Mental Health workshop for Year Six

Year Six have been visited by a representative of ‘Mind’, a charity who help to support children’s understanding of mental health and wellbeing. Children took part in a variety of activities to develop awareness of this important issue and to help them understand how to deal with different emotions.  

Remembrance

We made our annual trip to Carmountside this morning alongside Milton, Greenways and Carmountside Primary to lay our wreath and remember. The children read aloud lovely poems which they had written. They were very respectful and great ambassadors for Hillside Primary School. Well done.  

Reading Rocket

Well done to our two winners of the Reading Rocket: Olivia (KS2) and Finley (KS1). As you can see from their smiles, they are delighted with their Flipout vouchers. Well done to all of the 81 children who read five times per week. We are incredibly proud of your achievement and hope that even more […]

Nursery Forest School

Nursery have spent the morning in the woods making sparklers! We hunted for sticks to make our own sparklers and then made yummy chocolate ones! What a lovely morning.  

Mystery Reader Reception

A big thank you to Grace’s mum and her little sister May who came in to be our mystery readers. Grace’s mum read ‘Hansel and Gretel’ which Grace says is her favourite book. The children listened so attentively and were able to recall the story at the end and even rated the story a 10/10! […]

Old games in Year One

As part of their History learning, Year One have been thinking about old and new games. They thought about their favourite games and we talked about how their grandparents may not have had a Switch to play on – as they are perhaps older than the inventor as well as not having the materials or […]

Year One’s Mystery Reader

Thank you to Archie’s Mummy who came in to school to read to us today! We loved hearing the story about Lift Off and all of the animals flying in to space and we all wanted to tell you our favourite part of the book! Thank you! 🚀

Books for Schools- Tokens appeal

Hillside Primary are collecting the tokens that will be printed in the Sun newspaper. If you have any spare please donate them the school who will be very much appreciative of them. The books will be great additions to their reading library. Thank you.