Reception
Mrs Caudwell, Ms Belcher, Mrs Hornsby, Miss Payne and Miss Miles
- It's the turn of Redcatch Park house (orange PE t-shirts) to do Forest School, starting on Thursday 5th March, for four sessions. We supply waterproofs. Children can bring in their own wellies (but we do have spares in school). We will need three parent volunteers for each session to have the right adult/child ratio, so please let the class teacher know if you can help with any or all of them. We'll be leaving school at 1.10 and returning by 3.00.
- This is Week 2 on the menu.
- Monday 9th March - Science Week begins
- Tuesday 10th March - Reception Bug Hunt
- Tuesday 10th March - Evacuation Drill
- Friday 13th March - SEND Coffee Morning 9.00am
PE Kit - Please make sure your child has their house T-shirt, shorts and a pair of daps or trainers in school, in a named, drawstring bag. It will stay in school, on the hook below their peg, and only go home at the end of each term. Make sure that everything your child wears is labelled, including each shoe.
Attendance
Make sure that any messages about illness, absence, appointments, early pick-up etc. - are given to Cat, Jill or Juliet in the school office, not just to their teacher. You can either drop in to the office or let them know 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
Coming up...
- Monday 16th March - Neurodiversity Week begins
- Friday 20th March - Eid (TBC)
- Friday 20th March - Red Nose Day
- Monday 23rd to Friday 27th March - Scholastic Book Fair!
- Tuesday 24th March - Community Garden team visit Reception
- Wednesday 25th March - Hillcrest Music Extravaganza 2.00pm
- Thursday 26th March - Hillcrest Music Extravaganza 6.00pm
- Friday 27th March - Adopters Coffee Morning 9.00am
- Friday 27th March - Hillcrest Eid Celebration
- Thursday 2nd April - House Day & End of Term 4
- 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.
Videos from the parents meeting on Wednesday 24th September.
Mr MacIntyre's talk - Behaviour at Hillcrest
https://youtu.be/Fb-XKp9ErtM?si=XzSCLe2fnxhNiPpS
Ms Norman's talk - What you'll love about Hillcrest in 2025-26
https://youtu.be/gRWh5AH-Vy0?si=CG5TZKr8RT8t0z6P
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:
Jenny Collings
Charlotte Foley
Mya-Rose Craig Class Rep:
Katie Wilkes
You can contact the class reps by email at classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk or via the class WhatsApp group.
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.
RHC - Mya-Rose Craig class
Mrs Hornsby reads a story
