We’ve been working on our shared reading text, ‘The Old Toy Room’. When we first read a text, we always talk about the new vocabulary so we practise looking shocked, hearing the noise of the bustling station, bowing our heads to invite Lottie on to our backs and speeding to catch the train! 📚 We’ve…
This week Reception have been learning about the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. They were fascinated by the story of the Macabees and enjoyed creating their own scrolls like the Torah and collage Menorahs.
The children in Year Five started a new unit in our maths as we embark on our fractions learning. The children used fraction tiles to identify equivalent fractions as we began to remind ourselves of the function behind the numerator and denominator. We have also begun to use counters to support us in converting between…
Year Three are looking at multiplication and division facts. Here, we are looking at sharing and grouping with concrete resources. Lot of fun!
In Year Two, we have been learning about Africa. We learnt how people in Zambia use the river in a different way to people in England.
Pierre the bear has been enjoying his adventures with different members of the class in Year Four. This week, he enjoyed football training at the weekend! We wonder what he’ll be upto next time.
Year Two have been to Peak Wildlife this week. They looked out for African animals and learnt about their habitats.
This week we have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. Hindus retell the story of Rama and Sita at Diwali time and we discovered that in the story, Sita was taken to the island of Sri Lanka. We found out where Sri Lanka was and marked it on our world map.
Following Monday’s competitions, results for the Stoke-on-Trent School Games have been released, and Team Hillside have come out with some amazing outcomes:– Best-performing small school in Stoke-on-Trent! 🥇– Best-performing school overall in the Hanley district! 🥇– Stoke North RUNNERS UP! 🥈– 9 performances achieving the national School Games GOLD standard! 🏅 Another enormous well done to the team for their incredible performances, we’re so very proud of you all! 👏🏻 ⭐️
Over the past few weeks, Year Five have been practising performing notes on keyboards and guitars. It was lovely to see them working collaboratively yesterday in order to provide each other with strengths and advice on where to go next in their performances.