This week we have been raising awareness of mental health and how important it can be to connect with nature! We have shared an assembly and now know how to bring the outside in (maybe eat brekkie by a window!), how to notice nature (using our senses to look carefully) and how to appreciate and…
Year Two look fabulous today! They’ve come dressed as rock stars ready to take on the challenge of becoming the best year two class in Stoke-on-Trent with their times tables. The competition started yesterday and runs until Friday. So far, Hillside are second on the schools leaderboard and year two are third on the classes…
Through Parentmail, you have received a letter about training for parents on the 20th May at 6pm via Teams. Donna Mountford, from Staywell, is offering a course in Understanding Self-Esteem and Building Resilience and there is still time to sign up for the training which will provide lots of ideas for supporting your children and…
Year Five have thoroughly enjoyed number day. This morning, we had our number scavenger hunt where we were set the challenge of using the numbers we had come to school in. We found prime numbers, square numbers and used the numbers to answer a series of tricky questions. Throughout the day, we have also been…
Year Two have enjoyed a wonderful Number Day today. They started the day playing maths games with their friends. Afterwards, the children linked their history work based on Christopher Columbus by using directional language to plot Columbus’ journey to The Americas on a map. This afternoon, the children took part in a number hunt before…
It was great to see so many different numbers in Year Six today. We started the day completing a fractions focused, Bletchley Park style code breaking activity. Children had to break the code in order to read the message but they had to answer some tricky maths problems first. We then gave the children 50…
Year Four have been extremely busy today, using maths in every lesson and activity that they have been involved in. We started the day with an assembly from Mrs Wainwright, followed by a TTRS challenge. We then worked in teams to complete an escape room challenge to escape from an Egyptian pyramid before using maths…
Year Three have had so much fun during Number Day. They have been working as teams to go on a number scavenger hunt and to solve the mystery of the missing glue sticks. They have learned about how numbers were recorded in the Stone Age and have taken on the role of travel agents to…
Year One have had a brilliant number day looking at mathematics skills throughout the day! We enjoyed playing a guessing game using super vocab then we completed a shape and number challenge – we can’t wait to see who wins! We linked our maths to careers and our History learning, working out how maths is…
Reception have had so much fun today practising their numbers. Here on the photo, they are showing you how to make numbers to 10. They have also practised their number skills using the NumBots game and been on a number hunt. They have completed number jigsaws and sang number songs. At the end of the…