Reception
Mrs Caudwell, Ms Belcher, Mrs Hornsby, Mrs Dix, Miss Payne, Miss Dover (1:1 support) and Miss Awil
Monday 16th June to Friday 20th June
- Monday 16th June - It's Discovery's* turn to do Forest School (blue t-shirts). They will have three more sessions on Mondays 16th, 23rd and 30th June. This is only possible if we have three parent helpers for each session. If you can come along to help, between 1.10 and 2.50pm on one or more of those days, please let the Reception team know. Thank you in advance. * plus Huxley and Aiden
- Monday 16th June - Class Photos day
- Tuesday 17th June - Puxton Park trip
- Wednesday 18th June - Yr 6 Mini Enterprise Fair - Bring some pocket money
- Friday 20th June - Yr 3 Cake Sale after school in playground
- Friday 20th June - SEND Coffee Morning 9.00am
- Please make sure that any messages about your child's attendance - illness, absence, appointments, early pick-up etc. - are given to the school office, not just to their teacher. You can either drop in to the office or contact them by
Free text message on Arbor
Telephone - 0117 3772440
Email - school@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Keep your finger on the pulse!
- Look out for your Friday Mailbag, emailed to you every week in term time, to keep up to date with news for the whole school. (You can find all the weekly Mailbags on the website, under the News and Events tab.)
- You'll find the news that's just for the Reception classes on this page. It's updated every Friday so make it your one-stop-shop for class news.
For a guide to using ARBOR, our parent portal, click HERE.
We recommend downloading the Arbor app to your phone. You can receive, and send us, free text messages via the app.
You can add the details of anyone else with parental responsibility for your child. Please let the office staff know once you have done it. We need to amend the settings so that they receive correspondence.
Friends of Hillcrest - Our PTA
All parents, carers and teachers are members of Friends of Hillcrest and are welcome to all meetings to hear what's happening, contribute views, suggest new ideas and/or offer to volunteer.
Read more about Friends of Hillcrest here:
Friends of Hillcrest (our PTA) | Hillcrest Primary School
TERM 6
Coming up...
- Tuesday 24th June - Reception Sept 25 Parent/Carer Meeting, 5.30 - 6.30 main hall
- Friday 27th June - Adopters' Coffee Morning 9.00am
- Wednesday 2nd July - City-wide Yr 6 Transition Day
- Friday 4th July - Reading Volunteers Meeting
- Saturday 5th July - Summer Fair
- Monday 14th July - Hillcrest PRIDE Day
- Tuesday 15th July - Spelling Levels & Boss Checks
- Tuesday 22nd July - Guard of Honour for Yr 6 leavers at 3.30pm
- Tuesday 22nd July - End of Term
- All our dates and events for the year are on our website calendar. Click to view it in...
- calendar format
- or as a list of events
- In the calendar layout events are colour coded. Events for everyone are in BLUE. Events for Reception only are in GREEN.
Teachers
(please only email teachers on school days between 8am and 5.30pm)
Ms Belcher - kbelcher@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Mrs Caudwell - lcaudwell@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Mrs Hornsby - shornsby@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Andy Day Class Reps:
Jo Ford - jo_franks@hotmail.com
Mya-Rose Craig Class Reps:
Zoe Ford - zoeford18@hotmail.com
Ms Belcher’s class (RKB)
Andy Day is a television presenter and actor. He is best known for his work on the BBC's CBeebies channel. He is also a patron of Anti Bullying Week. Andy and his band, Andy and the Odd Socks, came up with the idea for Odd Socks Day which delivers an all-important, all inclusive message every year.
Mrs Caudwell’s and Mrs Hornsby’s class (RCH)
Mya-Rose Craig, also known as Birdgirl, is a birdwatcher and author. She has an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Bristol. Mya-Rose published her autobiography, Birdgirl. She created the charity Black2Nature to run nature camps for black and minority ethnic children with her sister and her mother.
