Headteacher Awards – Friday 7th July 2017
Well done to the pupils who were awarded last week for displaying our school values.
Olympic Sports – games under way
Group B starting in hockey group A are doing dodgeball.
Olympic School Games
Hillside have adopted the country of South Africa in today’s Olympic school games at Excel. Here’s the class doing a warm up in preparation for the days events.
JCB Women in Engineering Event
These lucky girls were randomly selected to attend the engineering day at JCB yesterday as part of their program to get more women into engineering. They were challenged to make a tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows and guess what…. they won! Congratulations girls!
KS2 Sports Day re-arranged date
We have re-arranged the KS2 Sports Day event to Monday 17th July at 1.30pm – weather permitting! Arrangements will be as previous letter. If this event does not go ahead again on this date unfortunately it will have to be cancelled completely this year.
Hillside Rock!
Hillside Rock took part in a ‘rock off’ at Glebe Academy on Wednesday afternoon. They performed brilliantly. Well done!
Y5’s visit to the Potteries Museum
Year 5 had a lovely day at the Potteries Museum yesterday. They explored the Staffordshire Hoard, made helmets, played an Anglo-Saxon battle game and even had time to revisit WW2 with the Spitfire!
Y3 Learn About Eid
As part of RE, Y3 have been learning about Eid. Yesterday, we made samosas from scratch and they were delicious!
Y4 Showcase
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at our showcase this afternoon. Clay flowers, electrical switches and poetry writing kept everyone busy!
Go Wild Forest School
Great day at Go Wild on Monday! The children had amazing fun soap carving. I love the concentration on their faces! We have played some woodland games “Beetle tag” & “Sleeping Bear”! The children spent sometime exploring the woods & working in teams to create a shelter together.