Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Feb 17 to Feb 21, 2020. Please note that Friday Feb 21 is a non-instructional day so there will be no school that day. Also, Report Cards will be coming home on Tuesday Feb 18!
Link: https://conta.cc/323JlkD
Please see the attached letter from Interior Health with updated information on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a new virus causing respiratory illness.
LINK: Parent & Guardian Letter 2019-nCoV – February 12, 2020
Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Feb 10, 2020. Please note that we are hoping to have report cards ready to go home on Thursday Feb 13, however, due to some issues with our new computer system we may need to delay sending them home for a day or two. We will keep you posted by email as things progress.
LINK: https://conta.cc/31Hef2l
Hillcrest students have been having a blast learning how to use the SD83 set of sport wheelchairs over the past few weeks.
Today, some of our classes were lucky enough to meet Lily Brook, a wheelchair athlete (and student at Jackson). Before playing a game of wheelchair basketball, Lily talked to our students about her experiences participating in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair boxing and sit skiing. We wish Lily the best of luck as she heads to Fort St. John next week to compete as a member of the Zone 2 (Kamloops) wheelchair basketball team in the BC Winter Games!
Having the wheelchairs at Hillcrest has been a fantastic experience for our students. A huge thank you goes out to Laura Paiement (SD83 Healthy Schools Coordinator) for bringing the wheelchairs to our district!
Below is a link to our Week at a Glance for the week of Feb 4 to Feb 7, 2020. Again, thank you to all of our parents volunteers who have been helping with Field Trips and other school activities over the past month. Your support is greatly appreciated at this busy time of year.
LINK: https://conta.cc/36ZgSh0
Salmon Arm area schools have been participating in a Math Problem of the Week challenge over the past month. Basically, the more problems our students complete the better chance we have of winning!
In support of this friendly competition the Salmon Arm Silverbacks are offering Free Admission to any student accompanied by a paying adult for their home game against West Kelowna on Wednesday Feb 12. Tickets can be purchased/picked up at the Silverbacks Box Office or from Maximum Edge. A draw will be made during the game to determine the winning school.
As a follow up to this event, the winning school will also be recognized during the Hometown Hockey Assembly at Shuswap Middle School on Friday March 6. Congratulations to all of our Hillcrest students for their efforts and participation in the Math Problems of the Week over the past month.
LINK: https://conta.cc/374s9MX
A Ready, Set, Learn event will take place in every elementary school in the North Okanagan-Shuswap in February or March 2020.
To see the full schedule of Ready, Set, Learn events throughout the district please click on the link below. If you know of a child in the Hillcrest community who has not yet registered for Kindergarten next year please let them know that registration is open.
LINK: RSL Final Schedule 2020
Congratulations to all of our Loppeteers for participating in the Pirate Loppet at Larch Hills on Friday. There were over 500 participants from across the district taking part this year! A huge thank you to Mrs. Wessely and Mrs. Corbett for organizing our team of students to attend.
Students had a blast competing in our annual Cracker Olympics last week. Each of our students were assigned to one of four teams (Ravens, Hawks, Eagles and Ospreys) as they completed in the six events below.
There were lots of laughs and at the end of the day the teams ended up tied and all students received a coveted cracker as their prize!
It was awesome to see so many students participating in “Plaid to Read a Book Day” as part of our Unplug and Play activities last week. It was also great to see many of our students trading books at our Take a Book/Leave a Book table outside of the library. Thank you to Mrs. Reed for organizing these events for us. Students, don’t forget to hand in your Unplug and Play passports to the office before Friday Feb 7.
