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Dear PS20 Community,

Hope all had a great time joining in-person or via livestream (thank you Julie C!) at the PS20 Annual Winter Concerts last week! Thank you all for supporting the students through merch purchases and dropping $ in the buckets.

Reminder: just 10 days left to make a charitable donation to PS20 to count towards your 2025 taxes and we need just 3 more families to make a one-time donation of at least $500 or set up a recurring monthly donation of $25/50 or more to be included in our Fundraising Match Challenge!  ➡️ www.ps20.org/donate (.. don't forget about corporate matching)

Final chance to spend leftover eWallet money on the Scholastic Book Fair fundraiser! Anyone from anywhere can continue shopping online through the end of today, December 21 and 25% of every purchase goes back to PS20 ➡️ www.ps20.org/bookfair

THIS WEEK

• Tue Dec 23: Early Dismissal for PROSE. All students dismissed at 11:40am.
• Dec 24 - Jan 2: NO SCHOOL for Winter Recess. Have a wonderful break!

COMING UP

• Mon Jan 5: See you all back in school! 

SAVE THE DATES

• Wed Jan 14: 3K & Pre-K Applications OPEN
  
• Fri Jan 16: Early Dismissal for PROSE
• Mon Jan 19: NO SCHOOL for Martin Luther King Jr Day
  
• Fri Jan 30: "Disney on Ice" Fundraiser

PTA COMMITTEE UPDATES/REMINDERS

Looking for ways to engage with the school more? Many of the activities and programs that make PS20 special are created and directly managed (and paid for!) by you, the PS20 community, through our various committees. Any amount of contribution is welcome whether that’s with ideas, time, elbow grease or money!

• Green Arts Committee: We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a Sustainability Grant to install Hedgework masts in our new garden space! We’ll get started on planning in the next few weeks, so we are ready to hit the ground running when Spring comes around. The new Parham garden space is going to be amazing! After the holidays, we will dive deeper into how the media and data from Hedgework can be incorporated into the PS20 IB curriculum. Thanks to everyone (especially PS20 parents Antonina and Mark at Hedgework and Ms. Jessica) for all of their hard work on the grant proposal and getting the materials submitted.