Our school football team played two fixtures on Friday night. They beat Grove 1-0 and then went on to beat Carmountside 2-0! They’re currently second in the table – well done!  

Some of our talented KS2 geographers visited Staffordshire University on Friday. They completed two tasks: one involved protected a model house from a flood and the other involved following a map to find the clues around the university grounds. All the children were superb!  

Year 2 have had a special visitor in school this afternoon! Jessica’s Dad, Mr Swift, came in to talk to us about his journey up Mount Kilimanjaro and African countries that he’d visited. He even left us with paintings, a drum, African money and lots of photographs! The children thoroughly enjoyed it and asked some great […]

Reception have been learning about the Little Red Hen and how she made bread. Today we made our own bread and then ate it with butter and jam. It was delicious!

We had a great session this week. We all practiced lighting a fire using a magnesium fire steel! We talked about the fire triangle – heat-oxygen- fuel! We discussed why we have fire & it’s uses! It was a great session to see how the children are able to be resilient, determined & focused!

Year 5 have had an enlightening day at the annual RE conference. The aim of the conference was for the pupils to learn from one another through shared experience and dialogue. They also explored British Values, and developed their expressive and creative talents.

A big well done to the Hillside Dance Crew for their fantastic performance on Wednesday night at the Victoria Hall. The commitment the girls have shown to their rehearsals was apparent in their amazing representation of the Olympics 2012. Well done to Isabella, Phoebe, Faith, Jessica, Sophie, Kamsolu, Isabella,Cerys, Imogen, Alanna and Lexi.

Nursery were fantastic in their Mother’s Day assembly this morning telling their mummies how much they loved them. They are now all tucking into a lovely lunch. Thank you mummies and other family members for coming along and making this day so special.

Well done to all the children that took part in the Bananagrams final today. Our winners are: Year 3/4: Imogen Year 5/6: Georgia The winners have won an electronic dictionary and thesaurus to use in class and at home.

The Bananagrams championships are now in full swing. Children from year 3,4,5 and 6 have battled against their peers to make it to this point. They are now frantically making words from their tiles in the hope they can make it to the final.