Click to download the 2022-23 Hillside Calendar. You can also access the school calendar via the ESF App.

13-16 February: K1 PTCs

20-23 February:  K2 PTCs

20 February: Parent Webinar - Developing Language Skills 

3 March: Hillside Family Event

14-15 March: School Photo Days

31 March: Staff Meeting Day (No Classes)

3-14 April: Spring Break (School Closed)

17 April: Term 3 Commences

9 May: Parent Webinar - Why Sleep Matters

Dear Hillside Families

Happy Lunar New Year! Most importantly, I wish everyone a safe and healthy Year of the Rabbit!

Looking ahead to this term, we have several items already planned. Please keep an eye out on the "Upcoming Dates" section of the newsletter. A few upcoming events include Parent-Teacher Conferences, School Photo Days, the Hillside Family Day and Parent Webinars. Further details will follow as we approach each event. 

Warm regards
Audrey

We are constantly reviewing and refining our systems, and your feedback is an invaluable part of this process. 

We would therefore be very grateful if you would share your thoughts with us in our ESF Stakeholder Survey.

In the coming days, we will share an online questionnaire with you, which should take about 10 minutes to complete. We will also be sending surveys to staff and students.  

Our schools will fully analyse the information collected in these surveys, and the results will inform future planning. 

The survey will close on 12 February, and we assure you that respondents will be anonymous unless they choose to identify themselves. 

As always, I want to thank you for your continuous support.

Your child's Sharing the Planet Unit of Inquiry report is now available for viewing. Please refer to the graphics below to access your child's report. When viewing the report, we invite those parents interested in contributing by adding your comment in the "parent response to learning" box.

K1 Term 2 PTC sign-ups are now available. Please look out for a separate app message with further information and make an appointment at your earliest convenience. You will have a choice of 2 days, appointments are about 10-15 minutes long for each child.  Please appreciate that these are the dates when we have arranged cover for teachers, and we would like to keep to them as much as possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us on 2540-0066. These meetings will take place via Zoom, so please be reminded to Zoom from a quiet space to avoid poor audio connections. Please also note it will be a normal school day for the children as classes will continue as per usual throughout the PTC week.

Title: Developing Language Skills (and the impact from COVID)

When: Monday, 20 February 2023, 12-1pm

Speaker: Joice Almeida is a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist and a specialist in the field of Feeding Therapy. 

The key topics Joice will cover are:

• Receptive Language development from 2 to 5 years 
• Expressive language development from 2 to 5 years
• Pragmatic skills development 
• Red flags for speech and language delay
• How covid has affected children's language development and pragmatic skills
• Parents strategies how to support language development

Please CLICK HERE to REGISTER in advance. 

Title: Why Sleep Matters

When: Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 12-1pm

Details and registration to follow.