This year, Hillside Primary was selected by the Headteachers’ Prevent Board in Stoke-on-Trent for showing good practice in organising a Faith Trail experience day for pupils. The Board were impressed by the excellent work that is in place, in our school and believed that we showed exemplars of strong and good practice. We were asked to submit […]
The children have had a very informative day learning about many of the different career options available within the NHS. We have been very lucky to have parents and family/friends who work for the NHS doing Zoom calls during the morning to give an insight into some of the roles on offer, the children loved […]
This week, as part of the Great Science Share, Year Three asked the question ‘How are rocks formed?’. We used chocolate to create models of sedimentary rock and then used different methods to compact our rocks to turn them into metamorphic rock. Finally, we applied heat to create igneous rocks. We also enjoyed reading ‘This […]
We wanted to notify you of an exciting new reading resource that is available via the Hillside Primary School website. We have created a Hillside virtual library! Our Virtual Library provides an array of amazing, thought provoking texts that teach children about empathy, diversity, emotions and inspirational individuals to name a few. The library can […]
As part of our learning in English about how to write instructions, we have had to follow them! We baked our own bread, talking about Thomas Farrinor and his bakery in London where the Great Fire began. We followed carefully, didn’t miss any steps and creating a cracking brown loaf and a focaccia too – […]
After completing ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ in English, year two have moved on to writing non-chronological reports about crocodiles. Before they start the writing, the children have been using what they learnt about presenting information by creating a fact file all about crocodiles. They even combined their science learning and talked about the crocodiles structure and […]
Congratulations to the children who received a Headteacher’s Award today. You have all displayed our school values and impressed your class teacher – well done! You are all superstars. 🌟A
Year One have been working hard this week, finding subtraction number bonds to 10 and 20 as well as using a number line to subtract. They love to start their work practically, working in pairs or teams to solve problems and are expert apparatus handlers! They’ve also been very posh, using ‘subtraction’ instead of ‘take […]
Huge congratulations to Arthur (Nursery), Mary (Year 1) and Alfie (Year 5) who were drawn out of the hat and received a Reading Rocket prize! We were amazed that 94 children achieved the Reading Rocket during summer term 1- congratulations to all of them for showing such dedication to reading. We hope they enjoyed their extra break, biscuits […]
Year Four have been carrying out a comparative test to find out which liquids are the ‘best’ for our teeth. We used eggs to represent our teeth, as the egg shell is very similar to teeth, and we tested: water, flavoured water, Fanta, cordial, pure apple juice, pure orange juice, smoothie, milk, Pepsi max and […]