Our PTA is Committed to Excellent Two-Way Communication
Thank you for visiting our Communications page! Horizon's award-winning PTA is committed to helping all families feel welcome and to be actively involved in our school. We have so many ways to keep you up to date about what's happening at school and with the PTA and we want to hear your voices as well. Here's how you can get connected and stay involved:
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Visit the PTA on Facebook!Whether you are a Facebook member or not, you can visit us at facebook.com/HorizonPTA. Facebook members should click our "Like" button and make sure to sign up for our notifications (to do so, click on the box on our cover page that says you already"LIKED" us, and then choose the option in the small drop down box that says "Notifications;" next, a message will appear asking you how often you would like to receive notifications, so make your choice, and then VOILA, you will never again miss one of our posts).
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Come to Our Monthly PTA MeetingsWe hope you will join our PTA and come to our monthly meetings. Adults and children are welcome at our meetings and oftentimes we have food drinks and cookies, as well as spirit wear for sale at the meetings. At our meetings we provide updates on current and upcoming PTA events, review the PTA budget, and open the floor for comments, among other matters. Our meetings will usually be the second Monday of most months in our school cafeteria at 6:00pm.
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Sign Up for Konstella AnnouncementsTo keep up to date on what's happening at school, set up an account with the online service called Konstella, and you'll receive reminders and schedule updates right to your smartphone or computer. To get registered, visit THIS LINK. It works on a computer or you can download an app for your smartphone. It only takes a minute! If you have any questions about how to use Konstella, please email PTA Secretary Rebecca Colon Franz at becca_ren2000@yahoo.com.
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Talk to UsEveryone loves a good old fashioned face-to-face conversation. We encourage you to talk to us when you see our Board members and Committee members at school. For our names, position titles, photos, and bios, visit our About Us page.
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Email UsWe are here to partner with you to help our students succeed, so please email us with any questions or comments you may have. Visit our About Us page to find email addresses for each Board member and Committee member.
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Send Us a NotePrefer to use the handwritten method? Then by all means, send up a note with your questions or comments. Just put it in an envelope marked "PTA" and have your child or yourself drop it off at the Horizon front office. We can't always reply to notes as fast as email, but we will try our best to reply to you in a timely manner.
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Check Out Our PTA Bulletin BoardBe sure to check out our new PTA Bulletin Board located near the front office at the entrance to the 1st and 2nd grade hall. Here you can see what is going on with PTA, grab membership/volunteer forms and keep up to date with PTA happenings.
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Horizon PTA Wins COMMUNICATIONS AWARDS
We are proud to be the two-time winner of the State of Alabama PTA's prestigious Family-School Partnership Award for Communicating Effectively (2013/2014 and 2014/2015), which was based on our work with this PTA website, our PTA facebook page, and our monthly newsletters, News From the Eagle's Nest.
How to Contact Our School
Call or Email the Front Office, Teachers and StaffThe school's main number is 256-464-3614, and the people who answer that line are always helpful and friendly. For a list of email addresses for each member of the Horizon school staff, CLICK HERE.
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Visit Our School's WebsiteOur school's website is a great resource! There you can find information about school clubs and organizations, guidance counseling, the media center, read school news, read biographies about each of our teachers as well as find their email addresses, see a copy of the school handbook, and more! Visit: hrzn.madisoncity.k12.al.us
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Follow Horizon on Twitter
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Horizon has its own twitter account and school personnel update it regularly. It's a great way to get updates about happenings at school every single day. Follow it at twitter.com/hrznes
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Visit the Madison City Schools' WebsiteThe district's website is full of helpful information. Visit it at madisoncity.k12.al.us/
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Academic Communication Tools for Parents
Check Your Student's Progress Anytime At "INFORMATIONNOW"
Madison City Schools provides students and parents quick and easy online access to assignments and grades, with its iNow program. You simply use your student's individual log on info (contact your teacher for more info) to access the Web Portal and then the InformationNOW log in page. For step-by-step instructions, visit our iNow page.
View Your Student's Progress at Ren Place
This website helps with both reading and math. It allows parents to track their child’s reading quizzes (AR tests), and to see their child’s reading goal and grade percentage. This website also has a great tool called Math Facts in a Flash, which allows your student to work on math facts from home. The address for this website is long, so we recommend that once you first visit it that you bookmark it. Once you get set up on this site you will see it is a great tool. Just use your child's username and password to log on to [New link coming soon} (If you don't have the username and password, contact your child's teacher). And be sure to bookmark the log on page for easy use!
To access the AR Book Finder, that allows you to search an online database to determine if any book is an AR book and its AR level and points, just go to: arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx
To access the AR Book Finder, that allows you to search an online database to determine if any book is an AR book and its AR level and points, just go to: arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx
