PSHE in Year One

In PSHE we have taken part in an online lesson about healthy eating. We tasted different foods and then watched them being cooked in a healthy meal. Ask us what we thought about the tasting – we tried onion, halloumi, spinach and ginger! 🍱

Science Investigations in Reception

We are doing a science experiment to see how we can stop our apples going brown. We came up with some brilliant ideas, such as adding water, vinegar, milk, apple juice or lemon juice. We are going to observe them over the next day or two to see what happens.

Year Three and our thesaurus.

We learnt to up level and improve our choice of words with a thesaurus. From now on, we will never say ‘I’m hungry’ again. We will use famished, ravenous or starving instead!

Nursery’s PE lesson

This week the children have been practising their jumping skills in PE. They have been jumping from spot to spot with both feet together. We also practised navigating space, moving around the room without bumping into our friends!

Year Four teeth

The children have been learning about the different teeth types and their functions. Using play-doh, they made models of the different teeth and researched the jobs that they do.

Hello Yellow at Hillside!

Look at our amazing sunbeams/children! 💛 A huge thank you for your support with Hello Yellow day – our children look fantastic and we are so proud of the conversations they are having in school and at home around mental health. 🏆 We have shared an assembly about mental health and how important it is […]

Nursery’s Listening Ears

This week we have put on our big listening ears and been for a walk around the school. We listened carefully to hear lots of different sounds , we heard teachers, children, music, toilets flushing, phones ringing, noses blowing and an aeroplane! We all had a great time and really tuned in to the different sounds […]

Continents in Year Two

Year Two have been learning about the continents in geography. They played a continents game with the giant globe and drew them on balloons.

Year Five’s STEM Day at RAF Cosford

On Tuesday, we continued our learning on forces when we visited the RAF base at Cosford. We completed three activates (Rockets, Rover Release and Asteroid Field) as well as had an informative walk around the museum and airplane hangars. Within our activities we had to think carefully about forces and how they were applied to […]

Year One’s Ukuleles

Year One have been practising their ukulele skills this week with Mr Hall. They had to strum for ten seconds and then pause to make magical music as a class! Everyone really concentrated to stay in time – fabulous! 🎵