Reception gave Chris from our local library a huge welcome today. He had come to share two books with us and tell us about the services that the library offers. We loved the first book, Supertato who we met previously in our Evil Pea story and we also enjoyed Little Monkey, which we were given…
Nursery children are having amazing time in the snow, they are enjoying making snow angels, building snowmen and crunching the fresh snow!
Please note that all of today’s after school clubs have been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Our new group of forest schoolers have made a great start to their sessions this term, despite the cold weather. So far they have explored the woodland, built dens and helped to make a fire, in order to enjoy some well deserved hot chocolate. We are looking forward to seeing the changes in the woods…
Our school football team have played two weeks of fixtures since coming back after Christmas. With a few new faces, the team have had to adapt to new positions and tactics but have done brilliantly so far, particularly during a 3 nil win against Hanley St Luke’s. With one fixture week left, it’s all to…
Year 3 have been investigating friction today. Children created a board for their rubber duck to skate down the ramp on. They were aiming to create the least amount of friction in order for it to travel the quickest. Round 1 results are in but tomorrow they will get the chance to modify their board.…
In assembly today, Mrs Wainwright delivered an assembly on Bananagrams. At Hillside we are holding our own Bananagram Championships in school for years 3, 4, 5 and 6. Bananagrams is an addictive word game wherein lettered tiles are used to spell words- like Scrabble but without the board. The children will begin by battling against each…
Mr Gray is helping Year 5 with their learning about WW2. He is providing us with a talk about his own experiences of living through the war. He has a wealth of resources both from, and about the war and is explaining what life was like for a child during this time. The children are…
This afternoon Year 4 have been enjoying their first Mini-me yoga session. They have practicing yoga poses and exploring breathing techniques. Ask your child to show you their favourite pose – popular ones include the giraffe pose, the boat pose and giggle breath. Lots of fun!
This week we have read the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’, throughout the week the children have been role-playing a green grocers using real vegetables, exploring the cut up vegetables, sorting vegetables by their initial sounds and creating vegetable plots with different construction materials. We also used the vegetables to do some lovely colourful printing – we…