Summer Day and Ice Cream Social Reminder!

 

CLOSED

 

June 27 & 28

Superintendent Conference Days

While much of QUEST will be attending the IB training on June 27 & 28th, please be sure to refer to Karen Spillman's email with assignments if you are not a teacher who has been assigned and registered for the IB training. The days will run 8am-3pm. Bring your own coffee! :) 

New TA Position at QUEST

Congrats to Lisa Scottow. She is becoming a new TA at QUEST, in charge of the Learning Lab. 

The Learning Lab TA is a TA that is assigned to support RTI based interventions as needed, in a more individualized way. This will take place out of the library. For example, say a child needs an intervention where they get daily sight words...this person, through our RtI process, would support that work. 

In order to also support the library, these interventions will take place in the library. In addition, this person will be able to offer some reading focused groups and book clubs out of the library! 

Go QUEST, and Congrats to Lisa! 

Happy Father's Day!

 To our QUEST Dads, wishing you relaxation and fun this weekend!

Specials Schedule

The link for the schedule for next year is below. We’ve started adding some intervention times on the second page. More to come as summer comes.

 

There are some changes that had to be made, so look closely. Please remember this remains flexible throughout the summer should anything need to change! Do not communicate this to parents or spend any time on laminating special schedules YET! 😊

 

QUEST 22-23 Special Area Schedule.xlsx

 

Grad. Lock-In

 Grad "Lock-in" will be on Wednesday afternoon right here at QUEST. Come join the intermediate team teachers and have fun with our grads.

QUEST Graduation LInk

 Here's the Zoom link.  Please request that Teacher's don't share the link outside of our building; and for best viewing experience they are on mute, with their cameras off an have the Graduation Video Pinned, so they don't see the Brady Bunch tile view.  

 

Topic: QUEST 2022 6th Grade Graduation

Time: Jun 21, 2022 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/99480331205?pwd=NExHVGpjQXRrcjMvQ2l6dGt4V0tpUT09 

 

 

Meeting ID: 994 8033 1205

Passcode: 009384

 

Jason Cring

Instructional Technology Specialist

 

https://zoom.us/j/99480331205?pwd=NExHVGpjQXRrcjMvQ2l6dGt4V0tpUT09

6/24/22

 

As you know, the 2022 Retirement and Service Awards Celebration is next Friday, June 24, 2022 at the High School. Lunch will be provided in the High School Gymnasium at 12:00pm, followed by the ceremony in the High School Auditorium at 12:45pm. All are welcome to attend!

 

A tradition of the event has been the Retiree Bus Ride to the High School, and we are back in action with the tradition this year! We have finalized a transportation schedule for each pick-up location, which you can find below. Please be sure to head outside next Friday at your buildings, at the times listed below, to celebrate the retirees as they board the bus!

 

Friday, June 24, 2022:     

10:55 a.m. – QUEST Pick-Up (Executive Cabinet, QUEST & Central Office Retirees)

11:00 a.m. – High School Pick-Up (High School Retirees)

11:10 a.m. – Northwood Elementary Pick-Up (Northwood Retirees)

11:25 a.m. – Village Elementary Pick-Up (Village Retirees)

11:30 a.m. – Merton Williams Middle School Pick-Up (Merton Williams Retirees)

11:35 a.m. – Transportation Department Pick-Up (Transportation Retirees)

11:45 a.m. – Bus will arrive to the High School for the Luncheon

 

 

Spirit Week is 6/13-6/17

 

Monday:	Bright Colors/Neon Dress in bright colors or neon, or dress in your favorite color!
Tuesday:	Sunglasses Day Wear your favorite sunglasses!
Wednesday:	Career Day What do you want to be when you grow up? Dress for the career you hope to have!
Thursday:	Tropical Summer Day Dress tropical or like summer! Please make sure it is school appropriate.
Friday:	Cadet Spirit Day Show your school spirit by wearing red and black or QUEST gear!

Special Schedule for 6/22

 6/22 is a half day below is the plan of attack: 

9-9:25 K and SPED

9:30-9:55 Primary

10-10:25 Elementary

10:30-10:55 Intermediate

 

All classes will play kickball games on 3 different fields.

 

If it rains: We will show Pixar Shorts in the auditorium during the same timeframes.

Weekly Update

Reminders: 

• Grad Walk is Friday, June 10 from 11am-11:20am. Join us outside to cheer them on!

• 
  Yearbooks will be distributed on Friday, June 17th, signing time TBD. Be on the lookout for an email from Steph. 

• For all QUEST staff, join us to celebrate summer on Wed. June 15, at Blue Barn.   This is not a “retirement event”, however, our retirees will attend and prepare for their journey to the world beyond our walls. 

The QUEST Hub is Here!

We have been working on putting together a "One Stop Shop" to help all staff members have answers to commonly asked HCSD & QUEST Questions ready at their finger tips. Please note that this is a work in progress. Not all links are active, especially if it specifies 2022-2023. These will be updated this summer. Is something missing? Let Derek, Paula or Christy know and we can add it! 

We hope that you find this new resource helpful!   

Library Reminder

All QUEST books are due the week of June 13th.

Last day of student check out is June 10th. 

Last day of library for classes is June 17th. 

Weekly Update

June 7th & 9th will be the last days of Kruvey Carnival. Hope to see you there! 

QU Kindergarten Inventory is after school on June 6th & 7th

Give those littles a big smile and welcome if you see them! 

Yearbooks are Here! 

The yearbooks will be distributed on Friday, June 10, with a school-wide signing taking place Friday afternoon from 2:50-3:10pm. 

From Paula...

If you want any pictures from field trips or special days (science fun day, field day, grads,…) shared on instagram or twitter, please send me them! You can either email them to me or text them (585-831-0197) and I will put them up! 😊

Supply Order Reminder 

Classroom Teaching Staff,
 
As you know, we are embarking on a new world of buying supplies for the students—no supply lists this year! Any shift can be tricky, but this will be most difficult for Paula. She is going to be ordering and organizing all the supplies when they arrive, with the plan to order on July 1 so it leaves plenty of time for them to come. The goal is that you will have a box of supplies in your classroom by summer day.
 
Your to do:
 
-Find your name on the spreadsheet—levels are a tab at the bottom.
-Where it says item, begin listing specific items (you can add a link there too if you have a specific place to order it from). The more specific, the better.
-Under your name, and in the same row that the item was listed, list the number of that item you would like.
-If a colleague is getting something that you, also, would like, please don’t add a second link. Just include how many you want of that item under your name in the same row as the item.
-We are being given 25 per student. Our orders for our classes should not go above that, and any extra money the level doesn’t use will be given to your level and placed in your supply cabinet line for additional funds to be used until accounts are frozen around January.
-Students will not be given backpacks and lunch boxes unless there is a need. Reach out to Val if there is a need that you know of for this.
-You may tell students to bring in headphones, however, please also say that “if you need support with acquiring this item, please reach out!”
-Tissues will be provided from the district.
 
Link to place your order: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ImhKxO4sqGXNDPT2eFLosUE-4KIKPiEDJmwyvWiaYjQ/edit?usp=sharing
 
IF you need me to walk you through how to use the spreadsheet to order, please watch the video: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/W9SVOoP8BEATCuYroHAx
 
If you still need further support, stop down to see Derek.

 

Summer Hours!

 

Beginning July 6, 2022 and running through September 2, 2022 custodial staff hours will change to Monday thru Friday 6:30am to 10:30pm. Hours for staff access to buildings will also change during this time to Monday thru Friday 7am to 7pm with the exception of approved building use requests.

A Reminder from the Office of Technology

 In September, for all district employees, we implemented multi-factor authentication on our District's Microsoft @hilton.k12.ny.us accounts. As we continue to evaluate potential changes to increase our cybersecurity, we have determined that our next step is to implement multi-factor authentication on staff member Google accounts, @ga.hiltoncsd.net. 

A quick walk through on how to set up this feature is here. Just as your Microsoft account multi-factor authentication is set-up, it will require a phone number for you to receive a code at by voice or text message. 
Alternatively, if you are logged into your Google ga.hiltoncsd.net account on an eligible phone, you may choose push notification Google prompts as your multi-factor authentication method. More on the Google prompts option can be seen here, including directions for both Apple and Android phones. Again, this method is an option but not required. You may choose to use the code by voice or text message method outlined above.

You may complete this process at any time leading up June 3. This feature will be active on Friday, June 3, 2022, for all employees. If you haven't gone through the process on your account outlined in the video prior to June 3, you will need to go through the process on June 3 when you access your Google account. 

Last year, key executives from technology companies noted that multifactor authentication can help prevent 80 to 90 percent of cyberattacks (EdTech: Focus on K-12 article May 2022). Thank you for taking the necessary steps to help protect our district, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Kristy Shafer
Director of Technology and Data Protection Officer 

June 10th Grad Walk Schedule!

 

9:00-11:30am

Grad Walk with District Provided Transportation 9:00am            Depart High School 9:20am            Arrival at Northwood 9:40am            Depart Northwood 10:00am          Arrival at Merton Williams 10:20am          Depart Merton Williams 10:30am          Arrival at Village Elementary 10:50am          Depart Village Elementary 11:00am          Arrival at Quest Elementary 11:20am          Depart Quest Elementary 11:30am          Arrival at High School

One Final Evacuation Drill

We will have our final evacuation next Tuesday at 9:30 am, pending the weather being good! 

 

Safety Reminders

 Team,

Just some ongoing reminders regarding safety: 

• Do not prop doors at all, even if you are sitting near it. The only time we keep the doors open are the main doors at arrival and dismissal. 
• Please be sure you have emergency sub plans attached to your sub plans when you are out. 
• Please report any visitors without an appropriate visitors badge directly to the main office. 

QUEST Graduation

 QUEST is slowly moving back to its graduation tradition, but this year we are doing things a bit differently. 

When: Graduation for QUEST is June 21st at 1:30

Where: HS Auditorium

Need-to-Know: 

• QUEST students will not all attend graduation in person this year. All 5-6 classes will attend, however, we WILL be streaming it for all other classes to view back at QUEST.
• We will have two students serving as emcee this year. 
• The parents and graduates will have a reception in the QUEST cafe after.