We were very lucky to have some special visitors in school yesterday. PCSO Andrew Bagnall arranged for his colleague Tim Moss to bring in 2 police dogs for us to meet. We met Henry and Cooper and found out that Cooper is famous as he is the first Staffie Police Dog – he is also…
Children have demonstrated superb teamwork today and have all produced fantastic products and advertisement campaigns. Here they are delivering their pitch to the ‘dragons of the den’. The winners will be announced in Monday!
Year 5 and 6 career’s enterprise day is well underway! The children have been placed into mixed year group teams, chosen a team leader and created a team mascot. This afternoon the teams will be tasked with the job of designing and marketing a new stationery product for Ryman. The teams will then go head…
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…
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.…