{"id":44,"date":"2025-04-08T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/hillcrest-elementary-school\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:09:22","slug":"our-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/hillcrest-elementary-school\/about-us\/our-school","title":{"rendered":"Our School"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;]\n\t\t\t[et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;]\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221;]\n<p>Hillcrest Elementary School is a Title I school, educating students from pre-kindergarten through first grade. With so many little ones under our roof, every day is fun and exciting. Just take a walk through our corridors, and listen to the happy learning going on. As you do, you\u2019ll know your child is in the right place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hillcrest Pre-kindergarten<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our pre-kindergarten students engage in a variety of learning experiences. Each classroom is led by a Massachusetts certified early childhood teacher, and we are happy to have teaching assistants in each classroom as well. Through participation in music, art, physical education, and library, our three- through five-year-olds gain the tools they will need to progress through kindergarten and beyond. Please visit our school district website to learn more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/hillcrest-elementary-school\/preschool\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"132\">GMRSD Preschool Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hillcrest Kindergarten &#8211; 1st Grade<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We strive to create an exciting and rigorous academic program for all of our students. We also acknowledge the importance of the arts and physical education in a well-rounded education and foster these offerings within our school curriculum. We closely align all areas of our curriculum with the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doe.mass.edu\/frameworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Massachusetts State Frameworks<\/a>&nbsp;and the other schools in the Gill-Montague Regional School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our curriculum includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Computer Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Art<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Field Trips<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English Language Arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Math<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Social Curriculum<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We at Hillcrest Elementary incorporate the practices of Responsive Classroom in everything we do throughout the school day. 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