Ms Ackerman, Miss French, Miss Perkins and Miss Slotwinska

• Thursday 27th November - 6NW RWA trip

• Friday 28th November - School Nurse Coffee Morning at 9.00am. All welcome.

• 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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• ​​​​Check here regularly for Yr 5 news and reminders. It's updated every Friday.

• Read your Friday Mailbag, emailed to you at the end of the day every Friday, for important whole-school news and updates.

• The price of a lunch is £2.90. Please make sure that there is enough credit in your child's dinner money account BEFORE they order a meal. We are charged a small percentage on every transaction so we appreciate payment for a block of five or more meals at a time, if possible.  

• Thursday 4th December - 6DB RWA trip

• Sunday 7th December - Winter Fair

• Monday 8th December - KS2 Choir Winter Sing at Bristol Beacon

• Wednesday 17th December - Spelling Level & Boss Checks

• Thursday 18th December - Yrs 4 5 & 6 Carol Concert at Totterdown Baptist Church

• Thursday 18th December - House Day

• Friday 19th December - End of Term 2

• Monday 5th January - INSET Day, school closed for staff training

• Tuesday 6th January - Start of Term 3

• Thursday 8th January - Reception '26 Intake open event 9.30am

• Thursday 15th January - Reception '26 Intake application deadline

• 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 Yr 5 only are in MAGENTA.

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Videos from the parents meeting on Wednesday 24th September.

Mr MacIntyre's talk - Behaviour at Hillcrest

https://youtu.be/Fb-XKp9ErtM?si=XzSCLe2fnxhNiPpS

Ms Norman's talk - What you'll love about Hillcrest in 2025-26

https://youtu.be/gRWh5AH-Vy0?si=CG5TZKr8RT8t0z6P

Best Books for Year 5 | Ages 9-10 | The Reader Teacher

• Visit the Yr 5 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)

Miss French - rfrench@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Ms Ackerman - nackerman@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
 

Sherrie Eugene-Hart Class Rep:

Jess Fowler

Lara Lalemi Class Class Rep:

You can contact the class reps by email at classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk or via the class WhatsApp group.

Miss French’s Class (5RF)

Sherrie Eugene-Hart is a sign language interpreter and TV presenter. She has received several national awards, such as one for her documentary Windrush Generation. Sherrie is also a former national Judo champion.

Ms Ackerman’s class(5NA)

Lara Lalemi is a PhD researcher in chemistry who works closely with organisations to bring about inclusive and sustainable change to the STEM environment. Her organisation Creative Tuition Collective seeks to equalise the educational playing field and provide support to young people from low-income backgrounds.