Year One’s Teamwork!

Team work makes the dream work! We’ve been working together in phonics and reading, and when working on capacity and volume in maths. We know that in Year One we all have different skills and it was amazing to hear everyone working out alien and real words and working together to predict which jug held […]

Making Mummies in Year Three

Year Three have been learning all about how bodies were mummified in ancient Egypt. They have even had a go themselves using tomatoes! They emptied the tomatoes ‘organs’,  cleaned and dried the tomato and have packed it in ‘natron’ to preserve it. We are eager to see the effect this has upon our tomatoes and […]

Nursery Easter Bunnies!

This week the children have showcased their fantastic singing skills when they performed their Easter Bunny song. They have been practising this with Mr Hall along with the lovely actions and did a brilliant job performing in front of the school as part of our Easter Service. Well done Nursery 😊

Super mathematicians in Reception

This week we have been consolidating our maths knowledge by finding different ways of making 10. We have thought very carefully about the number bonds of the number 10, as well as the composition of the number 10. We then recorded these facts by creating fantastic number sentences that include addition problems, subtraction problems and […]

Clarice Cliff in Year Two

Year Two have been learning about the art of local artist, Clarice Cliff. They have recreated some of her most famous patterns and this week, they used clay to create their own piece of pottery (something they know all about after their super history learning!). They will soon paint it with a Clarice Cliff pattern. […]

Working as historians in Year Five

This week, Year Five have been working as historians to challenge the idea that the Vikings were only set on causing devastation and destruction. They carefully analysed two primary sources from 825 AD looking closely at the vocabulary.  

Cross Country City Finals

A huge well done to Jessica, Ronnie, Rosie, Ifechi, Isaac, Junior and Bobby for representing Hillside at the Cross Country City Finals last week. It was a gruelling course, but all the children did themselves proud and contributed to their team (Hanley) coming in third place overall. It was great to see their determination and […]

Shape in Year Two

This term, Year Two have learnt about shape. They have learnt about the many properties of shapes and in this lesson, they sorted shapes in various ways.  

Year Three Rock Stars

On Thursday, Year Three spent the day rockin’ out for Times Table Rockstars Day. They transformed into their rockstar characters and worked really hard to improve their times tables by playing games and competing in tournaments. The boys were victorious against the girls and we are waiting to see where we placed on the Stoke-on-Trent […]

Computing in Nursery

This term, we have been learning to use the computers in lots of different ways. We have been playing phonics games to help us with blending as writing sounds to label pictures. We have been finding different games on PurpleMash to link to our learning of the week and been using a paint programme to […]