Hillcrest School District

We are so excited to share that our Junior Class 2026 Cookbooks are almost finished and will be ready soon! They are packed with a great collection of recipes from Hillcrest teachers, staff, students, and families. ❤️🤍💙 Cookbooks are only $20 each, and every purchase helps support the Hillcrest Junior Class! 📖 $20 per cookbook 🍴 Tons of great recipes 🦅 Supports the Hillcrest Junior Class 📱 Scan the QR code on the flyer to order your copy! If you haven’t ordered yours yet, now is a great time! We can’t wait to get these cookbooks into everyone’s kitchens. ❤️🤍💙 Thank you for supporting our Screamin’ Eagles! #HillcrestScreaminEagles #JuniorClass2026 #HillcrestCookbook #ScreaminGoodEats Link to order: https://osp.osmsinc.com/HillcrestAR/BVModules/ProductTemplates/Bvc2013/Product.aspx?productid=UF023-VAR18

Fall Break Eagles Nest Cafeteria Notice

During Fall Break, October 5–16, 2026, Eagles Nest will be open. Also, the Strawberry Cafeteria will be open and available to serve meals. Students 18 and under eat free. For adults, breakfast is $2.75 from 7:30-9:00, and lunch is $5.30 from 11:00-12:30.

Please take advantage of these locations during the fall break. We look forward to serving our students and families!

Hillcrest will host our annual Red, White & Blue Games tomorrow night! This special event gives us an opportunity to showcase our basketball teams while also supporting our school’s Backpack Program. Come out, support our Eagles, and help us make a difference for our students!

Just a reminder about family & community night this evening.

Both Middle School and High School Archery teams (grade 6-12) will practice tomorrow Sunday September 27th at the Strawberry gym at 2:00pm to 3:30.

🍗🏹Chicken Dinners at Fun Fest🍗🏹 Come out to Fun Fest and support the Hillcrest Archery Teams by enjoying a delicious chicken dinner! Want to make sure you get a plate, you can pre-order by clicking the link below👇 https://osp.osmsinc.com/HillcrestAR/BVModules/ProductTemplates/Bvc2013/Product.aspx?productid=UF023-15 Every dinner purchased helps support the Archery Teams and all of our Archers!! Come hungry, enjoy Fun Fest, and help us support our team! Please share and spread the word!!

📣 Family & Community Night is coming up! ❤️🤍💙 We want to invite our families and community members to join us Monday, September 28, at 6:00 p.m. on the high school campus in Strawberry! We would love to see you there! Come be a part of our school family and celebrate all that makes Hillcrest special! 🦅❤️🤍💙

High School celebrated their August Student of the Month last week. We celebrated students who were spreading good vibes around campus by having a positive attitude. Below you will find pictures of nominees along with the winner for each grade. Winners are: 7th Grade- Finley Carly 8th Grade- Emery Sloan 9th Grade- Ally Perkey 10th Grade- Ethan Pitcher 11th Grade- MJ Walls 12th Grade- Austin Munroe Artist of the Month- Jayce Fitzgerald Girl Athlete of the Month- Carly Johnson Boy Athlete of the Month- Conall Qualls CTE Person of the Month- Caiden Milde Jr. High Principal Pick- Chance Rickard Sr. High Principal Pick- Ryder McEntire

Elementary team ( grades 4th & 5th) will have practice tomorrow Wednesday September 23rd at Starwberry gym at 4-5:30. If your kid rides the shuttle bus over to High School please send a note with your child. This is for the teachers to know which line the kids need to get in. Thank you!

Basketball season is rapidly approaching! Come out and meet our teams on October 1!

Go Screamin’ Eagles!

Krispy Kreme Donuts Announcement: Donut orders have been extended to this Thursday, the 24th, with a delivery date of Sept 30th. Orders can be turned in to Mrs. Brannon anytime between now and Thursday afternoon. Thank you!

Tomorrow at Lynn during the Lynn Harvest Fest both the FFA Car Show and FBLA Miss Hillcrest Pageant will take place. Please see the following chart for parking. Remember after these events to head on down to the Lynn City Park for vendors, food, music, and fun!

Basketball Announcement: Check out our upcoming 26-27 Screamin' Eagle basketball schedule!

🍗🏹Chicken Dinners at Fun Fest🍗🏹

Come out to Fun Fest and support the Hillcrest Archery Teams by enjoying a delicious chicken dinner!

Want to make sure you get a plate, you can pre-order by clicking the link below👇 https://osp.osmsinc.com/HillcrestAR/BVModules/ProductTemplates/Bvc2013/Product.aspx?productid=UF023-15

Every dinner purchased helps support the Archery Teams and all of our Archers!!

Come hungry, enjoy Fun Fest, and help us support our team!

Please share and spread the word!!

Mrs. Brannons business intelligence students began coding their own games today on MIT’s Scratch coding platform. Scratch game coding builds business intelligence skills by teaching students to analyze data, recognize patterns, solve problems, and make data-driven decisions through hands-on programming.

Miss Hillcrest Pageant Announcement: The doors to the Lynn gym will be opened at 10am Saturday for pageant practice. This time is not mandatory but will give each participant the opportunity to walk the floor before judges arrive. At 10:45 judges will be seated and the floor will be closed. Specific times for each category are not available. We will start with the youngest age category at 11am and will end with the Senior Miss.

🏹 Hillcrest Elementary Archery Practice The Hillcrest Elementary Archery Team, grades 3–4, will have practice tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16, 2026, from 3:30–5:00 p.m. at the Strawberry Gym. Students may ride the shuttle bus to Strawberry if needed. Mrs. Heidi Brown will be waiting for them when they arrive. Mrs. Brown is looking forward to meeting our new archers and getting the season started! 🏹

Mrs. Amber's 7th Grade science class did a “Speed Dating” activity. Each student was given a card with a metal or nonmetal from the Periodic Table. Through several rounds with different partners each round, they had to tell me whether their elements would “match” up to form a covalent or ionic bond.

Mrs. Kara's 8th grade English students completed a gallery walk of Figurative Language using quotes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.