Galaxy Cafe (8127 Mesa Drive) will be hosting a Spirit Day this Wednesday, October 21 from 11:00am – 9:00pm! Mention DILLO DAY when ordering. Galaxy Cafe will save your receipts and donate 15% of sales back to Hill Elementary PTA! Click here for more information. Thank you Galaxy Cafe!!!
FOR ADULT PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, AND EDUCATORS
Creative Action is offering free Workshops this fall:
Raising Courageous Bystanders, Talking to Young People about Race, Helping Young People Understand Consent
FOR KIDS AGES 5 – 18
For National Bullying Prevention month, Creative Action invites all young people to take part in the “Everyone Belongs” Yard Sign Design Contest. Use creativity and draw your idea of a welcoming and kind community, what bravery and standing up to injustice looks like, and how we can inspire generosity and community spirit to take care of one another. Entries accepted October 1 – 31, 2020.
FOR PARENTS AND AGES 0 – 7
Parent/Child Music & Movement Halloween Edition
Building healthy relationships with your family can be supported through singing, moving, and connecting creatively. Our Halloween edition will feature magical surprises, a few puppet friends, and other activities designed to inspire creativity, and keep families moving and grooving. Get warmed up with us on Halloween morning and feel free to log on in costume.
Click here to view the video from the Principal Check-In held on Thursday, October 15th.
Fall Dillo Pickup Day is scheduled for this Saturday, October 24th from 9:00 – 11:00am in the Hill Circle Drive on school campus. Please plan to pick up your pre-ordered Dillo Gear and 50th Anniversary Merchandise during this time.
Make a sign to help the line! Please make a sign to place on the right side of your dashboard with your “Pick Up Person Name” listed in your online order. If picking up for a friend, please list both names.
Dear Hill Community,
We want to thank everyone who made our first week of the phase-in process so successful. Our staff went above and beyond with their flexibility, dedication, and teamwork to support our learners on and off campus. Our families who returned to campus followed our procedures very well to make arrival and dismissal completely manageable. And thank you to our virtual families who stayed so understanding during this time of transition. It is truly a community effort, and we are so proud as campus leaders!
On Monday, we will be welcoming more students back to campus for week 2 of our phase-in process. Here are the next groups who can report on October 12th:
As before, please let your teachers know if you have a sibling of one of these groups returning as those are the toughest for us to track!
For all of our returning families, thanks again for looking over our Hill Reopening Plan prior to returning. Also, below this letter, I have included several paragraphs from last week that are still applicable and important to know. Thanks for reading if Monday will be your first day back on campus! Especially the piece on the AISD app for arrival and dismissal, as well as the process for switching from virtual learning to face-to-face learning.
We will have a Principal Check-In this week on Thursday, October 15th, at 5:00 pm. We hope everyone can make it, but as always, a recording will follow.
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID:864 1876 9407
Passcode: Dillos
We have so many positive things happening at Hill School we want to update you all on. It was just announced that Hill is an SEL SEED Model Campus this year! We want to give a big Dillo Cheer to Ms. Stover and Ms. Winfrey for their hard work to make this possible. We will be able to model and share our best practices at school with other campuses through this designation. Our “playground” this year will also look different over the next few weeks. We have some Anderson HS students supporting us with painted pathways throughout the back of our school to aid with our restricted recess spaces. Thank you to Julie Neitzel and Watson Murals for supporting this. Also, an Eagle Scout at Anderson and former Dillo, Carter Hull, will be creating a better play area around our boat in Hill Harbor to support our students this year. We want to thank our amazing PTA and private donors who have helped secure window screens and air purifiers for many of our classrooms. As we add students weekly for face to face learning, we know these safety measures only make everyone feel more comfortable on campus. These are just a few of the amazing things we wanted to highlight this week.
Austin ISD wanted us to share with our communities information on free COVID-19 testing available if the need arises. Again, thanks for pre-screening prior to coming to school each day!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! We look forward to welcoming more of our learners to campus Monday. Click here for the important information again from last week!
We will have a Principal Check-In this week on Thursday, October 15th, at 5:00 pm. We hope everyone can make it, but as always, a recording will follow.
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID:864 1876 9407
Passcode: Dillos
The next Campus Advisory Council (CAC) Meeting will be held virtually on Monday, October 12th at 3:30pm. Click here for a copy of the agenda.
A BIG DILLO CHEER to our amazing teachers and staff for all they have done for our students during these first few weeks of learning. We appreciate you!
We also would like to give a BIG DILLO CHEER to a few other outstanding groups and individuals who have stepped up to help make Hill shine!
You can make a difference while you shop Amazon Prime Day deals on October 13 & 14. Simply shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7092365 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app and AmazonSmile donates a portion back to Hill.
Hill Elementary is a blue ribbon school located in Northwest Hills in Austin, Texas. It serves the communities of Northwest Hills, Great Hills, Lakewood and Jester Estates, near the greenbelts of northwest Austin.
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