Snowflake’s Adventures! 

Hello Super Stars of Hillside! What an elf-tastic few days I have settling back in to school! Did you know I’ve been scoffing in Nursery and fishing in Year One this week?! I didn’t catch Mr Miyagi the fish though – he’s a whopper! You may also have seen me hanging around in the dining […]

Important Safety message

A reminder to all parents that the yellow zig-zag lines outside our school indicate the length of road where stopping or waiting is strictly prohibited. If you park on these clearly marked, yellow zig zag lines you are putting the safety of our children and their families at risk. Cars should not be parked on the zig zag […]

Liverpool Counts Quality Mark

This year, we are working towards achieving the Liverpool Counts Quality Mark. The aim of the Quality mark is to tackle the negative attitudes in society towards numeracy and mathematics. We want to promote a culture where our children understand the impact good numeracy skills and mathematics qualifications can have on the social, health and […]

Year Four TTRS Rock Off

Well done to everyone in Year Four who participated in the Year 4 TTRS Rock Off on Thursday. The scores were close but our winners are…….the boys!!! Well done boys!👏👏👏👏 Look out for another rock off next week!

Year One’s Artists

Year One have been practising their artistic skills, studying the artist Peter Blake’s ‘The Toy Shop’ and imitating his style. They began by studying his work together and then practised their sketching and shading skills. They then considered how toys have changed and began to create their toy shop window, using their own modern day […]

Year Six Rock Off!

Well done to our Year Six class who battled yesterday to be crowned the winner of the gender battle on Times Tables Rock Stars. The boys were victorious in the Rock Off! Well done to those children who took part. We have scheduled another Rock Off for next Monday- let’s see who will be victorious […]

Mission Successful in Year Two

After receiving a letter asking for help in building a shelter last week, Year two have designed, built and evaluated their structures. All the children had slightly different designs but all fit the design criteria of being stable and strong! A huge well done to all in Year Two.

Spelling Frame

Spelling Frame has been running in school for the past term now and we have noticed the impact it has had on spellings in school. Our children are using this online tool regularly and it is helping them learn and retain their spellings. We thought it would be nice to share the current Spelling Frame […]

Celebrations in Reception

Reception have been learning about two celebrations this week; birthdays and the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. In these photos, the children are baking cakes, hunting for objects in the jelly, playing the dreidel game, counting Hanukkah objects and making a Star of David, the Jewish symbol. The children have learned lots of new, exciting facts […]

Gifts in school

Dear Parents/ Carers/ Families,  We have been receiving messages asking whether we are accepting gifts into school this year. We have discussed this as a staff and hope you don’t mind us suggesting the following:  We are aware that some parents want to buy gifts and may already have done so and we are accepting […]