Hello, it’s Miss McCann here again! I hope that some of you enjoyed having a go at last week’s science enquiry. I wonder if you did find a link between the length of your outstretched arms and your height. This week’s science enquiry is all about carrying out a fair test with paper spinners. Again, […]
We are sorry to hear that some year groups are having difficulties accessing the home learning links for mathematics on the White Rose website. We are working hard to smooth out these technical difficulties. In the meantime, you can access all resources through typing in ‘White Rose Maths’ into the Google search engine and then […]
On Saturday 9th May 2020, people across the world will be celebrating World Fair Trade Day. On this day, people celebrate Fair Trade’s contribution to the fight against poverty, exploitation and climate change. A couple of months ago, the children had an assembly on Fair Trade so they should already have an awareness of this […]
Morning all, Remember that today is the last day for you to send us something for the Children of Hillside’s Video of Thanks that we are hoping to create to celebrate International Nurses Day 2020. We have have received some lovely work from you so far thank you. You have until 4pm this afternoon to […]
Hello, We hope you and the children are safe and well. We just wanted to let you know that after the positive feedback from children and parents, we have set the children’s home learning in the same way. You will find, on the home learning section of the website, two new grids: a topic grid […]
Whilst we have requested that photos of activities that you complete prior to the day are sent to the school email by Thursday 7th May so that they can be used by the Sentinel, please feel free to also send in any photos of your VE Day celebrations on Friday. We would still love to […]
We are excited to announce that the Sentinel have expressed interest in our efforts to deliver a stay-at-home street party for the pupils of Hillside. A reminder that any photos of activities completed will be collated and put up on the website and school app for all to see on the afternoon of Thursday 8th […]
Three weeks ago, I wrote a little story to help the kids in my class come to terms with school shutdown. Since then, it’s been read by thousands of families all around the world. Now, I’ve teamed up with incredible illustrator, Rebecca Sampson, to create this marvellous free storybook! Parsley Mimblewood is a home-schooled kid […]
Thanks to the children attending Hillside over the last few days, the school is beginning to undergo a small transformation. In preparation for VE Day, there is Union Flag bunting hung up in the corridors, spitfire mobiles dotted around the school and a big VE Day banner in the main foyer. Keep your eye out […]
Do we have any budding engineers out there? If you like hands on, creative activities then Whizz, Pop, Bang magazine are running a competition to build a structure using loo rolls or other tubes. There are prizes for the winning structures! Interested? Follow the link below for more details: https://www.whizzpopbang.com/blog/the-whizz-pop-bang-loo-roll-engineering-challenge/