Year One have worked extremely hard in their science lesson today, labelling and discussing their body parts! They’ve played matching games, drawn huge bodies and labelled little ones too! Their team work was amazing and they all worked brilliantly together! Well done Year One! 👁💪🏻🦶🏽  

Year One have been extremely lucky this week as they have had two mystery readers! Evelyn’s Nan came in and read a favourite traditional tale and then Isaac’s dad came in and read two stories to us! We loved hearing about the creatures in the story, the Bumble-Bear and about how the scary shark was […]

The Book Bench is well under way. Ellie, in Year 5 won the design competition with her Peter Rabbit design, which has been drawn this afternoon by Mr Frost.  

Reception gave Chris from our local library a huge welcome today. He had come to share two books with us and tell us about the services that the library offers. We loved the first book, Supertato who we met previously in our Evil Pea story and we also enjoyed Little Monkey, which we were given […]

Nursery children are having amazing time in the snow, they are enjoying making snow angels, building snowmen and crunching the fresh snow!

Please note that all of today’s after school clubs have been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience.  

Our new group of forest schoolers have made a great start to their sessions this term, despite the cold weather. So far they have explored the woodland, built dens and helped to make a fire, in order to enjoy some well deserved hot chocolate. We are looking forward to seeing the changes in the woods […]

Our school football team have played two weeks of fixtures since coming back after Christmas. With a few new faces, the team have had to adapt to new positions and tactics but have done brilliantly so far, particularly during a 3 nil win against Hanley St Luke’s. With one fixture week left, it’s all to […]

Year 3 have been investigating friction today. Children created a board for their rubber duck to skate down the ramp on. They were aiming to create the least amount of friction in order for it to travel the quickest. Round 1 results are in but tomorrow they will get the chance to modify their board. […]

In assembly today, Mrs Wainwright delivered an assembly on Bananagrams. At Hillside we are holding our own Bananagram Championships in school for years 3, 4, 5 and 6. Bananagrams is an addictive word game wherein lettered tiles are used to spell words- like Scrabble but without the board. The children will begin by battling against each […]