Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Jan 20-Jan 24, 2020. Please note that our Spring Hot Lunch orders are now available. Orders for our first hot lunch of the year, Hungry Panda, must be placed by Sunday Jan 26, 2020.
LINK: https://conta.cc/2GbNc5m
Next week is Unplug and Play week! Hillcrest will be participating by hosting the following events.
In addition to the events at Hillcrest there are also dozen of events around the community. Please see the passport and poster below for more information.
LINK: Unplug and Play Passport 2020
Our parking lot can be challenging at the best of times, and with the extra snow this year it can be even more frustrating. Lately we have noticed that several of our parking lot expectations are not being followed as closely as we would like. Below is a reminder of the expectations we have to ensure everyone’s safety and keep traffic flowing.
Finally, if you are parking in our parking lot, we also ask that you fill the parking lot by parking in the stalls furthest away from the entrance first as shown in the map below. This will ensure that empty stalls are easily visible.
Thank you for your cooperation by adhering to our parking lot expectations.
Hot lunch menus for January through June are now available online. Our first Hot Lunch of the new year will be Hungry Panda on Friday January 31, 2020. Orders are due online by Sunday, Jan 26, 2020
Click on the link below for instructions on how to place your order.
LINK: https://hil.sd83.bc.ca/hot-lunch/
Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Jan 13, 2020. Don’t forget to dress for the extremely cold weather this week and check our website for important information and updates on events and activities that may be cancelled due to the extreme weather.
LINK: https://conta.cc/2FFTDNI
With the extremely cold temperatures expected this week it is important that students dress for the weather when coming to school. Please see the image above for some guidelines with respect to dressing for the cold.
During very poor weather students will be permitted to play appropriately inside. Given the protection offered by our surrounding forests, when temperatures are in the range of -10 to -15 degrees at the school, students are typically expected to play outside as long as the windchill isn’t too bad. When the temperature drops below -15 degrees at the school there is a good chance students will have an indoor recess. The decision whether or not to have an indoor recess rests with the principal and is based on a number of factors (ie. temperature at the school, windchill, shelters available, length of time outside, etc.).
If your child arrives at school before the bell, some teachers may choose to open their classroom doors a few minutes early on extreme cold weather days. If your child’s classroom door is not open, the multi-purpose room is alway open in the morning at 7:45am for both the breakfast program and as a quite place to take shelter from the cold. Please note, if your child is “too ill” to play outside at lunch and recess, they should not be at school. This policy is in place to protect the health of all students, staff and guests at Hillcrest.
There is a great deal to be excited about as we welcome students back to school in the year 2020! Please check out our calendar of events at the bottom of the Week at a Glance below for just some of the activities taking place over the next few weeks. We look forward to seeing our students smiling faces as they return to school on Monday.
LINK: https://conta.cc/2FoMXmO
The Breakfast program is looking for volunteers. It is important we have parent help to continue the program so if you have some spare time in the mornings, it would be so appreciated. Currently we need help on the following days…
Please email kaylavann88@gmail.com if you can assist in any way.
Congratulations to all of our students on some outstanding winter concerts this year! Our students should be extremely proud of themselves for the hard work they put into learning their parts in the show. Thank you to Mr. Roberts, Ms. Skibbe and our entire Hillcrest staff for the hours spent working with our students to ensure each of them could do their best.
Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Dec 16-20, 2019. We look forward to seeing everyone at our Winter Concerts and the Book Fair this week! Don’t forget to bring in your non-perishable food items or cash donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank before it is taken away on Thurs Dec 19.
LINK: https://conta.cc/2YYMuAY
Mrs. Menzies and her students went on a field trip to Picadilly Mall on Friday. They were shopping for children of families who may be experiencing hardship this holiday season. While at the mall students picked out tags from the Christmas tree reading “Boy aged x” or “Girl aged x” and purchased gifts for the children with money they raised as a class. Mrs. Menzies matched the money raised by the students to provide almost $400 for the students to spend on gifts!
For those looking to get involved in the Christmas Gift Campaign put on by the Shuswap Family Centre, Christmas trees have be placed throughout the community decorated with tags. Participants are to take a tag from one of the trees and purchase a gift. The Shuswap Family Centre asks that if the gift requires batteries, the gifter include those along with wrapping paper and tape.
The Christmas trees can be found at the following locations:
Students in Mrs. Corbett’s class were encouraged to bring their families to school recently for a night of Math games and activities. It was awesome to see so many students and their families participating! Not only did families learn how to practice math at home through fun math games, each family also received a package of instructions for the games they played and a gift bag full of the manipulatives (dice, cards etc.) one would need to play them. Thank you to everyone who came out and to Mrs. Corbett for organizing such a fun packed evening of learning.
