Reception
Mrs Caudwell, Ms Belcher, Mrs Hornsby, Mrs Dix, Miss Payne, Miss Awil and Miss Dover
(1:1 Support Worker)
Monday 9th December to Friday 13th December
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
- Sunday 8th December - Winter Fair 12.00 - 15.00
- Monday 9th December - Singalong 17.00 Please book your free tickets on Arbor so that we know numbers for each performance. There is a limit of two audience members per child per performance, due to the hall capacity. (If you can't come to this performance you don't need to bring your child back in to take part in that one, unless you want to.)
Tuesday 10th December - SEND Coffee Morning 9.00
Wednesday 11th December - Singalong 14.30 Please book your free tickets on Arbor so that we know numbers for each performance. There is a limit of two audience members per child per performance, due to the hall capacity.
Thursday 12th December - Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day
- Friday 13th December - Adopters Coffee Morning 9.00
- Our Christmas Singalong - Both Reception classes will perform together in the big hall. There will be two performances:
5.00pm on Monday, 9th December
2.30pm on Wednesday, 11th December
Sponsored Run - We raised over £1,600! THANK YOU! This fantastic total will really make a difference to the provision in our Reception classrooms! It's not too late to donate - Here's our fundraising link: GoodHub | Reception Sponsored Run! There are some photos of the runners in our Gallery.
Here's our timetable for the last two weeks of term...
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
- Wednesday 18th December - Christmas Lunch
- Friday 20th December - Term 2 ends
- Monday 6th January - Term 3 starts
- 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.
Coming soon
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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.
