulo directly. Certainly you should sign up and Walk or Run to support good health and the PS 102 PTA!
June 9 - Rock-a-Bye Spring Dance - volunteers needed to sell /collect tickets and snacks 6-8 pm. Contact Nishani at : nishaniphotography@gmail.com
Please consider your time and interests and step forward to chair an event or committee for next year. Come to the June 1 meeting OR contact Tamara Stern or any of the Executive Board members directly.
Thanks for your support!
Our final meeting of the year is Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. Our 2017/2018 PTA Executive Board officers will be sworn in. There will be an SLT election for the 2017-2019 two-year term, the 2017/18 budget will be voted on and Chairs for 2017/18 committees will be assigned. Thank you for your support!
In June we are reading:
Kindergarten: "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae
Grade 1 & 2: "ish" by Peter H. Reynolds
Grade 3-5: "When I Grow Up" by Al Yankovic
Send an email with your child's name and class to melliotsheri@schools.nyc.gov for instructions and an access code to set up a www.mystudent.nyc account for your child. Access to report cards, attendance and fitness record. State test results for grades 3 and above will be posted over the summer. 
We encourage you to visit the on-line journal of our fifth grade journalism club. Now celebrating its eighth year as an after school enrichment club. Our journalists would appreciate your comments.
http://journalismstars.edublogs.org
Please contact Ms. Sheri at melliotsheri@schools.nyc.gov with any questions on this web site. Dial 718-748-7404 as always to speak with the main office. The school office is closed from 7/3-8/25/17. Thank you.
Mr. Kearns' 4th and 5th grade ENL class recently completed a lesson about community inside and outside of our school. As part of the lesson the students collected food to donate to the Bay Ridge Center's emergency food pantry. The class collected over 40 food items and on February 27th delivered them to the food pantry. Ms. Cheryl Utley, who manages the pantry, gave the student's a tour of the Bay Ridge Center and introduced the class to the executive director of the organization, Ms. Marianne Nicolosi. Thanks to students Manar, Mukhtar, Emad, Marko, Olek, Yaobin, Christopher, Ashley, Abrar, Hamama, Fares, Gamal and Djihane for their good work!
We are working to make this website easier to access for people with disabilities, and will follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. If you need assistance with a particular page or document on our current site, please contact Margaret Sheri to request assistance.