Arbor Hill Elementary
School
Prekindergarten-Grade 6
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1 Arbor Drive
Albany, NY
12207 Phone: (518) 475-6625 Fax: (518) 475-6627
Rosalind Gaines-Harrell, Principal
E-mail:
rgaines-harrell@albany.k12.ny.us
Janet Escoto-LaVoie,
Assistant Principal
E-mail:
jescoto-lavoie@albany.k12.ny.us
About Arbor Hill Elementary School
Built in
1973, Arbor Hill Elementary School is located on Arbor
Drive, across the street from Whitney M. Young Jr.
Health Center. A two-year project to renovate the
building was completed in September 2010 and students and families returned to Arbor Hill Elementary School's familiar 1 Arbor Drive
home!
At the new
Arbor Hill Elementary,
students learn in a
modernized facility with new computers in every
classroom, walls and doors surrounding every classroom
(as opposed to the school's former open-classroom
layout), new computer and
science labs, a restored indoor atrium and a new heating and
cooling system.
Anti-bullying efforts at Arbor Hill -- Let's complete
the puzzle together
We invite you to
visit Arbor
Hill Elementary School's anti-bullying website.
Bullying hurts people, and at Arbor
Hill Elementary we continue working toward making our
school a better place.
Our
interactive website for students, parents and
teachers will help everyone in our school community to
understand the painful scars that are caused by bullies
as well as what we all can do to stop it.
Let’s complete the puzzle
together!
School times
-
Early Bird Program (space is
limited, application required) -- 7:45 a.m.
-
Breakfast begins
-- 8:30
a.m.
-
School day begins
--
9:00 a.m.
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School day ends
--
Arbor Hill Elementary
uses staggered dismissal times to avoid congestion
in the building:
-
Pre-K -- 3:15 p.m.
dismissal in the cafeteria. Parents must
sign out students.
-
Kindergarten -- 3:25
p.m. dismissal in the front lobby. Parents picking up students must sign them out.
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Grades 1-6 -- 3:35
p.m. dismissal from the side door/bridge area.
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After-school child
care ends -- 6 p.m.
Early dismissal procedures
Please pick up all students for
early dismissal before 3 p.m.
Teachers read, review PBIS points and
bring closure to the day between 3-3:30 p.m.
It is extremely disruptive to the learning
environment as well as experiencing a delay in your
early pick-up if the rules are not followed.
If you pick your child up daily at 3 p.m., they miss 2.5 hours of
instruction in one week! That's 10 hours in a month --
more than a full day of school missed in a month!
Messages to
students
Due to instruction and dismissal, we do not
interrupt classrooms for student messages during the
day. They will receive the message before they go home,
but we will not interrupt the class to speak to them
directly.
Signing out
students
Sign out your child in the book
located in the front lobby. A hall monitor will bring
your child to the front lobby.
Visiting
classroom areas
For safety reasons,
parents are NOT permitted in
the classroom areas unless it is by appointment or for a
special class presentation. If you have an
appointment to see a teacher, come to the desk in the
front lobby to receive a visitor's pass. We will call
your child's classroom to confirm the appointment or
presentation with the teacher, you then can go to the
classroom.
Late students
Hall monitors will accompany all
late students to their classrooms.
Points of
distinction
-
Voluntary uniform policy
-
Full-day prekindergarten and
kindergarten programs offered
-
Before- and after-school child care
provided
-
Recipient of Pathfinder Award for
Outstanding Educational Achievement
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Located on extensive grounds
surrounded by beautiful landscaping
Upcoming events
- Friday, April 20 --
Honor Roll Breakfast, 8-9 a.m.
- Monday, April 23 --
Attendance Award assemblies throughout the day
- Tuesday, May 1
- PBIS Assembly, 9 a.m.
- Special education parent workshop,
Harriet Gibbons Student Services Center, 75
Watervliet Ave., 5:30-7:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, May 1-Wednesday, May 2
-- New York State math exams, grades 3-8
- Friday, May 4 --
Elementary Art Show, Albany Institute of History
& Art, 125 Washington Ave., 5-8 p.m.
- Monday, May 7 --
NYSESLAT listening, reading and writing testing
window begins
- Thursday, May 10 --
Grade 5 picture day
- Tuesday, May 15 --
School Budget Vote and Board Elections, no
school
- Wednesday, May 16-Friday, May 18
-- Book Fair
- Thursday, May 17
- TCBY Family Night, 5 p.m.
- Spring Concerts, 2 p.m. and 6
p.m.
- Friday, May 18 -- All
NYSESLAT testing windows end
- Monday, May 28 --
Memorial Day, no school
2017-18 news and
information
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Family Field
Day celebrated -- More than 200 people
turned out Sept. 15 to enjoy music, food, raffles
and plenty of fun at Arbor Hill Elementary School's
Family Field Day.
Check out a Facebook photo collection from the event
here. (You don't
need a Facebook account to view the pictures. A
window may display the text, "To see more from
Albany City Schools on Facebook, log in or create an
account," but you can dismiss it by clicking "not
now.")
Absence from school
If your child is absent for school for
any reason, call the school at (518) 475-6625 during the
morning and provide a written excuse when your child
returns to school.
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