DON’T MISS Hill’s 50th Anniversary Car Parade THIS Saturday, November 7 from 10:00 – 11:00am! Plan to swing by the school to celebrate along with teachers, staff and Dash safely from the comfort of your vehicle. See route below! (Plan to queue on Cima Serena heading West.)
**PK – 2nd encouraged to come between 10:00 and 10:30 am
**3rd – 5th encouraged to come between 10:30 am and 11:00 am.
Move over October, November is here. Plantings you can still do in November include planning strawberries, herb transplants, native wildflowers, and spring bulbs. But be ready to cover in case of a deep freeze. This month’s garden activity is called Plant People. Let’s make our own homemade chia pet! Instructions are found here from KidsGardening.org. Once you are done, post us a picture or video of your plant person in the November Garden Activity discussion page of the Hill Library’s Blend tile. Let us know your plant person’s name and whole life story.
A few community beds remain in the Hill School Garden. If your family is interested, please contact hillschoolgarden@gmail.com.
Dear Hill Community,
What an amazing weekend celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hill School! It was so fulfilling to see our community together in one place.
For those that didn’t hear, Mayor Adler and the City of Austin proclaimed Saturday, November 7th, as “Hill Elementary Day” in celebration of 50 amazing years of educating students. We want to give a special thank you to the office of Council Member Alter for supporting this honor. Throughout the week we had some of our assemblies focus on our Hill history and the Hill sisters. The car parade yesterday was the perfect way to cap the week. One last special thank you to Liz Neff, our volunteers, our staff, and our sponsors for organizing this special event. Thank you to all of our community members and special guests that brought their Dillo Cheer to the parade yesterday. These will be great memories we can add to the legacy of Hill!
Be sure to tune into our Wednesday assembly video this week as we honor our veterans with a special guest presenter (and veteran) from our Hill staff. We thank all of those who have served this country through the military and hope you have a well deserved day of recognition on Wednesday, November 11th. The video can be found in our normal assembly video slideshow.
Our next Principal Coffee will be this upcoming Wednesday, November 11th, at 4:00 pm. Here is the Zoom information:
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 813 2206 6151
Passcode: dillos
We are excited to announce that our Hill Virtual Book Fair begins today! It is different this year with no physical items on campus. We are also working with Book People, a local Austin company! Below is the URL and the code to use to ensure that your purchases go to supporting our Hill library. Be sure to utilize this code at checkout. The book fair will run for two weeks until November 21st. Thank you for your support and this is a great way to do some holiday shopping! Also notice that we have teacher wish lists which we appreciate support on as well for the classroom.
Bookfair Code: HILL20
Coupon URL
Whether it is through the virtual book fair or nominating our amazing staff for an Austin ISD RAVE Award, thank you for all the support right now. We look forward to an excellent 10 days of learning before our fall break. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and happy day after Hill Elementary Day!
Principal Drummond
The 5th grade class is selling a commemorative throw blanket to help celebrate Hill Elementary’s 50th year! This fun, interactive and cozy sweatshirt throw blanket will not only keep you warm, but will spark memories of the places your kids spent their days during their wonderful years at Hill. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to buy this limited edition keepsake, and help raise money for the 5th grade class legacy gift! Deadline to order is Friday, November 13. The throws are 50″ x 60″ and cost $35. ORDER NOW!
Dear Hill Community,
We hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween if your family took part in festivities. Here is a picture of our Charlie Brown at home. Enjoy this beautiful fall weather!
We wanted to update our families on several things for the upcoming week to be aware of. By now, if anything has changed for your students’ class(es), you should have been notified. This week, please note that Tuesday, November 3rd, is a student holiday. Our staff will be participating in professional development that day. Also this upcoming week, our Essential Area classes will move to an ABC schedule. What this means is that synchronous instruction will be taking place each day for all students daily (outside of staff absences). Teachers will still have 30 minute synchronous lessons followed by 15 minutes of asynchronous work. It will be an adjustment but our art, music, and PE teachers are looking forward to the extra face time with students. For face to face students, please also note that our PE teachers, Ms. Perry, and Ms. Herb will begin utilizing their classrooms for instruction with safety protocols in place. There will not be shared materials and spaces will be cleaned after each rotation, as some other schools have been practicing. Finally, there is no more asynchronous Wednesday beginning this week. Wednesday will now look like a regular instructional day as we have been messaging for a few weeks now.
Be sure to check out our Principal Check-In from this past Wednesday. We will not have one this upcoming week as we have quite a bit going on around campus!
One discussion point on Wednesday was the carline and Hill traffic pattern now that we have seen what it looks like with our phased-in group. For arrival and dismissal, thank you for queuing for the carline down Tallwood toward Cima Serena. Please do not take left turns into our front driveway! This is actually illegal during these times and an existing city sign is being relocated to the new entrance. Do be aware, however, that our teacher parking lot now shares that same entrance. You may see staff needing to pull in to park, and we appreciate everyone keeping that space open where the double arrows are so teachers can pull past the line to prepare for the day. Families have also shared that pulling around the car line is tough right now at the Cima Serena/Tallwood intersection. If you want to park and walk, we recommend using Hyridge as the corridor to make your way to campus. Thank you all for supporting safe traffic and queuing around Hill! And please utilize our crosswalks to avoid jaywalking.
We are now one week away from our big Hill 50th Anniversary Car Parade and cannot wait to see our community come together in this special way on November 7th! The parade route and all of the information is linked here. Please check out the Dillo Details as well this week for any updates and comprehensive information. One last big Dillo Cheer to Liz Neff and our volunteers/sponsors who have made this possible. Have those pom poms ready and show your Hill pride on Saturday morning! We will also have a fun announcement for Friday’s assembly so tune in…
Our Hill childcare is still looking to fill positions. More information was in our letter last week and you can call the school for more information. Have a wonderful week!
Principal Drummond
We are excited that the time is here to celebrate our Custodians and Bus Drivers! Hill families, let’s show our treasured custodians AND favorite bus drivers how much we appreciate them the Week of November 2nd. They will be so surprised and grateful to hear words of thanks, see heartfelt cards made by our little dillos, and even enjoy a breakfast taco or afternoon snack! Our custodians are James Ewing, Rosa Flores-Reyes, Elberto Jaimes, Robert Patino, & Juan Zavaleta. If your dillo is a bus rider, please remember your fabulous friend this week. To see the whole year’s Staff Appreciation schedule click here and reach out with any questions to appreciation@hillelementary.com.
Don’t forget to join us TOMORROW MORNING (Saturday, November 7th) anytime between 10:00 – 11:00am for Hill’s 50th Anniversary Car Parade! Plan to swing by the school and make some noise to celebrate along with teachers, staff and Dash safely from the comfort of your vehicle. See route below and more info here!
**PK – 2nd encouraged to come between 10:00 and 10:30 am
**3rd – 5th encouraged to come between 10:30 am and 11:00 am.
(Plan to queue on Cima Serena heading West and turn Right on Tallwood into the Circle Drive.)
Click here to view the video from the Principal Check-In held on Wednesday, October 28th.
The Book Fair will be VIRTUAL this year with Book People. We are excited to partner with a local bookstore and raise money for our school at the same time! It will be a piece of cake to shop online with the benefit of curbside pickup or shipping – SO EASY! Mark your calendar to shop online November 8th – 21st. More details to come!
The next Campus Advisory Council (CAC) Meeting will be held virtually on Monday, November 2nd at 3:30pm. Please click here for the agenda.
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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