Last Friday we had our October Hilltop ROCKS day! This is a day where students get to choose an activity that they choose for meeting positive behavior expectations and getting all their work turned in. This month students were able to choose from mountain biking, fake wound make-up tutorials, 5K run, board games, movies, decoupage art, Perler bead art, slime making, basketball and pumpkin painting.
Wednesday is Anything But a Backpack Day!
Tuesday is Twin Day!
Spirit week is here!
Monday is PJ day!
Hello Parents and Guardians of Hilltop Middle School students,
At Hilltop, it is our goal to avoid any students to “fall through the cracks” and give as much support as possible for students to learn what is needed to be successful high school students. When a student has missed a deadline for an assignment they are put on ICU. You as a guardian, will receive an email or text alerting you that your student is behind on their school work. We ask that you have a discussion with your child and support your child to get caught up. In addition it is a requirement that all students must be off ICU to participate in afterschool activities and sports, this includes the upcoming 7th and 8th grade dance and Hilltop ROCKS event on October 27th.
We currently have 111 students with missing assignments. This is a very high number of students on ICU for our school. We are asking for your help! Please check your emails and texts and ask your student to finish their work at home. We also provide many opportunities at school for students to get caught up!
Before School - 8:00-8:30 am Tuesday and Thursday mornings
LUNCH - working lunch in the Solutions room
After School - Dylan Jude Community Center (tutors present to help)
Please see attached flier for times.
Thank you for being a partner in your child’s education.
Sincerely,
Cheri Lloyd, Principal
Hilltop Middle School will be participating in the Great Shake Out on Thursday, October 19 at 10:19 in the morning. All students and staff will practice earthquake procedures during this time.
Hilltop honored students for Kindness in September.
Hilltop Middle School participates in the Food4Kids program. If you have a middle school student who would benefit from receiving a food bag every weekend, please fill out the application attached.
We had a great first three days at Hilltop Middle School! Yesterday we had our first assembly and stressed our Strive for 5, Turn it Off by 10 campaign. Did you know that Hilltop had a 54% chronic absenteeism rate last year. That means over half of our students were absent more than 2 days each month. Help our students get to school and come ready to learn!
The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum announces the opening of Coming Home: A Tour of Ilwaco, on view April 15 - May 6, 2023. The exhibit celebrates the launch of a digitally-based walking tour created by CPHM and students from Hilltop School and Ilwaco High School. An opening reception will be held on April 15 at CPHM from 1-3 pm, with a program beginning at 1:30 pm.
For more information, check out our website at columbiapacificheritagemuseum.org
The Museum is open Wednesday - Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm. Admission is FREE, thanks to our Members like Ocean Beach Hospital and the Port of Ilwaco.
CPHM Ford Photo Collection: Ilwaco, First and Spruce Streets, looking south. c1899
Today our hearts go out to families in Texas who suffered such a tragedy yesterday. As adults this can be a difficult topic to discuss with children. If this comes up in your home, or you would like more resources to help you know how to speak with your children about tragic events in the news, we invite you to explore these resources.
https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/helping-children-with-tragic-events-in-the-news
https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-safety-and-crisis/school-violence-resources/talking-to-children-about-violence-tips-for-parents-and-teachers
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/explaining-the-news-to-our-kids
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-school-shootings
https://www.apa.org/topics/gun-violence-crime/shooting-aftermath
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Thank you school board; Ocean Beach School District appreciates all you do for our students, staff and district! You go above and beyond doing what is best for kids!
Tiffany Turner, John Holtermann, Anna Taft, Don Zuern and Nansen Malin; you are wonderful!
Ocean Beach Families:
We have been made aware of a TikTok trend pertaining to nationwide school shootings and bomb threats supposedly being planned to take place on Friday, December 17th. There have been no threats against the Ocean Beach School District. Local law enforcement agencies are aware of this nationwide trend and will support us. If you become aware of a specific threat to our district, please report it immediately. If you see something, say something. We will continue to monitor the situation along with law enforcement. Threats to our school or individuals will not be tolerated.
Rumor Control
There are apparently rumors floating around Facebook regarding COVID testing and vaccination. To be clear the school district will do NO testing and/or vaccinating without parent permission.
We are offering COVID testing in order to shorten quarantine periods; however, it is always the parent's choice and parent permission is required each time. The only exception to this is the required rapid testing for athletics. This testing is approved by the parent at the start of the sports season.
As for vaccination, we will send out information for parents who are interested to know when and where they can get their children vaccinated, but we are not in the vaccination business, and we will not be vaccinating students. If we offer a vaccination clinic on a school campus, that, again, would be for parents who are interested and would not be a function of the school district. We would simply be allowing an outside provider such as the health department to vaccinate students that parents bring to the clinic.
As for requiring vaccination for students, we are not in support of this at this time because this vaccination has not gone through the full medical process, and are, in fact, lobbying the governor to not take this step at this time. Chris Reykdal and the state superintendents are in favor of waiting until the medical community does its full review. This vaccination is new, and any process to require it should take time for the medical research to be fully vetted. We are not in support of a vaccination mandate for students until full medical revue occurs.
I hope this helps alleviate some concerns.
The Ocean Beach School District has openings, and we'd love for some of our wonderful community members to consider applying to work for us! Open positions are as follows:
* Floating Teacher for Long Beach - BA needed, teaching certificate preferred
* English Teacher for Ilwaco High School - BA needed, teaching certificate preferred
* Paraprofessionals - Long Beach Elementary, Hilltop School, and Ilwaco High School both special education and general education positions are available.
* District Office Receptionist and District Data Coordinator
* Substitute Bus Drivers and Custodians