At Your Holiday Hub you can explore a mix of FREE and paid for school holiday clubs and activities across Bristol, for children and young people aged 4-16.

 

Click on the link. You can search by date, location or activity to find a club or activity to suit your family.

 

https://www.yourholidayhubbristol.co.uk/

 

 

About YHH

In 2019, a Bristol partnership was formed to address school holiday hunger. The Healthy Holidays programme, led by Feeding Bristol and Fareshare, sought to create a city where no child goes hunger during the long school holidays.

 

In 2021, the Government announced that the Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) programme would be rolled out nationally. Bristol City Council was allocated just over £1.8m to deliver free holiday activities and food to over 16,000 eligible children and young people.

 

Working in a One City partnership, Bristol City Council, Feeding Bristol, Fareshare, Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND) and Playful Bristol established the new Your Holiday Hub (YHH) programme.

 

Bristol has a strong community, voluntary and play sector. We have built on these strengths to create a programme that is inclusive and fun.

 

We will continue to support organisations that are embedded in local communities. These organisations understand the needs of the communities they serve and have strong relationships with children, parents, and carers. Working in this way we can help every child feel like they belong in Bristol.

 

 

Thursday, 23^rd June will be a Latin Day for all of Key Stage 2.

 

Pupils and staff are welcome to dress up, if they choose. They could either come dressed as someone from Ancient Rome, or they could dress up as their favourite Latin word.

 

 

Helen Wilson, our Language Specialist, has been nominated for the Classics for All National Teacher of the Year Award!

 

The winner will receive £300 for their school.

 

Mike Beer from the Bristol Classics Hub nominated Hillcrest as a 'school that stands out', saying that Miss Wilson goes that 'extra mile' to implement the Latin and to make it fun for our children.

 

Fingers crossed! Results are out on 11th July.

 

Miss Wilson has recently been interviewed by the Bristol Classics Hub. They plan to showcase Hillcrest, and how we are successfully teaching Latin, on their website.

 

She will be sharing some good practice and innovative ideas for delivering the curriculum with teachers from other schools, who will be visiting in the Autumn term to observe some of her Latin lessons. 

 

 

 

Libum (Cato’s Cheesecake)

 

280g ricotta cheese
1 egg
70g plain flour
Runny honey

 

Beat the cheese with the egg and add the sieved flour very slowly and gently. Flour your hands and pat mixture into a ball and place it on a bay leaf on a baking tray. Place in moderate oven (400ºF) until set and slightly risen. Place cake on serving plate and score the top with a cross. our plenty of runny honey over the cross and serve immediately.

 

 

Globuli 

 

500g ricotta cheese
167g semolina
honey
olive oil

Press curd cheese through sieve or let it hang in cheese cloth until it's drained well. Mix with the semolina into a loose dough. Let it sit for a few hours. (Have a sip of the vino Caroenum while you wait).

With wet hands form the mixture into dumplings. Quickly fry them in olive oil for a few minutes. Drain and roll in honey.

 

 

Ancient Roman Eggs

 

200g pine nuts
2 teaspoons ground pepper
1 teaspoon honey
4 tablespoons garum or anchovy paste

 

Soak the pine nuts overnight in water. Then drain and grind them finely in the blender or pound them in a large mortar. Add the pepper, honey and garum. Heat the sauce in a bain-marie. Meanwhile put the eggs into a pan of cold water and bring to the boil. Let them cook for 3½ minutes, then take them off the heat, plunge them into cold water and peel them carefully. The outer edge of the egg white must be firm, but it must be soft inside. Put the eggs, left whole, into a deep serving bowl and pour over the sauce. Serve.

This recipe can be adapted easily to other eggs, such as quail's eggs. In that case keep an eye on the cooking-time: a quail's egg will be firm in 1 minute.

 

 

Nut Tart

 

400g crushed nuts—almonds, walnuts or pistachios
200g pine nuts
100g honey
100ml dessert wine
4 eggs
100ml full-fat milk
1 teaspoon salt or garum
pepper

 

Preheat the oven to 240°C/475°F/Gas 9.

Place the chopped nuts and the whole pine nuts in an oven dish and roast until they have turned golden. Reduce the oven temperature to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Mix the honey and the wine in a pan and bring to the boil, then cook until the wine has evaporated. Add the nuts and pine nuts to the honey and leave it to cool. Beat the eggs with the milk, salt or garum and pepper. Then stir the honey and nut mixture into the eggs. Oil an oven dish and pour in the nut mixture. Seal the tin with silver foil and place it in roasting tin filled about a third deep with water. Bake for about 25 minutes until the pudding is firm. Take it out and when it is cold put it into the fridge to chill. To serve, tip the tart on to a plate and pour over some boiled honey.

 

 

WIN £1,000 to help your school rebuild their library – plus a £100National Book Token for yourself!

 

Schools everywhere are doing their best to help children catch up with the months of learning lost during the pandemic, and yet reading for pleasure – which has been shown time and time again to be the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – is falling off the agenda. A study by our friends Read for Good – a charity which raises money for books for schools and children in hospital by getting children reading for fun – found that 81% of schools didn’t have a separate budget for reading for pleasure, while almost three quarters of schools reported decimated library stocks due to unreturned books during lockdown or library resources being diverted elsewhere.

It's time to get serious about reading for pleasure, and start rebuilding our schools’ libraries. 

 

We’re giving five schools £1,000 of National Book Tokens each, plus membership to the School Library Association, to help them rebuild their range of books and encourage reading for pleasure now and for generations to come.

 

Nominate your school, and if yours is one of the five winning entries, you’ll also win a £100 National Book Token for yourself!

 

Winners will be drawn at random after Friday 29th July and announced in September 2022.

 

Visit our website HERE and nominate your school!

 

Hillcrest's Inset Days for school year 2022/23

Thursday 1^st September 2022

Friday 2^nd September 2022

Tuesday 3^rd January 2023

Monday 17^th April 2023

Friday 21^st July 2023

 

Click HERE to download BCC's Term Dates calendar.

 

The CoMMinS team would like to say a big thank you to everybody who took part in the study. We are pleased to tell you that our scientists have been busy analysing the results from the saliva samples and questionnaire data we collected from the participating schools, and we are keen to share with you what we have found so far. 

 

There is  a 5-minute animation CoMMinS study results - YouTube which tells you all about our results.  It's designed it with all ages in mind.  

 

More information about the CoMMinS trial, including the substudies, our methods and results so far, can be found at the CoMMins website: 

https://commins.org.uk/   

 

We would like to thank you again for Hillcrest's collaboration during this project. We  couldn’t have completed it without your pupils, parents/guardians, and staff.

 

Do you know what to do if you need urgent help and call 999 but it's not safe to speak?

 

You can download this information HERE.