{"id":11185,"date":"2021-01-15T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcapitaltest.co.za\/hilton\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:29:13","slug":"a-letter-from-the-head-15-jan-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcapitaltest.co.za\/hilton\/2021\/01\/15\/a-letter-from-the-head-15-jan-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter from The Head &#8211; 15 January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611922097055{padding-top: 64px !important;padding-bottom: 64px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<div  class=\"heading-wrapper text-left\"  >\n\t\n\t<h3 class=\"second-title text-left\">15 January 2021<\/h3>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"subtitle\"><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\t\n\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Parents and Guardians,<\/p>\n<p>We have been discussing the implications of this morning\u2019s ministerial briefing with ISASA and our various Hilton staff and management teams. Thank you for your patience and understanding at this time.<\/p>\n<p>With regret, it has become clear that we will be unable to open our campus this weekend as we had planned. Our programme will now move online until such time as we can resume in-person education.<\/p>\n<p>Our plan for the start of term is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School for all grades will begin online on the morning of Wednesday, 20 January. A more detailed schedule will be communicated in due course;<\/li>\n<li>If you are a parent of an international learner who is already in the country and does not have a place to stay until school starts, please contact your son\u2019s House Manager (using this address: HOUSENAME@hiltoncollege.com e.g. churchill@hiltoncollege.com) so that she can make arrangements with you to accommodate your son on campus;<\/li>\n<li>The Grade 8 orientation programme will also start online on Wednesday next week; details will be circulated. Although these boys will not have access to their official school laptop, we hope that they will be able to login regardless. Should you foresee challenges with connecting online, please contact mya@hiltoncollege.com. For those Grade 8 families who have travelled from far and are already in the province in anticipation of the campus opening next week, we will be able to provide a shortened \u201cmeet and greet\u201d on Monday on campus (please RSVP by sending an email to mya@hiltoncollege.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, I am sorry about all the upheaval that this has caused. We look forward to having all our boys back on campus but will need to hold tight for the time being.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Kind regards,[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7198&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]George Harris<br \/>\n<strong>Headmaster<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<div id=\"argenta-custom-6a662737f3880\" class=\"banner-box-wrapper banner-box move-top\"  >\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wrap-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcapitaltest.co.za\/hilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hilton-Head-Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"box-content without-subtitle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"title\"><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap-btn\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Letter-from-the-Headmaster-15-Jan-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"  class=\"btn box-btn uppercase\">\n\t\t\t\t\tDownload the PDF\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611922097055{padding-top: 64px !important;padding-bottom: 64px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Parents and Guardians, We have been discussing the implications of this morning\u2019s ministerial briefing with ISASA and our various Hilton staff and management teams. Thank you for your patience and understanding at this time. With regret, it has become clear that we will be unable to open our campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-letter-from-the-head"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A letter from The Head - 15 January 2021 - Hilton College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcapitaltest.co.za\/hilton\/2021\/01\/15\/a-letter-from-the-head-15-jan-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A letter from The Head - 15 January 2021 - Hilton College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611922097055{padding-top: 64px !important;padding-bottom: 64px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Parents and Guardians, We have been discussing the implications of this morning\u2019s ministerial briefing with ISASA and our various Hilton staff and management teams. 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