Nursery’s Wonderful Week

The children in Nursery have had a fantastic week, they have been reading the story Jack and the Beanstalk and enjoyed lots of exciting activities including retelling the story, creating beanstalk pictures, building beanstalks and even planting our own magic beans! We took our learning into the woods and practised carrying sticks, big and small, […]

Making Greek Pita Bread in Year Five

This week in Year Five we have been busy with our food design and technology unit. We researched, designed, made and evaluated our fantastic products all in one week! We all really enjoyed the challenge and our final products were very tasty with an authentic Greek finish. Within our English, we have focused on our […]

A busy week in Year Four

Year Four have been working their socks off again this week. We have been learning about and exploring fraction in Maths and been showing off our wonderful Year Four quality writing, inspired by The hundred mile an hour dog by Jeremy Strong. We have also started our new science topic by showing what we think […]

Practical Maths in Year Six

Year Six have been calculating the new cost of items when a percentage is discounted. For this, they have been searching the Kids clothing section on Asda’s ‘George’ page for an outfit. They have then discounted different percentages from these items of clothing to work out their new price. With spring only around the corner, […]

Rockin’ out in Year Three!

Year Three are having a totally awesome Times Tables Rock Stars day! They have been working their socks off to improve their times tables knowledge and speed throughout the week and we are so proud of their dedication. Well done Year Three, you are all rock heroes in the making!  

Help Wanted!

As you know we are still in the process of renovating our amazing school bus. Our next challenge is to install some lighting and heating on there. Have we got any businesses in our school community who can help us out? If so, please get in touch either via phone: 01782-235350 or via email: office@hillsideprimary.org.uk […]

Design an Egg Competition Reminder

We have received our donated prized for our Easter themed ‘design an egg’ competition. Thank you to Morrisons Community Champions for such a kind donation. If your child hasn’t submitted their entry yet, don’t worry they have a few more days to be creative and to bring in their entry.  

Traditional Tales in Reception

This week, Reception have been immersing themselves in the story of The Three Little Pigs. The children are loving our new story and one of their favourite activities has been exploring building using a variety of materials in the classroom and also in the woods. There have been many cross-curricular links in this story including […]

Explanations in Year One 

Year One have been practising their explanations this week, linked to their Science work on growing plants 🌱 They used team work to act out the plant life cycle, planted their own seeds and will be writing an explanation about how seeds grow this week during their English non-fiction writing. We can’t to wait to […]