Hillcrest Elementary School

Good Day HES Family & Friends!

Welcome Back from our beautiful spring break! We hope that each of you have enjoyed some time to relax and Sharpen the Saw. We're looking forward to the next few weeks of seeing the amazing growth your child has made this school year. We hope to see you this Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. for a fun evening of literacy at our Literacy STEM Night. Students and Parents will have an opportunity to hear some great stories, learn some great reading strategies, and have fun making some creative things. This is one event you do not want to miss.

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.

April 11: Literacy STEM Night with Families, 5:30 p.m. HES Gymnasium

April 12: Club Day

April 14: National Volunteer Recognition Week

April 15: Local School Governance Team Meeting, 5:00 p.m.

April 16: Georgia Milestone Assessment Parent Lunch & Learn Session, 12:00 noon

April 19: DCS Spring Fine Arts Showcase

April 23 - 25: Georgia Milestone ELA Testing (Grades 3 & 4)

April 30 - May 1: Georgia Milestone Math Testing (Grades 3 & 4)

May 3: Field Day

May 4: Garden Tour with Green Acres Garden Club

May 6 - 10: Staff Appreciation Week

May 6 - 16: Acadience Testing Administration

May 7 - 8: Reading Inventory (Grades 3 & 4) and Math Inventory (Grades 1-4)

May 10: Club Day

May 15: Pre-K Bridging Ceremony

May 17: HES Honor's Day

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