Bookstart Treasure and Time to Read’ session in Nursery

Nursery have had a lovely visit from librarian Chris this afternoon! Chris works for Stoke On Trent libraries and delivered a ‘Bookstart Treasure and Time to Read’ session. He took us on an adventure through the story book, Monkey and Me! He talked to us about visiting and borrowing books from the library. He then […]

Important: Nursery Funding Spring 2020

To ensure that you can access the 30 hour nursery funding for spring 2020 you must reconfirm with HMRC immediately. If you do not reconfirm now then nursery charges may apply from January 2020. If you are unsure as to whether you have already done this just log onto your account and double check. To […]

Year Two Showcase

A huge thank you to all the adults who attended the Year Two showcase last week. There was some brilliant map work and art work on display by both children and adults and I’m sure you were as impressed as I was by the children’s understanding of continents and oceans. Well done!  

Police Dog Assembly

We were very lucky to have some special visitors in school yesterday. PCSO Andrew Bagnall arranged for his colleague Tim Moss to bring in 2 police dogs for us to meet. We met Henry and Cooper and found out that Cooper is famous as he is the first Staffie Police Dog – he is also […]

Nursery’s Learning this Week

Nursery have read the story ‘Lost and Found’ this week by Oliver Jeffers. We’ve spent the week exploring tuff trays containing different textures, creating penguin themed artwork and learning about blubber! We investigated the difference between placing our hand onto an ice pack and having a layer of ‘blubber’ (lard!) between our hands and the […]

Year One’s Brampton Visit

Year One had an absolutely fantastic visit to the Brampton Museum on Thursday and went on an adventure with William and Amelia who had lost some of their toys! They started by meeting the cook and creating toys for the children to play with, then discovered lots of old toys (including a zoetrope), went on […]

Christmas Bauble Project

We are excited to reveal that Hillside Primary School has been involved in a special Christmas project. Each and every child at Hillside has created their own pine cone Christmas bauble. These have now been transported to The Regent Theatre and are proudly decorating the Hillside Christmas tree which sits in the main entrance to […]

Science Spies

Miss McCann’s Science spies have now been appointed and been given their first mission, which they passed with flying colours. They were given the task to ensure their own classrooms were equipped for super science lessons over the year. They will be set their next mission in the very near future!