New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) starts on Friday, February 28, 2025 and runs through March 16, 2025 in NYC. It’s full of fun, thoughtful, and all-new film programs to spark your kids’ curiosity and imaginations. Check out the Festival trailer! NYICFF screenings are also a great way to build community — pick a film and go with a group. Even better, our school earns $2 back for every ticket you purchase!

Go to NYICFF.org/tickets to view the lineup of programs for all ages from 3-18 in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and more. When checking out, please select ✨ PS 20 Clinton Hill School ✨ from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the form.

Announcing the first Pie Day YUMraiser with Four & Twenty Blackbirds @birdsblack. Celebrate Pi Day with a circular treat and choose from four of their signature flavors, or enjoy them all!

Place your orders by March 3 for free delivery to school on March 14, just in time for Pi Day

Kick off your midwinter Recess Break with the electrifying Harlem Globetrotters! Portion of all sales benefit PS20. Get your tickets now for Sunday, February 16 at 1:00pm at Barclays Center

We would be most grateful for goods, services, experiences, or partnership opportunities of all kinds! Your donation and business will be recognized and promoted on all digital and print materials plus community-wide virtual platforms and social media.  PS 20 PTA is a 501(c)3 [EIN 46-3048383] and all donations are tax-deductible. Your Donations Would Directly Help Support:

• Green Arts: Unique to PS 20, Green Arts provides our children the opportunity to learn gardening from seed to harvest and how to compost, as well as visual arts instruction through Studio in a School.

• School Assistants & Teacher Support: We provide funds for School Assistants who offer daily support to all teachers, parents and students. We also use funds to provide classroom supplies and materials as well as staff & teacher appreciation activities. 

• JEDI: Our Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Fund supports students who may otherwise be unable to participate in school activities as well as funds diversity programs.

• School and Community Activities and Support: The PTA funds Oktoberfest, Movie Nights, cultural events like Carnaval, free English classes and other assistance for international and migrant families new to our community. 

• Supplies: The PTA buys cleaning supplies for teachers and staff, as well as helps to fund essential items such as risers, dance floors, copy machines, and more.

We ask that all families continue to please check your student’s hair for lice and nits. Community Closet (room 126) stocks lice combs + medicated shampoo kits free of charge.

HOW TO CHECK

1. Put on gloves, if you can.

2. Get a comb and part the hair in small sections to check.

3. Check for nits - these are the eggs that cling to the hair shaft. Nits will be white or yellowish-brown.

4. Check for live lice - they like to crawl on the scalp or on the hair shaft. The lice will be dark in color and the size of a poppyseed.

IF YOU FIND LICE

1. TREAT with either chemicals (Nix, ivermectin, etc) or smothering substance on dry hair (heavy conditioner, vaseline, mayonnaise, etc).

2. With a metal lice COMB, thoroughly comb out all nits.

3. LAUNDER all bedding, linens, hats, etc on hot settings.

4. ALERT your classroom teacher! Teachers will then inform the main office who will backpack a notice to the entire class. Every family in the classroom should check their students tp stop the spread.

5. After 7-10 days, COMB and TREAT again - this is key!

   • Used the right way, treating will kill the lice and some super lice but not all the eggs. To ensure you kill the eggs, you have to comb and physically remove them because you can never know if they are alive or dead —they look the same, dead or alive.

To get professionally inspected for lice:

• Licenders

• LiceBusters

More information and resources: 

• “Getting Ride of Lice” on Park Slope Parents

• “How Head Lice is Treated” on verywell health

• American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Report on Controlling and Treating Head Lice in Children, Adolescents

• Head Lice: What Parents Need to Know (via healthychildren.org)

Verywell / Jessica Olah

PTA International & Multicultural Families Committee is proud to host another Brazilian Carnaval Celebration on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM.

The festival featured an incredible workshop on samba, afoxé, and capoeira led by Quenia Ribeiro of Grupo Ribeiro Productions. Quenia is well-known figure in the Brazilian community here in Brooklyn. Many thanks to wonderful Brazilian steakhouse, Fogo de Chão (located at CityPoint) for donating delicious pão de queijo. Students also enjoyed healthy & yummy acai smoothies made by PS20 parent and committee chair Ana Lourdes.

RSVP here if you to plan to attend in-person!

❤️ We are excited to begin our See’s Candies yumraiser! 🍫 Sweet packages of chocolates and yummies perfect for gifting classmates, teachers and loved ones available online through January 31, 2025 so items can ship to arrive by Valentine’s Day. A portion of all profits from sales will be donated to the PS20 PTA.