Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

Reception have been reading ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ this week as part of their topic on telling stories. In the story, Mr Wolf makes some Pancakes so on Tuesday the children chose their  town topics for their pancake tasting. We also linked this to RE and Lent. We also created our own sock puppets based in […]

Be Kind

Mrs Rushton shared the most beautiful book she has ever read as part of her assembly about mental health and kindness, ‘The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse’ by Charles Mackesy. During the assembly we talked about how important you are, what a difference you can make and how being kind can have […]

Musical Theatre Club

Musical theatre club have been working hard learning songs and lines for their upcoming performance of Matilda. Miss Hayward is very proud of their effort and enthusiasm and we enjoy hearing their performances echoing around the school.

Lent Assembly

On Monday, Mrs Ashton held an assembly about Lent.  The children learned the meaning of Lent and why Christians adhere to this practice. We thought about what we could give up for 40 days and how difficult if would be and we also discussed how nice it would be to think of 40 acts of […]

Winners!

Wow, what a day we had today at Staffs Uni! The 12 Year 5 and 6 children who made it through to the final of the Ryman Enterprise challenge exhibited excellent behaviour, confidence and showcased their amazing presenting skills throughout the day. Team ‘Let’s Stick Together’ were crowned the overall winners in the city- an […]

Pancake Day in Nursery

Nursery have celebrated Shrove Tuesday by tasting pancakes! They had a choice of lemon and sugar or chocolate sauce. They were thoroughly enjoyed.  

Enterprise Presentations

We are ready for our enterprise presentations! We have practiced our scripts, prepared our resources and are wearing our personalised t-shirts.

Relaxing in Year One

Thank you to Claire from Relax Kids who came to school to work with Year One. She will be completing a six week programme to work on their breathing, relaxing and calming skills! The session began in the forest searching for animals, continued with some monkeying around and ended with some mindful yoga and breathing […]

Fire fighting in Year One! 

Year One have linked their History and Science learning by finding out which material would be best to help put out a great fire at Hillside! They tested six different materials and found out that plastic and metal were the best to carry water! They also found out which were the worst as some of […]