Purple Mash Reading

Well done to all the children who are accessing their reading on Purple Mash. Reading regularly really makes a difference to a child’s fluency, understanding and confidence. The following leader board demonstrates the class of children who have read the most during the previous week: Year 4 Year 5 Year 1 Year 6 Year 2 […]

School Games

Please find below the link to the 3rd edition of the County Online Resource with various challenges and folders for young people of all ages and abilities. https://bit.ly/3ehE2DE

A Celebration of Home Learning at Hillside

Thank you for continuing to send emails to our home learning account; it’s been another fantastic week of learning! Our home learning account has been full of art work, writing, science investigations and historical research to name a few. The staff in school have commented on the quality of the work being produced and have […]

The Rock Off Scores Are In…

Hello Rockers! Well, the scores are in! What an amazing week of times tables battles we have had. It has been closely contested with the girls taking an early lead. The boys soon caught up and it has been neck and neck all week. The final scores are now in… The girls scored an amazing 36, […]

Free Super Scientist Badge!

Hello, it’s Miss McCann again! In conjunction with Whizz, Pop, Bang! magazine, The Great Science Share are offering a free enamel pin badge as a reward for any children carrying out science activities and enquiries. Stoke-on-Trent has been allocated 500 badges to be awarded to our local children, of which only 160 have been claimed. […]

Science Certificate

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in science over the last week, including our home learners and our key worker group in school. We submitted and uploaded evidence of enquiries that have taken place, and been awarded with a certificate for our participation in The Great Science Share this year. Well done […]

Gender Rock Off- Who will be victorious?

Hello Rockers, Well, what can I say? You’ve all rocked out a lot this week! I wasn’t expecting you to reach such high scores. It has been a tight contest so far and I can’t believe what a comeback the boys have made after the girls got off to such an amazing start. The battle […]

Our School Values

At Hillside, two of our very important school values are respect and equality! In response to recent events happening across the country and worldwide, we thought it was important to create an avenue to explore and discuss these issues with our children and help to answer any questions they might have. Please have a look […]

Science Enquiry 7

Well it would have been Hillside’s Science Week this week. Year 6 would have been visiting Keele University, Year 4 and 5 would have been off to Staffordshire University for the Big Bang Science Fair and there would have been LOTS of science activities going on in school for everybody! Unfortunately, it’s not happening…😢. However, […]