Ashbourne Hilltop School

Please join us every Friday morning (term time) 9:15-10:45 for games, crafting, singing and lots more fun. Our safe, friendly group is from 0-4 years and is £2 per tot which includes a snack and a drink and a drink for their grown up!

This week our theme is Fathers Day. We look forward to seeing you 🌼

Less than a week to go until our summer fair ☀️ please come and join us on Saturday 10th June 11am - 2pm. Everyone welcome!
We are accepting cake donations for our cake stall. Please can these be taken to school by Friday 9th.
Our fantastic raffle will be drawn on the day. Raffle tickets can be purchased at the summer fair or you can buy them in advance. Please let me know if you’d like some.
We hope to see you there 🥳

Our Year 6 children have had a fantastic few days on the Bikeability cycle training programme. They have completed level 1 and 2 and have learnt how to start and stop on the road confidently, pass stationary vehicles, understand road signs and signals, how to negotiate junctions and how to share the road with other users.
They were all Hilltop role models and we are very proud of you all. Well done Year 6!

If you like our page, we now have Twitter and Instagram accounts to follow too!

Twitter: twitter.com/Ash_Hilltop

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ashbournehilltop

Our new and improved Forest School area is now complete and ready for the summer! We cannot wait for the willow fencing to fill out and create a really cosy space for our fires and forest school learning.

Our wonderful caretaker Mr Swann has recently been offered a new opportunity working with the local foodbank and unfortunately this means that he will be leaving us after the Half term holidays. We want to take this opportunity to thank Mr Swann for all the work that he has done at Hilltop over the last year. He will be missed by all.

As a result, we now have an exciting vacancy to come and join the Hilltop family as our Caretaker. Please see the details via the link below. Any questions please come and see Mr Hooley or Mrs Bell.

Caretaker Ashbourne Hilltop Primary and Nursery School are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and capable Caretaker, to look after our school. Ashbourne Hilltop Primary and Nursery School is committed to safegu...

Not long to go for our summer fair ☀️ We are excited that John from Dove Radio will be joining us 🤩

The DOVE will be there, will you?

Worth it for ‘soak the teacher’

Places are still available in our amazing Nursery starting from September 2023.
Please contact us for further information.

Our Early Years playgrounds are having a makeover, the children have loved the new additions and have had so much fun this week in the glorious sunshine!

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness week, Yellow and Blue Class have spent their Forest School sessions, learning about how important it is to look after themselves and the importance of talking about their feelings and who they can share them with.
Year 1, read ‘Ruby’s Worry and then made their own worry doll.
Reception and Nursery used their senses to explore the world around them.

The children in Yellow and Blue Class have been looking at the life cycle of a butterfly.
To help the children explore this topic they watched the cycle themselves with their own caterpillars.
How excited they were to watch the development! 🐛🦋

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that joined us for our Coronation celebration picnic this afternoon.
Despite the weather and several changes to the original plan, the children loved their picnic! It was fantastic to see so many families together enjoying the time outside.

The EYFS has thoroughly enjoyed the Dangerous Dinosaur topic.
We began with a visit from Dinostar, who brought in dinosaur bones, eggs and teeth.
We created a Dinosaur Café which catered for both herbivores and carnivores. We used this within our numeracy sessions as well as imaginative play.
We used a variety of materials to create dinosaurs - painting, collage and chalk.
During Forest School we made fantastic dinosaur eyes, adding texture and patterns to the design.
We have explored both fiction and non-fiction dinosaur books and used our knowledge to create our own dinosaurs.
We even explored this theme with dance.
It’s been totally roarsome!

On Friday our Year 6 children had the opportunity to visit QEGS to watch their performance of Shrek the musical. This was an amazing experience and we were all blown away by the talent of the performers! Thank you to QEGS for inviting us.

Not long to go until our chocolate bingo event!
This is free to attend but please confirm your attendance using the following link

https://forms.office.com/e/MWELi7Jvfq

Huge thanks to everyone who has donated chocolates and to Prestons for their generous donation too 🍫

❄️Hilltop Tots is cancelled today due to the poor weather and school being closed ❄️

Last week as part of our World Book Day celebrations, our KS2 children had a visit from author Andrew Cope. He started with a motivating (and very fun) assembly before setting the children some work to do in their classes that involved gorillas, chocolate and melting toenails!
A huge thank you to our PTA who funded this. It was a fantastic day.

World book day!

Hilltop have an exciting celebration planned for world book day and a letter will be coming out via Class Dojo with all of our plans. As part of our world book day celebration, Hilltop are hosting a book ‘exchange / grab a book’ event for the whole school! At the event if you see a book you would like to read you can take it home or if you’ve got a book you no longer enjoy reading you can swap it for a new book. You can take these books home to enjoy and they are yours to keep.

We would welcome book donations for this event. If you have any unwanted children’s books, please could you send them into school with your child by Tuesday 28th February.

Our book ‘exchange / grab a book event’ will be in the hall on Tuesday 28th February between 2:45-3:30 please pop in and take a look!

Some of Santas helpers have been busy rejuvenating the Hilltop Christmas postbox with Mr Swann. The Hilltop Christmas delivery service is open for business.

Our super school is searching for a dedicated and engaging teacher to join our fantastic family at Hilltop. If you have experience of teaching key stage 2 and are interested in being part of our next exciting improvement plans then please do follow our link below.

Class Teacher and English Lead Ashbourne Hilltop Primary and Nursery School are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner to join our dedicated team and lead our improvements in English. We are seeking...

Our fabulous school is looking to appoint a cleaner to work with our dedicated team. If you are interested or know someone who might be, then please do follow or share our link.

Cleaner Ashbourne Hilltop Primary and Nursery School is looking for a dedicated individual to join our happy and hardworking team in providing efficient and effective cleaning. The successful applicant will b...

Wow! Everyone at Hilltop would like to say a huge thank you to the team of volunteers from the Hilltop family who spent yesterday morning planting over 100 trees. We are creating a new forest school and outdoor play area for our children to access for years to come. This is part of our ongoing improvement plans and will support our progress towards becoming an Eco school.

Monday 17th October will see the start of our Travel SMART week

Throughout the week, we will be encouraging children to find healthier modes of transport on their journey to school. Those who do so will receive tickets, entering them into a prize draw for well over 30 fabulous prizes, including 3 BRAND NEW scooters!
More information on how this will work (including for those that live out of Ashbourne) and why active travel is especially important for our school community will be sent out in the coming week. 🛴🚲🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Our first inter-school sports event of the year was a huge success. The Year 3 and 4 children showed great sportsmanship, teamwork and perseverance. Each of our four teams played four matches against other schools - we scored lots of goals and showed some fantastic skill, even winning some of our matches. Most of all we had great fun and cannot wait for the next event.

We are looking to appoint a Caretaker to look after our wonderful school. Please see the full job listing on the Derbyshire jobs website for more details and to apply.

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We are looking to appoint a caring and enthusiastic Midday Supervisor to join our team at Hilltop! For full details, please see the job advert and how to apply on the Derbyshire jobs website.

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This Summer Holiday - Holiday Heroes is BACK!

Exciting themed weeks, with day trips and fun packed activities are planned throughout the holidays.

Holiday Heroes also offer sibling discounts and they have secured a limited number of FREE places, for low income families.

Please contact Holiday Heroes directly for any information or queries

Wow, wow and WOW again! The Hilltop community came out in force today and it made for a fantastic Summer Fair.

From helpers, to PTA, to staff, to parents and families and friends seeing you all today (whether helping or having fun!) was just wonderful.

Thank YOU for making the Ashbourne Hilltop Summer Fair 2022 a resounding success! We have raised an UNBELIEVABLE £1945, which will go straight back in to making our school the absolute best it can be.

Roll on next year 😁😁

Everyone at Hilltop would like to say a HUGE thank you to our fabulous PTA who recently funded all 40 tonnes of sand for our newly installed Hilltop Beach! All of the money raised by our PTA goes directly towards improvements for our pupils.
Today have our PTA organised Summer Fayre from 11am until 2pm. Please do come down if you can to support.

📢📢📢 THIS SATURDAY @ HILLTOP 📢📢📢

The 🌞🌻 SUMMER FAIR 🌻🌞 is back!!

Come rain or shine we will be there from 11-2 (fingers crossed for the sun, please 🌞🌞🌞🌞) bringing you a FANTASTIC range of entertainment, stalls, food and refreshments.

Entry is FREE and there is no need to buy a ticket - just come along and join in the family friendly fun, organised by our wonderful PTA.

Don’t miss out on:

BBQ
BAR
INFLATABLES
TOMBOLA
GAMES
RAFFLE
ICE CREAM
FACE PAINTING
STALLS

and most importantly…. SOAK THE TEACHER

A Fantastic time was had by all in a very enjoyable (and very loud!) music assembly this morning 🎶🎶

Thank you to all at Hot House Music Derby!

Had a great time visiting Ashbourne Hilltop Primary School this morning!
Looking forward to teaching some new and

On Friday 27th May we held a garden party in honour of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

The children, parents, staff and guests from the community had a wonderful afternoon and we were very lucky that the sun shone down on us too.

Thank you very much to all of the people who attended and made the event such a success!

It was a fabulous day! We will have more photos and videos to follow shortly.
Thank you to everyone who made it happen.

On Friday 27th May we are holding a Jubilee Garden Party at school. We would be really grateful if anyone has any garden games that they are able to let us use for the afternoon.

If you have anything, please let us know at school. Thank you very much!

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