Wow Hillside! Look at all of our super children, dressed as superheroes or wearing something that makes them feel super to raise money for others! 🦸♂️ What a variety of outfits we have – from comic book heroes, to real life heroes to swimming fanatics to comfy clobber wearers! 🥽 Thank you for dressing up,…
This week the children have had a very egg-citing delivery. A parcel arrived with tape that said ‘Fragile’ wrapped all around it. We carefully opened it and inside found 6 eggs, we have placed them in the incubator and are eagerly awaiting to see what happens. We have made our predictions and the children think…
Year Six have started their coding unit this week. Using Scratch, an online, coding programme, children have managed to create a game in which users earn points for clicking on moving objects. They learned about variables, loops, coding blocks and how to debug.
The children have been developing their Science skills by learning how to read a thermometer during an investigation. They collected the temperature of two samples of water over time. They noticed how cold water got warmer over time and warm water got colder. How interesting!
As part of our learning about the Gingerbread Man story, we talked about the route he took when he ran away. We then used a range of ICT equipment to create out own routes. We had to think carefully about where we wanted our Beebots and our bees to finish and then program our equipment…
As part of their PE lessons, Year One have been combining their gymnastic skills! Year One had to create sequences that used travel, jumping, rolling and a straddle position with lots of different apparatus. They worked extremely hard to improve their techniques, listening carefully and moving steadily with some super finishing positions too. You can…
Year Six children have started to write their non-chronological reports about Hillside for both the aliens, who crashed at Hillside during last week’s book week, and for the website for any other would-be visitors to find out a bit about our great school. Here is an example so far.
This week our Year Three scientists investigated the surface for a toy car to travel on. They worked in teams to perform comparative tests and measured the distance the cars had travelled on each one. Next week, they will present their data and draw conclusions from their findings. Well done Year Three!
Year Two have been reading the story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’. This week, they showed their understanding of the story by unjumbling a set of words to create sentences with conjunctions. They explored the high-level vocabulary used in the sentences – super team work!
Nursery have enjoyed stretching their bodies to an ‘On the Farm’ themed yoga session. We moved along to Old McDonald had a Farm and pretended to be a chick , horse and cow. We then got stuck in some mud! What a fantastic adventure on the farm.🐴🐄🐖🐑