Year Six are enjoying an afternoon of watching ‘Cloudy with a chance of meatballs’ with a goodie bag of sweets and drinks for the penultimate activity of their well-deserved treat day. They have already spent the day on computers, doing craft activities and watching DVDs. They will wrap the day up this afternoon doing ‘social…
An important letter has been sent out via email this afternoon. After half term we are encouraging parents and families to wear a face covering whilst dropping off and picking up from Hillside. We thank you in anticipation of your support and understanding. We wish you all a lovely half-term break. Take care and stay…
Thank you so much to the families who have donated food items to the Stoke-on -Trent Food Bank today. The crates were collected this afternoon and we are sure that each and every item donated will make a difference to those in need. Thank you for your generous and kind donations.
Year One have loved reading, sequencing, retelling and acting the story of ‘The Lost Wolf’ by Mini Grey. They have completed freeze frames for the different scenes from the story, and using the language from the book, retold the story in their own words! Their acting skills were amazing and the main character, Little Red,…
The children have had an exciting day today – they went to the woods and were given a challenge from Wilma the Witch. The children had to hunt to find the ingredients that Wilma needed for her potion, as they found all of the ingredients Wilma made her spell and treated them to a hot…
Wondering what to do during half term? Swansea University are holding a virtual Science Fair with lots of exciting things going on! Why not sign up and have a look, Miss McCann will be! https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/in-the-community/swansea-science-festival/
Just a little reminder that our Reading Rocket ends this Friday. Please can you makes sure that your child’s reading diary is up to date to be put into the prize draw. Due to our book change day now being a Friday, we will be sending enough reading books home to last the children over…
Congratulations to the children who received a Headteacher’s Award on Friday. You have all displayed our school values and impressed your class teacher – well done! You are all superstars 🌟
Year Four have been carrying out a fair test to find out how sound travels best. They made the decisions on which aspects to keep the same, including the distance from the sound source, the noise made and the number of taps or scrapes as they tested a range of objects and materials. They then…
To supplement our science topic, ‘Living Things and their Habitats’, Year Six have been up the woods to find species, including arachnids, annelids, molluscs and insects. We photographed the species using the iPads and will be using the photographs to draw other comparisons in future lessons.