Shirley Hills News

Hilltop and Shirley Hills primary schools will be honored this summer by the Minnesota Department of Education for relentless and positive efforts to Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). The state-wide recognition will take place at the Summer Institute and Sustaining Exemplar Ceremony on August 12.

Field days are an end-of-year ritual for many primary school students. Both Hilltop and Shirley Hills schools embraced the tradition and spent an entire day this week celebrating the end of the school year.

Fourth graders from Hilltop and Shirley Hills primary schools, along with a brave group of staff and parents, spent an exciting week at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center together the week of May 18-22. Although the two schools followed different class schedules, students in the Class of 2034 overlapped at mealtimes and came together for a group photo.

Please view the Shirley Hills Primary School school supplies list for the 2026-27 school year.

Free summer meals will be available to all children and teens under age 19 this summer at Westonka Middle School.

Clark Montgomery, a third grader at Shirley Hills Primary School, was named one of 13 statewide winners in the Minnesota Council on Economic Education’s annual Poster Contest.

Shirley Hills kindergarten families were invited to celebrate their children’s reading at the annual Kindergarten Reading Café on May 15. Parents came hungry for a good book as their child read them an "appetizer," and an "entree", and ended up with some yummy "dessert"!