Hillcrest Public School

✨🎶 Students from Mme Nesbitt and Mme Bailey’s classes headed uptown to share the spirit of the season! With joyful voices and big smiles, they sang holiday songs and handed out handmade cards to brighten the day of everyone they met.

🎄 Holiday Dinner in the Gym! 🎄 
Today we gathered as a school community to share a festive meal and celebrate the season together. Great food, big smiles, and lots of holiday cheer. Huge thanks to everyone who helped make it happen—you’re the best! ❤️✨

🔥 VOLLEYBALL FINALS HIGHLIGHTS! 🔥 What a day for our teams! 💪 🏐 Girls’ Volleyball – They battled through intense, nail-biting games and showed incredible heart, but fell just short against Wyoming Public. We couldn’t be prouder of their fight and teamwork! 👏 🏐 Boys’ Volleyball – CHAMPIONS! 🏆 They brought the heat and took down Centennial in the finals! Amazing hustle and team spirit all the way! 🙌 Huge shoutout to our phenomenal coaches: M. Chalupka, M. Triest, M. Kennefick, and Mlle Purdy – your leadership and dedication made this season unforgettable! 💛💙 Way to represent our school with pride!

Our Grade 8 students built their own water filtration systems to learn how science tackles real-world challenges like clean water access. Amazing creativity and problem-solving in action! 💧👏

Our whole school had an incredible day at Sloan’s Village, coming together for fresh air, fun, and lots of shared laughter 🌲❄️ Students, staff and family spent the day playing, exploring, and enjoying outdoor activities that brought everyone together across grades and classes. So much fresh air made for sleepy students on the bus ride back. 😴 We are so grateful to everyone who made this possible with a special shoutout to Mme Wernham for planning it.

Our Learning Buddies had a festive afternoon together! 🍫🎄 After teaming up to bake delicious brownies, the buddies got creative with Christmas-themed frosting. They experimented with how mixing primary colours can help make classic holiday shades—like rich greens and merry reds—to decorate their treats. It was the perfect mix of hands-on learning, teamwork, and holiday cheer. Proud of our buddies for measuring, mixing, experimenting, and creating a delicious treat! ✨

Smiles for miles. 😀 Nothing beats the first major snowfall. ❄️

We hope you can join us! We promise ample seating this year ;)

You've got this, Dragons!

Our Student Parliament spent the day shopping for gifts to support the Christmas for Everyone campaign. ❤️🎁 With thoughtful lists in hand and lots of excitement, they chose toys, games, and sporting equipment for children in our community who could use a little extra joy this season. We’re proud of their kindness, leadership, and the way they show what it truly means to give back.🎄✨ We continue to accept toy donations at the school this week and next week we will begin our Food Drive campaign!

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Today our students and staff traded places for Swap Day— and the results were hilarious. Students showed up dressed like their teachers, complete with glasses, golf shirts, cardigans and name badges that looked almost too real. Meanwhile, our teachers committed fully to the role reversal, rocking pigtails, hoodies, and socks and sandals with impressive confidence. It was a day full of laughs, creativity, and community spirit. Thanks to everyone who joined in and made Swap Day such a memorable moment!

It's hard to believe that we're already thinking about the holiday season. Take a look at the beautiful options available by our School Council.

👩‍🏫👟 Get Ready for Swap Day! 👟👨‍🎓 This Friday, we’re flipping the script — staff will dress like students, and students will dress like staff! Grab your blazers, coffee mugs, hoodies, or backpacks and get ready for a day full of laughs and school spirit. We can’t wait to see everyone’s creative outfits! 🙌✨

Our students have been exploring the large Indigenous Peoples Map of Canada, learning about the many Nations, languages, and lands that make up our country. They’ve been curious, thoughtful, and full of great questions as we talked about treaties and the importance of being treaty people. 🤝

November's Colour House activity is approaching. Don't forget to dress in colour to earn points for your team!

Some ghostly crafts happening in Mme Myers class today. But, no worries, we called the Ghostbusters. They ain't afraid of no ghosts! 👻

Don't forget your costume tomorrow!

Whether you're a lifelong fan or just hopping on the bandwagon, everyone’s invited to celebrate our Toronto Blue Jays in style! ⚾