Year Three have been working with worms this afternoon! As part of our science topic on Rock and Soils, we have been looking at how soil is created and have made composting tools using real life worms! The worms have been layered in to bottles with scraps to feast on and we can’t wait to […]

Year 5 have enjoyed another session of Wild Play in the woods. This week, we played games, created nature spirits from clay and natural materials, and went mini-beast hunting.

Year Three have been finding out about another extreme form of weather – earthquakes! They’ve rated quakes on the Mercelli Scale and reacted speedily to an earthquake alarm sounding loudly! Can you spot them under their desks? 🏔

Well done to the pupils who were awarded last week for displaying our school values.

Great session at Go Wild Forest School. Children had free-play & made lots of imaginary stories to reenact in the woods. We played with slime and talked about how it feels. We went on a hunt for insects and loved exploring the area to discover treasures.

Thank you to the Hillside Dance Crew for kicking off our International Day of Dance celebrations. They performed in assembly this morning and we were amazed by their superb talent. Well done!

Congratulations to Ronnie, Lydia and Rylan who have completed the Better Reading Partnership! They have spent the last ten weeks working with teaching assistants in school to improve their reading pace, fluency and comprehension skills and have worked hard with their parents at home. Well done for making great progress!  

Congratulations to the pupils who were recognised for their excellent work last week. Keep it up!

Sunday is the international day of dance and following a school council poll, we decided we couldn’t miss the opportunity for a bop here at Hillside! Dance Leaders from Excel Academy are leading dance sessions with every class, culminating in a Flash Mob this afternoon! We can’t wait to see every child strutting their funky […]

Last week we read the story Little Farmer Joe who, after a busy day, settled down with a hot chocolate. All of the children have been working so hard and having lots of busy days in nursery so they all decided they deserved a hot chocolate too – topped with cream and marshmallows of course!