Hamburg School

October 12 - Columbus Day / No School / Teacher Inservice

October 14 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30 PM (Cafeteria or Zoom)

October 15 - BOE Meeting @ 6:30 PM

October 18 - PTA Color Run @ 4 PM (The Field)

October 21 - Creating a Tech-Ready Home in the AI Age @ 6:00 PM (Franklin School)

October 30 - Halloween Parade @ 1:30 PM (The Field)

Bundles may be closed, but pre-registration is still available.

Pre-registration allows you to run and includes a glow stick.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/hamburg-pta-2026-color-run

Borough of Hamburg Trunk or treat.

The PTA is doing pre Trunk or treat festivities under the pavilion at Hamburg Park.

Don't forget to regiatee your trunk!

Hamburg School is committed to fostering a positive, welcoming, and supportive learning environment for all students while strengthening our partnerships with families and the greater Hamburg community. As part of our ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, we invite all parents, guardians, and community members to participate in our 2026–2027 Community Climate & Engagement Survey.

Your feedback is instrumental in helping us celebrate our successes, identify areas for growth, and guide future school initiatives. We highly encourage you to take a few minutes to complete the survey and share your honest thoughts, experiences, and suggestions. Submissions are anonymous.

Meaningful change begins with listening, and we recognize that we cannot improve what we do not know needs improvement. Your perspective matters, and your participation will help us continue making Hamburg School the very best it can be!

Thank you for your continued support, partnership, and commitment to the Hamburg School community!

Hamburg School is pleased to share a new, convenient way for parents and guardians to report student absences. The student absence reporting feature is now enabled in the Realtime Parent Portal.

In lieu of calling the school to report an absence, parents and guardians may now simply log in to their Realtime Parent Portal and submit their child’s absence electronically. This provides families with an easy and efficient way to notify the school when their child will not be in attendance.

Please remember that regular attendance is an important part of student success. When an absence is necessary, we ask families to report it promptly through the Parent Portal so that our attendance records remain accurate and up to date.

We hope this new feature makes the absence-reporting process a little easier for our Hamburg School families!

As part of our ongoing efforts to encourage strong school attendance, Hamburg School is excited to kick off our Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) initiative! Throughout the school year, there will be surprise opportunities for special events, prizes, and awards—and students must be present at school that day to be eligible. You never know when a FOMO opportunity might happen!

Today marks our very first FOMO prize! This morning, students were randomly selected to receive FREE entry to the Hamburg PTA Color Run on Sunday, October 18!

Congratulations to our lucky winners, and most importantly, thank you for being at school today! ❤️

Remember… you have to be here to win! 🏫🎉

Please join us in our contest to see which book characters we can recreate as scarecrows!

Classes will be given a pumpkin to use as a head and hay to stuff the scarecrow with. Families or businesses who decide to enter the contest will be provided with hay but will need to supply their own pumpkin to use as a head. Supports will be provided for all contestants (classrooms and families) to build scarecrows on, and will be assigned numbers. All you’ll need is to choose a character and collect or make clothing and/or props. (School appropriate, please! No weapons or inappropriate themes!)

To keep judging impartial, no signs or names may be on the display to identify a family or group who created the scarecrow. Scarecrow heads must be made using a real pumpkin, and the size of the scarecrow should be that of an average person (approximately 5 feet tall).

You will be assigned an entry number, and a map with assigned number locations will be provided prior to the contest start. On October 30th, we will ask our panel of judges (made of community members) to judge for a 1st place winner and a 2nd place runner up using a rubric based on:

• Creativity: How unique and original the scarecrow is

• Technique and materials: How well the scarecrow is constructed and the variety of materials used

• Overall impression: How the scarecrow is displayed and whether it has a little something extra

• Family-friendly: Whether the scarecrow is appropriate for children and doesn't contain offensive or controversial content

• Weatherproof: Whether the scarecrow can withstand the elements

• Sturdiness: Whether the scarecrow is sturdy and can stand on its own

• Size: Whether the scarecrow meets the contest's size requirements

We hope you’ll join us for the fun and enter the contest, which is sponsored by the Hamburg Education Association. To register for this event, please e-mail Mrs. Breitenbach at abreitenbach@hamburgschool.com with your homeroom name or family / business name and the book character that you choose to recreate (this will remain a secret until the completion of the event!) by 3pm on Monday, October 12th. We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! (First place prize= “pizza party” , and Second place prize= “ice cream party”)

Hamburg School is pleased to invite our families to participate in the Family Education Series, offered by the Franklin Borough School District. The first presentation, Protect Young Eyes: Creating a Tech-Ready Home in the AI Age, will be held on Wednesday, October 21, from 6:00–7:30 PM.

As technology and artificial intelligence continue to become an increasingly significant part of our children’s lives, this is an important and timely topic for all families. The presentation will provide parents and caregivers with practical information and strategies for creating healthy, safe, and age-appropriate technology habits at home.

Child care will be provided by the YMCA during the presentation, making it easier for families to attend. Please see the attached flyer and use the QR code to RSVP for the presentation and register children who will need child care.

We are excited to support the Franklin Borough School District for this valuable opportunity and are hoping to see a strong Hamburg School turnout! We encourage our families to take advantage of this informative evening as we work together to help our children navigate an ever-changing digital world.

SUCCESS! Parents of beginning band students had fun learning how to play their child's instrument and read their child's music so that they can better support their child during their home practice sessions.

All 4th-8th grade students have the exciting opportunity to participate in band and chorus. If your child participated in band and/or chorus last school year, they are automatically enrolled again this school year. Below you will find the chorus information packet, band information packet, and an NEMC instrument rental information page. If you need to rent an instrument for your child for band, I highly recommend renting from NEMC. (NEMC) This store works directly with our school and provides good quality rental instruments. Students can join both band and chorus.

To sign your child up for Band, please click on this link and fill out the google from - Hamburg Band Sign-Up Google Form

To sign your child up for Chorus, please click on this link and fill out the google form -

Hamburg Chorus Sign-Up Google Form

If you have any questions, please email Miss Vinkman at kvinkman@hamburgschool.com.

Mayor:

• Richard Krasnomowitz

Council Members:

• Anthony Saliba
• John Burd
• Mark Sena
• Joyce Oehler
• John Haig
• George Endres