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Skip to Navigation Skip to Main Content Menu Pocantico Hills Central School Learning - Achievement - Growth - Direction Home Summarized Calendar Nurse's Office Microsoft O365 Menus Parent Portal Daily Health Declaration Important Announcements featured post EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION FACT SHEET POCANTICO HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT In the event that we are forced to close or delay the opening of the district or school you will receive a notification explaining the situation and providing specific guidance. School/District Delays and Closures: In general, emergency notifications are categorized into two main areas: delays and closures. Delays: When a school is delayed this will impact both the start of school and associated transportation times. For example, if there is a 2-hour delay, school will start 2 hours later than normal. Additionally, for students that receive transportation services either to Pocantico or other schools, your pick-up time will be impacted by 2 hours. Students who would normally be picked up at 7:00am would now be picked up at 9:00am, etc. Closures: When the Pocantico Hills Central School DISTRICT is closed, all activities, including all transportation services are cancelled. If there is an event that is localized, such as a power outage on our campus, school will be closed, but transportation services to partner schools might still occur. When this happens, you will receive specific information regarding pick-up and drop-off times directly from Pocantico. Partner schools will communicate directly with impacted families if they are delayed or closed. How Will You Receive The Message? When an emergency occurs, you will be notified of the situation through a variety of communication channels. You will receive an automated call, as well as an e-mail, directly from the school, and the information will be posted on our website. Additionally, if you have opted to receive text messages and/or if you have the Pocantico Hills app, you will receive the notification through those channels as well. District specific weather-related closing information is also shared with News 12 Westchester, WABC-tv7, the Patch, WHUD 100.7. and Instagram: “superintendent.calkins” forgive the shameless promotionJ. When Will Closing Information Be Disseminated? This information will be communicated to families in as timely a fashion as possible. Sometimes it may be feasible to notify you the night before the event takes place. Other times you will receive notifications in the morning. We will try to communicate this information to you between 5:30am and 6:00am. Other Emergency Situations : We will also utilize the aforementioned communication methodologies to communicate other emergency information to you. A good example of this would be if we were forced to close school and send our students home early. Pocantico Hills Central School Fight Flu at Home and School Please view the attachments from the Department of Health Combatan La Gripa2179(1).pdf Fight Flu2178.pdf Pocantico Hills Central School School Reopening Information Sessions & Recordings (Click Here for more) Please join Superintendent Calkins and Principal Brown at our virtual information sessions this week regarding school reopening. Have questions? Please submit your questions regarding our school reopening using this link for the upcoming information sessions. We will do our best to answer all questions during our sessions. Zoom sessions schedule is as follows: Tuesday, August 18th, 6 p.m. All parents information session: Click here to listen - Audio Only Recording of Information Session Wednesday, August 19th, 6 p.m. Special Education information session: Click here to join - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89371166338 *Thursday, August 20th, 6 p.m. English Language Learners (ELL) Information session / Sesion de Informacion para Padres de ELL (Spanish translation will be available/Habra traduccion en Espanol). Click here to join/Haz clic aqui para ingresar - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89800672776 *Además, envíe sus preguntas relacionadas con la reapertura de la escuela utilizando este enlace para las sesion de información. Haremos todo lo posible para responder a todas las preguntas durante esta sesion. Thank you! Pocantico Hills Central School Together We Are Strong A Message From Superintendent Calkins: June 3, 2020 Dear Pocantico Families: As the nation comes to grips with the deep-seeded implications of the senseless killing of George Floyd, it is vital that we as a community condemn, not only this heinous act, but all that it represents. Racism, injustice, discrimination and hate, have no place in our society. I can’t even begin to fathom how deeply this affects our black and multi-racial families. Please know that we care deeply for all of you and are here to help. Additionally, we are aware of the emotions that these injustices evoke, and we are prepared to offer support. When we began our remote instructional practices, Pocantico took a strong stance in our community, and coined the phrase that: “we are here to help.” We are reinforcing that concept and add that we are not only here to help in the short term. We are here to help enact change. We will do this by providing educational opportunities, through the establishment of partnerships and the provision of resources. Moreover, we will do this by helping to orchestrate tough conversations and by joining with all of you in affirming that there is Zero Tolerance for racism in our school, in our community and our nation as a whole. Below, please find some resources that may be useful in helping to begin conversations or take action: https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/talking-to-young-children-about-prejudice https://www.tolerance.org/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/cnn-sesame-street-standing-up-to-racism/index.html https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/emotional-wellness/Building-Resilience/Pages/Talking-to-Children-About-Racial-Bias.aspx https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/Talking-To-Children-About-Tragedies-and-Other-News-Events.aspx https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race I have said since I arrived here that Pocantico Hills CSD is a special place and that we are a community of care; once again, we are called upon to illustrate these words and meet this challenge. 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