Central Texas School Children Grades 1-8 and your teachers, family and friends!

Austin’s 2018 annual Flood Safety Poster Contest is now open for your creative expressions! Help Austin be safer with this important message:

Save Yourself! Turn Around – Don’t Drown.

The 2018 poster contest is a fun way for children to build flood safety awareness and help Central Texans to make safer decisions in flooding conditions. The main message of your posters is to turn around, rather than drive through a flooded low water crossing.

Flooding is Austin’s top, weather-related emergency and the number-one cause of weather-related fatalities. Austin is in the heart of Flash Flood Alley and flash flooding can happen at any time. Flood safety awareness is one way to better protect drivers, passengers and emergency responders from flash flooding risks.

Click here for more information.

Hill Elementary is pleased to announce that nominations for the gifted and talented program are being accepted beginning January 23rd until February 2nd for grades K-2. Interested parents and guardians with questions should contact their school’s GT Advocate in order to complete the nomination process. Nomination forms can be picked up from the front office. GT screening and testing requires parent/guardian permission by February 2. A variety of measures are used for screening and testing including assessments for bilingual students.
For more information about the Austin ISD gifted program, please visit the Austin ISD web site
tinyurl.com/AustinISDGATE
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Hill GT Advocates:
Sheila Wessels,
Sheila.wessels@austinisd.org
Stephanie Winfrey,
stephanie.winfrey@austinisd.org

The Hill PTA is looking for interested parents to serve on next school year’s board.

Board positions include:

President
VP of Communications
VP of Membership
VP of Sponsorship
Treasurer
Secretary

If you are interested in applying, have a recommendation, or would like more information on the duties of a position, please email the Nominating Committee at nominatingcommittee@hillelementary.com or click here for the nomination form.

All nominations must be submitted by 2/1/18.

Nomination forms will also be available in the front office.

The 5th Grade Fundraiser is kicking off!! Get ready to support your graduating Dillo’s! As of February  1st all 5th grade Dillo’s will be selling koozie’s for $5 each. Not only are they super cute, they keep your water cool, and your donation supports the 5th grade graduation ceremony and party , the 2017-18 heritage gift back to the school and any leftover funds are donated back to the PTA to further support Hill. Keep $5 ready if you are asked and if not please seek out a fifth grader to buy a koozie asap. THEY WILL SELL OUT! Sales are happening February  and March – so run and don’t walk to get those koozies!

Spread the Word

New Parent Tours and Playdates for

2018-19 Incoming Kindergartners

Please arrive 15 minutes early to sign in for these events. You will need your Driver’s License if this is your first time to sign-in at Hill. Enter through the main entrance on Tallwood and use the buzzer. Once inside, the office is on the left.

New Parent Tours

Tuesday, February 27 at 10:00am

Wednesday, March 28 at 10:00am

Thursday, April 26 at 10:00am

Friday, May 18 at 10:00am

Tours are geared toward adults; please make other arrangements for your children.

Story Time in the Library for Incoming Kindergartners

Monday, February 12 at 2:15pm-2:45pm

Tuesday, February 13 at 2:15pm-2:45pm

To sign up for Story Time, email newparentcoordinator@hillelementary.com

Since there are limited spots, we kindly ask no siblings.

Play dates at Hill Harbor for Incoming Kindergartners

Friday, March 23^rd at 2:00pm

Wednesday, April 25 at 2:00pm

Tuesday, May 22 at 2:00pm

Please send an email to newparentcoordinator@hillelementary.com with any questions or to receive more information about these events.

A Parenting Conference
February 3, 9:00am-3:30pm
Westover Church 18332 Mesa Drive

Parents of kids of all ages are invited to join us as we discuss the weird and beautiful journey that is parenting.

Keynote Speakers:
Brad McCoy, parenting coach and father of Colt McCoy
Corey Allen, Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor
Karen Ranus, Executive Director of NAMI

Conference Topics:
Raising Resilient Kids
How to talk to your kids about sex
How to manage social media
Teenage Mental Health
How to keep our kids safe
How to survive middle school

For more information and to register online:
http://westover.org/parentingisweird/

“Cotillion Austin-Style” is a class in manners, etiquette, and social dance. Classes are held at the Shirley McPhail School of Dance at 8020 Mesa Drive on five random Sunday afternoons during the spring semester from 4:00-5:30.

Click here for more information.

As we begin the Spring Semester, it is a good time to give parents some general reminders about arrival/dismissal procedures.

Remember that the tardy bell rings at 7:45 am each morning.  If your child arrives after the tardy bell rings, please park and accompany your child into the school office to get a tardy slip.

Students school not walk into school late unaccompanied by an adult.

When driving around Hill School please remember to SLOW down and follow all traffic rules/laws.  We have over 960 students at Hill and we want to keep every student safe.  If you need to come pick your child up during the school day, please park your car in designated parking, not in the front driveway.  This is a fire zone and AISD PD may ticket your car.

Thursday January 25th will be a big day for our Hill Dillo student scientists. It’s the Hill Elementary School Science Fair! We are looking for judges for the science fair projects presented by our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students that morning. No science background is required to be a judge and we will have a brief training session at 8 am the morning of science fair. We currently have 20 parents signed up to judge with a goal of 25, please contact us at sciencefair@hillelementary.com if you can help.