April Principal's Update

QUEST Families,

Well, it is offially spring, and the students are filled with excitement from our One School, One book, the upcoming Exhibition, and all of the end-of-year events (Culture Day, Science Fun Day, Field Day, QUESTival, graduation!). Believe it or not, in ten short weeks we will be closing another school year at QUEST. Thanks for all the continued support as we move into the final leg of the year. 

Testing Reminder

Our 3-6 students will begin taking the NYS Math test at the end of this month (April 29th and 30th). These tests are used to inform our instruction, and our school community works to ensure students simply focus on doing their very best. Just like the ELA test, please be sure your child comes in with a fully charged Chromebook. 

Placement Season

QUEST has started its placement process. We appreciate the energy and effort that the team puts into this process. The goal of any placement process is balanced classrooms, and because of this goal, we are unable to accept parent requests for specific teachers. We plan on mailing placement out in June, with a moving up day scheduled for June 21st. 

Science Fun Day...Presenters? 

Science Fun Day (SFD) is right around the corner (June 7^th) and we are getting ready to start planning.  As always this day brings so much joy to our students.   Our community, parent and High School support is always wonderful to see!  Here is the link to the Google Form to sign-up. On the Google Form you will see the session times for the day.  If you have any questions please reach out and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  Just a few reminders for SFD:

 

• Try to make the presentations as hands on as possible. 
• Sessions are 35 minutes long with a 5 minute break between. 
• Complimentary lunch will be available in the library for our presenters. 
• The Google Form is due by May 17^th. 
• My goal is to have the schedule sent out to presenters by May 31^st. 
• High school students (please only have one person in your group fill out the form.  There is a spot on the form to list your partners names.  Make sure to include all partner names so we can check you in properly at the security desk)
• For many years we have lots of presenters for our students in grades 3-6, so don’t forget about our little ones too!  If you can make your presentation appropriate for K-6 that would be great! We do understand however, that some presentations are more suitable for our older kids.
• If you know anyone that would be interested in participating for SFD please pass along my contact information clippincott@hilton.k12.ny.us .  

 

As always, please do not hesitate to reach out if there is anything you need. Thanks for sending us such hard working, kind students each day.

Yours in education, 

Derek 

QUEST Principal