Many thanks to all the students of Hillcrest Primary for their amazingly imaginative artwork produced for the Wells Road High Street Gallery this week. Thanks too to all the shops who gave us access to their windows and to the weather gods for being kind to us.

John O'Connor

Dr Vincent Smith, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physics at Bristol University, has conducted research in elementary particle physics, taking part in projects at CERN and Fermilab and serving as a member of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson. In 2004 he was awarded an MBE for services to physics.

Dr Smith received the Institute of Physics Phillips Award 2020 for his outstanding contributions to the Institute, and for other work promoting physics, including outreach to schools.

Today, he visited Hillcrest and read to the children in Yrs 1 and 2!

Here he is with the Wright Brothers class.

Congratulations to this week's stars!

We in the fundraising committee believe that Red Nose Day is an extremely important charity to support.  Red Nose Day is on Friday 18^th March and we have decided to punish some of the Hillcrest Staff with a Punishanator! 

If you would like to punish a teacher, we are asking for £1 to spin the spinners to randomly choose a punishment and a teacher, OR, if you would like to choose the teacher and the punishment, we are charging £2.

The teachers who can be punished are: Mr Boyle, Mr Mac, Mr Barham, Mr Taylor, Mrs Howells, Ms Sharples and Mrs Loader.

On the Punishments menu are: Doing the waltz (with another teacher), ice down tops, pie in the face or having a wet sponge thrown at them.

All children are welcome to come dressed in red as well to celebrate this amazing charity.

The teachers will take their punishment in front of the whole school the following week (Mr Mac better watch out!)

From the Fundraising Commitee

Our Hillcrest Harriers travelled to Fair Furlong Primary School for a league match on Monday and came home with all three points after a whopping 7-2 victory.

Striker Max bagged himself a hat-trick while midfield maestro Xavi notched two and the versatile Tommy and Jordan got one apiece.

But it wasn't just goal scoring where the Harriers impressed - Sam was a tiger in goal and was ably protected by Mo, Ben and Henry who made some important blocks and tackles as well as some great passes forward. 

And further up the field, tricky winger Flynn was a constant thorn in the side for Furlong.

A wonderful performance by a fine team of football players. They did Hillcrest proud.

Thank you to Mr Barham for organising.

Hillcrest Hurricanes drew an exciting match with Headley Park 5-5 on Wednesday.

Mimi and Alba both notched two points each and Ben added one more.

What was different about this match was that no child stayed in the same position. It was a great opportunity to show how well-rounded they are as athletes both in defence and attack. 

They also responded well to being called on the occasional footwork error and quickly got on with the game.

They remained respectful to their opponents throughout and represented Hillcrest wonderfully.

Go Hurricanes!

Well done to Cass, Ben, Alba, Ellie, Beth, Mimi, Phoebe, Iona and Stephene.

Thank you to Coach North for organising. 

6PB volunteered to help plant trees at Arnos Vale this week.

It was a wet and muddy job but lots of fun!

Congratulations to this week's stars!