The Wednesday MESSAGE!

Dear Salford Hills Family,

Welcome back! As your principal, I am thrilled to open our doors for an exhilarating 2025-2026 school year. We have a year full of learning adventures, growth, and community building ahead of us. Our dedicated teachers and staff are eager to continue fostering a nurturing environment where each student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

This year, we will continue to embrace our core values of being safe, respectful, and responsible learners, ensuring that Salford Hills remains a place where learning is joyful and everyone’s potential is recognized, respected, and nurtured. I encourage you to join our vibrant Home and School Association and become an active participant in our school community. Your involvement is key to your child’s success.

Let’s make this year positively impactful and full of confidence and success for our students. Here’s to a fantastic school year ahead!

Respectfully,

Todd J. Burns

Principal, Salford Hills Elementary School

Salford Hills has been quite a busy place this summer. We are thankful for the hard work of the construction crews that are working to be make our building a better place for our students, teachers, and families!

Salford Hills was built in 1953, and has gone through several renovations between then and now. This renovation is certainly the largest to date! The renovation project is expected to last through January of 2027. This project includes many upgrades that will help Salford Hills deliver quality instruction to all of our students. Some of these renovations include:

• An addition on the back of the building that will hold a new library.
• New HVAC and plumbing
• LED lighting inside and outside the building
• Renovations to all the classroom spaces and new flooring
• Better utilization of the current space
• New kitchen to serve food
• New spaces for music, art, library, tech, and upgrades to the gym.

This project will be done in phases throughout the next two years. The first phase is our first grade hallway, kitchen, and nurse's office. The construction crews are diligently working, and we expect to have this space ready to accept students for the start of the school year! As students return to school, the construction of the addition will continue in the rear of the building with students still having access to the play structures for recess, as well as the field area. Once the addition phase is complete, the next phase will begin, which will be the second grade hallway, hopefully in April.

The kitchen area where food is prepared for the students is expected to be completed by November. During this time, food will be prepared at another SASD kitchen and shipped over to Salford Hills so that students can still purchase lunch if they choose to do so. Each day one hot and two cold lunches will be offered. Students can also choose to pack their lunch if they prefer that option. Cold breakfast items will still be offered in the morning for students who choose to eat breakfast at school.

Overall, we are looking forward to the project and the new spaces it will offer our students and families.

Home Access Center will open for elementary parents to view teacher placements on Friday, August 15th at 4:00p.m. If you need assistance with your Home Access Center login information, please contact your child's school.

August 15th is the day that families can view teacher placement for the new school year. At 4:00 PM, information is available in Home Access Center on the SASD website using your login credentials. Follow the link below this message. NOTE: Your login credentials will NOT work until the system goes live at 4:00 PM.

Student placement is determined and reviewed by a team of professionals including your child’s former teacher(s), school counselor, student support teacher, reading specialist, and myself. Each child’s academic ability and performance, social and emotional growth, and needs are discussed, as well as peer relationships. Through this process, we strive to create heterogeneous classes that function as cohesive groups and provide each child with an educational environment best suited to meet his or her needs. Therefore, we ask that you respect our professional judgement, and be assured that we will strive to make the most appropriate placement for your child.

In advance, I thank you for your trust in an educational system that cares about your child and families at large.

Respectfully,

Todd J. Burns

Principal, Salford Hills Elementary School

Welcome to Salford Hills Elementary School! We look forward to you joining our Salford Hills Family! We will be having an orientation for parents and children who will be in grades 1-5 on August 20, 2025 at 6:30pm. Kindergarten students will have their own separate orientation on August 21st at 4:00.

Our New Family Orientation for students in grades 1-5 new to Salford Hills will include an information session and a brief tour of the school depending on construction safety at the time.

Our kindergarten students and families will have their Kindergarten Orientation on August 21st from 4:00-5:00. This will be an opportunity for kindergarten students and their families to come see their classroom, and drop off any school materials they might have so they are not lugging a heavy backpack on the first day of school. Kindergarten students will also be able to pick up their special first day of school t-shirt! Kindergarten students will wear this shirt on the first day of school so that our staff can pick them out right off the bus and car rider line and get them to their classrooms safely. This event is meant to be a casual visit between 4:00 and 5:00. Stay for as long or as little as you need to in order to make your child feel comfortable and ready for the first day of school.

Please click the button below for instructions regarding arriving and dismissing at Salford Hills.

Please click on the School Menus picture above to see the menus available for breakfast and lunch.

Click on the image below for information about money tendering with the cafeteria.

As we launch the 2025-2026 school year, here are a few important dates to know:

• August 20 - New Family Orientation Night 6:30-7:30 PM
• This night is intended for families with students in grades 1-5 who are brand new to Salford Hills. Students and families will get a tour of the school and learn what to expect in the first days of school.

• August 21- Kindergarten Orientation 4:00-5:00 PM
• This night is intended for kindergarten students to drop off school supplies before the first day of school, pick up their kindergarten t-shirt they will wear on the first day of school, and see their classroom to become comfortable with their experience on the first day of school.

• August 26 - School Opens!

• August 29 and September 1 - School Closed (Labor Day Holiday)

• September 4 - Back to School Night 6:30-8:30 PM

Please join the Home & School Association at our first meeting of the year! This is a great opportunity to meet other parents, learn about HSA events and discover different ways to get involved and volunteer. Bring your ideas, concerns, or questions to the Board and allow the kids to play since childcare is always provided! We hope you'll join us in kicking off a great school year!

Save the date for our annual fundraiser - the Race for Education! More information to come.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you can reach out via board@salfordhillshsa.org to contact all four board members: president (Heather Zeigler), vice-president (Desiree Bonkoski), secretary (Cassandra Clemens), treasurer (Adria Zane).

THANK YOU to all the students, parents, and teachers who helped Salford Hills have another successful C.R.O.P.S Garden this summer! The harvest this year was plentiful, and able to benefit local organizations such as the Keystone Opportunity Center. Our Garden Swaps this year also included time for a quick story, or time to pick out a new book to read over the summer. Again, thank you to EVERYONE who was able to come out and help!

Click THIS LINK to access the Salford Hills School Calendar which shares district dates and events as well as Salford Hills planned events. Many of these events are conditional at this point and subject to change.

Click THIS LINK to access the Cycle Day Calendar for the year. All elementary schools operate on a four day cycle, and this calendar may be helpful when a homeroom teacher shares the specials schedule (forthcoming). For instance, PE is on Day 2 -- Wear Your Sneakers! :)

The following are recommended school supply lists per grade level. Please remember that all essential supplies are available for students. Lists below are optional (and appreciated!).

• Click here to find school supply lists for each grade level.
  
  

Enjoy a few resources from trusted school digital magazines, Edutopia and Parent:

• How to Ease Your Child's Kindergarten Jitters

• How to Cope With Back-to-School Anxiety

• How Much Screen Time? That’s the Wrong Question

• Teaching Good Study Habits, Minute by Minute

• Hack to School Getting Your Kids Back Into A Routine

• 25 Sweet Lunch Box Note Ideas

Fundamentally committed to each other, we at Salford Hills are a caring community of learners who value each individual’s intrinsic worth and potential.

In our supportive environment, learners are encouraged to achieve high standards by developing responsibility for their learning through authentic experiences that require hard work, critical thinking and reflection.

Learning is a process that positively impacts the future.

Website: http://salfordhills.soudertonsd.org/
Location: 2721 Barndt Road, Harleysville, PA, United States
Phone: 610-287-9197
Twitter: @SASD_SalfordHil