2019 PS20 BREAST CANCER AWARENESS WALK

WED, OCT 23rd @ 1:30 pm

Join us WEDNESDAY, OCT 23rd at 1:30 pm for the PS20 Breast Cancer Awareness Walk following the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month - classes will walk around the block in support. Families are invited to DRESS PINK for the occasion!

The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a yearly campaign that intend educate people about the importance of early screening, test and more. This campaign starts on Oct 1st ending on Oct 31st every year.

If you live in the city, are 40 or older and have not had a mammogram in the past year, you can get a free mammogram at the American-Italian Cancer Foundation’s Mobile Care Clinic.

To learn more about Breast Cancer prevention, routine screenings, early diagnosis and treatments visit NYC Health or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites. Want to get involved or donate for the cause? Here is a link to a Breast Cancer Donation guide.

The PS20 PTA invites our school community and families to welcome our Fort Greene neighbors, businesses and their families to our PS20 OKTOBERFEST - the best FREE family seasonal event in Brooklyn! Affordable tickets for attractions will be sold. All proceeds revert to school programs, needs and scholarships.

FUN rain or shine ! PARTY, GAMES, attractions - Pony Rides, Chili Contest, Music, Face Painting, Bouncy Castle, Arts & Crafts & so much more @ PS20 Schoolyard entrance (Clermont Ave, between Willoughby and Dekalb Ave) #PS20Oktoberfest2019

INSIDER TIPS TO HAVE THE MOST FUN DURING THE EVENT

* BRING YOUR OWN WATER BOTTLE !! - Help PS20 to achieve its ZERO WASTE PLEDGE - Water fill up stations available in the cafeteria

* PICK UP A LEAF ON THE WAY to the Fest for Leaf Printing! - If you find a leaf on the way, you can use it for your leaf printing (no leaf - no worries, we’ll have a bag of leaves as well!)

* DRESS TO PLAY AND PARTY - Here are some scheduled events
2-3 pm - Futbol Rebels will be running a skills clinic and street soccer game FREE for anyone to join!
3-4 pm - TO BE CONFIRMED - African Drumming by one of our talented PS 20 Parents!
4-45 pm - DJ Cheo will be kicking it up a notch with a music and a DANCE party!!
4:50 pm - Announcement of Chilli Contest Winners!!
5 pm - Thank you and Goodnight!

* PARENTS VOLLEYBALL BASH - After 3 pm, a volleyball net will be installed in the Gymnasium for “friendly matches” - we invite all sportive couples / class parents to join for 10 min matches - winners will get free chilli !!

To volunteer, donate, enter the Chilli Contest or any other question contact: events@ps20.org

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Indigenous Peoples' Day (which has been substituting the old fashioned Columbus Day celebrations - on the same date) is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities.

The PS20 PTA thinks of all families observing Yom Kippur - wishing you a meaningful fast and a G'mar chatimah tovah.

G'mar chatimah tovah

Starting at Sundown on Tuesday, Jewish people around the world will begin to observe Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the year in their religion. “For 25 hours — until sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 9 — they will refrain from any food and drink, including water. They will spend the majority of the day in synagogue, praying to God and repenting for their sins.”

“Gmar hatimah tovah,” or “Gmar tov,” which roughly translates to “a good seal.” Those observing the holiday believe that the book of life, which determines an individual’s fate for the coming year, opens on Rosh Hashanah, and is sealed at the end of Yom Kippur following the period of repentance.

SHANA TOVA!

Warm up for the best school movie night in Brooklyn!

Students, teachers and theirs families are invited to join us @ the PS20 Auditorium for FREE popcorn and the screening of Zarafa a beautiful French/ Belgian animation feature presented in french with english subtitles (78 min, 2012).

Arrive early - DON’T MISS two awesome opening screenings - The “PS20 Climate March” shot by our PS20 dad Brian Tubbs, featuring our teachers and students voices & a short movie about Greta Thunberg contextualizing the School strike for the climate with the Climate March movement around the world.

Can’t get any better than that - See you there !

To all those celebrating #RoshHashanah, the PS20 community send wishes for a sweet New Year.

L’Shanah Tovah.