Updates

Dear Hillview Families,

We hope that everyone had a great start to the new school year.  We took time to learn many new routines and we enjoyed reuniting with good friends at school throughout our first month.  Parents/guardians also had nice opportunities to attend teacher presentations and to learn about the curriculum at our September 19th Open House.  It was a pleasure to spend time with our parents/guardians.

Hillview staff members recommend the following ideas to support young learners at home: Read often with your child and visit the public library so that a variety of fiction and non-fiction books can be borrowed.  Students can write about the story or the informational text in a special notebook.  Students can also practice math fact flash cards to enhance fact fluency and keep a math journal so that they can author real world math problems.  We appreciate all the ways that parents/guardians support our students beyond the school day.

We are excited to have our Family Fall Festival and Theme Basket Raffle on Wednesday, October 23rd from 6:00-7:30 pm.  Our wonderful Hillview PTO works hard to make this fun and festive event special for our students and families.  Information about the festival was sent home last week.  There is also still time to join the PTO.  This organization helps to provide our students with field trips, assemblies and other enjoyable events at our school.  Our September PTO meeting in our library media center was a huge success.  It is clear that our Hillview parents/guardians are dedicated to planning an amazing school year for our students!

We were able to practice many safety drills in September, including fire drills and bus safety drills.  Students will participate in a “15 minute early release day” this Friday, October 4th.  Dismissal will begin at 3:00 pm on that day.  In addition, we will enjoy a “Halloween Parade” for students and staff members during the school day on Friday, October 31st.  Additional details about the parade will be sent home soon.

Thank you for all that you are doing at home to support your child’s education.  We look forward to enjoying the first full month of autumn at school!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Moeller

Principal

Hillview Calendar 2024-25

Hillview PTO Happenings

September & October 2024 Edition

SEPTEMBER RECAP

(Names listed are chair(s) for the event)

• September 4th: Hillview PTO Membership Drive Starts (Shana Kirst)

• September 4th: Hillview Apparel Sale Starts (Alicia Casey)

• September 10th: PTO General Meeting 

• The General PTO Meeting covered a lot of information for the school year. We have several new members chairing upcoming events.

• September 19th: Open House 

• September 27th: Spirit Day: Buffalo Bills/red & blue Day (Shana Kirst) – Congratulations to Miss Cronmiller’s class!

• September 30th: Picture Day (Ashley Porzio)

OCTOBER EVENTS

(Names listed are chair(s) for the event)

• October 9th: Hillview PTO Membership Drive Ends (Shana Kirst)

• October 23rd: Fall Festival & Basket Raffle (Shana Kirst, Tracy Carson)

• October 25th: Spirit Day: Legends Apparel (Shana Kirst)

• October TBD: Veteran’s Day Wall Submission Opens (Colleen Smith)

NOVEMBER EVENTS

(Names listed are chair(s) for the event)

• November 18-22nd: Thankful Turkey Theme Week (Katie Pirro, Alicia Casey)

• November 20th: Picture Retake Day (Christina Suarez)

• November 26th: Spirit Day: Kindness is Cool (Shana Kirst)

• November 26th: Holiday Decorating (Christina Heim, Maria LaRotonda, Christina Suarez)

Lunchroom Volunteer Opportunities

Please contact Alicia Casey 8alicia@gmail.com with any questions.

Here you will find informational flyers from the school, the PTO, and community organizations. Postings are organized by month and category. They are posted as printable PDFs to afford easy access for parents. They will remain accessible throughout the year, which means no more searching through your child's backpack looking for a lost flyer!

2024-2025 Virtual Backpack

New Policy:

At this time, paper copies of all school-sponsored events will also be sent home with students. However, flyers from community organizations will ONLY be posted to our Virtual Backpack and will no longer be sent home with each child.

Community organizations may submit flyers in PDF form to our Superintendent's office for approval and should not be interpreted as District sponsorship of an event or endorsement of any organization. The information is posted by the District as a community service. The approval process for the distribution of flyers has not changed.

The Parent Portal provides you with 24/7 access to your child's academic information.  With a Parent Portal account, you may log on at any time to view your child's report cards and attendance.

If you haven't already done so, register for your account here.  The video resource below can help walk you through the process.

**Registered users who have forgotten their password please contact eschoolportal@lancasterschools.org .**

Click the image to start the video on how to create your Parent Portal account.

It is important that you log in to your Parent Portal account at the start of every school year to verify your contact information.  Building level and district level communications through the School Messenger program utilize this verified information to send emails, texts, and phone calls.  If your information has not been verified, you may miss out on important information!