You will receive regular communication from your teacher and/or the Room Parent. Your teacher is your first stop for all school questions or concerns.  Please first communicate with your teacher.  He or she will provide you with contact information tonight.  Should any question or concern arise, please reach out to your teacher and schedule an in-person meeting during their planning period (during Specials) or before/after school. To get to the classroom, please enter through the Front Office, sign in at the computer station, and ask for directions to your destination. 

We provide a well-balanced curriculum for your child, beyond reading, math, social studies and science.  These are some of the additional academic activities your child will participate in throughout their time here at HHES.  Ask your teacher about your daily schedule. 

• Physical Education
• Art
• General Music (K-2) Chorus (3-5)
• Dance
• Spanish (2nd - 5th)
• Social Emotional Learning
• Media Center
• STEM Lab
• Active Learning Lab*

Arrival is from 7:15 am - 7:45 am! Prioritize a timely arrival at school to avoid being tardy. Kids may go directly to breakfast or their classroom when they arrive. If students are not in the building at 7:45, they are tardy.  It doesn’t matter if they are in the parking lot or on Briarcliff in traffic.

If kids eat breakfast at school, they will come to the cafeteria for breakfast.  Breakfast ends at 7:45 a.m.  If your child would like breakfast, please arrive on time.

The MAGIC Time - 1:30 PM

• Deadline to change afternoon transportation
• Deadline to check child out of school - Bring your ID

How do I make sure that a transportation change is made?

1. Contact the front office by emailing: Laura.Miller@atlanta.k12.ga.us
2. Call 404-802-7450

Travel Tips:

By the first day of school, APS will have bus routes, which include stops and times, available on the website. We encourage all students to ride the bus. However, if you choose to walk, please cross Briarcliff and Ponce in designated areas.

• Bus Stop Locator
• Here Comes the Bus Locator/App

Bus Rules

1. Remain Seated
2. Keep Hand to Yourself
3. Use Indoor Voice
4. No Eating on the Bus
5. Obey the Bus Driver

Bus Safety Rules

1. Be on time.
2. Never run to or from the bus.
3. Stand back from the curb.
4. Don't push or shove.
5. Stay in your seat.
6. Don't yell or shout.
7. Always obey the driver.
8. Wait for the driver's signal before crossing.
9. Always cross at least 10 feet in front of the bus.

On-Site After School Daycare & Clubs/Organizations

• On-Site at HHES Campus
• The Club After School  is open from 2:45pm - 6:00pm daily.
• Monthly Fee with easy set up!
• Income-based fees
• Start at the end of August

Clubs & Organizations

• Creative Movement & Dance
• Artz for the Harp
• Soccer
• Basketball
• Kids’ TV Production
• Karate
• Tennis
• Engineering for Kids
• Chess

• Dress for the weather
• Ensure things are labeled in case of students losing the item(s)
• Shoes that allow students to move throughout the building and go safely from activities like daily recess and PE.  
• If you need support with items, please let Ms. McGee know. 
• Lost and Found will be emptied every quarter
• NO flip flops 

1. Fever. Any temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit (38° Centigrade) is a fever, and children shouldn’t go to school with fevers. Not only are fevers a sign of some sort of infection, it also usually means that they are shedding germs right and left. There’s just no way you can know whether things will get better or worse — and while giving them medicine might bring the fever down, it won’t stop them from being contagious.
2. Vomiting or diarrhea. It’s unfair all around — to the child and the school or daycare — to send a child with vomiting or diarrhea no matter how well they might look to you. The same 20-24 hour rule applies, although it’s worth checking with your doctor for advice. Some viruses, such as norovirus, can be contagious for an extra day or so.You do not want to be the parent responsible for an outbreak of norovirus at your school or daycare.
3. Bad pain.If your child has a sore knee or a mild headache but is otherwise acting okay, it’s likely fine to give some medicine and send them off. But if the pain is anything more than mild, don’t do it. Pain is always something you want to keep an eye on. Keep them home and call your doctor instead.
4. Coughing that won’t stop — or anything different about your child’s breathing. If we kept every child with a cold home during the winter months, there would be a lot of empty classrooms. But a terrible cough not only makes it hard for a child to learn or play, it also warrants a call to the doctor, as does breathing that sounds or looks different from usual.

If you know your child is going to be absent, please let your teacher know by sending a note or email.

Excused Absences: (though excused these still count against the school attendance rate)

• Illness
• Death in the family
• Doctor’s Appointments

Unexcused Absences:

• Vacation
• Grandma/grandpa/family visiting
• Birthdays

It is our goal for students to have fewer than 6 absences for the school year!  We had 89% of all HHES students last year with 6 or fewer absences. 

Individual student schedules will be sent home with your child’s lunchtime.  

Breakfast & Lunch will be eaten in the cafeteria!

Lunch from Home

Please be sure not to send food that needs to be warmed up. Microwaves are not available. If you use Tupperware, it should be easily opened.  No fast food, large bags of chips, soda, or candy are allowed. 

• Please do not send UberEats, Doordash or GrubHub to HHES!
• Parents are not allowed to have lunch with students in the cafeteria.

To do:

• Please complete a clinic card for your child.
• Update this information yearly or if something changes.
• If there is an allergy, you must do a 504 meeting to ensure the staff is informed and trained. 
• Lunch staff will also monitor food on a student’s tray.
• Let your child’s teacher and school nurse know.  Complete the Hope-Hill Medical Form.  You can even mention it to other support team members, like - Bus Driver, Cafeteria Staff, Administrators.
• If your child has an Epinephrine Pen, please provide an EpiPen to the school.  The EpiPen will be housed with the school nurse.  Make sure that everyone is trained on how to use it.
• Volunteer at school during parties or class field trips.  Stay in frequent contact with your child’s teacher and “Room Parent”. (A room parent is someone who volunteers to help the teacher organize/set up parties, etc.)
• Involve your kid - Be sure to read books with your child about food allergies.  Help them practice by speaking up and reminding others about their food allergies.  Older children can read food labels.  Teach your children to speak up and advocate for themselves.
• Pack safe meals and snacks.  

Did You Know?

• 8% of students are affected by food allergies, and the incidence is increasing.
• 1 of 5 students with food allergies will have a reaction while at school.
• 25% of severe food allergy reactions at school happen to students with no previous known food allergy.

We will have monthly celebrations at recess that can be coordinated with the classroom teacher.  Only store brought cupcakes and a small non-food treat.

Birthday lunch with a parent

A parent can have lunch with their child at a specific table or outside at picnic tables, weather permitting.

Officer Walton

Role and Responsibility

• To serve and protect - REAL Officer of the Law
• Increase feelings of safety among students, teachers, and administrators
• Improve relationships between law enforcement and youth
• Legal Traffic Device while directing traffic
  • MUST OBEY HER COMMANDS during this time
• Any citations received can not be overturned by the administration

• Teacher needs to be the first point of contact for any concerns.
• Teachers are expected to reply within 24 hours  (during business hours).
• If the concern is not addressed promptly, please contact Mrs. McCrary or Ms. Knight for guidance.
• Do not wait until May to share concerns.  We want your child to have a wonderful experience at HHES.  

We can’t support if we don’t know. 

How do I arrange a conference with a teacher?

• Your child’s teacher is your first line of communication at HHES.
• Teachers will schedule 1 conference in the Fall, and 1 in the Spring. If you would like additional time to meet, reach out to the teacher.

We love our volunteers!

Every year, ALL volunteers are required to complete a new Level 2 form and provide a photocopy of ID.  

Level 3 forms will need to be completed and turned into Atlanta Public Schools for parents who go on field trips with students.  This also means that you will need to go through a district background check.

Ashley Anderson, Parent Liaison, will coordinate all school volunteers. Contact Info : Ashley.Anderson@atlanta.k12.ga.us

Please sign in & out at the Front Office.