Click to download the 2023-24 Hillside Calendar. You can also access the school calendar via the ESF App.

22 & 23 Jan: K1 Incursion (Details below)

Late Jan/ early Feb: Vision Screening (Reminder below)

8 Feb: Hillside Sports Fun Day TBC

9-16 Feb: Lunar New Year Break (School Closed)

19 Feb: ESF-wide Professional Development Day (No Classes)

Dear Hillside Families

Welcome back, and Happy New Year! We wish you and yours a wonderful and healthy 2024! It is lovely to welcome back everyone, and we are ready to start another term of exciting and engaging learning here at Hillside.

To start the year, we thank our amazing Hillside community for supporting our Bake Sale at the beach picnic. We've collected approximately $6,356 of donations. This donation will help enhance our upcoming incursion/ excursion learning experiences (e.g. paying for the sports day venue coming up in February - save-the-date below!)

Also, thank you for supporting our Christmas Appeal - Rebooked. It has been a Hillside tradition to foster the spirit of giving every Christmas. Not only does this tradition create a connection with our learning community, but it also transfers our learning into an "action." We saved many pre-loved books from going to waste, and more young readers will surely enjoy them. THANK YOU!

On another positive note, our official IB evaluation report is here! We've received an excellent IB Evaluation report from the visiting team. It just reaffirms our shared purpose and efforts. Thanks again to our amazing community and, of course, our PYP Coordinator, Brenda, for leading us through this process! 

Warm regards
Audrey

As part of the K1 Unit of Inquiry Sharing the Planet, we’ve invited LAP & one of their small dogs to visit Hillside and share their knowledge around how to be responsible and take care of pet animals, as well as how we can safely approach dogs when we see them out and about! We look forward to an exciting and rewarding experience with LAP at Hillside!

Dates:
22 January - PM classes
23 January - AM classes

We're thrilled to invite you to our Sports Fun Day on Thursday, 8 February.

Stay tuned for more information, including the schedule and specific details about the various activities. An official invitation with all the necessary information will be sent to you soon.

Monday, 19 February, will be an ESF-wide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) day. All ESF K1-Y2 staff (Teachers and Educational Assistants) will be involved in an Early Years Conference. This day will be a collaborative day across the ESF foundation, focused on sharing best practices, engaging with experts, and aligning learning and teaching practices. 

ESF is seeking student artwork to celebrate the Year of the Dragon for a Lunar New Year card and school displays. Details can be found below and please submit here by 3pm on Friday, January 19, 2024.

1. Format：The artwork can be portrait or landscape

2. Forms：Children can use any paint or method to create original work. They can use oil painting, acrylic painting, sketching, collage, hard pen, printmaking, or any other medium. Digitally processed images and photos however, are not permitted.

3.Submit artwork without a greeting message.

4.Please DO NOT include ‘Hillside Kindergarten’, ‘ESF logo’ or ‘2024’ in your design as we will add this later on.

Hillside has arranged for an optometrist to visit our school for Vision Screening. This important screening is available to all children, and we encourage you to register. Optometrist Suzan Salnikow will visit on 26 January, 5, 6, Feb 2023. Suzan runs a children’s and baby’s optometry clinic at The Matilda International Hospital. The fee is $300.

Ten aspects of vision are screened, please see the attached information sheet. Reports and receipts will be distributed after the screening, together with further advice if needed. 

Registration is via this Eventbrite link [Web Link]

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Please contact kinder@hillside.edu.hk for Lost Property