Mrs Caudwell, Ms Belcher, Mrs Hornsby, Miss Payne and Miss Miles

Your 'Quick Start Guide' is still HERE, for handy reference.

• Monday 3rd November - Start of Term 2

• Wednesday 5th November - Individual school photos - every child will have their photo taken by the school photographer. You will get a link to view and order pictures.

• Thursday 6th November - All Hillcrest sibling pairs and groups will be photographed together during the school day. You can bring pre-schoolers in with their school-aged siblings for a group photo from 3.30, after normal pick up.

• PE Kit - We're getting changed for PE this term. Your child will need their house T-shirt, shorts and a pair of daps or trainers 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. 

• Nasal 'flu vaccination - Whether you want your child to have the vaccine in school or not, please complete the online 'flu vaccination form here: https://imms.sirona-cic.org.uk/flu/2025/consent?v=4. See the letter in 'Letters & Useful Information' below for full details. 

Your child's 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 contact them by

Free text message on Arbor

Telephone - 0117 3772440

Email - school@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk

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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

• Thursday 13th November - Reception '26 intake open events 9.30 & 5.30. Please spread the word if you have friends with children turning 5 between 1st September and 31st of August 2026.

• Friday 14th November - Nasal 'flu vaccinations in school (unless you have opted out)

• Tuesday 18th November - Lock down drill at 1.00pm

• Friday 21st November - SEND Coffee Morning at 9.00am. All welcome.

• Friday 21st November - Hillcrest Comedy Night

• Friday 28th November - School Nurse Coffee Morning at 9.00am. All welcome.

• Sunday 7th December - Winter Fair

• Tuesday 9th December - Reception Christmas Sing-a-long

• Tuesday 16th December - Reception Community Garden visit (to be confirmed)

• Wednesday 17th December - Spelling Level & Boss Checks

• Thursday 18th December - House Day

• Friday 19th December - End of Term 2

• Monday 5th January - INSET Day, school closed for staff training

• Tuesday 6th January - Start of Term 3

• Thursday 8th January - Reception '26 Intake open event 9.30am

• Thursday 15th January - Reception '26 Intake application deadline

• 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.

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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

Best Books for Reception | Ages 4-5 | The Reader Teacher

• Visit the Reception Homework page HERE to download this week's Retrieval Questions.

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• Click HERE to see what we've been doing!

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.