Hillside Junior School

Hillside Junior School is a warm and caring environment where children can reach their true potential. We believe children should take responsibility for their learning. We develop their skills to ensure they can achieve this and are prepared to succeed in the future. We have a great staff team who work together to provide a relevant and high quality creative curriculum. We celebrate the diversity of our children and we are a fully inclusive school.

Our wide and varied after school activities reflect the importance we put on providing as many opportunities for our pupils. Parents and carers are welcomed into the school and we are proud of our links with the local community. As a Foundation School we work closely with our Governors to ensure that every child has a safe and happy environment in which to flourish.

We have a great staff team who work together to provide a relevant and high quality creative curriculum. We celebrate the diversity of our children and we are a fully inclusive school. Learning takes place for pupils not only in the classroom but also in the extensive grounds and on the sports field. Our many before and after school activities reflect the importance we put on providing a variety of opportunities for our pupils. Parents and carers are welcomed into the school and we are proud of our links with the local community.

We aim, jointly with parents, to encourage responsibility and self-discipline in all the children. A weekly achievement assembly is held in which a few children from each class are presented with certificates for excellent work, effort or good behaviour. As adults, the staff, parent helpers and governors set a good example through their relationships with each other and with the children. In this way, we hope that the children will respect themselves more and will develop a sensitive, caring attitude towards others.

Our aim at Hillside Junior School is to work in close partnership with parents and carers to support their children in every way possible. However, there is a clear responsibility on all schools to ensure they work together with other agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children.

At Hillside we believe that these are embedded in our Spiritual, Social, Moral and Citizenship education which runs through our whole curriculum. We also promote the 5Rs: respect, responsibility, resourcefulness, resilience and reflection in our core values.

Hillside Junior School is committed to the elimination of discrimination towards people with disabilities. It is recognised that although individuals may have physical impairments or learning impairments, the extent to which individuals are disabled by these can be affected by the physical environment and the learning environment in which they find themselves and the attitudes which they encounter.Therefore, as a school we are keen to take a proactive approach to ensuring that all members of our school community are enabled to participate in all aspects of school life. This will be achieved by ensuring that consideration of the needs of people with disabilities is embedded in all decision-making processes and activities within the school.