Hillside have adopted the country of South Africa in today’s Olympic school games at Excel. Here’s the class doing a warm up in preparation for the days events.

These lucky girls were randomly selected to attend the engineering day at JCB yesterday as part of their program to get more women into engineering. They were challenged to make a tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows and guess what…. they won! Congratulations girls!

We have re-arranged the KS2 Sports Day event to Monday 17th July at 1.30pm – weather permitting!  Arrangements will be as previous letter.  If this event does not go ahead again on this date unfortunately it will have to be cancelled completely this year.

Hillside Rock took part in a ‘rock off’ at Glebe Academy on Wednesday afternoon. They performed brilliantly.  Well done!

Year 5 had a lovely day at the Potteries Museum yesterday. They explored the Staffordshire Hoard, made helmets, played an Anglo-Saxon battle game and even had time to revisit WW2 with the Spitfire!

As part of RE, Y3 have been learning about Eid. Yesterday, we made samosas from scratch and they were delicious!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at our showcase this afternoon. Clay flowers, electrical switches and poetry writing kept everyone busy!

Great day at Go Wild on Monday! The children had amazing fun soap carving. I love the concentration on their faces! We have played some woodland games “Beetle tag” & “Sleeping Bear”! The children spent sometime exploring the woods & working in teams to create a shelter together.

Pupils from Year 5 and 6 have enjoyed a range of science workshops this afternoon, organised as part of the Potteries Science Festival. Here, Year Five have been testing for Vitamin C in fruit juices, carrying out some coding and building structures to fulfil a given criteria. A fantastic afternoon was had by all.

Year 2 have had a lovely day at Llandudno! They’ve travelled on the Great Orme, played on the beach, ate ice cream and watched Punch and Judy!