Year Three trip to Birmingham Museum

Year Three have had a fantastic time at Birmingham Museum. They enjoyed looking at the Egyptian artefacts in the morning. In the afternoon them became historians and examined artefacts closer, used cameras to take photos and pieced together broken amulets. As always their behaviour was impeccable.  

Year One Spring Spotting!

As part of their continued science learning about seasonal change, Year One have braved the showers and been in to the school grounds and woods! They found daisies, new shoots on trees, spring flowers and signs of new life in the mud with small insects and birds. Great observational skills everyone! 💐 Can you spot […]

Sports Relief Gruffalo Cake

Year Four Cookery Club have worked extremely hard to create a Gruffalo cake to raise money for Sports Relief on Friday. They will be selling raffle tickets in school (£1 per strip Tuesday to Thursday) and the person drawn on Friday gets to take home the entire cake! Oh help, oh no, it’s a Gruffalo! […]

Alice in Wonderland City Competition

During the last half term, Years 4, 5 and 6 were given the opportunity to design a teapot (in conjunction with Emma Bridgewater) in the theme of the book ‘Alice and Wonderland.’ The winning design from each year group won a £10 voucher and were also put through to the next round where they were […]

Teacher Swapsies!

The children have all had a special visitor read to them today as the final activity for World Book Week! Teachers moved classes and shared their favourite stories with different classes and everyone had a fab time, joining in, putting on voices and engaging with different stories! 📚

Headteacher Awards – Friday 6th March 2020

Well done to the children who have been recognised for displaying one of our school values and were awarded with a Headteacher’s certificate in celebration assembly this morning.  

World Book Day

Hillside have well and truly celebrated World Book Day in style this year. The effort and creativity that went into thinking of a word and trying to portray it in a costume or outfit was just fantastic. The children loved taking part in the word hunt and learnt so many new words from speaking to […]

Book Week Story Jars

Continuing with our wonderful Book Week, the children are showing the Book Jars that they have created in class. The children have thought carefully about the book they have chosen and enjoyed sharing them with their peers. There were some very cryptic clues and the children really had to use their book knowledge to guess […]