Nursery’s Learning this Week

Nursery have read the story ‘Lost and Found’ this week by Oliver Jeffers. We’ve spent the week exploring tuff trays containing different textures, creating penguin themed artwork and learning about blubber! We investigated the difference between placing our hand onto an ice pack and having a layer of ‘blubber’ (lard!) between our hands and the […]

Year One’s Brampton Visit

Year One had an absolutely fantastic visit to the Brampton Museum on Thursday and went on an adventure with William and Amelia who had lost some of their toys! They started by meeting the cook and creating toys for the children to play with, then discovered lots of old toys (including a zoetrope), went on […]

Christmas Bauble Project

We are excited to reveal that Hillside Primary School has been involved in a special Christmas project. Each and every child at Hillside has created their own pine cone Christmas bauble. These have now been transported to The Regent Theatre and are proudly decorating the Hillside Christmas tree which sits in the main entrance to […]

Science Spies

Miss McCann’s Science spies have now been appointed and been given their first mission, which they passed with flying colours. They were given the task to ensure their own classrooms were equipped for super science lessons over the year. They will be set their next mission in the very near future!  

Reception Book Time

Reception received an exciting visit from the local library service on Tuesday . The children and parents were taken on many adventures as they listened to a range of stories. The children were also gifted a book called ‘The Cave’,  along  with information on how to join the library and borrow books.  

Year Three trip to Birmingham Botanical Gardens

The Year Three class have enjoyed their trip to Birmingham Botanical Gardens.The journey was long but the children were still full of enthusiasm when they got there. They enjoyed looking at the plants in the glass houses and even managed to find a kapok tree. After dinner they had chance to explore the gardens and […]

Story and Craft Club

Our final Story and Rhyme Club focussed on Dr Seuss today! We made our own green eggs and ham cakes, yoghurty red fish blue fish and created a pile of cat in the hat hats! The little bits we sampled were delicious and well done to everyone for joining in with all of the stories […]

History Day

It’s History Day today at Hillside. Each class is having one lesson in every classroom within their key-stage today. Children are moving around the school learning about different people and events from the past. Each class-teacher has prepared engaging activities to help children learn about something/one that they would otherwise not get the opportunity to […]