Free Super Scientist Badge!

Hello, it’s Miss McCann again! In conjunction with Whizz, Pop, Bang! magazine, The Great Science Share are offering a free enamel pin badge as a reward for any children carrying out science activities and enquiries. Stoke-on-Trent has been allocated 500 badges to be awarded to our local children, of which only 160 have been claimed. […]

Science Certificate

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in science over the last week, including our home learners and our key worker group in school. We submitted and uploaded evidence of enquiries that have taken place, and been awarded with a certificate for our participation in The Great Science Share this year. Well done […]

Gender Rock Off- Who will be victorious?

Hello Rockers, Well, what can I say? You’ve all rocked out a lot this week! I wasn’t expecting you to reach such high scores. It has been a tight contest so far and I can’t believe what a comeback the boys have made after the girls got off to such an amazing start. The battle […]

Our School Values

At Hillside, two of our very important school values are respect and equality! In response to recent events happening across the country and worldwide, we thought it was important to create an avenue to explore and discuss these issues with our children and help to answer any questions they might have. Please have a look […]

Science Enquiry 7

Well it would have been Hillside’s Science Week this week. Year 6 would have been visiting Keele University, Year 4 and 5 would have been off to Staffordshire University for the Big Bang Science Fair and there would have been LOTS of science activities going on in school for everybody! Unfortunately, it’s not happening…😢. However, […]

Girls Take an Early Lead in the Gender Rock Off!

Wow! What a fantastic start we have had to our gender ‘Rock Off!’ Yesterday, the boys took an early lead; however, the scores this morning show a very different picture! The girls are way ahead with 7,630 points. Boy rockers you’ve got some serious catching up to do. Get onto the garage today and rock […]

A Celebration of Home Learning at Hillside

We are overwhelmed with the fantastic home learning that is taking place both at home and in school. We wanted to share with you the hard work that is taking place and hopefully encourage even more parents to share their children’s work. The teachers and staff have loved reading your emails and Miss Nelson is […]

Reading on Purple Mash

This week, we invited children from Year 1– Year 6 to complete their reading online using Purple Mash. We are so impressed with the amount of children accessing this amazing resource. The leader board below shows the class that has had the most children complete their reading online: Year 1 Year 4 Year 5 Year […]

Reading at Hillside

A big thank you to all the children and parents that have already dropped reading books, library books and reading for pleasure books off at school. There are still some to be returned and we kindly ask that they are dropped off by the end of next week. The book box is still situated outside […]