Response to PM Update

Following tonight’s PM statement please be reminded that Hillside’s provision is for EMERGENCY CHILDCARE ONLY for children whose parents are keyworkers critical to the COVID-19 Response. PLEASE keep you child at home to reduce the spread of the virus. If you come to school and are found to not fit the above criteria you and your […]

School closures may result in children spending more time online so now is the perfect time for you to take part in the National Online Safety Training for Parents.

Dear Parents & Carers, We are delighted to announce that National Online Safety have just released their brand-new platform, and as a Certified School – our whole school community has now received a complimentary upgrade to their new website. If you already have a National Online Safety account, you’ll shortly receive an email inviting you […]

**IMPORTANT** Childcare Update

Please note from Tuesday 24th March, Breakfast Club will no longer be operating. School provision will be between 9am and 3.15pm only. As the COVID-19 response continues to increase we are taking further steps to safeguard Hillside staff and their families. Our provision is emergency childcare only and we will only accept children if parents […]

Parents/Carers accessing school provision

Please be reminded that you should only send your child to school if you have to, because your work is critical to the COVID-19 response. We are offering an emergency service so if you are able, at all, to keep your child at home you should do so. Please do not be offended when staff […]

To the Parents and Carers of the fantastic children of Hillside!

What a week this has been! As adults these are turbulent times and we are feeling anxious about what lies ahead. I’m sure that many of our children feel the same. We have tried to help them to understand it throughout the week and support them to deal with the anxiety but they have not […]

To all the fantastic children of Hillside!

When school ended today, we knew that we may not see some of you for some time and this felt strange for us and will do for you too. At first it may feel like you are on holiday but this is a little different. You have been sent some work to do by your […]

Information for Key Workers and Vulnerable Children Parents

We have been inundated with responses to our app update this morning. Please note that we cannot personally respond to each email as we do not have the time or manpower. We detailed our provision in the app update this morning. However, hopefully the following will offer some clarification: All of those who have responded […]

Disco’s

We have treated the children in school to an impromptu disco this afternoon. They have worked so hard in what has been a strange week. We hope they have enjoyed the dancing, singing and sweet treat!  

Stay Safe Assembly

The children have all been in to assembly this morning and listened to a story about the Covid-19 virus that has been spreading across the world. We talked about how this may be making us feel a variety of emotions but that these are all perfectly normal! We know that we can keep ourselves safe […]

*IMPORTANT* – Updated Key Worker Information

Dear Parents and Carers, As the list of key workers who may be eligible to send pupils to school during the closures has been released we are now in a position to update you on our offer at Hillside. The government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to […]