Community Meeting Announcements
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Today’s After School Activities are cancelled due to the possibility of inclement weather
Reminders: Tomorrow - BSD Session 2 begins, our 1st Ski Trip to Jack Frost Mountain is on Friday, and ArtWorks begins next Tuesday, 2/5.
Spirit of the Hawk Awards
Today Ms. Murphey awarded two Spirit of the Hawk awards for Service. Jack Kwiecinski received an award for volunteering to help clean recycled plastic water bottles for a craft activity for the UNLESS Project. And Faith Markley received an award for putting in hours of her time and artistic talents to create a gorgeous new sign for the Hill Top Library (see attached photo). Thank you, Jack and Faith!
Basketball News
Mr. Riley reported that the basketball team won yesterday’s game against Stratford Friends School. The entire team played really well. Zach Jacovini stood out by scoring 39 points! Congratulations to the team!
Visiting Families
We welcomed families today who are looking at the middle school for their children.
Dorm Buzz
Guys Night Out and Sleepover at the Dorm on Sunday, February 3rd:
The Guys Night Out sleepover is open to 9th through 12th grade boys. This event is a super bowl party and sleep over in the dorm. Contact Mr. Ware for more information at[email protected].
Middle School Student Council Promoting Amazon Smile
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on Amazon Smile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate half of a percent of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.
The MSSC is supporting a sign-up campaign for students, faculty, family and friends to go to Smile.Amazon.com and designate Hill Top as your non-profit charity. It is important to type Hill Top Preparatory NOT Hill Top Prep; otherwise, our school does not appear in the search.
As of October of this year, Hill Top has received $186.00 from the Amazon Foundation, but just imagine how much greater this amount could be if every Hill Top family used Smile.Amazon for their purchases.
It’s free to sign up, fun to shop and free money for Hill Top.
Parent Resources Announcements
Save the Date for Hill Top’s First All-School Book Read! Resilient by Rick Hanson, PhD
Hill Top’s first All-School Book Read will feature the book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson, PhD (2018). Parents are invited to read the book and to join members of the Professional Development Committee and other faculty at the Community Book Discussion on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 from 6:30-8 pm (please save the date!). Contact Anna Murphey with questions: [email protected]
Notes from the Transition Office
On Saturday, February 2nd, Drexel University is hosting its annual Materials Science and Engineering Day. This is a day of free demonstrations and workshops related to all things science and engineering related (think liquid nitrogen ice cream and shrinky dink polymers). Information about the day can be found here: phillymaterials.org.
Mrs. Gillespie and Mr. Riley will take a van down to the event if there are students interested who need help with transportation.
Transportation Reminder
As we are now into the winter months, here are few things to remember regarding transportation and school closings. If you child takes school district transportation, please make sure that you pay attention to your individual school district’s instructions. If your district is delayed, your child’s bus will be delayed, if your district is closed, your child will not have transportation to Hill Top. If Hill Top is open and your district is closed, your child’s absence will not be counted as a day out of school. If Hill Top closes due to the weather, you will receive an automated phone call letting you know the status of the day. In addition, you will see the information on our school’s website, and all of the major TV stations will have our school name and status on the “crawl” at the bottom of the screen. Our school phone message will have the information as well. Please contact me with any questions at [email protected].
Happy Birthday to: Ms.Kroberger and Bella Vaughan!