Reception
Mrs Caudwell, Ms Belcher, Mrs Hornsby, Mrs Dix, Miss Payne, Miss Dover (1:1 support) and Miss Awil
Monday 28th April to Friday 2nd May
- Monday 28th April - Endeavour house's first FOREST SCHOOL session in Arnos Vale, followed by another three sessions on Wednesdays 7th, 12th and 19th May. We will need at least three parent helpers to make this possible. Please speak to one of the Reception team if you can help with one or more of the sessions. We will need helpers from 1.10 to 2.50pm. Thank you in advance.
- Friday 2nd May - Diversity Steering Group Meeting to make plans for Diversity day - All welcome 2.00pm
- Friday 2nd May - EAL/Bilingual/New to Bristol Coffee Afternoon 2.30pm - Are you new to the city, speak another language at home or raising bilingual children? Come along and meet other families, share experiences and find out about life at our school and in the local community. Everyone is welcome - we'd love to see you there!
- PARENT / CARER SURVEY
At Hillcrest, we are constantly working to enhance the children's school experience.
Can we ask for a couple of minutes of your time to take part in our anonymous, online survey HERE? We value your experience and insights and we will take your feedback into account when planning improvements to our school.
Thank you
- 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 a second parent or guardian, if there is one, and any other carer who would also like to receive communications from school, including the weekly eMailbag. Please let the office staff know once you have entered their details so we can amend the settings.
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...
- Tuesday 6th May - Reception Lower Stock Farm trip
- Thursday 8th May - School Nurse Coffee Morning 9.00am
- Friday 9th May - SEND Coffee Morning with Bristol Parent Carer Forum
- Friday 16th May - Diversity Day
- Friday 16th May - Class Reps meeting 9.00
- Friday 16th May - Adopters Coffee Morning 9.00
- w/c 19th May - Sponsored Walks
- Friday 23rd May - End of Term 5
- 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.
