Mrs. Buckley's Pre-K class had the Spirit of St. Valentine. They visited Sr. Carol at Outreach. Sister Carol showed the children the donations that people bring for others. The children each brought a donation for the pantry also! Now that is LOVE! Please look for pictures on Facebook and also on Mrs. Buckley's page.

The Holy Family Girls' Basketball team won a nail-biter yesterday at our home gym. The final score was 34-25. Janiya, one of our 8th graders, lead us to victory and had an amazing game! The girls will play St. Raymond's in the semi-finals on Monday at 3:30PM. Take a ride and come see the game!

We had an amazing week here at Holy Family School. On Monday, the entire school celebrated our cultures and we also celebrated our wonderful Principal, Mrs. Doherty. The classes showered her with cards and special drawings and gifts. On Tuesday, we celebrated all of our students! What a fun day! The children dressed in their pjs or comfy clothes and were treated to ice cream and a movie. On Wednesday, we invited in our Grandparents and special people to visit our school and our classrooms. What a treat! I think all had a fun time. In the afternoon, we had our annual spelling bee and Jorge Palacio, a 6th grader, came in first place. Devansh, a 4th grader, came in 2nd. Well done! On Thursday, we celebrated our support staff. Each class made something special for their special person in the school. We also had our Volunteer Tea in the morning for any volunteer that could make it. Each class came down to the cafeteria to present our volunteers with a song or a poem to thank them for all they do. And lastly, on Friday, we began with Mass and celebrated our teachers! We celebrated with an afternoon off! Thank you to all!

4th grade Chinese New Year fun! Two of our students and their families shared their culture and traditions. We celebrated this special day with food, Lucky red envelopes and a 'fireworks' confetti show. Check out more photos on 4th Grade's Home Page- just click on title of this article!

Please come join us at 10:30 AM Mass on Sunday, 1/26/2020. Following Mass, from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, we will have an open house for all our current and interested students. We offer full day Nursery ( 3 year old program), and full day Pre-K ( 4 year old program), and also Kindergarten through 8th grade. Come meet our teachers and see all that Holy Family has to offer! We welcome all of you! Please call 516-938-3846 ext. 329 if you'd like any further information. We will also be open all week, so stop by anytime Monday - Thursday between 9 AM & 1: 45 PM.

Please pray for the family of Mrs. Messina, our cafeteria manager, who's husband passed away this past week. The funeral Mass will be on Tuesday, January 21st at 11:00 AM. Visitation will be at Holy Family Church just before the Mass beginning at 10:00 AM . Please keep Mrs. Messina, her children, and her family in your prayers.

From the Holy Family Parish Bulletin - Our Advent Project benefiting Cross Catholic Outreach's program to build homes for families in Haiti has been very successful. As of the last week of December, we have collected $5,188 toward a goal of $6,981 which will provide a new home for a family. We thank the young people of our school, religious education and youth ministry who created and sold the ornaments that raised these funds. Also a special thank you to Sheila Ferreri and Cathy Weiss for their leadership and creativity. If you wish to contribute to our goal, please submit a check to Nancy Brown in the parish office by Friday, January 3, 2020.

Ms. Hutter became the Principal of the Day today! Ms. Hutter visited all the classrooms, oversaw morning announcements, and conducted the daily duties of the Principal. We caught this photo of Ms. Hutter discussing the daily news with Mrs. Calabro.

Our annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa took place on Sunday. Our school was transformed into a Winter Wonderland thanks to the parent volunteers! Our 6th, 7th & 8th grade students volunteered on the day of the breakfast serving, selling raffles & ornaments, photos with Santa and more! We give a special shout out to our head Elf, Mrs. Ezelius and Raffle Elf, Mrs. Fagan for all the coordinating for this wonderful community event! Thank you also to Santa who took time to come all the way from the North Pole during this busy time to deliver stuffed animals and take pictures at Holy Family School!

What a special day that we all gather together and share a meal as a school/parish family. The entire school had a Thanksgiving lunch together in the gym. Each student decorated a feather during their art classes and all the feathers made our Holy Family Turkey. Fr. Gerard began the meal with the "Superman" prayer. The Rachel's Challenge student leaders along with Mrs. Calle, Ms. Ulrich and Mr. Gilbert set up the entire gym and served all the students, teachers and guests. We'd also like to thank Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Boyle and Mr. Lafalce for a delicious meal topped off with apple pie and ice cream! We are truly blessed! Click here to view some photos of the day!

Sharing God's love, that's what we do at Holy Family School! The fourth grade students happily shared some of their Halloween candy and created beautiful, candy filled Turkey Cups. The love kept flowing as the children visited St Joseph's Hospital. The children personally delivered their gifts to the nurses and staff who will work on Thanksgiving taking care of others instead of being home with their own family. God Bless those who choose a profession dedicated to helping those in need.

From Kindergarten through 8th grade, the children decorated gratitude feathers during their art classes. They thought about the many blessings they have and wrote down something they are thankful for! The nursery and pre-k classes also decorated their feathers during Social, Emotional learning classes. The feathers are beautiful! Wait until Tuesday to see how they were all put together!

Holy Family School fourth graders took a trip back in time to Colonial Long Island! Much was learned about our past while touring Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a living museum.

Holy Family School fourth graders took a trip back in time to Colonial Long Island! Much was learned about our past while touring Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a living museum. Click here for more photos.

The entire school from Nursery to 8th Grade made Nativity ornaments to raise money to build a house in Haiti. Holy Family School is working on a service project with Holy Family Religious Ed and the parish to make ornaments to raise money to build a home in Haiti for a family in need. We need to raise almost $7,000 for this endeavor. What a gift it will be for a family. We are so blessed here that we would like to share our blessings. It was beautiful to see the older students working with the younger children making these ornaments. We would also like to thank all of our "Cricuteers", "Silhouetters" and their helpers who cut the Nativity scenes. We'd also like to thank Mrs. Weiss and Mrs. Puzo's 4th grade that helped in sorting, cutting and counting to prepare for this day.

Teachers & children all dressed up for Halloween! Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages for some fun photos!

Our Kindergarten, First and 2nd grades visited Schmitt's Farm today! They learned all about plants and vegetables at the farm. They learned which plants grow under the ground and which ones grow above the ground and all about corn, tassels and the silk! Ask your child about how many kernels are on one ear of corn? It was a beautiful day to appreciate nature and all our blessings!

Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Boyle & Mr. LaFalce "cooked" up some Halloween snacks for your children! Fun and delicious!

This afternoon, our entire school gathered on the lawn by Newbridge Road for the Living Rosary. Fr. Gerard prayed the rosary with all the students, faculty and staff. We'd like to thank Mrs. Eckhoff and Mrs. Torres for making the beautiful oversized rosary for our school. We are very blessed.