Thank you to everybody who brought in a postcard from their travels during the summer holidays. All the postcards have been put up to create an interesting geography display for the children to explore.
Author Archive: Paula Dawson
Royal Society Book Judges
It is now our third week of our Royal Society Book Club and our judges are doing a fantastic job getting familiar with the range of science books and giving excellent reviews back to the rest of the group. It is now only four more weeks until we have to decide on which book we […]
Farewell to the inspirational, world’s tallest basketball player – Paul Sturgess
Paul Sturgess, the world’s tallest basketball player, has finished his visit to Hillside. He has inspired pupils to believe that each person can use their differences as an advantage and be successful if they’re prepared to work hard. He has delivered basketball workshops throughout the day and had photos with children. Here’s one of the […]
Year One’s map skills
Year One have been following up their local walk learning in geography by drawing routes and labelling maps! They had to work as teams to sort ordnance survey symbols (and some were extremely tricky!) before working on their own maps, adding photographs from the visit and naming all of the places that they saw. Well […]
Story and Rhyme Craft Club
Today we read ‘Don’t hog the hedge!’ about a hedgehog preparing to hibernate! He is joined by lots of his friends and he shares his home with them until there isn’t enough room for everyone. We then made our own hedgehogs after a rummage in the woods for prickly leaves! 🦔
World’s tallest basketball player visits Hillside
Paul Sturgess, Britain’s tallest man, has visited Hillside today and shared his inspirational story. He talked about how having a growth mindset has helped him use his differences to drive him throughout his career as the world’s tallest basketball player and actor in a number of films, including Doctor Who, Fantastic Beasts and Avatar 2. […]
Good Work Awards – Friday 20th September 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 Awards – Friday 20th September 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.
A day of firsts in Year 2
Children have had their first go on Times Tables Rock Stars this morning. They created their characters and completed their first gig! You should now find your child’s login in their reading diaries. Children were also introduced to Mrs Shenton who looks after our school library. They each picked a book to borrow and most […]
Nursery fun!
Nursery have made a brilliant start to their school year! They have all settled really well, they are engaging in play with their peers and are making new friendships. We have spent the last two weeks learning the rules and routines of the classroom. We are having lots of fun, learning through play!