Year One have been working in teams this week to figure out tricky place value challenges as well as ordering and sequencing using their new knowledge of tens and ones! They had to work out what each picture representing and then order from smallest to biggest in value! They worked well together and then applied […]
Author Archive: Paula Dawson
Year One’s Mystery Readers
Thank you to everyone who has been in to Year One to read over the last few weeks of 2019 and the first few weeks of 2020! We loved hearing Christmas stories from Marnie’s mummy as well as rhyming stories, action stories, number stories and funny stories from Eva’s nan, Dexter, Riley and Mary’s mummy’s! […]
Good Work Awards – Friday 24th January 2020
Congratulations to the children who have been recognised for their excellent work last week and shared it in celebration assembly this morning. Keep it up!
Headteacher Awards – Friday 24th January 2020
Well done to the children who have been recognised for displaying one of our school values and were awarded with a Headteacher’s certificate in celebration assembly this morning.
Chinese New Year in Nursery
Nursery have had great fun celebrating Chinese New Year! We have looked at the job role of a chef and made our own chef hats to wear whilst we tasted Chinese food. We completed lots of fun activities, including performing our own dragon dance! Well done Nursery!
Hillside Reading Bus Update
Wow! What an amazing transformation! Thank you to Mrs Davidson and Latham Upholstery for reupholstering the seats and totally transforming our bus. It looks absolutely amazing and is so comfy. The bus has also had a thorough clean – thank you to Mandy and Denise for this and thank you to John who has installed the […]
Recycling: Dennis Eagle Visits Year Five and Six
Dennis Eagle, a converted bin lorry, visited the Year Five and Year Six children to teach the children about recycling, why we need to make changes for the future and how we can all make a difference. The children listened to an informative presentation and took part in a litter pick to clean up the […]
Hillside’s Science Ambassadors
Reception, Year One and Year Two children were given a super science experience by some of our newly appointed Science Ambassadors from Year Six. They demonstrated how to observe over time when watching the dissolving effect of skittles in water. There were lots of predictions made and scientific language used during the observations. Our Science […]
Chinese New Year
This week Reception have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have made money wallets, lucky goldfish and retold the story of the Great Race where the animal names were given to the years. The children are having a fabulous time and have remembered lots. This afternoon we tasted Chinese noodles, egg fried rice, prawn […]
Mystery boxes in Year Four
We are exploring some mystery boxes in science this afternoon. We are using our previous knowledge of materials and shapes of objects to try to predict what is inside each box and giving detailed reasons and explanations for our predictions.