Thank you and farewell to Mrs Slack who has been teaching in Nursery for this past term and welcome back to Mrs Wainwright and Miss Hewitt who have returned from their maternity leave. We have had an exciting and busy end to the term and would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and […]

Our resident DJs are back raising the roof! The KS1 and KS2 discos have once again been a huge success. Thank you for your support.  

It has been brought to the attention of the Police that one of our children was seen travelling on the lap of a passenger in the front seat of a car. This is illegal.  Please ensure that your child travels safely – the safety of the children at Hillside is our paramount concern.

Year Three have had a fab day with a special letter from Santa asking for their help to start, then creating games using magnets (as part of Science) and finally a party with games, singing and dancing! Thank you to parents for your delicious food contributions too!  

Congratulations to Thomas (KS2) and Olivia (KS1) who have won Amazon Fire tablets in our Reading Rocket Challenge. Their names were pulled from the hat during assembly this morning. Well done to ALL the children who rose to the challenge and read 5x a week during the Autumn Term.  

Reception are tucking into their party food after playing a range of party games. They even got a wave off the big man himself!  

This morning the children who attend our after school musical theatre group performed ‘Aladdin’ for their parents and the rest of the school. It was fantastic and clearly our budding actors/performers are very talented.  Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.  Well done!

On Thursday the children in the Nursery performed their Christmas Sing-a-Long for parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles. For most of them it was the first time that they had stood in front of an audience to perform. Their singing 🎤 was beautiful and their speaking voices were loud and clear. They were all superstars! ⭐️🎄

Oh dear, Snowflake couldn’t resist the chocolates from the advent calendar and clearly she had eaten too many!

Hillside are thrilled to be ranked as the 3rd best performing primary school in Stoke-on-Trent.  The league tables were published yesterday and a snapshot can be seen below.  The tables are available on the Sentinel website and will be printed today.  A whopping 81% of pupils achieved the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths […]