Important dates:

11/4/2025 - No School

11/5/2025 - Evening (5:30-7:30) Conferences

11/6/2025 - Afternoon (1:00-3:30) and Evening (4:15-6:15) Conferences

11/11/2025 - No School

11/12/2025 - PTO Meeting

11/13/2025 - Third Annual Community Potluck

11/26/-11/28/2025 - Thanksgiving Break

12/3/2025 - PTO Meeting

12/10/2025 - Report Cards Published in ASPEN

12/5-6/2025 - Howliday Fair 

12/22/2025 - Grade 4 Winter Concert, 6:30pm

12/24/2025-1/02/2026 - No School, Winter Break

Dear Hill-Roberts Families,

Happy November! What a wonderful week it has been at Hill-Roberts. Our Race for Education was a huge success, and the weather turned out to be beautiful. Thanks to your incredible support, we’ve already raised over $11,000, and we’re still working toward our $20,000 goal. Fundraising will remain open through Friday, November 7, with all proceeds helping to fund field trips and technology improvements throughout the school.

We also celebrated our first CREST Assembly of the year, highlighting our CREST All-Star theme and recognizing our Golden Huskies—students who consistently show Caring, Respect, Excellence, Safety, and Trust. It was such a joyful celebration of our school values. Even with changes to our usual October 31 activities, we had our best 10/31 attendance since the pandemic, thanks to all the excitement and school spirit. See pictures below!

A quick reminder that there will be no school on Tuesday, and Thursday is a half day with early dismissal at 12:25 p.m. Parent-Teacher Conferences will take place this Wednesday and Thursday, and we’re looking forward to connecting with families to celebrate student growth and discuss goals for the months ahead.

Sincerely,
Dr. Paul Madden, Principal
Ms. Julie O’Boyle, Assistant Principal

We were so excited to end our school-spirit filled school day with our first CREST assembly! Our newest Golden Huskies will be published in our next Howler, but all were selected for showing CREST 100% of the time. While this Assembly's theme was CREST All Stars. The following assemblies will focus on each aspect of CREST, that is, Caring, Respect, Excellence, Safety, and Trust. Below is the analogy we used and will continue to use to frame our celebration of CREST, as a team effort, during our remaining CREST assemblies.

Parent/Teacher conferences will be on November 5th and 6th:

• 11/5/2025 - Evening (5:30-7:30) Conferences

• 11/6/2025 - Afternoon (1:00-3:30) and Evening (4:15-6:15) Conferences

Please sign up for a conference time-slot here. Time slots are available for all of our classroom teachers, our specialists (i.e., art, health, library, music, physical education), our SPARK teachers, and our Title 1 Reading Teacher. Our MLL and Special Education Inclusion teachers are available to meet as well, but they will plan on joining your meeting with your child's classroom teacher, unless you reach out to them directly to schedule a one-on-one meeting.

Please review the following tips:

• Be on time for your conference.

• Conferences are 10 minutes.

• Knock on the entry way at the start of your conference time as a gentle reminder to the teacher.

• If you are signing up for more than one conference, leave a buffer in between time slots. Do not book back to back times.

We aim to have outdoor recess any day that it is not actively raining, recess equipment is adequately clear of snow/ ice, and the "feels like" temperature is above 25 degrees (F).

Now that we are getting colder weather, be sure to (re)label your students' gloves, hats, and jackets. As you know, dressing in layers is great, but it does mean there is more for your students' to lose. Help us, help you by labeling your students' clothes :).

Welcome Center Update 

Contact or visit the Welcome Center for access to Community Resources, Community Flyers, and support for all things APS.  

APS Community Resource Guide 

The APS Community Resource Guide is a comprehensive list of local services and support organizations available to members of the APS Community. Whether you are looking for assistance with food security, healthcare, housing, or other essential resources, visit the guide to explore the many community partners ready to support your family's needs. You can access the Community Resource Guide directly here: https://www.attleboroschools.com/o/apswc/page/community-resource-guide  

Yearly, state mandated, Vision and Hearing screenings continues this week ( distance vision was already done by the Lion’s club for K).  If your child wears glasses, please make sure they have their glasses with them every day.  If you do not wish to have your child participate in the screenings, you may opt of the screenings by sending in a written note with your student.  4th grade is screened for distance vision and their height and weight is checked. All of the other grades are checked for Vision, (distance and close up), and Hearing. Heights and weights are also checked in 1st grade.  If your student does not pass a screening, a referral letter will be sent home with your student. Please follow up on any referrals promptly as poor vision or hearing can have an impact on your students learning. Please send completed referrals back to me as I do use them to track the efficiency of the screening process. Please contact me with any questions about the state mandated screenings.

Sherri Knight-Cloud, BSN, RN, NCSN

sknightcloud@attleboroschools.comor (508) 399-7560

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Hill-Roberts' Main Office

For questions or updates about attendance, transportation, medication/nurse, or early dismissal, call (508) 399-7560) or email (Mrs. McLaughlin, Clerk or Mrs. Doxsey, Clerk)

Classroom Teacher

For questions about classroom learning, grades, behavior, or anything related to your child’s daily school experience contact your child's classroom teacher via email or the Rooms App.

PTO

For questions about volunteering, fundraisers, or event questions, email hillrobertspto@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/share/1GGrujkdtj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

• PTO Meeting - Wednesday, November 12 at 6pm in the HRES Library

hillrobertspto@gmail.com 

 HRES PTO Facebook Page

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of our families, friends, volunteers, teachers, and students who helped make our Race for Education a huge success!!!  The weather was perfect and everyone enjoyed their time outside walking to support our school.  The funds raised from this event help us continue to support our school and our students with field trip funding, events,  classroom upgrades and so much more! We are currently 55% to goal with $10,933 raised!  We've extended the deadline to get your donations in to NEXT FRIDAY November 7th to give you a little extra time to collect those last minute donations.  Help our Huskies earn a teacher Inflatable Race when they hit $15,000 and lunch with Hunter when they hit $20,000!  It's not too late to create a fundraising page either!  https://grouprev.com/campaigns/3029/2025-hill-roberts-race-for-education

Orders from our last HRES apparel shop will be sent home this week — keep an eye out for your gear! 👕✨

And stay tuned… our next pop-up shop will be launching in just a few weeks! Don’t miss your chance to grab new HRES spirit wear!

Thank you to all of the families who took the time to volunteer at the book fair. We earned more than $5,000 in Scholastic Dollars profit to use for students, teachers and the school! Thank you also to everyone who bought books for classroom libraries or contributed to Share the Fair. The generosity of our Husky community is greatly appreciated!

• Arrival:

  • Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

  • Doors will close at 8:45 sharp. Please report to main office if arriving past 8:45.

  • Classes start- 8:45 a.m.

• Dismissal is at 3:25 p.m.

• Early Dismissal days end at 12:25 p.m.

If your child is absent or will be absent, for any reason, please call the main office. Mrs. McLaughlin, Clerk and Mrs. Doxsey, Clerk would be happy to help you. Our number is (508) 399-7560.

Dr. Madden, Principal

Mrs. O'Boyle, AP

Mrs. McLaughlin, Clerk

Mrs. Doxsey, Clerk

(508) 399-7560

The Attleboro Public Schools does not, in any education program or activity that it operates, discriminate or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race*, color, sex,  sexual orientation,  gender identity, sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, religion, disability, age, genetic-information, active military/veteran status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, or pregnancy-related condition, homelessness, ancestry, ethnic background, national origin, immigration status, or any category protected by state or federal law. The Attleboro Public School District prohibits sex discrimination. Individuals may report concerns or questions to the District’s Civil Rights and/or Title IX Coordinators.  The notice of nondiscrimination is located at https://www.attleboroschools.com. 

*race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture, hair type, hair length and protective hairstyles.