Den Building & Free Play
Our den-building and free play sessions in ‘The Hillhead Wood’ continue this term. The sessions lead by our committed Outdoor Learning Parent Team promote a love of the outdoors, increase co-operation and develop team-working skills. As you can see from the faces of our P3 pupils the sessions also involve lots of fun! Please click on the thumbnails below to see […]
Back to Front Day
Our annual school fundraiser took place on Thursday 24th March and followed a Back to Front theme. Each child was asked to seek sponsorship for taking part in a number of challenges including wearing a label with their name written backwards, reciting days of the week, months of the year, the alphabet , times tables […]
UNISON Janitors’ Industrial Action
Dear Parent/Carer, This information has come in from Glasgow City Council. UNISON has notified the Council of the intention by some of their janitorial members in the city’s Primary, Additional Support for Learning (ASL) schools and Nurseries to take part in industrial action from Monday 14 March – Wednesday 16 March. All our schools and […]
P7 Open Top Bus Tour
On Tuesday 8th March Primary 7 braved the Scottish Spring weather to enjoy an open top bus tour of Glasgow. Our bespoke tour visited many of the landmarks which feature in the novel Divided City, including a stop at St. Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life to visit the Sectarianism exhibition. The tour, funded with […]
SOS Grant
Primary 7 were successful in applying for a grant of £750 from SOS (Sense Over Sectarianism) to purchase educational resources to support the teaching of anti-sectarianism. We were able to purchase over 100 copies of Divided City by Theresa Breslin. That’s one copy per child at Primary 7 to support our novel study which accompanies […]
Science Workshop
Primary 7 pupils visited the science labs at Glasgow University Teaching Department to take part in a Forensic Science workshop. Children were tasked with identifying who killed Mr Bones using a variety of forensic techniques. The children had the opportunity to experience working in a real science lab using a variety of technical equipment. The […]
P7 Rice Challenge
90KG Rice Challenge Primary 7 continue with their challenge of selling 1000KG of fairly traded rice from Malawi, supporting smallholder farmers to send their children to secondary school for one year. That’s enough rice to send 11 children to school. So far we have sold a whopping 371KG of rice with your superb support. Watch […]
P7 Buddy Treat!
Hillhead Primary recognises the hard work and commitment of our Primary 7s whilst ‘Buddying’ infant children in the playground at break and lunch times. Each week a Buddy of the Week is identified either by staff or children and presented with a certificate at assembly. In January we took all of our Buddy of the […]
Raffle – Unclaimed Prizes List
International Night 2015 has been a great event! For those who could not attend it in person here is the list with of unclaimed prizes from the raffle. If you have one of the winning numbers just head to the school office (with your raffle ticket) and collect your prize! Thank you. PRIZE WINNING NUMBER […]