Recently, year two have been learning about the world. They have looked at the United Kingdom and the countries that it is made up of. Last Friday, they looked at the continents and drew them on balloons to represent a globe. Everybody had lots of fun with only one balloon popping!
Year Three and Four bubbles have both enjoyed working with Mr Edwards from Excel this afternoon, participating in a range of outdoor team games and activities. Everyone participated excellently and showed super listening skills when following instructions. Thank you to Mr Edwards for coming and working with our KS2 children.
This morning the item in the photograph below was found on the playground. Please telephone the school office if it yours so that we can return it to you.
In Art this term, we are looking at the work of Nick Gustafson. This week, we’ve been creating leaf designs inspired by his rainforest art.
Year One have had a great week exploring many different areas of the curriculum! From identifying and classifying trees and plants in the (rather muddy) woods to building Sukkah’s as part of their RE work on Sukkot to investigating number and ordering from smallest to greatest and vice versa, they’re really impressing their teachers! Year…
This week Reception have been learning about the Jewish festival of Sukkot. At this special time, Jewish people build a Sukkah outside in which they share food and meals in for 7 days. We built a Sukkah using a forest school tarp along with a covering of branches and leaves. We decorated our Sukkak with…
Congratulations to the children who received a Headteacher’s Award on Friday. You have all displayed our school values and impressed your class teacher – well done! You are all superstars 🌟
Dear Hillside parents and families, As you will be aware covid cases are rising again nationally and although we remain a ‘medium’ risk area we are continuously reviewing our our practice and procedure to ensure that we are as covid- secure as we possibly can be. It has been noticed/ brought to our attention that…
Year Five have continued their amazing start to the year. Here they are working on their geography topic, volcanoes and Earthquakes. The children were confident at identifying three different layers of the Earth’s surface and begun to look at the impact tectonic activity can have.
Over the last week, Nursery have been thinking all about pets and what they would choose, if they could choose ANY PET! We had some fantastic ideas – dragons, unicorns, swordfish! The children have all been creative and made a pet to go on our window too. On Friday afternoon we went into the woods…