Hard to believe summer is almost over!  We look forward to welcoming students back to school on  Wednesday, August 21st!

Listed below is a lot of important back to school information.

Back to School Letter

Student Handbook
Please review the 2019-20 Student Handbook

Home Access Updates
Make sure to keep your contact information updated on Home Access!  Should we need to contact you in an emergency, this is our source of your information.  It’s also very important to make sure your current email address is on Home Access to ensure you receive our weekly emails.

School Supplies
At the high school level, there is no set list of school supplies.  Supply needs vary depending on what courses a student is taking.  Teachers will provide a list to students once school starts.  Most students just need some basic supplies (paper, notebook, pen/pencil) to get started.

Free Lunch Applications

Free lunch applications can be done online this year!  Paper copies will also be accepted.

Technology Protection Plan

We strongly encourage you to enroll your student’s device in the Technology Protection Plan!

Coverage lasts for the current school year and is renewable each subsequent school year.

• View the Technology Protection Plan (TPP)
• View the One2One Initiative
• Enroll via MyPaymentsplus.com

Athletic Information
View the 2019-20 Athletic Handbook

Transportation Information

In order to find your bus stop visit the Transportation Department

• In the middle of the screen you will see a green bar, select: Find My Bus Stop
• Under the words BUS STOP, select the 1^ST  tab:  In-District Student
• Enter the requested information:  Student ID and Date of Birth

Important  Links

• One2One Parent Information
• iPad Loan Agreement **in order for students to receive their iPad, the Loan Agreement must be on file.
• iPad Total Protection Plan (insurance for the iPad)
• My Payments Plus
• Athletic Information
• Bus Stops
• Sign up for eNews
  
• Health Form
• PTO Can You Help ?
• Attendance Letter
• HDV Printable Calendar – Updated
• 2019-20 Student Insurance Information
• HR Imaging School Picture Information
• Parking Registration Form 2019-20

We are so excited to welcome students back to the Hilliard City Schools on Wednesday, August 21. Part of the excitement of the start of school is capturing those first day pictures and friend reunions! Let’s work together to share and tweet all the excitement of the first day of school.

Use #HCSD1 to tweet our students, teachers, drivers and parents as we experience the first day of school. Last year we were able to get #HCSD1 trending across the city! We hope to be able to share in your first day excitement after all, it’s the Hilliard Way!

Preparing students to be Ready for Tomorrow takes academics, interests, and mindset. Join us to learn more about how, and why, HCSD is emphasizing social-emotional learning (SEL) attributes with our students. In the fall we held several Parent U sessions so that you could get a glimpse of what teachers might be doing in the classroom and how you can help at home. Our Director of Social Emotional Learning and Measurement, Molly Walker took that information and put it into two-parent videos. We hope you find this first one beneficial.

For the past several years the Hilliard City School District has intentionally put our professional development days on Election Days. We use many of our buildings as polling places per the request of the Board of Elections. We believe we have a civic opportunity to open these buildings for people to exercise their right to vote. While opening the building to the public for voting is important, protecting the safety of our students is also essential. We can’t maintain the same level of security at our buildings during the voting process. Thus, we’ve moved our two professional development days to the Election Days.

In the state budget signed into law by Governor DeWine on July 18, 2019, the March 2020 primary election date changed from March 10 to March 17, 2020.  We will be asking our Board of Education to approve a calendar change for the 2019/20 school year to reflect this change.  The Board will vote to change the calendar at the August 12 Board of Education meeting.

This means our staff professional day will move to March 17, which will give our students the day off.  Both teachers and students will be in school on March 10.  We understand calendar changes can be challenging for our families, so we wanted to get you this information as soon as possible.  Please make a note of this and make plans for your family.

Please take a few minutes to be sure we have your updated contact information in HomeAccess.  It is especially important we have a correct PRIMARY phone number listed.  This is the number we use in emergency notification messages.  We also need correct email addresses as those change.

You can also sign off on handbooks, athletic forms and buy the Technology Protection Plan.  Why not do this all now, and not have to worry about it come August!

Here are some links to help:

View the Technology Protection Plan

How to update Registration Information/Contacts and more in HomeAccess

We want to wish everyone a safe and happy 4th of July weekend.  Please remember our offices will be closed on the fourth and fifth.