Year One’s Toy Shop!

Year One created their very own toy shop today in the style of the artist, Peter Blake. They used catalogues to find their favourite toys, sketched and shaded them and then added them to their toy shop window. The window was adjusted numerous times to try and showcase their art in all its glory! 👩‍🎨 […]

Year One’s Art Exploration

Year One have studied the artist William Blake’s Toy Shop. The picture is of an old-fashioned window full of lots of exciting toys! They used magnifying glasses to find many different toys and searched for different shades of colour before practising their shading skills. They will create their own toy shop window full of toys […]

Singing Stars and Rock Band

The Hillside Singing Stars performed on the stage last night at the Mitchell Theatre. Tinseltime Rock Band also wowed the crowds with their fantastic singing and rocking. It was a fantastic night and their amazing performance spread Christmas cheer to all their family and friends in the audience! Well done everybody! 🎤 🎅🏻 🎉  

Panto Visit

Hillside have arrived at the Panto – oh yes they have! Everyone is seated and enjoying ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. There are snacks and drinks for later and we’re excited to see what happens as the story unfolds!  

Year One’s Showcase

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our showcase today – we loved sharing our learning time with you! The singing and dancing was amazing, the cup and ball competitions were frantic and we loved finding out about your favourite toys from long (and not so long) ago! Thank you and we hope […]

Year One’s Brampton Visit

Year One had an absolutely fantastic visit to the Brampton Museum on Thursday and went on an adventure with William and Amelia who had lost some of their toys! They started by meeting the cook and creating toys for the children to play with, then discovered lots of old toys (including a zoetrope), went on […]

Story and Craft Club

Our final Story and Rhyme Club focussed on Dr Seuss today! We made our own green eggs and ham cakes, yoghurty red fish blue fish and created a pile of cat in the hat hats! The little bits we sampled were delicious and well done to everyone for joining in with all of the stories […]

Year Five and Six Cinema Trip

Years Five and Six are attending the Cineworld film fest today. They are watching ‘A dog’s way home.’ Children will be exploring the varying emotions of the characters in the film as Bella (the dog) attempts to find her way back to the place she was taken from.  

Year Three and Four cinema trip

On Wednesday morning, Year Three and Four enjoyed visiting the cinema to watch ‘Abominable’ as part of the into film festival. They had a great time chomping away on popcorn and crisps. The film had a lovely message about teamwork and understanding others.    

Story and Rhyme Club

This weeks book was ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson! We created our own dragon blowers and got lots of paint on our lips blowing through the cups to make the flames shoot out! Fantastic as always! 🐉 🔥