Year Three Drama

This morning, the children have had a ‘visit’ from the man from ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ – all the way from the Amazon Rainforest! The children did an amazing job of getting into character and being hot seated, with the other children asking some very inquisitive questions. Miss Hayward was very impressed by Year Three’s […]

Year Four Maths

Today, Year Four have been estimating numbers on a range of number lines. We took our learning outside to create a range of number lines with different start and finish numbers, then estimated where our numbers needed to be positioned along the number line. We will also be reinforcing our understanding through this week’s homework. […]

Year One’s woodland adventures! 

Year One have been having an exciting week so far! They’ve been up to the woods as part of their Science learning, investigating seasons and considering how the woods, trees and plants will change as we enter Autumn. They’ve also been playing hide and seek with numbers, ordering to twenty and beginning to count in […]

Baby News 💙

Miss Nelson and her partner welcomed their beautiful baby boy earlier this week. Jacob Alexander arrived on Monday weighing a healthy 8lb 10oz. Congratulations! He is adorable 💙

Ingestre Arts Project

The Key Stage Two artists are taking part in their second afternoon of the Ingestre Arts Project. They have made a super start on their diaramas and are now discussing different art forms.  

Our New Nursery Class

The children in Nursery are doing amazingly well with settling in at Hillside. The children are getting to know the new routines, making friends and trying out new activities. We are so impressed with how well all of the children are coming in each morning, with big smiles on their faces. Well done Nursery Miss […]

The ‘Teach Monster’ App

Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning phonics and reading game that’s helped millions of children learn to read. Children create a monster and take it on a magical journey over three extensive games – meeting a host of colourful characters along the way and improving their reading skills as they progress. The game […]

Our Super Year Two’s

What a busy week year two have had! They have made a super return to school and have already impressed Mr Mellor, Miss Pinnington and Mrs Toye with their sensible behaviour and determination. The pictures show the children completing a science task. They were asked to search for living things outside and draw them on […]

Introducing our Head Girl and Head Boy

We would like to introduce to you our Head Boy and Head Girl for this academic year. Well done to Cole and Bella, who were selected to be ambassadors for Hillside. They both consistently show our school values, they are both caring, helpful, they show maturity and fairness and are great role model to others. […]

Headteacher Award – Friday 11th September 2020

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