Congratulations to the children who have been recognised for their excellent work last week and shared it in celebration assembly this morning. Keep it up!
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Headteacher Awards – Friday 14th February 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.
Year One’s Marvellous Materials
As part of our learning in Science, we have been considering materials and their properties – what objects are made from and why! We suggested items that could be made from different materials and gave reasons as to why they couldn’t be made from other things – like a table made from jelly! We then […]
Year Two Maths
Yesterday, year two worked on the iPads in maths. They answered riddles based on the properties of 2D shapes and scanned the QR Code on the card to reveal the answer. Great work!
STEM Club
We have been ‘Super Spinners’ in STEM club this week, helping Mr Sycamore to decide which size helicopter blades would make the safest landing. We investigated different sizes of spinners and found that longer blades took the spinners longer to reach the ground than shorter ones. We learned that this was due to air resistance […]
Nursery’s visit to the Post Office
Nursery have had a lovely morning walking to the Post Office! We even saw a postman delivering the mail on the way who stopped to have a photo with us. Every one of us very politely asked for a stamp, handed over a coin and posted a very special letter! We walked very sensibly and […]
Final Book Club
Year 6 are enjoying their final book club with a delicious pancake breakfast. The children have thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ and there have been a few tears as the book has come to an end. The children can’t wait for the next one to start.
Bananagrams
Good luck to our Bananagram semi finalists who are about to battle it out to be the ultimate Bananagrams champion. Tensions are running high as the children are all desperate to win.
Online Safety Advice
Dear Parents & Carers, The online world is posing an ever-increasing risk to children and it is important that schools, parents and carers work together to take an active role in teaching children about online dangers and how to act safely when using the internet. We are therefore delighted to announce that Hillside Primary School […]
Do you have any preloved children’s picture books with moving parts that are no longer needed or used?
We are looking for any books with pop up pages, sliding parts, moving pictures, levers etc. to support Year One’s Design Technology work this term. If you have any old books to donate to school, please pass them onto Mrs Rushton on the KS1 yard or Miss McCann on the KS2 yard. All donations will […]