Hillcrest Elementary School

Good Day HES Family & Friends!

Thank you parents and families for your participation and support last week with our Title 1 Stakeholder Input Meeting and our Academic Parent-Teacher Team (APTT) meetings! We believe in making sure our parents are able to voice their concerns and suggestions on how we can better help support you and your child. For those individuals that were unable to attend, your child's Report Card will come home with them tomorrow, Monday, March 25th. Please make sure to review your child's current status. Hopefully, everyone has met with his or her child's teacher for your Spring Conference. If not, please reach out to your child's teacher to take care of this before the break next week. Thank you again for your continued support of Hillcrest Elementary!

Lastly, if your child has been absent for any reason and you have not submitted written parent or doctor's excuses, please be sure to submit to your child's teacher. We thank you for your continued support of our students and school.

Please be reminded of our dress code expectations. We do encourage you to review our dress code policy, but also providing a few reminders below.

• Sweatshirts and hoodies may be worn to school, but hoods cannot be worn inside of school/classroom.
• Shirts must be solid in color.
• Leggings cannot be worn as "stand alone." They can be worn under a solid colored skirt/shorts.
• Jeans/Pants may not have any rips, holes, tears, or frays.
• Shoes must have a strap on the back of them. No Crocs allowed at school.

Please help us by making sure your child is appropriately dressed before coming to school each day.

• There will be one (1) lane used for morning drop off.
• There will be two (2) lanes used for afternoon dismissal.
• Cars MUST have their car tag number in the window to pick up your child. Cars without a tag will have to drive to the front of the building and wait for your child to be released at 3:30 p.m. with remaining car riders.
• Vehicles must make a right-hand turn off of Edgewood Drive into the Car Rider Line Up near the playground entrance.
• Parents/Guardians may take any of the following routes to reach our car rider line: Cardinal Drive, Northwood Drive, Brookdale Drive, Greenway Drive, and Pinewood Drive from either Claxton Dairy Road or Highway 441 South to get to Edgewood Drive.
• Parents/Guardians MUST remain in cars to pick up car riders. No child will be released to adults who walk up to the building in the Car Rider Loading Zone.
• Please wait for staff member to signal for you to pull off.
• Parents/Guardians may not park along Edgewood Drive and walk up to the front of the building to pick up students while we are loading or unloading buses (7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.)
• Students not picked up by 3:25 p.m. from the car rider pick up area will be taken to the front office for pick up after this time.

All students must have a clear or mesh book bag to enter the school building. We do have a few clear book bags left for sale in the front office, if you need to purchase one, for $10 each.

Please be reminded to submit student excuses when they are absent on the day they return back to school. If you need for your child's doctor's office to fax a copy of an excuse to the school, please have them send it to (478) 353-8201. After a parent has submitted seven (7) written parent notes, the school is unable to accept any more parent notes. Please help do your part by making sure your child is present at school and on time as much as possible. Students should arrive no later than 8:15 a.m. each day, but strogly encouraged to be present by 8:00 a.m. to have time to eat breakfast and begin instruction with their class.

March 27: Leader in Me Day, 9:00 a.m.

March 29: Spring Picture Day: Individual & Group/Class Pictures

March 29: Elementary State Science Fair Competition

April 1 - 5: Spring Break {No School}

April 11: Family Night/Parent Engagement Session

April 12: Club Day

April 14: National Volunteer Recognition Week

April 16: Georgia Milestone Assessment Parent Lunch & Learn Session

April 19: DCS Spring Fine Arts Showcase

Hillcrest is a PK-4 Elementary Themed Charter School that opened in August 2011. Our theme is L. E. A. P, which is Leadership, Environmental Awareness, and Public Service.

Email: sherrell.edmond@dcsirish.com
Website: hes.dcs.irish
Location: 1100 Edgewood Drive, Dublin, GA, USA
Phone: (478) 353-8200
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HillcrestElementaryTheLeapSchool