Asphalt Green has assigned a REP Coach to our school four days a week to take a lead role alongside PS 110 staff to maximize safe, active play. The REP program helps:

• Create and improve routines to transition smoothly to and from recess

• Identify and activate useable indoor and outdoor recess spaces

• Teach students organized games and encourage them to take the lead in running them

• Encourage all students to be active no matter their age or ability

• Promote conflict resolution skills through play

Third Street Music School Settlement, the nation’s oldest community music school, was founded in 1894 by Emilie Wagner, who believed that music could provide hope and inspiration to the impoverished immigrants of New York’s Lower East Side. Today, more than a century later, Third Street serves more than 5,000 students each year both at the School and through its School & Community Partnerships Program in public schools and community sites. Our Pre-K - Grade 3 students will explore ORFF-based music and movement while our 4-5 students will participate in chorus, world percussion or ORFF Ensemble.

Our kindergarten and first grade students have the opportunity to explore movement and dance under the guidance of a Paul Taylor dancer. Through the practice of dancing and choreographing, young movers discover new ways to express themselves physically, emotionally and cognitively. As they learn to organize bodies in time and space with varying qualities of energy, students explore the basic elements of dance while simultaneously cultivating their unique expressivity.

PS 110 will continue to work with a Chess Master in all grades K-5. Chess instruction is provided every Friday for an 11-week cycle to every class in the school, K–5. The in-school Chess program culminates in a tournament held at the school in May. Additionally, students may also join the fee-based after school Chess Club.

Since 2009, Take Two Film Academy has taught filmmaking and literacy programs in over three dozen private, public and charter schools from New York to Boston. More than 2,000 students of all economic backgrounds have participated in one of Take Two's programs and their work has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, Downtown Youth, and the SONYC Film Festival.  

Our third grade students learn every aspect of filmmaking, including research, screenwriting, technical camerawork, performance in front of a camera, direction and video editing. Through this work, students gain the technical and creative competencies needed to transform their ideas into fully realized works.

National Dance Institute (NDI) was founded in 1976 by Jacques d’Amboise with the belief that the arts have a unique power to engage children and motivate them toward excellence. PS 110 have been selected to be one of NDI’s partner schools: fourth grade classes participate weekly in this nationally acclaimed, year-long program. The NDI teaching team, comprised of two Teacher/Choreographers and a Musician/Composer, explores with each class how movement put to music becomes dance. The students learn to execute basic, jazz-based, rigorously athletic dance steps with clarity, energy, and precision. They explore qualities of movement and learn to listen to and count music. Throughout the year, students explore a curricular theme, which becomes the basis for the end-of-year theatrical performance known as the Event of the Year.

History comes to life in the classroom as students explore the New-York Historical Society’s vast and varied collections in our interactive classroom programs. Using authentic touch objects and primary images, maps and documents, students experience hands-on history and deepen their understanding of New York’s and America’s past, right in the classroom. Their inquiry-driven programs expand vocabulary and develop critical thinking skills. All classroom programs are led by a highly qualified New-York Historical Society Educator or Teaching Artist and align with and support the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies and New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies and the Arts.

Fifth grade students have the opportunity to learn about a classical (Shakespearean) play that they study and interpret. The end of the 10-week course culminates with a performance of the play they studied.