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.
Author Archive: Paula Dawson
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 […]
Good Work Awards – Friday 8th November 2019
Congratulations to the children who have been recognised for their excellent work last week and shared it in celebration assembly this morning. Keep it up!
Headteacher’s Award – Friday 8th November 2019
Well done to the children who have been recognised for displaying one of our school values and were awarded with a Headteacher’s certificate in celebration assembly this morning.
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.