News From Across GMRSD
08 May 2020
Hillcrest Elementary School
Friday News
May 8, 2020
Dear Hillcrest Families,
Happy Friday to all of you! In this very strange time of staying at home, it seems that we often need reminders about the days of the week. We could probably all benefit from the sweet morning routine of the Days of the Week songs that we enjoy in our preschool and kindergarten classrooms each day! The days do seem to blend together these days and with the arrival of warmer weather, it’s tempting to treat each one like the weekend. However, teaching and learning are...
07 May 2020
Principal Newsletter for May 7, 2020
● If you haven’t already shared a warm wish for your teacher(s), please do so, it is National Teacher Appreciation Week!
● A huge “Thank you” to all who contributed a poem or came to read a poem on our poet trees! Great pictures of second grade students hanging their poems as well as a great article of our community building project!
● A warm welcome to Rebecca (Becca) Levit who has been hired to cover Mrs. Provost’s maternity leave. Becca has been interning at Sheffield and has been joining class meets this week to...
05 May 2020
Hillcrest Teacher Parade
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 beginning at 1:30p.m.
Teachers from Hillcrest School will be rolling through the streets of Turners Falls – we want to see you!
Route: beginning at Turners Falls High School at 1:30pm, down Turnpike Rd, right onto Montague City Rd, onto Avenue A (around 1:40p.m.), right onto 2nd St, right onto L St, onto Montague St, left onto Griswold St, right onto Turners Falls Rd
Please be aware of social distancing!
•Do not congregate along the route – spread out!
•Do not approach the cars in the parade – wave!
•Stay on the sidewalk...
04 May 2020
Gill Montague is distributing this information as a public service for our homeless families and for children in foster care.
The Department of Public Health is sharing the following information on access to WIC services and food for our families with young children.
The MA Department of Public Health's Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program is informing our health and community partners that WIC services are available by phone. ALL WIC Programs are able to provide all services by phone to align with social distancing efforts. Our...
01 May 2020
Hillcrest Elementary School
Friday News
May 1, 2020
Dear Hillcrest Families,
Today is National School Lunch Hero Day. Normally, we would celebrate this day at Hillcrest with Thank You posters made by our students and Thank You songs sung by each grade level at the start of that day’s lunch. Given the school closure, we will have to express our thanks virtually to Mary Savinski and Kim Watroba, our Hillcrest cafeteria staff. I am so grateful for Mary and Kim and everything that they do to keep our Hillcrest students well fed at...
30 Apr 2020
Principal Newsletter for April 30,2020
● The governor has given the directive that we are not retaining students due to the early closure of school. We will be passing each child onto the next grade. More information will be shared in the coming weeks about this.
● If you are looking for something to do, please walk up or drive and visit the school to read the poems hanging on our ‘poet trees’. They will be up until May 7th. There was a nice article today’s Montague Reporter on this event. It’s not too late to add a poem!
● We are...