October Newsletter

two students from hillcrest at the cross country meet

October Newsletter

Oct 7 2024

Good Afternoon Hillcrest Families and Friends!

We look forward to seeing all families at our upcoming parent teacher conferences, scheduled for both Thursday, October 3rd and Thursday, October 10th from 3:15-7:15. If you have not yet scheduled a conference with your teacher, please call the main office at 720-972-5380.

Picture Day is TOMORROW, Wednesday October 2, 2024!

Picture day is Wednesday, October 2nd. You can order your student pictures at mylifetouch.com using the Event Order Number EVTNBDK27 or you can order using student ID numbers.

Free and Reduced Benefits - to help your family and Hillcrest!

Every year, we ask our families to complete an application to receive free and reduced benefits which gives families reduced school fees and opportunities for additional resources. Additionally, our school benefits by receiving funding to enhance the experience for all students. This year, we have had significantly less families apply, which overall impacts our funding and support for all students. To find more information as well as the application, visit Free and Reduced Benefits .

School Accountability Committee - seeking parent perspective!

As we work to refine our school wide goals for the year, we would like to share our ideas and get your perspective! We will host our first School Accountability Committee meeting on Wednesday, October 2nd from 8:00 - 9:00 am.

Northglenn Police Department - Safe Street CANDY DRIVE!!!

We are collecting candy to support the Northglenn Police Department Safe Street Halloween Event that takes place on October19th from 4-7pm. The contest will run October 7-11. The class that collects the most candy in pounds will earn a pizza party with NGPD and a soccer game with Mr. Peterson and me!

Community Flyers

While you receive all school based flyers and communication on Wednesdays, you can access our community flyers anytime by visiting our school website here.

FALL BREAK - NO SCHOOL

A reminder that all Adams 12 schools, including Hillcrest, have a fall break during the week of October 14-18 and there will be no school for students. We look forward to seeing students when we return back on Monday, October 21rd.

HALLOWEEN

While we are in the process of planning for an inclusive, safe and enjoyable Halloween celebration at Hillcrest, we wanted to send reminders related to costumes in the event that your child will be dressing up. The following are considered not appropriatefor school or school events:

Costumes that are overly graphic, promote violence or otherwise might logically be assumed to be offensive to others
Costumes that are sexually suggestive and would otherwise violate the school’s dress code
Costumes with sound effects, lights or other components which would disrupt the classroom learning environment
Costumes that could be considered insensitive to various races, cultures and religions
Toy or facsimile weapons of any kind (guns, knives, swords, bats, etc.) are not allowed
Costumes or dress of any kind that may be potentially disruptive to the educational or school environments

Gifted and Talented/GT Testing:

If you have a student, who is not in 2nd grade or already identified as gifted, who exhibits one or more of The 12 Traits of Giftedness and/or has achievement scores at or above the 80th percentile, please complete this Parent Permission Form by November 4th. We are unable to accept late forms.

If you have any questions, please contact Hillcrest's gifted and talented team:

Siobhan Holland- siobhan.t.holland@adams12.org, Danielle Monroe- mon024577@adams12.org, Erica Gardner- gar020846@adams12.org .

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