On Wednesday afternoon our parents and grandparents came into school as the librarian from book start visited us. She read a story about a crocodile and we took a copy of the book home. It was brilliant!

Today, Reception have built a Sukkah in the woods yo celebrate the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Here we are eating our fruit inside, just as Jewish people share their meals inside the Sukkah!

Today we had our first forest school experience. We began to think about how to dress ourselves, removing our shoes and putting on our wellies. We learned that when we hear the tambourine we have to return to the gathering tree: we practised this in the woods and we were great. Then we all went […]

Children from a Hillside have taken part in a Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph in Carmountside this morning. We joined 3 other local schools to read poems, prayers, lay wreaths and take part in a one minute silence. It was a lovely, thought-provoking occasion. The children were fantastic ambassadors for Hillside. Thank you.

Congratulations to the pupils who were recognised for their excellent work last week. Keep it up!

Well done to the pupils who were awarded last week for displaying our school values.

Year Three have followed their own instructions to create inspired chocolate bars! Ingredients included strawberry laces, chocolate chips and popcorn. We had quite the combinations and how delicious they are is yet to be decided as they are setting the fridge. We even made a gluten free version and next week, will be writing to […]

Many thanks to all the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who came along this afternoon to join Year 4 in their Roman showcase. We had some very excited winners with the Roman numeral bingo, some creative mosaics produced on the iPads and a whole range of symmetrical shields, which will soon be on display! The […]

Year Three have had a great afternoon with Mr Green, creating pottery linked to their topic on the Greeks. Mr Green joined us from Wade Ceramics and showed the children how a skilled potter creates pots before all of the children made their own! Thanks to Mr Green – we can’t wait to add our […]

Hillside took part in a Remembrance Service today, led by Mr Such and some of the children. Mr Such talked about the importance of Armistice Day and all of the children reflected on the sacrifices made by all of those who have served and continue to serve in the Armed Forces, observing a two minute […]