Economic awareness in Year Four

During a recent PSHE lesson, the children discussed money and what it is used for. They also discussed the importance of saving money to buy things that they want. Some children explained how they complete jobs at home to earn pocket money. The children then listened to the song ‘If I had a Million Dollars’ […]

Year Six’s residential at Stanley Head

Year Six have enjoyed an incredible week at Stanley Head. It is amazing to see how each child has grown over the course of the week. Children have been bouldering in the roaches and learning about rock formations,  reading maps and symbols to complete a scavenger hunt, throwing axes, shooting rifles, stacking crates, canoeing and, […]

Daddy’s treats in Nursery

This afternoon we have welcomed our daddies in to school to celebrate Father’s Day with them. We have completed craft activities, enjoyed garden games in the sun ☀️ and cakes, biscuits and drinks. The children have thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon and hope you have a lovely day on Sunday!

Art Week in Year Five

This week, Year Five completed their Access All Arts Week project where they have looked at the skills associated with both photography and cinematography. They have created successful perspective photos whilst also experimented with different genres.  

Light investigation in Year Two

This week in Science, year two have learnt three new words: transparent, translucent and opaque. They predicted and explored this with a torch and the many materials around the room, recording their findings along the way.  

Year One’s Question!

Year One have been set a challenge during science week and that has been to think of lots of questions! 🙋 They use question spinners to help and posed the question, ‘What do animals eat?’ 🤔 We then used secondary sources on the iPads to investigate, we learned the terms carnivore 🦁 herbivore 🐑 and […]

Music in Year Four

During their recent music lesson, the children were writing and playing a rhythm using different pitches on the ukuleles.

Science Week in Reception

This week, we have been conducting a scientific enquiry to find out what would happen when we put a paper towel into two different colours of water. We had blue and yellow, red and blue and red and yellow. The children came up with lots of fantastic ideas, which were recorded on post-it’s. We observed […]

Help For Heroes! 

WOW! Just look at all of our Hillside Heroes! We have such a range in school today: superheroes, doctors, vets, armed forces, teachers and mums and dads are just a few of our fab costumes! Thank you all so much for supporting Help For Heroes, we hope to have raised lots of money (and if […]

Access All Arts Day

On Thursday, Hillside children participated in lots of different arts workshop as part of ‘Access All Arts’ week. The children were able to learn from experts such as opera singers, musicians, actors, illustrators and photographers who helped them to gain new skills in the arts. We were blown away by the children’s engagement and how […]