HMS News

Here we are navigating another year with COVID-19 in our midst. A huge debt of gratitude to you, our families, who are working to keep our community safe by not sending children to school if they have any symptoms of illness. We realise and appreciate the great inconvenience that keeping children home can be, and...Read More

During our Staff In-Service days in August we had the pleasure of sharing an afternoonwith Judy Dow on understanding the concept and construction of a LandAcknowledgement. Judy has been a tremendous support for our school inunderstanding the role that Indigenous people have in this country’s history. For manyyears she worked alongside our Middle School program,...Read More

The Hilltop Board of Trustees gathered via Zoom for our first official meeting of the school year. We are excited for the upcoming year! We have a dynamic, enthusiastic, multi-talented group of Trustees this year, and we have some big projects to tackle. Keep an eye out for opportunities to work with the Board! This year, the Board...Read More

Having passed the 14 day mark for monitoring symptoms, we can now report that we fully managed through two cases of known COVID-19 patients in our Elementary programs and had NO COMMUNITY SPREAD! Our systems proved to be protective in these recent cases. Specifically we credit: Families keeping children home when there are symptoms or...Read More

We seem to have navigated a positive COVID case in both Lower Elementary and Upper Elementary with no community spread! We are at day 8 since exposure and will need to all continue to monitor for symptoms until day 14, but the negative tests have been flooding in and there were no symptoms among our...Read More

Two weeks ago, my family and I decided to travel to Boston. We had purchased manythings from REI in preparation for our backpacking/hiking trip this summer, and neededto return certain items. We also wanted to visit some good friends and to visit a newcity. This was the first time I had been to Boston, a...Read More

We have been informed of a COVID-19 positive student in Upper Elementary and a presumed case in the Lower Elementary program. We have closed those two classrooms and are following the “contact tracing” and “return to school” algorithm set by the Vermont Department of Health. Students and teachers who were with these two students on Monday and...Read More

I want to welcome all the new and returning Hilltop families! For those who see me at the trafficcircle and don’t know who I am, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Marco YungaTacuri, and I am the Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Director at Hilltop Montessori School, as wellas the Spanish and P.E....Read More

So gratifying! It has been wonderful to once again be able to walk the campus, both indoors and outdoors, and see the students and teachers in action as we settle into in-person learning. Last year our entire campus and community was strictly podded, both inside and outside, in a way that did not give me...Read More

Dear Hilltop Families,We wanted to give you a few updates and share more broadly information that has been asked by a few families in recent days. With the ventilation upgrades, outdoor spaces, consistent masking practice observed last year, and general conscientiousness of our community, we feel confident in opening again in person for this school...Read More