Dear All, spring break begins on March 15, Monday and ends on March 19, Friday. There will be no Saturday tutorings on March 13 and March 20 but tutorings will resume on March 27. HSA-Waco wishes you to have a great spring break.

The Student Assessment Division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has developed interactive online versions of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) and the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills–Modified (TAKS–M) released tests. read more . . .

Kindergarten through 8th grade art students have displayed their most recent projects throughout the school for parents and visitors to see. Please take time to enjoy their hard work and creativity by viewing the wonderful art displayed in the lobby, cafeteria, and elementary wing. 4th-8th grade projects include printmaking, chalk pastels,value in acrylic painting, mixed media projects with block prints, watercolor paintings like stained glass, and folded paper projects. Mrs. Williams is the 4th - 8th grade art teacher. Mrs. Wheeler teaches kindergarten through 3rd grade art classes. She let students choose their best project from the first semester to display. Some of these projects include line quilts and caterpillars, dragons, "name" monsters, crayon resists, oil pastels, and fingerprinting.
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Harmony - FW Listed in Top 20 Best Middle School in North Texas

Harmony Science Academy - Fort Worth, is among the very best public schools in Texas, based on a recent study using a new set of rankings that considers from test scores to class sizes.

The study is done by Children at Risk, a non-profit group, who analyzed and ranked more than 5,900 schools statewide. In North Texas, 807 elementary schools, 292 middle schools and 158 high schools were ranked.
Academy charter school was the only Tarrant County school in the area’s top 20.

Harmony Science Academy - Fort Worth campus is ranked:
15th in North Texas (out of 292 middle schools)
115th in Texas (out of 1,676 middle schools)

More details at: News from Dallas Morning News Online (September 13, 2009)

More details at: Star-Telegram (September 18, 2009)

Harmony Science Academy was on the front page of at Star Telegram.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex.The Star-Telegram’s circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (as well as the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie), which is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Combined Statistical Area.The Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper.

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - FORT WORTH WAS ON CBS 11 read more . . .

It's time again for Doodle 4 Google! This competition is open to ALL K through 12th grade students.

The National Winner will receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a trip to Google New York, a laptop, design tablet, and a shirt with your design on it.

Other prizes include laptops, design tablets, trips to Google New York, shirts, and more. For a complete list of prizes read here.

STEP 1: Download and fill out the entry form. Make sure you fill out the SUPPORTING STATEMENT part of the entry form! It is very important! This years theme is, "If I could do anything I Would..."

STEP 2: Download, fill out, and have your parents sign the consent form.

STEP 3: Start your Doodle! Download the templates, pick one template to use and create your Doodle on that page. Only ONE PAGE of the different background types can be used to create your Doodle on.

STEP 4: Return the ENTRY FORM, CONSENT FORM, and your DOODLE to Ms.Williams no later than Monday March 8.

Good luck students! For more information you can visit the Doodle 4 Google site.

Dear Parent(s)/ Guardian(s)

Due to limited space for the upcoming year, we ask each parent/guardian to fill out this re-admission form completely. This application form is designed for currently enrolled students. The closing date for this application is Friday, Feb 12, 2010. read more . . .

Student Council presented our third annual Harmony's Got Talent show on Friday, January 29th. Talents included singing, dancing, playing the guitar, magic, tumbling, and saying the ABC's in a quacky voice. Thanks to all the students that had courage to perform and gave a great show for the audience of student, parents, and teachers. Awards were given to Sapphire Vasquez for 1st, Izabel Weaver-Skiles for 2nd, and Brandon Ponce for 3rd in the k-5 division. Jessenia Ruiz received 1st, David Schmidt and Pete Almanza received 2nd, and Josh and Elyse won 3rd place in the 6-10th grade division. Congratulations to all the winners and all the students who participated for a very entertaining night.
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We are very excited to announce that we have started offering Saturday Tutorials for our students. We believe that Saturday tutorials help and increase student’s performance. Students' success is extremely important for us and it is mandatory to participate this tutorial.
Students should be dropped off no later than 9:00AM and picked up at noon. It will be held every Saturday unless otherwise notified. Unexcused absences may result in disciplinary action.

Schedule:
Tutoring Sessions: 9:00- 11:30
(Including breaks. Students will be working on practice problems)
Eat and Play: 11:30- 12:00
(Students will be offered pizza and play in the gym with friends and teachers.)

HSA-Waco students are with Governor Perry. Governor Perry had visited Waco to talk about how T-STEM (Texas High School Project) is benefiting Texas Education Agency Schools in their education. Harmony Science Academy-Waco is one of the 35 T-STEM schools in entire state. The Texas High School Project is dedicated to all Texas students graduating high school ready for college and career success and prepared to be contributing members of the community. It is also working in partnership with the Texas Education Agency.

Waco Mayor Virginia DuPuy visited our school. She had information about our TAKS test results as well as our accomplishments in other academic competitions; she also visited several classes and spoke with students. In addition to expressing how important education is and how proud she was with our achievements. She thanked students as well as teachers for their hard work and dedication.
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HSA-WACO robotics team competed in the Central Texas FLL Qualifiers on November 14, 2009 at Austin.Tigers team did a great job at the very difficult robotics challenge table and won the Second-place in Robot Design.

Congratulations for this great achievement!

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HSA-Waco Volleyball Team put forth a great effort pass weekend at the tournament at St Marys in West! It was certainly a close match! They have shown a great deal of improvement since their first practice! We are proud of our 7th and 8th Grade students.
Besides, one of our student Madely Burns(8th Grade) won L-MVP(Most Valuable Player of the league). She has a great attitude and was the all-around best, dedicated player. Congratulations to all!
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It is very important that schools help students for their future decision. In that regard HSA-Waco students had a college trip to Baylor University. Our high school students had chance to have campus tour, see different departments, and visit art gallery of BU. In their college trip, they also had chance to have lunch with Baylor Students. The trip was fun and educational for our students.
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