Thank you to everybody who came to our Year Five showcase. We hope you all enjoyed taking part in our Ancient Greek Olympics and becoming part of a Greek state. Everybody performed really well and we were thrilled with the results. During maths we interpreted the results and calculated the average point per competitor for…
Year 2 have really been impressing Mr Mellor with their learning recently. We have been looking at millilitres in maths and the children were able to accurately measure our amounts of water. As well, they have done an amazing job in computing at remembering how to stay safe online and even combined it with some…
During the first half of the Autumn term, year 2 experienced some super stories from our mystery readers. We were lucky to have Sam’s mum, Phoebe’s nan and Ellie’s mum. The children were so excited beforehand and all really enjoyed the visits. Thank you! Look forward to the update with this half term’s mystery readers…
Year 2 have had a fabulous (but cold!) day at Knowsley Safari Park. The children saw some of the larger animals on the safari tour and met some of the smaller animals up close and personal! Everybody has had a lovely day and gained lots of great facts about habitats and Africa.
This morning, the Year Three children went on a parallel and perpendicular lines hunt around school. They looked at pictures and tried to identify the different pairs of lines and checked their answers using QR codes.
Mrs Green, Mrs Pope and the cookery club children from Year Three have been baking their socks off this morning, making cup cakes and rice crispie cakes to sell after school! The cakes will be 30 pence each and raise money for charity! Thank you in advance for visiting the hall and buying cakes at…
Our judging panel watched the live awards ceremony this afternoon to see which book has been voted to be the overall winner. The result…Planetarium! Although our votes went to The Bacteria Book, Planetarium was our second choice. I would like to thank all the judges for their hard work and commitment they have given to…
Thank you to all of the adults who came in for the Year Three showcase. We hope you have learnt lots about South America and enjoyed having a go at writing your own Limerick. You all did a fantastic job during the quiz. Well done to the winning team ‘The Three Musketeers’.
The Hillside Post Office is now open for business in the Reception classroom. The children have been learning to write letters, wrap packages for posting, weighing a variety of parcels and even completing their car tax forms. We are expecting lots of creative language and acting over the next few weeks.
As part of our learning about Remembrance Day, we looked at the origins of the poppy through hearing stories about a soldier and found out why we wear poppies today. We then made our own poppies that can be hung in a sunny window and remind us of those who still fight for us today!…