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

You can find a 'Quick Start Guide' HERE, with all the dates and

information you need about your child's first weeks at Hillcrest. 

• ​​​​​Please remember to complete the online 'flu vaccination consent form, as soon as possible, here: https://imms.sirona-cic.org.uk/flu/2025/consent?v=4  See the letter in 'Letters & Useful Information below for full details.

• 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

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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

• Friday 12th September - New Reception Parents' Coffee Morning 9.00am

• Wednesday 24th September - CURRICULUM EVENING (all year groups) 3.30 - 5.00pm

• Tuesday 30th September - Fire drill 2.30pm

• Monday 13th to Friday 17th October - Book Fair before and after school

• Tuesday 14th October - Parents Evening 4.00 - 7.00pm

• Thursday 16th October - Parents Evening 4.00 - 7.00pm

• Friday 17th October - Adopters' Coffee Morning 9.00am

• Thursday 23rd October - End of term

• Friday 24th October - INSET Day, school closed for staff training

• Monday 3rd November - Start of Term 2

• 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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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:

Mya-Rose Craig Class Reps:

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.