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In This Issue
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Fall Photo Days
Academy Support
Hot Lunch
Volunteers Needed
Hillview Information
New Family Social
After-School Programs
Debate Night
Library News
Sports
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Quick Links
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Questions? Email:
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This Week
Tuesday, September 1
- MPCSD Board Meeting, 6:00 p.m., District Office, TERC Building, 181 Encinal Avenue, Atherton
Wednesday, September 2
- New Family Social, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., RSVP here
- Picture Day during PE Classes
Thursday, September 3
- Picture Day during PE Classes
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Looking Ahead
Monday, September 7 Wednesday, September 9 - Back to School Night, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., all grades
Tuesday, September 15 - Hillview Drama Potluck, 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 16- "Surviving and Thriving the Middle School Years: Supporting Your Student at Hillview," with Principal Willy Haug, 6:30 p.m., Hillview PAC
Thursday, September 17 - Debate Night with Coach Brier Buchalter, 6:30 p.m., Hillview PAC
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Hillview School News
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Picture Days on September 2 and 3: iClickSmiles Photography will be photographing students at Hillview during their PE classes on Wednesday and Thursday (September 2 and 3). There are no envelopes to fill out ahead of time; all students will be photographed, and parents wishing to place an order can do so via the iClick Smiles website. You will be able to view and order your photos online about 10 days after photo day. Click here to see some important tips from our school photographer, iClickSmiles. Additional emails with clothing recommendations and reminders will be sent before the photo day. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact iClickSmiles by clicking here.
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PTO News
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Academy Support Needed: Now that your kids know their academies, sign up to support them and their teachers with events, activities and snacks. Academy support teams are the parents who will get first hand news about opportunities to support and be involved in the academy.
8th grade parents -- your students need you...to volunteer as an Academy Parent! Teachers count on the support of Academy Parents to help them communicate with families and coordinate activities and events throughout the year, and we're still in need of 5-6 8th grade parent volunteers for this important job. Being an Academy Parent doesn't require a significant time commitment, and is the ideal opportunity for parents who want to stay connected but can't be on campus during the day. Please sign up by clicking here today. Thank you!
Help with Hot Lunch: Calling all 6th, 7th and 8th grade parents! We need you to help serve Hot Lunch! We've got 25 volunteer slots to fill so please consider signing up for a once a month position. It's less than an hour commitment and one of the best ways to connect with the students during the school day. Please email hotlunch@hillviewpto.org to sign up.
Volunteering at Hillview -- We Need You! We would love to keep you in the loop about other fun and rewarding volunteer activities at Hillview! To read about opportunities and select which events interest you, please complete the online volunteer form. Filling out the form takes only a few minutes and will ensure that you hear about volunteer opportunities in the categories you select. Hillview Information: For additional information about upcoming school events, After-School Sports, After-School Programs, a regularly updated calendar of events and more, please visit our Hillview PTO website here. Did you know that Hillview also has a Facebook page? Please follow Hillview to keep up on the latest!
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MPAEF & Hillview PTO Joint Campaign
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The PTO and the MPAEF continue their joint efforts to make Hillview the best it can be for our kids. However, we need you to help us. Join us as we invest in education.
Together, we INSPIRE in our children a love of learning
Together, we INVOLVE ourselves in their learning journey
Together, we INVEST in their future
When you support the PTO, you make curriculum enrichment, field trips, community building events, and well-supplied classrooms possible.
When you support the MPAEF, you are putting 32 more teachers in our classrooms, as well as making sure our schools are supplied with guidance and wellness counselors and credentialed specialists in science, library, physical education, technology, and the arts.
When you support the PTO at $250 per child and the MPAEF at $1500 per child, this is the real difference you make in their education:
PTO donations are due by September 30. Please make your gift or pledge to the MPAEF by November 6. You can also reach out to your MPAEF school ambassador, Laura Paul. Click here to support these organizations today. Thank you for your support!
 New Family Social on Wednesday, September 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.: The MPAEF, in partnership with Hillview's PTO, would like to welcome all new parents to a casual Welcome Social at a fellow Hillview family's home. You will meet our principal, Willy Haug, our Superintendent, Maurice Ghysels, and our MPAEF and Hillview PTO leaders; they'll be talking about our amazing school and our community-funded school district. Our goal is to make this a fun and educational evening for you to meet other parents and to hear about what is happening at Hillview and in our District. Cheese, crackers and wine will be provided. Parents only please. Click here to RSVP.
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Programs & Activities
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Hillview After-School Programs
Hillview's PTO is excited to offer its students a wide array of after-school programs this fall! We have a few new program offerings, as well as returning favorites. From Chess, to Mandarin, to Lacrosse and Cross Country, there is something for every student's interest! Click on any of the links below to gather more specific information about each program, including a description of the program, registration links and pricing. Please keep in mind that each program will only be offered if the minimum student enrollment is reached. For more information, see Hillview After-School Programs.
Scholarships are available; if interested, please contact your child's counselor. Questions? Contact Erica Galles, PTO After-School Programs Coordinator.
Debate Night
Come meet Coach Brier Buchalter, a Speech and Debate expert, who runs the Hillview Debate Team, as well as teams at Encinal and Oak Knoll. He organizes debate tournaments and programs across the Bay Area to benefit a wide range of students. Coach Brier's mission for his students is to live an examined life, continuously grow and change the world! He and his students would like to invite you and your children to come take part in the experience, starting with Debate Night on Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hillview PAC. Students will develop and apply critical thinking and reasoning skills, powerful delivery and effective communication techniques, rapid synthesis of information and paraphrasing of text, and skills to collaborate and effectively engage with diverse partners and consider multiple viewpoints. Library News
Come find a great book at your library! Returning students can check out one book at a time for the next few weeks until all classes have been through the library. Sixth graders will be coming with their classes this week to check out a book. Returning students can also check out up to three eBooks on OverDrive. Click here for directions or bring your device (school iPad or personal device) to the library for help. Book Clubs: Book clubs are starting up! Students interested in meeting monthly at lunch in the library to discuss great books should take one of our surveys. Contest: Tell us all about your favorite book of the summer and be entered into a contest for a gift card! New Teen Section: 8th graders, check out our new TEEN section, full of fabulous books! Be sure to turn in your signed permission slip. Hillview Sports After-School Sports: Hope the first week of school went well for everyone! Fall sports include:
Flag Football: All Hillview students are invited to participate in after-school flag football. Registration continues this week through September 2, although the 8th grade team is full and 6th/7th grade teams are close to being full. If you register after the teams have filled up, you'll be placed on a waiting list. Some waitlisted players have been added to teams already. We'll do our best to add more. Practice will begin on either September 8 or September 10. Click here to register.
Boys Volleyball: The Menlo Park Recreation Department has started a new boys volleyball program. This program will be open to all 4th - 8th grade boys in Menlo Park and outlying areas similar to their current Burgess League girls volleyball and basketball programs. To create interest in a Spring League, Burgess has offered the use of the Arrillaga gym this Fall for a boys only clinic. Registration is now open. The program begins on Wednesday, September 23 and continues on Wednesdays from 5:15 - 6:45 p.m. for middle school boys, through October 28. The coach is Felipe Gonzalez.
Girls Volleyball: Registration will continue until September 2 for the Burgess League Volleyball program. Chances are it's possible to be placed on a waiting list. We'll do the best we can to add wait listed players. Click here to register. Any student registered will be placed on a team provided we have coaches to support the number of teams we have. If you're interested in coaching please notify Harry Bell. Experience is not necessary. No one is expected to coach alone. We normally have at least 2 coaches per team. Team placement workouts will be held on Monday, September 14. League begins week of September 28. Tournament Team Volleyball: The 7th/8th grade Girls Tournament Team has now been selected. Practice will begin this week on Tuesday and Thursday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. We are happy to announce the team will be coached again by Felipe Gonzalez. Questions regarding any of these programs should be directed to Harry Bell at 650.483.4049.
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Parent Education
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Hillview PTO Parent Education Speaker Series: Wednesdays have a whole new meaning in Menlo Park! The Parent Education Speaker Series has a fabulous line up of speakers for this year. Click here for the flier and schedule. Join us for our first event on Wednesday, September 16, at 6:30 p.m. with Principal Haug presenting on "Surviving and Thriving the Middle School Years: Supporting Your Student at Hillview." All events will be held at the Hillview PAC. Free onsite childcare and food will be available.
The M-A Parent Education Series: "Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain" - An evening with Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, Wednesday, September 16, M-A Performing Arts Center (PAC). Event starts at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Click here for tickets.
Internationally acclaimed author and UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel will share the exciting neuroscience behind the heightened social, emotional and creative energy that drives teen behavior showing parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of 12 to 24, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In "Brainstorm," Dr. Siegel dispels a number of commonly held myths about adolescent behavior and demonstrates that during these years children learn vital skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, connect deeply with others, and safely experiment and take risks. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, Siegel explores exciting ways in which understanding how the brain functions can improve the lives of adolescents, making their relationships more fulfilling and less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide. This event is open to parents, students, faculty/staff, and community members. Questions? Please contact Charlene Margot or 650.868.0590.
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MPAEF News
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Shop MPAEF: With every back-to-school purchase you make via MPAEF's shopping portal, you earn money for smaller classrooms, credentialed arts and science specialists, and our teachers' professional development. start at Shop.MPAEF.org and then:
 CLICK on your favorite merchant to activate our referral bonus. We have more than 80 great merchants including Amazon, Target, Nordstrom, and many more.
 SHOP and pay for items as you normally would.
 EARN up to 10% of your purchase total for our schools. It's that EASY!
We don't collect any personally identifiable information, so no new IDs or passwords to remember. Just start at Shop.MPAEF.org, click, shop, and earn for all our schools every time. We've got scads of participating merchants, but start by getting your pens and pencils at Target, your new togs at Gap/Old Navy, and fall sports equipment at Sports Authority.
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Community News
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Menlo-Atherton Lacrosse: Local Lacrosse Club M-A Grizzlies is hosting Fall Ball Program Sunday afternoons from September 27 to November 15. This program is open to all local area boys and girls ages 5 to 15. Affordable, great fast paced fun! Come on out! Click here for more information and to register.
Menlo-Atherton Girls Volleyball Fall 2015 Community Volleyball Clinic: The Menlo-Atherton Girls Volleyball team welcomes all kids in grades 3-8 to participate in the Fall 2015 community volleyball clinic on Friday, September 18, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (check-in begins at 3:30 p.m.). This all-skills clinic and will take place at M-A High School, Ayers Gym, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton. The cost is $30. The current M-A girls teams (freshman, JV and Varsity) will lead the clinic stations and work directly with clinic participants. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to engage with positive role models and strengthen your volleyball skills! All proceeds go to support the Menlo-Atherton Girls Volleyball program. Space is limited, so submit your online registration early here and click on camps/clinics.
Mid-Peninsula Water Polo Club: If your young athlete enjoys swimming and would like to try the fun and fast game of water polo, check out Fall Water Polo for Middle School kids at Menlo-Atherton High School this fall. International pro water polo player Bruno Antonino (Italy) will be coaching this economical two month program that will take your young athlete through the fundamentals and deep into the skills and game awareness needed to play competitive water polo. Don't miss this fun and exciting opportunity! Sign up here. For more information, visit the club website, email or call 650.387.5932.
Scouting for Hillview Boys: Are you looking to climb mountains, ford streams, wrestle bears and safely use potentially dangerous objects? Does learning leadership, helping your neighbors and improving your life skills appeal to you? Do you want to have confidence that the materials that you tie to the roof of your car as an adult will safely make it home from the home improvement store? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Scouting may be for you. We had a stalwart group of Hillview Boys off in the mountains this summer, canoeing great distances, summiting Half Dome, cooking their own meals and having a great time. We are lining up a great year of Scouting and have a few open spots for young men of action. Want to consider joining us? Email here to find out more.
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Newsletter Details
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This newsletter is published by Hillview School 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 hvnewsletter@mpcsd.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 up to 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? Look up past mailings in our online archive.
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