The Active Literacy Club started today with year one and year two girls. We had a mission to go to the purple planet to meet the space pirates. First we had to build our rocket before learning all of the captain’s commands. Next week we will be launching our space rocket into space.
Reception have had a very busy, exciting week back at school. As well as dressing up as rockstars on Monday, we have used money to buy vegetables linked to the ‘Supertato’ story, written get well cards as part of our PSED work and this afternoon, we dressed up as our favourite characters.
Here are the finished products from our Roman bakery. The children are currently tasting and evaluating the success of their finished designs. I think we’re all impressed with what we’ve produced from Roman ingredients.
Year Four have been busy bakers this morning in the Roman Bakery. They have each made bread using a variety of Roman ingredients from their original design. We are going to be evaluating them during the afternoon, and bringing a sample home to taste.
We had a lovely first assembly of 2020 this morning rewarding the children who achieved 100% Attendance for the Autumn Term. 75 children received a certificate and were congratulated by parents, families, children and staff of Hillside. A great achievement – well done! Ethan (Y5) was the lucky person to have his name pulled out…
Reception, Year 1 and a Year 2 have been lucky enough to receive a visit from James and Mike from Great Grounds! They are arborists who shared a range of safety equipment before demonstrating some extremely noisy chainsaws! The children loved watching the wood chipper, despite the wayward sawdust that was created! They were then…
Nursery’s baby clinic is open for business! The children have been having lots of fun this week weighing, measuring and assessing their babies! To open our role play we had a visit from Miss Hewitt and Layla-Jae! The children sorted items that a baby would need and gave their reasons why they would or wouldn’t…
Nursery have enjoyed bathing the babies today, they had lots of bubbles in the bath!! We are enjoying our new role play, Hillside baby clinic! This afternoon we did bubble printing, to see who could blow the biggest bubble!! 🌬️
Well done to all the children who achieved the Reading Rocket last term. It was a very busy time of the year but many of our children showed continued dedication to reading and all the staff are extremely proud of their efforts. The children have all received a small treat and will be treated to…
Year One have begun learning about the Great Fire of London! In Maths they completed times tables flame challenges using dot to dots, in History they’ve been finding facts and in English, telling the story of ‘Toby’ a character who lived during the fire. They’re also using their Geography skills to locate the United Kingdom…