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This Week
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Monday, January 12
- Hillview Parent Education Speaker Series: Susan Stone Belton, "Real Parents, Real Kids, Real Talk," 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Hillview PAC
Wednesday, January 14
- MPCSD Board Meeting, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., District Office, TERC Building,181 Encinal Avenue, Atherton
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Looking Ahead
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- No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 20
- Meet and Greet with Mr. B and DEWey O'Haugmeister, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., the Oasis, 241 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Thursday, January 22
- Science Fair, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m., Hillview PAC
Saturday, January 24
- Hillview Regional Choral Concert, 2:00 p.m., Hillview PAC
Monday, January 26
- Hillview music ensembles perform at the M-A Joint Concert, 7:00 p.m., Menlo-Atherton PAC
Friday, January 30
- Hillview Jazz Band performs at the CMEA Jazz Festival, 7:35 p.m., College of San Mateo Music Department Theater
- 8th grade baby pictures due for yearbook
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Hillview Speaker Series
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"Real Parents, Real Kids, Real Talk"
Susan Stone Belton
Hillview Middle School, PAC
Monday, January 12, 2015, 6:30 p.m
Family Coach, Author, and Motivational Speaker Susan Stone Belton uses humor and real life situations to show you how to build a healthy, loving and rewarding relationship with your children that will last a lifetime. See why spending time with your kids is the most important thing a parent can do, learn new communication techniques that help to develop close bonds, and discover how to calmly and competently deal with your child's behavior in any situation and at every age. Please join us for this informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining presentation that is aimed for parents with children of any age. Free childcare is provided on-site for all potty trained children. For more information, contact Jennifer Allen.
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Meet and Greet with Mr. B and DEWey O'Haugmeister
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Please save the date: Tuesday, January 20 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. at the Oasis, 241 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Come meet and get caught up on the exciting things going on at Hillview with Mr. B and DEWey O'Haugmeister (Hillview's leadership trio of Danielle O'Brien, Erik Burmeister, and Willy Haug) in a fun, casual setting. Superintendent Dr. Maurice Ghysels will be there as well. This is a no-host event but appetizers will be provided (as long as they last), thanks to your Hillview PTO and the MPAEF.
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Hilliview Character Education Needs Parent Volunteers
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Hillview needs many parent volunteers to moderate its next Character Education sessions for 7th and 8th graders on Wednesday and Thursday, January 14 and 15, for about 1.5 hours.
Topic: The Character Education topic for January is Empathy and Communication. The sessions are very easy to moderate and although the lessons are scripted, you can add your own style to it.
When: Please moderate one or more sessions on Wednesday and/or Thursday, January 14 or 15, by clicking here and signing up for one or more time slots that are most convenient for you: Where: Check in at the Hillview Office and you will be assigned a room.
Volunteer Training sessions: Parent Volunteer Trainings will be held on Monday, January 12 at 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday, January 13 at 11:00 a.m. in the Hillview Office Conference Room. Please consider volunteering even if you cannot make theses training times. Other arrangements to prepare you can be made. If you cannot make either of these training times or if you have any questions, please contact Hillview counselor Robyn Watts. This important program depends upon dozens of volunteers, so please sign-up. We very much appreciate your support!
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2015-16 Hillview PTO Board Nominations Sought
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Six parent volunteers are needed to identify and nominate the 2015-2016 Hillview PTO Executive Board Members. The Nominating Committee will consist of three parent volunteers from the west side of town (Oak Knoll), and three parent volunteers from the east side of town (Encinal). The Committee will meet a few times between February and April to identify potential candidates for the Hillview PTO Board Executive Committee slate for the 2015-2016 school year. You may nominate yourself or someone you know to this committee. Please email Dean Wilkins with your nominations.
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New SAMTrans Afternoon Bus Added
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Good news! Beginning January 12, SAMTrans will be adding a second afternoon bus to route 83 to alleviate overcrowding. The second bus will arrive at school at 3:20 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday and at 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. For a link to SAMTrans bus routes, click here.
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Hillview Music News
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We've just returned from Winter Break and already we have a number of events coming up!
Congratulations to the following musicians who were selected to perform in the California Association for Music Education (CMEA) Bay Section Honors Festival this Friday and Saturday at Chabot College:
Jakob Rauen - Concert Band
Benjamin Mittler - Orchestra
Karina Takayama - Orchestra
Samantha Cotto - Chorus
Sara Milanfar - Chorus
They spent Friday rehearsing and then performed on Saturday with selected musicians from all over the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley. This was truly an experience they will never forget!
UPCOMING LOCAL CONCERTS
Mark your calendar! Monday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. is the M-A Joint Concert featuring ensembles from Hillview, La Entrada and M-A. Come hear chamber music, concert bands, jazz bands and string orchestras in the M-A PAC. Did you know that the M-A Orchestra was selected to perform at Carnegie Hall, NYC this Spring?!?
On Friday, January 30, the Hillview Jazz Band will be traveling to the College of San Mateo to participate in the CMEA Jazz Festival. Groups from throughout the SF Peninsula will meet to play and participate in clinics and workshops. It is FREE. Hillview will be performing at 7:35 p.m. in the music department theater. Check it out!
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Intramural and After-School Sports
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Intramural Sports:Basketball games will continue for the time being. Games will be half court.
Tournament Team Basketball: We congratulate the tournament team boys for their efforts in the annual Evergreen Tournament in San Jose over the weekend. Both tournament teams will play in the annual St. Simons Tournament next week from January 22-25.
Burgess League and MPMSL (8th Grade) Basketball: Teams will continue with practices and league games. Games are: Tuesdays (6th grade girls), Wednesdays (6th grade boys), Thursdays (7th grade girls), Fridays (7th grade boys), Mondays (8th grade boys and girls).
After School Tennis: Registration is scheduled to begin the week of January 25. Tennis begins in early March and has filled up fast during the past few years. The program is limited to 60 players.
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New After School Classes Offered
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Information on after school classes has been updated for Winter and Spring Sessions. Please visit our website to see the updated schedule and new classes which include Speech and Debate and Writing, More details about the Cooking class are below.
Join Junior Chef Stars as they lead their second session with all new recipes at Hillview! In this 8 week session, students will learn impressive cooking techniques as they create delicious meals. Your junior chef will also learn some of the 'behind the scenes' science as to why chefs add specific ingredients to their recipes and what they do. For more information, and registration, visit www.juniorchefstars.com and click on Hillview's first session starting January 12. Bon Appetit!
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Hillview Science Fair Open House
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The annual Hillview Science Fair takes place on Thursday, January 22 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Hillview PAC. This is your opportunity to view all of the hard work and innovative projects by our own Hillview scientists!
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8th Grade Baby Pictures due January 30
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In this year's Hillview Yearbook, there will be a baby picture collage where you can submit your child's baby picture to be included with other 8th graders. This service is offered to 8th grade families free of charge to thank you for your support.
In addition, we are continuing to offer optional dedication ads you may purchase for your 8th grader. We are using an online system where you and your child get to personalize everything about the ad. Some parents like to use it to immortalize a message to their child along with a baby picture; others create a timeline using multiple photos of their child through the years.
Please see the attached file for more specific instructions on how to either submit a baby picture for the collage or order/create the dedication ad. Please note that both the dedication ad and the baby picture submissions are due January 30, 2015.
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M-A 8th Grade Information Night
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Please join us in the Hillview PAC on Wednesday, January 28, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. for an overview of M-A's academic, athletic and extracurricular offerings presented by Simone Kennel, Interim Co-Principal, College Advisor Alice Kleeman, and six current M-A students. The evening is a much smaller event than the info night hosted at M-A in the Fall and has an interactive format, with the greater portion of the evening devoted to a Q & A session. M-A students (& Hillview alums) will round out the panel to answer your and your students' questions about life at Menlo-Atherton.
The event is for 8th grade parents and students, but 7th grade families are encouraged to attend. Hope to see you there! Questions? Email Amy Boyle or call 323-5438.
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Newsletter Details
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This newsletter is published by PTO parent volunteers every Sunday of the school year, except for Sundays preceding a full week of vacation.
Submissions: The deadline to submit for the Sunday Hillview Newsletter is Wednesday at noon. Please email your submission to newsletter@hillviewpto.org. Please note that submissions may be edited for content and/or length. Submissions received after the deadline will be eligible for inclusion the following week. Submissions are eligible to run for two weeks.
To submit an announcement for an off-campus community event, please email your announcement to communitynews@mpcsd.org. The submission deadline is Wednesday at noon for the following Sunday newsletter. Archives: Missed an exciting edition of the Hillview newsletter or letters from the school or PTO? Look up past mailings in our online archive.
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