Interland is an adventure-packed online game that has been created by Google. It makes learning about internet safety interactive and fun. Children complete levels battling badly-behaved hackers, phishers, oversharers and bullies by practicing the skills that they need to be confident online explorers. At the end of each level the children are awarded a certificate, Miss Nelson would…
Year One loved listening to Brooke’s daddy today who was our first mystery reader of the year! He read a book about a little girl who had lost her name and we loved meeting the characters in the story who gave her letters to help her find her name and spell out… can you guess?…
Children have demonstrated superb teamwork today and have all produced fantastic products and advertisement campaigns. Here they are delivering their pitch to the ‘dragons of the den’. The winners will be announced in Monday!
Year 5 and 6 career’s enterprise day is well underway! The children have been placed into mixed year group teams, chosen a team leader and created a team mascot. This afternoon the teams will be tasked with the job of designing and marketing a new stationery product for Ryman. The teams will then go head…
Year One had a crocodile visit their classroom this morning to help them with their maths learning! The crocodile was extremely hungry and liked to eat big, juicy numbers! They practiced putting crocodiles mouths between numbers to show which were greater or less and even used the equals sign to show numbers that were the…
What a busy day Reception have had today! As part of our dinosaur work we have been investigating ice dinosaur eggs and how to help the babies escape, painting bread dinosaurs and making dinosaur biscuits. The biscuits look delicious, we hope they taste just as good.
Thank you to everybody who brought in a postcard from their travels during the summer holidays. All the postcards have been put up to create an interesting geography display for the children to explore.
It is now our third week of our Royal Society Book Club and our judges are doing a fantastic job getting familiar with the range of science books and giving excellent reviews back to the rest of the group. It is now only four more weeks until we have to decide on which book we…
Paul Sturgess, the world’s tallest basketball player, has finished his visit to Hillside. He has inspired pupils to believe that each person can use their differences as an advantage and be successful if they’re prepared to work hard. He has delivered basketball workshops throughout the day and had photos with children. Here’s one of the…
Year One have been following up their local walk learning in geography by drawing routes and labelling maps! They had to work as teams to sort ordnance survey symbols (and some were extremely tricky!) before working on their own maps, adding photographs from the visit and naming all of the places that they saw. Well…