Wow! Santa visits Hillside 🎅

Wow! What an exciting start to the day here at Hillside. The children’s reactions were a pure delight as they spotted a very special visitor on our KS1 playground as they entered school this morning. The festive music playing and greetings from Santa brought big smiles and excitement – perfect! The children will all be […]

Kindness in Stoke-on-Trent

What a lovely, feel-good piece of news! We certainly experience lots of kindness throughout our Hillside community 😁Well done to all 👏 https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stoke-trent-voted-kindest-uk-4785403?fbclid=IwAR2G-V2lbfJCGE0SP-rKR7dlXoPpLOy3H2uSo_bHQ_csF7Bcruu0ErsqyEQ

Year One’s Craft Club

What a brilliant few final weeks we’ve had at craft club! We’ve created under the sea sharks and fish using celery after reading about Tiddler and his tales, designed our own way to retell the Bear Hunt story and made a split pin bear, as well as finishing with a winter themed robin for our […]

Santa Workshop in Nursery!

Our little elves in Nursery have been very hard at work today making reindeer dust to ensure the reindeer have a speedy flight and baking biscuits to keep all of Santa’s elves happy!    

Meet our Maths Ambassadors

Meet our Maths Ambassador Team who will be promoting the love of Maths at Hillside this academic year. Daniel, Olivia, Rose and Rikki have already helped Mrs Wainwright to produce a whole school assembly based on positive attitudes to mathematics and this will be shared with each class bubble in the new year. They are […]

Snowflake’s Final Week 

Ho ho ho Hillside Elves! I was thrilled to hear you’d all been set an exciting task this week for my dear friend, Santa, and that I was mentioned in the special scrolls! Although I am not in your classrooms every day, I have been keeping an eye on all of you all the time […]

Reception Elves Workshop

The Reception workshop is a hive of activity today as the elves make a start on their important project. Firstly, they discussed what materials they needed and then thought carefully about their designs. They can’t wait to share the finished product with you.      

Year Three get creative!

This week, the children have been creating cushions for the Kapok tree man for their DT project. They have been practising running stitch and back stitch and have made some super comfy cushions!

Headteacher Awards – Friday 11th December 2020

Congratulations to the children who received a Headteacher’s Award on Friday. You have all displayed our school values and impressed your class teacher – well done! You are all superstars. 🌟

A VERY Special Delivery for Hillside! 🎅

Today a special letter for each child has been delivered. The letter details a very important job that has been given to the children to complete during our Santa Workshop days next Monday and Tuesday! Ask your child all about their letter and maybe they could start thinking and planning some ideas ready for a […]